BITE user comments - jossv
Comments by jossv
Far too expensive. Warm beer. Horrible decor. Terrible 'art'. Dreadful food. Stupid toilets. Shit.
17 Jul 2007 12:25
Don't sit on the stools next to the fish tank. To begin with, you'll think you have prime spot. 'I'm higher up than everyone else and I'm next to some fish - yeah!', you will say.
Ten minutes later you'll be questioning how these stools ever passed even the initial testing stage at the factory. They're arse-numbingly uncomfortable in the extreme. Rubbish stools, they are.
Oh yeah - the rest of the bar is OK but nothing special. Weird building - looks like a job centre.
5 Jul 2007 15:20
Great pub. Lovely, cold beer, good range of wine, delicious food (different pizzas please!). Nice, chatty atmosphere with good tunes playing.
Attentive, friendly staff - always keen to help. The manager is absolutely gorgeous.
5 Jul 2007 14:40
Gordon's Wine Bar, Charing Cross
Best place in London for lovers of wine, sherry and port. Claustrophobic though and not for tall folk.
18 Jan 2007 11:06
A very, very impressive pub. Excellent beers, if a little expensive. Delicious food, skilfully cooked (9.5 out of 10 for the gravy) - it honestly is as good as pub food gets. I hope they can maintain these high standards although, seeing as they have managed to do so consistently since the re-opening, I have nothing but high hopes for the future.
The building itself is hugely impressive and imposing, the layout is interesting and the decor and furnishing wonderfully bizarre. Charming little beer garden, to boot. The bar is small and can get very busy so perhaps they should think about putting more emphasis on the table service to keep things running smoothly.
A hugely enjoyable pub experience and I look forward to my next visit.
18 Jan 2007 10:57
One of the best pubs in south London. Not particularly cheap but very well-kept beers (unfortunately no real ales). They also have really quite entertaining promotions including Roll the Dice: roll a nine or above with two dice and get your drink free!
This place has more regulars (including some very attractive ones) than your average boozer and it's easy to see why. The combination of decent food, drink, friendly staff, cosy atmosphere and busy, buzzy location make it an absolute gem on a street bereft of acceptable taverns.
31 Jan 2006 17:20
Another unremarkable chain boozer. Pity, because it's a huge, imposing tavern in a really good spot on the High Road and really deserves to be run by a person or company with a bit of soul and passion. Beer is pretty good and well-kept. Food is very, very poor.
31 Jan 2006 17:12
Went in here for the first time the other Wednesday and was pleasantly surprised. Very well-stocked bar and the friendliest service this side of the river. Tasty tapas served in generous portions.
31 Jan 2006 17:09
An absolute gem of a pub where every night feels like Christmas Eve. The finest beer and atmosphere. Proper pub snacks too including marvellous pork scratchings and Tayto crisps (mouth-singeing salt & vinegar flavour: wow).
Looking forward to my next visit.
9 Jan 2006 17:28
I wish this pub was my local because I like everything about it (apart from Magic FM being played: radio adverts in pubs - horrible). Excellent London Pride - really at peak condition every time. Atmosphere very low-key and chatty.
Although I haven't eaten there yet (apart from a pint of prawns), the menu looks like the most perfect pub menu, and reasonable with it.
The beer garden is possibly the most charming in London - you have to see it to believe it.
26 Oct 2005 12:52
The Captain Kidd is a great London pub. Stunning location, great for outdoor summer drinking, equally as great for indoor winter drinking. The range of Sam Smiths beers are, as always, delicious, well kept and actually have flavour compared to the modern-day crap sold everywhere. Plus they're incredibly good value (although don't drink the Ayingerbrau Pils: it's lethal).
The downside is the food - it's well below aveerage and horrendously over-priced. �3.50 for a bowl of chips is, frankly, taking the piss.
Highly, highly recommended.
26 Oct 2005 11:26
Jack Stamps Beer House, Streatham
I agree with some of these comments. It seems to be a pub designed sepecifically for getting utterly arseholed in. So for that, it's pretty perfect. But not somewhere to go on a date (unless it's the landlord's daughter).
13 Jun 2005 17:22
Magnificent bar. Lots of comfy seating and standing room. Very well kept, very cold beer, served by peachy-bottomed girls with sexy foreign accents. After a few drinks in here it's always a bit of a surprise when you leave to find yourself on Streatham High Road.
Heartily recommended.
13 Jun 2005 17:20
The Star and Garter, Middlesbrough
An institution. One of the best boozers in the North East.
13 Jun 2005 17:10
The Old Kings Head, Hampton Wick
A cracking little boozer. Decor and furnishings very smart and comfortable. I particularly like the giant game of jenga on the bar propping up the ceiling. I know that's not what it is, but that's what it looks like.
Was there on 11/06 for re-re-opening and it was a top night. Shame about the weather and the hogroast though.
One criticism: Pacman and Frogger on extremely difficult setting. Or maybe I was arseholed.
13 Jun 2005 17:06
Not great. Don't go if you hate the sound of the Primrose Hill brigade talking loudly about their jobs.
That being said, if you're lucky enough to get a table and get nicely settled, it's OK. But worth walking up the road for some proper pubs. There aren't even any old men in there! You've got to have at least one.
9 Jun 2005 14:21
This place is a restaurant, not a pub. Therefore if you're just in there for a drink you always feel guilty that you're getting in the way of people tring to eat their �10 burgers. If you don't like getting evil stares from all the white wine-drinking Hooray Henries for drinking beer, smoking or swearing or even talking about normal things then steer well clear. Attractive garden but not worth going for that alone.
9 Jun 2005 14:11
For five years this was my local pub and I loved it. Cosy and welcoming in the winter, delightful beeer garden in the summer (sit under the apple tree for a game of apple Russian Roulette - whos head will the next one fall on?).
Food quite nice but pretty expensive.
9 Jun 2005 12:59
A pub where there's fine line between wondering whether or not you're going to get out alive and having a really good time. A good pub, and the pick of a really shoddy bunch of pubs in the immediate vicinity.
6 May 2005 16:22
The number of times I've stumbled in here, happy as Larry for a few late drinks, only to find that the alcohol-fuelled euphoria of the evening is being washed out of me with every sip of the minging piss they pass off as beer.....
DJ''s good on a Friday though.
6 May 2005 16:19
Nothing good to say about this pub. Even leaving it isn't any fun as there's always a couple of chavs outside (in all weathers) who stare at you looking for 'bovva'. Gaylords.
6 May 2005 16:15
It's alright to pop in here once in a blue moon. But it doesn't take long to remember why you don't go in there very often. The toilets (Gents, at least) are absolutely and utterly appaling, disgusting and smelly beyond words. A word of advice - use the underground Victorian toilets on the crossroads outside.
Bouncers are a bunch of surly arseholes - especially the one who struts around like he's got an invisible roll of carpet under each arm and looks like he genuinely does want to kill everyone he looks at.
6 May 2005 16:12
Good for an outdoor lager of a summer's eve. Toilets ming.
1 Apr 2005 10:06
This is my nearest pub and when the trees are fully green and the sun is hot, it's hard to beat. Or rather the beer garden is. But WHY, when it is hot and sunny and the garden's full, do they phone up 'dial-a-moronic-slow-barman'? Be prepared! Buy more glasses! Have the ingredients for jugs of Pimm's ready-prepared! Allocate one member of staff to collect glasses and another to wash them! Allocate members of staff to their own section of the bar so everyone gets served fairly and in order. Simple ideas - fast service - increased profits. DO IT. Anyway...........
Inside is OK. Confusing, vomit-inducing decor however, including a rubbish painting of a the Flying Scotsman going past Edinburgh Castle.
Anyone know why it's spelt 'Edinboro'?
31 Mar 2005 12:07
Excellent beer, delicious food, friendly staff and pleasantly bubbly atmosphere. However these only apply if you have a table. If not it can be quite uncomfortable and claustrophobic. Get there at opening time on a Sunday and don't leave. Then you're guaranteed a table. Not sure why so many people rush to sit outside: beer and hot pollution was never a good combination in my opinioin.
31 Mar 2005 11:43
Easy to walk past but worth making the effort to go in. Very underrated pub. Particularly good on a Saturday lunchtime, after a fry-up at a nearby caf, for having a read of the paper and deciding on your football bets. Then staying all day by mistake.
31 Mar 2005 11:35
Bearable during the day, rubbish in the evening. The opposite to the Oxford Arms, I suppose. Could do with a damn good clean.
31 Mar 2005 11:28
The Black Cap, Camden
Not the best selection of beers although if you know who to ask you can normally get at least one decent handpump.
28 Jun 2011 13:27