The Edinboro Castle, Camden

A promising pub - good range of beers, nice big garden, but let down miserably by being probably the worst managed pub in London. The bar staff are terribly slow, unable to do more than one thing at once, and inattentive to customers. In any other bar they'd all be sacked after one evening. Typical wait at the bar from three seperate visits is 30 minutes - far too long if you just want a nice pint over lunch, and don't feel like watching the barmaid chat on her mobile or stare vacantly at the till for minutes at a time. I always thought that Franziskaner beer would make any pub great, but not even that is enough to rescue this one.

20 Jul 2007 22:54