The Green Man, Soho

I don't know what's happened to this place, we've been coming here for years and always found it to be a fairly decent place for food and drink. However on our most recent visit (2/1/15), it was the most shambolic pub experience I've ever encountered. Firstly the young lad behind the bar clearly didn't want to be there and had no concept of serving customers in the correct order. Also he is possibly the slowest barman I've ever had the misfortune of encountering. After finally managing to obtain a round of drinks we found a table and I made a visit to the gents. About halfway down the stairs the smell was disgusting and as I reached the bottom of the stairs I saw water running out of the gents and onto the wood floor outside. As I (stupidly) continued into the toilet the dirty water was at least an inch deep in places. Environmental health would have a field day here. Back upstairs we ordered some food which arrived after about 45 mins, some warm some cold but edible. My partner and son decided that they would have a pudding so I off I went to be ignored at the bar for another 20 mins. When the puddings eventually arrived they both had custard when I had specifically asked for one with ice cream as my son doesn't eat custard. When enquiring about this I was told they haven't got any ice cream. Upon leaving I asked the disinterested barman if the landlord was away at the moment to which he replied yes. Let's hope he gets back soon while the place is still standing. There seems to be similar reviews appearing on trip advisor recently as well so this clearly wasn't a one off.

4 Jan 2015 08:47