BITE user comments - milfer
Comments by milfer
cmofish. Your right about GK. But via real pubs. Expect rude service, shabby beer, high prices. A pity, could be good, but with it's location it's between too many great places.
It would have to be fantastic to compete. I will check it out & happily eat my words if I'm wrong. But my few experiences at the Oxford don't fill me with good expectations.
7 Jul 2011 00:57
Response to adelondon.
You're right. A 14 yo kid shouldn't have been in a pub. Licencing laws now allow plenty of this & "family" pubs are the norm.
I frequently have taken him to pubs where we have eaten & I have drunk well ("in moderation").
So I find myself in a part of London, frequented by tourists, & wanting a pee & a cold beer.
Brings me dack to my first point. The pub is terrible. It is for tourists, but the beer & service is shite. Cash is King. Not a pl;ace I want my cash to be.
23 May 2009 23:48
Went Sunday after a fantastic lunch elsewhere. Rarely have I been treated with such disdain.
Asked if I could have a drink with my 14 year old son & partner. Told no problem. Waited at the bar & told EVENTUALLY that no drinks for "drinkers" were served at the bar!
Directed upstairs. No ales on tap, but I was then told the (very underworked) ladies could order it from downstairs.
Then waited 8 minutes(yes I did time it) for (very mediocre pints) of Abbot & Hoegaarden to be served (after eventually asking). Head all knocked back & lacklustre.
I know it's tourist town, that's why I was there with my son. Do standards really have to be this low? Remember in the recession boys & girls, a pound note is a pound note. It's not worth more if it's spent by a boy with tight pants, wearing his hat indoors & pretending to be "sooo waasted"!
GK liven this place up. I like your beers, but I don't like having the P taken out of me.
26 Jan 2009 03:58
Please give me a break. Thank you Kilburn.
This place is quite seriously a dump. NO GOOD WORDS TO BE SAID!
26 Jan 2009 03:30
Don't know about the food, but why are the bar staff all so miserable?
Potentially the best boozer around. Chose this place after I failed to get served at the Palmerston around the corner.
At least I got served, but a smile & a thank you wouldn't hurt too much.
28 Oct 2007 01:27
The Lord Palmerston, Dartmouth Park
Why is it rubbish? Not so much that, but who do you have to know to get a beer in the place?
There used to be several very pretty girls around the place, behind the jump.
The last few times I've been in though it's been the same lugubrious Irish bloke. In fairness to him, he works his proverbials off, but he's always there on his own!
The pub is packed lads, surely you can afford another Australian or Pole to help out.
Never mind. I managed to get a surly pint down at St Johns instead. Poor second best to a place I used to like very much.
28 Oct 2007 01:22
The Southampton Arms, Gospel Oak
What is the point of this place? Love the principle, but I will not be snarled at by ignorant little chimps. Lose the bad attitude, pull up your trousers and try a bit harder. Didn't have a beer as the barmen were quite frankly tossers.
Ended up at the Bull & Last. Not much better, but at least a hello & a smile.
7 Jul 2011 01:10