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my wife and I went to this WSP last Saturday and Sunday 5-7 pm
big garden out front, and several staff ,
so quick service (Aussie Tim please note)
usual refreshers behind bar , but I did see more than one plate of grub being returned to the kitchen !
overall I would go back , but there were suggestions that this pub gets rowdy
as the night goes on.
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My most recent visit was at 12 noon on New Years Eve and they had just 1 member of staff on!!!
Because of this it was pretty chaotic with all the punters wanting food and drink so ordering took some time, no matter how many times I use this place it still amazes me how bad the service is.
Mr Martin needs to sort this place out as it’s gold mine that is surely under performing due to the poor staff and staffing level.
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A few of us spent last Saturday afternoon and evening here watching the Euro’s football on the tv.
Busy all day with lots of groups and the regular Saturday drinkers in.
Some good choices on the hand pumps but after having a pint of G2 Breweries Otava @ 4.4% I went on to Banks’s Lions Roar, not a great beer but it was obviously good enough as I had a skinful before leaving at 8pm for a curry.
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My most recent visit was Saturday 16th January for a Dulwich Hamlet home game.
I arrived just before 12.30pm and just beat the coach of Northern football fans that had pulled up outside.
At least 5 bar staff on plus the manageress, meant that getting served was extremely quick on this visit and of course enabled me to drink more in the 2 hours I spent here!
The Baird’s Rising Sun was on good form.
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I'm back to watching Dulwich Hamlet at home regularly which means pre game drinks in the Fox on the Hill.
My latest visit was a Saturday afternoon and I find its day 2 of the international beer festival with all pumps offering a mix of regular ales, odd national brand offerings and several overseas ales. I decide my pints will be from UK based breweries and opt for pints of Butcombe's Chinook IPA @ 4.2% and Everards Stateside Rye @ 4.5% with the Rye being the better drop.
Packed as it always is on a Saturday with the usual drinkers as well as families seeking cheap meals.
Me and my group stayed until just after 14.30 before heading down the hill to football.
‘Spoons pubs get a lot of bad reviews but they are cheap for drinks and food and nearly always offer the ale drinker a better choice that many other High Street pubs. Service can sometimes be slow but it can be particularly bad some days here, though you get served eventually.
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I use the Fox before nearly every home game at Dulwich Hamlet now and to be honest it does what it says on the tin.
The ale choice is normally pretty good with at least 4 different guest ales on, sometimes the ale isn’t always that well kept but to be honest this is only now and again.
The food is served promptly and is nearly always hot but sometimes could be hotter.
Service at the bar is a little hit and miss but if you make yourself known you normally get served pretty quickly.
The clientele is okay but sometimes it’s better than other times.
There are much worse ‘spoons than this so it serves a purposes, cheap beer, decent enough food and is handy for football and Denmark Hill station so it does for me.
6/10 but I could stretch to 7/10.
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Popped into the Fox the other Sunday afternoon and had 2 decent pints of Backyard Brewhouse’s Hell Bound @ 5.4%.
The sun was shining so I took my beer and sat out the front of the pub.
Usual clientele inside with quite a few people eating, and as it was a Sunday there were a higher number of kids than normal.
Still a decent ‘spoons and worth a pit stop for a few ales.
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I don't expect too much from Wetherspoons but this place takes the biscuit.
Rude staff to polite customers, 45 minute wait to be served.
Hair in food, Rock hard bread on burgers and rolls.
Drugs being taken and discussed quite openly.
Find somewhere else, If you cannot then stay home!
The Phoenix at Denmark Hill Station is 2 minutes away and run properly.
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Very well kept beer, decently cooked food although bored with the Wetherspoons menu. Serving staff leave a bit to be desired, although they are obliging when they do serve you and get the order right. Decent working class locals and overall a good experience.
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Now my pub of choice before the game at Champion Hill.
The service has improved over the last year or so and the beer has also improved.
This is a ‘spoons and does exactly what a ‘spoons should do…i.e. sell cheap food and cheap decent beer.
By far not the best pub ever but for this area it’s pretty decent.
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Listen to people talking about buying cocaine and taking cocaine in the toilets in front of the manager and nothing done.
Pretty much sums up this poor excuse of a pub.
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One of the better Wetherspoons but it's unforgiveable to only cook half your food order!
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Congratulations on Claire on being promoted to the management team.
Ifancy her
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Big Wetherspoon with a very large family orientated beer garden out the back in addition to seating out the front. Beer selection is the standards with limited guests - only two on offer during our visit. A solid respectable place with a wide client�le, mainly decent working class locals with some business people and older middle class couples. We didn't see any chavs or youngsters on our daytime visit. Maybe the chavs are only there when other chavs are around?
The family beer garden is the main draw, and for families it is highly recommended. The car park was full on our visit, and the pub was only 1/3 full, so I expect that on a sunny weekend it would be hard to find a space.
I liked the place.
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I pop in here regularly after football on my way to the station. As other comments have said it's a mix of chavs and drinkers, typical wethersoons I suppose but I have been in a lot worse "spoons" than this one. Real ale selection is standard ad not always kept that well....this pub won't kill you for an hour or so but after that...who knows.
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The only saving grace of this pub is the lovely Claire.
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Have to love their beer festival list claiming some of the bers are exclusive to wetherspoons when I have drunk them in other london pubs over a month ago, such as Bath Ales Ginger Hare.
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The nearest pub to where I live, and a typical wetherspoons. Mixture of chavs and idiots. In last night, with some loudmouths swearing with no action takne by management.
Standard range of beers for wetherspoons, with none being in outstanding conditions. Will not be made my local.
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Large pub with plenty of inside and outside drinking areas, and a large car park. Popular with families. As you would expect from a Wetherspoons, the beer range is good - Marstons Pedigree & Fever Pitch, Sadlers Stumbling Badger, Greene King Abbot Ale, Ramsbury Gold, Beartown Peach Melbear, Ruddles Best & Springhead Roaring Meg. Sambrooks Junction and Phoenix Gold were available soon. The second Wetherspoons pub I had been to in the day, without any real cider, except for bottles. Pleasant enough drinking environment, despite the families.
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Brilliant place.
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First time I've been here for a few years. Unlike most 'Spoons the building is a traditional pub, but otherwise a fairly standard example of the genre.
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Typical 1950's looking pub but the only good thing about this place is the food is always good.
Tables are rarely cleaned and the staff are incompetant.
Always check your prices because they invariably forget the special offers etc.
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The problem with this pub is the member of staff who threatened to beat me up for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
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Decent selection of beers (as always at Wetherspoon's), ale festivals are fantastic.
The best thing about this one is the large beer garden out the front and back, and the very cheap drinks (compared the nearby pubs which are ridiculously expensive).
The inside is a bit depressing, but if you're sitting out side you don't need to worry about that.
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Visited my old stomping grounds for a few days over xmas. Nice to see some things never change. dirty, full of drunks on cheap beer., should be "cheap gin palace on the hill", but they had no gin!!
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Have been here many times with a few local friends. I've found the tables very messy and not cleared up by staff, and don't like the way the beer is always served from the other side of the bar so you can't see what you are being poured. How do you know that Pedigree IS a Pedigree when you can't watch what the staff put in your glass?
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Has a classy sign up outside comparing the costs of the drinks in the Fox with two nearby pubs - the George Canning and the Sun and Doves. In most cases the drinks are 50p+ cheaper. If you want cheap drinks (and that is your only criteria for a pub) come here, if you want a decent pub with convivial surroundings go to the other pubs.
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e came here atfer going the hposital it's up on t/he hill and you can sea it form fart awy; the dirinks here are rarely cheep but it too k us 3o minuetes to get surfed, we sat howt sige wiyh how dog's
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Horrible horrible horrible - only reason to come here is cheap beer. Other pubs - george canning, phoenix - much better if you dont mind paying more than �1.79 a pint
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This used to be a good pub in the 60's but is now simply awful and by far the worst Wetherspoons I've visited.
Terrible service, lousy beer, disgusting toilets.
The food wasn't bad though but I wouldn't go again.
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Terrible service, very slow, incompetent staff (generally, although one or two exceptions). Would say that bar is too big, therefore easy to get people queue jumping. Having said that, is the cheapest pub around by far, round of drinks for 4 people at around �6 is pretty damn good for London... Also, is always quite busy, but never too busy.
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this must be 1 of the worst pubs ever for trying to get a pint .to many people ordering food . never enough staff behind the bar.
anonymous - 2 Jan 2007 23:01 |
as others say not too bad as the wethers pubs go
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I was initially very dubious of visiting the Fox on the Hill when I heard that it was a Wetherspoon's (well, they do invite comparison with McDonald's) but it wasn't too bad. The age of the building even manages to resist complete 'wetherspoonification'. We didn't wait long to be served (a Friday lunchtime) but those following us others did as our barmaid took her time and insisted on repeating everything back to us twcie - once at the point of ordering and once at the point of payment. The interesting looking range of beers went untried as I'd noticed that everyone in the pub was drinking lager. (5/10)
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This place has so much potential but I refuse to queue more than 5 minutes to be served. Lack of experienced staff really lets this place down, theyre eager and willing but in very short supply.
anonymous - 10 Sep 2006 11:21 |
Why ? When you have the Phoenix and George Canning within a few hundred metres why come here
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I like it, a good example of a Weatherspoons pub - always interesting guest ales on at low prices.
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Sorry mate, I meant the Cambria - now that IS in Loughborough Jn
As for the Fox, it's OK but could be better. Clintfurnish is a master of understatement!
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Beer must be good in the Fox - "steveo500" doesn't seem to know which side of Ruskin Park he was!
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how the bloody hell is this in Denmark Hill? sort it out BITE, anything the other side of Ruskin park is Loughborough Jn
think i had a peek in here when somebody was trying to sell me a house in the area - look pretentious as fvck
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Ok, Its not the best pub in England. But this pub use to be really crap. On a saturday night there was 1 old couple and my group and that was it. So not very popular. Then they got a new manager now and the place has got better. You can see the odd member of staff and the place is a lot cleaner. Nice garden and play area. It has definately got better. But I would rather travel the little bit extra and go to Peckham Wetherspoons (Kentish Drovers). Great service, great food and great drink there. But fox on the hill is ok.
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This pub, though resondingly awful holds a special place in my heart as the place where everyone from the 2000 year at KCH and beyond meets up for the annual Paddy's day session. The quality of food has gone downhill, but the pub is big and generally quiet so it is a decent place to go with a large group of friends to avoid the crowds in Camberwell.
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It's a wetherspoons, can't expect too much really. However, I must say it's my mates local and I've been in worse pubs!
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I was visiting Kings hospital yesterday and decided to have lunch in Fox on the Hill - And how wrong was I. The staff were barely existant and rude, the food was cold and I was told I had to wait a half an hour for my meal to be processed again.I decided to go to O'Neills to eat, where I can only say was an absolute pleasure.The food was great and the staff had a pulse!
andrew - 3 Jun 2004 15:25 |
Arghhhhhh, can't understand why everyone is having a go at a pub that has been my local for the past 89 years. Went to the greyhound in the village for my great grandson's (John aka Sam) funeral and it cost me a fortune
pilot - 6 May 2004 01:19 |
Quality of the bee is shite, no wonder its so cheap. if you are into real ales, its worth paying a bit more somewhere else where they go for quality not quanity
thomas - 12 Mar 2004 15:37 |
felt very annoyed with the treatment i recived from the members of staff, and would like head office main contact so i can complain. Advice to others don't bother going a complete dive!!!!
Ms E leary - 29 Feb 2004 19:04 |
Well well well Wetherspoons have really pulled the stops out here. The food's cheaper (and, obviously, better) than Safeways and they may as well pay you to drink the beer it costs so little. However, what you gain in value you lose in, well, everything else. The place is very dull. Average age of punter is 196. Garden in summer is OK with a younger crowd in evidence. Summary: Pop along if you just lost your job and suns out.
Parslow - 19 Jan 2004 17:09 |
