The Crown And Two Chairmen, Soho

This place has had a recent makeover (a lick of paint and some chalkboards) to change it from a soulless traditional-ish Soho pub serving carboard food to a soulless Soho gastro[enteritis] pub selling awful food.

Went there today for lunch. Good selection of beers, but all ales were off apart from Adnam's Broadside. I ordered the 21 day hung Herefordshire beef burger with melted cheddar and stilton, caramelised onions served with chunky wedges. �7.20

They make it sound nice. This is what I received:

A cremated burger that looked like it had been on the grill for 21 days. A tiny bit of melted cheddar, the size of a 50p. Following a brief search, no stilton was found. The wedges were undercooked, soggy and grey on the inside. Everything tasted worse than it looked. I took it back and told the barman that if there had been stilton on it, I might not have tasted how sh!t the burger was. Got my money back - seemed like it wasn't the first time someone had returned food. He asked if I wanted something else off the menu. Hmmm, not until you get a new chef mate.

The beer was OK so we decided to have another... but they had run out! Only lager left...

3 Oct 2006 16:31