BITE user comments - freeman
Comments by freeman
A super place. Now owned by Lanes. Renamed from Redback. Spacious brewpub with well appointed/adorned side annexe hosting range of activities from comedy, circus to table tennis....simultaneous if I'm playing T-Tennis. The Micro brewery behind the bar produces a decent range of ales. Wide mix of customers. Can't comment on food except it looks popular and the tables and chairs are big and solid. Enthusiastic helpful staff. Very well served by public transport. The only negative/oddity is the beer prices seem quite random...from great value for the House brew to crikey, how much!? but that was on a busy night just before Christmas.
The folk I have taken here have been mighty impressed. Just 500 yards from Acton's other super brew pub, The George & Dragon (Dragonfly brewery), makes this gem well worth travelling to. Well done Lanes!
27 Dec 2015 12:54
Very pleasant looking pub both inside and out in suburban rural location. Decent clientele. Large lawned beer garden to front, cricket green to the left. Last visit 4 pumps serving Vale Brill, Rebellion, one other I can't remember the name of and the dreaded doom bar (c/o Coors mega brewery Tadcaster). Small selection of bottled UK and foreign beers.
17 May 2015 15:22
CLOSED in 2014 followed by rapid conversion into housing. Rather sad but heyho the delightful Rose & Crown is an easy 2 minute downhill stroll away.
2 May 2015 09:36
Good to see this large 1930's pub reopen after 2+ years of closure and a multi-week very expensive refurb. New outside garden area. All new interior, carpets and décor. Even the car park has been resurfaced. 4 hand pumps although just 2 were on the go when I visited mid week. Deuchers IPA was in good form. Good to see quite a few customers. Food served. 114 bus stops right outside.
3 Aug 2013 17:24
Ex Woolworth shop and now a well run Wetherspoons. Same guvnor since opening 20 or so years ago and been in Good beer guide for similar years so ales are always in good condition with a selection as good or better than most Wetherspoons. Decor is standard drabish spoons style. Multi age clientelle. Busy and can be noisy at weekends when the youngsters descend. Has its own ale festival each year with this years on 13-20 June '12 with ales mainly from London and home county micros .
12 May 2012 17:13
My fourth visit to this highly attractive establishment which serves a decent range of well kept cask ales mainly from East London micro brewers Brodies. Even tea total passer byes should be impressed at the floral display and architecture. This time Bethnal Green and Amarillo (American hop with big flavour..just like Harpoon IPA from Boston) were both in fine form with a nice hoppy flavour.
Paved area at front for smokers, those escaping the squeeze inside orto just to enjoy the outdoor hub hub of Endell Street.
The only niggle was on the 2nd round the barman flatly refused to top up excessive underfills (-2cm) which even another customer was left in amazement.. A case of new glasses.
One of London's great bozzer.
4 Dec 2011 12:55
The Middlesex Arms, South Ruislip
Now a Green King establishment. This cavernous 1930’s boozer has recently been transformed at great cost inside and out to a high standard. Lots of tables, seating, stools, super comfy bench seats + pool table. £3.80 for one of the 3 available cask ales which was in good order, to be expected being casque mark accredited.
Bit of a footie pub with various big screens dialled in to sky sports. 2 minute walk to South Ruislip Station for Central underground and Chiltern main line- 8 minutes to Wembley Stadium, 18 mins to London Marylebone- TFL oyster card works.
Opposite is a public car park and Sainsburys store.
6 May 2018 13:20