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Has a public & lounge bar, cheap real ale, not cheap lager and a pleasant pint of Guinness. Also, decent food served daily, 12-2pm except Sundays, charity quiz nights and even a conker competition.
It is a locals local, but they're mostly harmless old farts. I have noticed that despite they're advanced years they still have a healthy appetite for an evening of enebriation & avoiding the wife.
Has awards from Camra displayed prominently and is, in all, a very cosy old-fashioned boozer.
Probably the pick of Woodford's hostelries.
1 Dec 2005 15:52
I quote a good friend's comment to the barmaid on my last visit.
"You'll need some more shootings in here to sort this place out!"
I think that covers it.
14 Jun 2005 11:53
I agree with Dan, proper local. Not much to look at but definitley a world away from the city.
Once went for a quick drink and was "locked-in" without realising, it can't get much better.
14 Jun 2005 11:48
Best pub in the world, ever.
Sam smiths chain means its cheap and friendly. On the river with beer garden means summer nights are excellent. Have had two birthday "all-dayers" in here and the staff showed the patience of saints.
14 Jun 2005 11:45
Very touristy.
The pizza place above is the only reason to go. Cheapish pizzas that go from large to bigger than dustbin-lid size. Largest one available has its own table to hold it.
14 Jun 2005 11:39
Only been once, my future boss passed out in the toilets...and i pissed on him. Excellent night, although i take the credit for that.
14 Jun 2005 11:34
If you like vapid, shallow women who undress at the drop of a wallet...and the males who chase them...
Average city bar trying to out-punch its weight.
14 Jun 2005 11:31
The Sir Paul Pindar, Bishopsgate
It has table football and toilets.
Nothing else of note sadly.
14 Jun 2005 11:23
Woodins Shades, Liverpool Street
Friendly bar staff that don't preen in front of customers! Certainly unique in the city for that.
Downmarket and dishevelled is fair, I think.
Pool tables are more like mini golf courses with long sticks replacing the cues.
Low on excitement, big on normality.
14 Jun 2005 11:22
Cocktails are something special. Barstaff are not!
Have had some truly special nights in here. The long island iced tea is very fast acting. Only bar I've ever seen a woman puke down her front and 5 guys surrounding her STILL trying to pull her. Top marks.
Have done this place on a school night many times and wouldn't recommend it, you'll end up sleeping in the bogs at work for hours.
14 Jun 2005 11:17
10/10 for comedy value. The clientele is something only found in anthropological text books.
Herad this place described as "a nightclub for those with low taste and get up early".
Dress with "elizabeth duke bling" and home highlighted hair.
Is cheap in happy hour.
Upmarket alternative is Sosho up the road.
14 Jun 2005 11:10
The Hamilton Hall, Liverpool Street
It is comparitively cheap.
Full of tramps and gyppos.
No chance of a quick pint.
Did used to get lunch here when i worked in the broadgate exchange tho. I think that speaks volumes about the quality of food in the exchange.
14 Jun 2005 11:06
Everyone who drinks here wants either a quick divorce or an orange peel nose (potentially both).
Definitely a drinkers pub! These people understand what an aspiring alcoholic needs from them, a quick pint or 7 before staggering back to the trains.
This is not a place to pull, or even think about pulling.
14 Jun 2005 11:03
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The Goose At The OVT, Selly Oak
As noted the clientele is a glorious hotchpotch of locals and students who mix like oil and water. However the reason it is so popular is because it is dirtily cheap, both for beer and food. Ale prices start at �1.20 and lagers like Stella and 1664 all cost less than �2-a-pint. Burger & chips and a pint (of cheapest beer/lager) will set you back a whopping �3.50... and main meals come in 3 sizes!
On the plus side it is the least pretentious pub ever; there is no dress code, strictly casual and/ or paint/oil/grime stained work overalls. Indeed I have been in for lunch, and observed locals sleeping peacefully in their seats, and then returned later that night to find that, at closing, the same people sitting in the same places... often still asleep.
Staff are friendly.
Recommended if you are a student and/ or on minimum wage.
18 Feb 2006 18:54