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Now closed. Did not renew lease since it was too expensive to do so.
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Popped in to have lunch, which, at over �10 for a meal and a pint, is OTT for me with my recession hit budget. I won't be doing that in a hurry again, and certainly not in thias bar. The lunch was disgusting. Ultra cheap ingredients were used. I expected something far better of the Beef and Ale pie on the menu at �7.99. It was yuk. The pie they used was certainly not home-made [long gone are the days when pubs prided themselves on their homecooking of simple meals for workers]. This was mass produced garbage. The pie was of the type you could buy in a local cut price supermarket at �1.50 for 4. The mash potato was made from potato powder, and the vegetables, broccoli and carrots, looked as if they had come straight from the freezer to a microwave then to the plate. Total food material costs I estimate @ �1, If I were to buy the ingredients for the recipe = 800% markup. A nice little earner for Wetherspoons. I won't use their meal service for lunch ever again.
The pie was practically three-quarters empty, with but a few and meagre lumps of meat at its bottom, nowhere near the substantial midday meal a worker requires to sustain himself.
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Even less atmosphere than your average Wetherspoons. A bit like having a pint by the popcorn dispenser prior to going in to the cinema. Ale was just about drinkable and the window seats afford a view of the slow moving traffic on Finchley Road.
anonymous - 15 May 2012 21:58 |
This place is diabolical - worst wetherspoons I've been in yet.
The service in here atrocious - I had three tries at getting served on a Friday evening, and was ignored in favour of other people pushing in on each occasion.
It's woefully short of staff for the demand, and those they do have are rude and unobservant. I left having bought nothing and therefore cannot comment on the quality of the beer, and it really puts you off lining wetherspoons coffers with your hard-earned money when this is the contempt they show for their customers.
It's dark and dingy as well, and again as is normal with wetherspoons the tables are all filthy.
Definitely one to avoid like the plague, particularly as there a good alternative pubs in that area.
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Popped in for a quick one last night. Big place, opening onto the upper floor of the shopping centre. Plenty of light from the long windows facing out onto Finchley Road. Quick service, pleasant staff at bar and in the pub (one of whom was just cleaning the table I went to sit at) with plenty of ales on tap but let down by a really boring selection. I had Abbot at �2.75 but otherwise it was things like Greene King IPA and London Pride with the most exciting choice being Bishops Finger. One ale from a smaller brewery would be nice but that's my only real gripe.
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One of JDW's worst. Went in on a Wednesday evening and waited that long to be served I eventually gave up and went elsewhere. They had 4 staff on but the bar was heaving so needed 6. Pub very dark inside too.
alexw - 28 Jul 2011 13:49 |
Good for inexpensive real ale. On the first floor of the shopping centre, the long window gives it something of an airport bar feel. Handy if you are going to the cinema or want a cheap pint and/or cheap food. There's nothing else in the area apart from the Walkabout and the dingy North Star, but at least the latter has a smoking area.
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Davegreen, PeterG112, Karenshane, are you all INSANE!!!!!!?????? The only thing this place is good for is a cheap drink if you dont mind being surrounded by a bunch of drunk and smelly old codgers!!!!
The food is mank and the service is dreadful!!!!!!!! Not to mention you have to hunt to find a clean and clear table.
I think you guys need to go and find a real pub and then you will see the light!!!
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Nice for an 'early' when it isn't crowded. Dodgy in the evening when it is as it can take ages to be served. They could devote a member of staff full-time for the food and coffees that create the queues. Beer nice, and cheap too. Food microwaved and not-so-nice
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Great food, great beer and great service
definately one of my favourite Wetherspoons around!
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Im converted! I like this place, but made me feel like I was at Butlins. different Cheap beers (Thin Ice - very nice), good cheap meals, hard-working attentive staff, close to the tube, in-house magazine, Tvs, not showing boring football, music but not too loud, comfy settees, in fact, everything. Spoons are trying hard to be all things to all people. They do coffee n tea etc. Brilliant.
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This is a large open Wetherspoons located up on the first floor of the O2 centre. It�s full of the usual assortment of Spoon�s patrons propping up the bar and the odd shopper sitting by the huge windows over looking one of the many picturesque Finchley Road traffic light junctions.
The service and the quality of the lager is naff and the only good thing is that there are escalators and a lift that go up to and down from the floor the pub is on.
Utter Pants!
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I was thrown out of here on the day it opened for wearing slippers. I think it has gone down hill ever since
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I visited once some time ago and thought it was a pretty awful outlet. It obviously hasn't changed as the comments bear out.
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Agree that this place has gone downhill over the last year or so (part of a more general decline in the 02 centre I'd say). Service is very poor and the custom tends to a little rough round the edges, shall we say.
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This is a place which manages to stand out even amongst Wetherspoon's pubs as bad. Admittedly, I'm basing my opinion on just one visit, but the service is poor and the beer was very badly kept. To add to that, it's pretty devoid of atmosphere as you would expect. I don't think I'll be back in the area for some time now so thankfully I won't be anywhere near this place for a while.
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Used to be a passable place to have a quick pint before the cinema, with a decent range of guest beers just about compensating for the rather soulless atmosphere.These days the place looks like it's on the slide. Guest ales seem to be being eroded by a collection of lagers, seemingly 6 or 7 different ones at my last visit (including Budweiser-the appearance of which is never a good sign). Service is generally quite poor as well , very large bar with never more than a couple of people serving, regardless of how busy it is.The whole pub just exudes a slightly stale air and I honestly can't think of anything much to recommend it.
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The slowest serivce of any pub anywhere in the world. Only ever seems to have one or two members of staff serving and another two buggering about shifting nothing. The staff have a noticable talent for serving the poor buggers who have been at the bar longest after the johnnie-come-latelys.
Beer's poop, atmosphere is 'airport waiting lounge', smells of stale beer and cigarettes. Nothing whatsoever to recommend it.
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Last time I was here there was an almighty punch up involving the local chavs. Whole works, chairs flying through the air, people attacking each other with stools. Cracking entertainment.
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This is the pub where I had to point out that Cotleigh Peregrine Porter is an ale and not a dark lager. The bar manager seemed to think that all dark beers are like Guinness and should be served just above freezing point. In those days there was just one guest ale and the rest were the usual suspects. That has improved but the atmosphere is still pretty dead, mainly because of the layout being a long curved area with high ceilings. They also changed the pub from outside London prices to Central London prices some time back (still quite cheap down here but another reason not to go back).
anonymous - 9 May 2005 21:06 |
Dry....used to come here when I was 17 + never even got looked at by the staff, now 2 yrs on i'm gettin asked 4 i.d at the bar....the shame! No music + the foods expensive and it aint even nice...i could have cooked a better jacket potato in the microwave! Drinks cheap and thats the only reason people go!!
anonymous - 1 May 2005 20:33 |
Probably the most boring pub in the world.............No atmosphere, terrible food and poor service.
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I had the flattest pint of my life here and the atmosphere matched it perfectly. Even as Wetherspoons pubs go this is bad.
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It all went wrong as soon as we walked through the door; an absolute waste of time. No atmosphere, and layout is completely sterile. Food was expensive and no sign of the usual 'Spoonies 2 for 1 meal deal. Toilets were also filthy - an area where this company usually excels. Don't bother.
Giles - 4 Nov 2004 13:13 |
The only thing that can be said for it is that you can grab a pint before going to the cinema or in readiness to attack Sainsbury's or Homebase. The beer is OK but have tasted better in other Weatherspoons. If you are lucky you can watch silhouetted people make exhibitions of themselves in the flats opposite.
Gareth - 15 Oct 2004 13:17 |
I couldnt work out if this bar was a waiting room or a very poor resaurant, poor service, worse beer and typical wetherspoon microwaved dinners served in a space with so much potectial, dissipointing - luckly center offers further choice for a further vist to the cinema.
terry - 29 Sep 2004 01:46 |
was in there friday night. absolutly no atmosphere. guinness wasnt very good, service was slow. didnt bother to stay for another.
anthony - 4 Jul 2004 16:51 |
Cheap drinks is the only good thing about this place. The service I have received when ordering food is atrocious, but as with all wetherspoons, only good for cheap drinks.
anonymous - 10 Dec 2003 15:38 |
it takes great people to make a great atmosphere. decoration and music should not!!!!!
michelle - 21 Oct 2003 15:25 |
But all Weatherspoons fill like an airport lounge. Cheap drink I guess but that's about it. Food really is rank.
anonymous - 20 Aug 2003 19:59 |
Odd one this. Located in the O2 shopping centre next to the Warner Cinema complex, it's very large and spacious and has the same soulless atmosphere as an airport pub.
Functional like the Wetherspoons in Heathrow, you'd only ever go there if you're waiting for a film to start or for a plane to take off.
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