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No, it's being demolished as part of the Crossrail project.
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Sorry - Cannon Street. It's the Sugarloaf now.
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Where's it gone? It's disappeared from the Nicholson's site too. I think this is because they've taken over the O'Neil's on Queen Victoria Street.
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Been coming here for a few years, good selection of well kept Real Ales, bar staff pretty average for the area - Management though is very good - keep a well stocked cellar and knowledgable about their Ales. Food here is typical pub grub but well cooked and served nicely.
Recommend esp. to Real Ale drinkers
Just a quick note to the mulled wine/cider brigade - well worth a try to (obviously seasonal)
Only downside - Ladies toilets downstairs are not always the best - sometimes this can be down to the user, we know - but in that case should be checked on a more regular occasion - Come on Ladies, the loo's do flush! - Weird but this seems to be a constant for this pub :(
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Met some friends at Liverpool Street station. As the Hamilton Hall was packed to the rafters someone suggested this pub. Initially, here was also packed but it emptied out later on. Although six ales were on, three of them - the Tribute, Doom Bar and London Pride - were off. They did put the Pride back on. A pleasant pint. Prices were what you'd expect for the City, just over �3 a pint. Not a bad place, although it did have the crampest (is there such a word?) filthiest bogs I've ever come across.
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Popped into this pub for a bite to eat after a meeting in Bishopsgate and was surprised at how nice it was. Very friendly staff and a great selection of beers. I had the Adnams Southwold and it was really good. We both ordered lunch and the food was really nice. There was an old boy swearing like a trouper behind us, but it didn't spoil it for me! I will definitely return to this place, surprisingly nice traditional pub compared to some of the other chain pub rubbish in this area.
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Busy but dull pub with a high percentage of geezers and city boys. Rather good beer selection, maybe six ales(?). We had Camden Green which was cracking. Barman very helpful. Not a pub where you would spend a whole evening but good for a quicky.
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Nice enough place with pleasant staff and a reasonable pint, obviously it is kept busy due to it�s proximity to the station. All in all, a reasonable place.
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The pub itself is decent enough. nothing special, but nice feel inside. we had great service from the bartender. nothing sells it above the other pubs in the area, butits not bad.
however....
real real down side was the food (or specifically the breakfast). the advert of two ful english breakfasts for a tenner, was the reason why we went in, but the food was terrible. it was 11.30 when i ordered my food, and it was plainly obvious that the sausages and bacon had been out since early that morning. rubbery and tastelss. shame.
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I've been in here on odd occasions, and have found no problems with it. It seems friendly enough, and today I had a chat with a friendly man behind the bar (presumably not the manager; he had glasses, but was a Slim Jim) about the next ale tasting (27 October, from 5:00 - or was it 5:30?). Certainly preferable to the Hamilton Hall (what has happened to the place?), but then again a short walk to the Crosse Keys will help work up that little bit more of a thirst!
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Went in purely to have a look at the section downstairs where they supposedly have something to do with original site of Bethlem Hospital. It was closed, the bar itself seemed like a soulless chain pub.
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This pub was nice until we realised that it was run by an overweight Manager in glasses who speaks to people like the muppet that he is. He is rude and does not care about the customers. Best to stay away from that moron and this pub.
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After a pleasant Friday evening out my friends and I decided to have 'one for the road' before catching the train from Liverpool St. The range of ales looked appealing and we decided on a pint of Thwaites Nutty Black. As soon we lifted the pints we realised it was off. The vinegar smell was unmistakable. To the initial credit of the staff they agreed the beer was no good and changed the pints for something else without complaint.
However, as we stood at the bar we were astonished when the staff continued to serve the Nutty Black to other customers and continued to swap it for something else when it was sent back. I politely suggested to one on the staff that maybe they should remove it from sale but they refused to do so.
I asked to see the manager who was completely unapologetic for what appeared to be a policy decision of continuing to serve the beer. I guess they figured the transient nature of the clientele at 11pm on a Friday in a pub by a station meant they could offload some of the rubbish rather than binning it.
There are many things that pubs can do wrong but knowingly selling beer which is off is, in my book, just about the worst thing. Needless to say I will not be rushing back to this Nicolson's establishment.
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Another Nicholson's pub - by now they were all starting to merge into one having had a good wander round! Beer was pretty good including the landlord and a surprise beer from chef Brian Turner (?). Would go back again
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Always used to use the manky station Wetherspoons if I wanted a relatively cheap pint of real ale in the Liverpool Street area,.
However - maybe to meet the cost of the now much-improved toilets there - it certainly isn't particularly cheap any more, so instead a few of us decided to try the White Hart instead.
Haven't been particularly impressed with the place in the past, but on my visit last weekend, apart from one surly member of bar staff, have to say it was much improved.
Yep, the mains are about �7 per head, but equally I very much enjoyed my pie (went for the traditional steak and ale, although several others were also on offer). As for beer, as well as the standard (and excellent) Landlord, there were also several others on offer.
Sadly the Ringwood Fortyniner and another guest ale (can't remember which one but it had a celebrity chef gazing out from the pump) weren't available, but they had three others which were.
The (Neathergate) Azza Parrot was very well kept and the best of the three. A hazy memory doesn't allow me to recall the others so easily, but they weren't so well kept.
So, the veritable curate's egg of a pub which has to cater to all tastes. Happily the edible parts of the egg are increasing, and one day this place may be good enough to ever stop me from returning to the ever-decent Dirty Dick's when I am in the area.
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Nicholsons chain pub with London Pride and TT Landlord always available with 6 other regularly changing guests.I sampled the TT Golden Best and UBU Purity which were clear but in poor condition.The transient nature of the clientele,so close to Liverpool Street,is probably the reason why there is little incentive to improve the ale quality.Most folk seem to ignore the real ale and chemical fizz accounts for the majority of beer sales.Food menu dominated by pies around �7 yet few punters were eating.Interior is faceless and devoid of character.Dullsville.
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I'm surprised at this pub's lowish rating. I know it's opposite a station and I've had bad experiences in her myself but still on my recent lunchtime visit it had markedly improved.
8 pumps and a respectable variety of beers would get the anorak wearers into a frenzy if offered somewhere else. The pub was also clean and chav free.
My only criticism was that the quiz machine is parked right next to the door to the gents. It's hard enough deciding whether Ann, Emily or Charlotte Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights without getting a whiff of disinfectant / stale urine.
Stiil I think it's a better place than it's being credited with.
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I've recently started popping in here on the way home and have been very impressed with the food and drink. In the summer the three of us had a meal in the cellar. It was like being in Brussels! Superb! Reasonably priced food and excellent real ales. Noticed recently that the pub seems to have more than it's share of Liverpool types (nothing wrong with that!) and Poundland reps! Worth going to hear the deal of the week!
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Nice place on a Saturday for people-watching. Good service, clean loos and excellent TT Landlord.
Regis - 18 Aug 2009 17:41 |
Had a couple of guest ales yesterday afternoon (Monday). Both were in very good condition and correctly served, even if they weren't the best beers taste-wise, they had certainly been looked after. One was Morrissey Fox (not the blonde) and the other was from Cairngorn. Have ended up in this pub on a number of occasions overthe past 15 yearsor so but they were the best 2 pints I've ever had there.
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I popped in here last month on my evening out in Theydon Bois. Had intended to go to the loo and have a quick pint. 3 pints later and I was still there. You'll see from my other listings that I avoid town pubs but this one had some very interesting characters. Such as the city gent on the pull but the two girls weren't having any of it. There was a choice of about 6 real ales; I had the London Pride (think �2.65) and the Timothy Taylor Landlord (�2.90). There was a choice of pies of the day up on the specials board for those wishing to eat downstairs. Sadly, I had to leave eventually, forgot the name of the pub and spent a month tracking down friends who work in the city. Finally achieved this by returning last friday night - I couldn't even get to the bar. Loads of people drinking outside in really cold weather. Good luck to them. I'll pop in when the train is late - seems a good excuse.
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has a rating of 3.6 ??? I would agree , Did you know Nicholsons head office is above this pub? makes you wonder why this has the lowest rating of all nicholsons, perhaps because all the dickhead graduate area managers come in here and try to bully the staff , rather than let them serve the paying public. I actually have pity on the staff that work here.
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Hamish lives here now - drop in for a beer and show him some support!!!
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used 2 go here after a good 10 pints in shepards bush after watching qpr. live in burnham so liv st was on way back. ok pub not bad.
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Nary a racist to be seen. Hooray!
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The beer's always been perfectly good here, and the staff friendly and good-natured. Usually a good selection of real ales including some of my favourites, such as Greene King IPA. The karaoke (dowstairs on Thursdays) is run by the excellent Fiona. She's fond of her regulars, of course, but she's always concerned to give newcomers an encouraging welcome, which is how come she has so many regulars. If you put your name up and didn't get to sing then I guess you were in the loo when your name was called!
anonymous - 21 Jan 2007 17:07 |
its not that good come on tomas, if you recmmend a sing along in here with that karaoke, i think you better get out just a bit more, i would give it -5 out of 10...
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Brilliant Thursday evening here, well looked after and a great laugh singing along to karaoke. Recommended.
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I'm not knocking the barmaid policy here, although it seems to have taken a bit of a dive recently. Last night I ordered a pint of Kronie downstairs, the barmaid accidentally chucked 5p change into the pint. She made an admirable attempt to retrieve the coin using a pair of prongs sat at the side of the bar. Failing at this, she dragged it out with a fork then offered me a 'top-up' instead of draining the pint and offering me a fresh one. Shocking. Positively shocking.
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Great beer and tasty barmaids. What more can you ask for?
anonymous - 27 Jun 2006 21:18 |
Spent the evening here last week. Had the fish and chips and a pint of Fullers. My partner had the steak pie and mash. Must say the food was excellent, manager really hospitable and the beer was as it should be. The cellar bar downstairs is beautiful although the whole pub could do with a refurb. Very busy and the staff under pressure but coping admirably and even looked happy to be there. All in all a good experience and thoroughly recommended.
anonymous - 27 Jun 2006 21:12 |
If this pub has a casque mark, it should be removed!! Had a pint of Broadside which, due to the barman's deliberate technique, had rather a large head on it - so I politely asked for him to top it up.
He did - but after first giving me a look as if I'd asked him to give Georg W Bush a blow-job. And, amazingly, he ensured the excess went into the next pint!! Unbeleivable - and gross!!
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pop in with some friends for drinks on a thurday night, just did not like it, had some karaoke going on put my name up for a song and just did get called up all night, good job she was not working behind the bar we would have had on drinks all night, she would have just served her friends, she was calling people who did not put there name up ??? how ??? o well the staff where not that bad as we got served after 15mins... did not like it and if my friends ever want to go agen they can , not me
anonymous - 7 May 2006 21:21 |
Devoid of any saving graces save one..the service was swift, however the Pride wasn't very good, the barmaid inept, the food was still part frozen when it was served and it was raining hard outside!!
Thats it really, a shame because the location holds so much promise...
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I was not at all impressed with this pub. Not exceptionally ugly or pleasant inside, and might be fun for people-watching out the window, but the clientele are loud, obnoxious suits, and the staff seemed to be almost completely without a clue. I had to engage in a guessing game with the barmaid as to which beers were actually "on". It took four guesses before I got one that was actually available (actually, I cheated--after three wrong guesses, I finally asked her what she was able to sell me, and she said, "I think the London Pride isn't empty").
With several better-looking or better-run pubs within a few hundred yards, I strongly recommend giving the White Hart a miss in your Spitalfields pubgoing.
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Zero ambience, zero class, and full of weirdos or suits having one pint. Never going to be a classic pub given its location and, therefore, its inherently transient clientele. But still rubbish.
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Another example of location overcoming a multitude of sins. The beer, service and food are all attrocious in here and if not for being so close to the station it would have been put down a generation ago. Head straight for the train and drink in Shenfield instead. BTW why is it called the '199'.
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Service not bad, beer average.
Can get quite busy when there is a football match on, but far too smoky and grubby. They should fix the aircon - they say they have a non smoking area - no idea where that was...
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Since it is Crime Awareness day, 2 things: the price of the pints in here, and the managers attitude.
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Had a great night here. Friendly staff and good beer. Pie and mash as it should be.
anonymous - 1 Oct 2005 16:14 |
Service is about as bad as it can get.
Beers are not kept well (despite the Cask Marque).
A lunchtime food order for 10 had 5 arrive after 30 mins and the remainder took over an hour to arrive (after the others had finished). The mashed potato was cold for those whose meals arrived last, just warmed with the gravy on top.
Fish & chips - sizeable & not bad.
Ham & cheese melt - unbelievably poor.
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Very average pub. Why bother, 4 cans of tennants and park bench will do.
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Had just arrived back in town after a nightmare sunday train/coach journey from a friends 30th birthday weekend and needed some serious food and re-tox. Stumbled across this pub with my fellow casualties and was thoroughly impressed, mostly because the the food was fabulous. The barstaff were friendly and the beer as it should be. The downstairs cellar bar was open for food and more relaxing than the main bar with a good choice of tunes playing. If you fancy a bite to eat I highly recommend the fish in beer batter - yum! My mates steak & ale looked good too. Paul said his chickeny barbeque thing was okay but quite frankly paled in comparison.
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It's dirty, it's full of wideboy tossers, the beer is hardly ever 'on'. A tragic excuse for a pub.
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Don't knock the Romanian barmaid, always perfectly pleasent when I've been in here and does a fine job IMHO. Can't comment on the Broadside but the Pride was pretty good.
michael - 27 Oct 2004 15:18 |
Walked in, saw all four ales were finished, walked out again.
Bravo, White Hart, Bravo.
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Had the worst pint of Adnam's Broadsie ever :-(. And that was once the barman "graciously" decided to serve me. Only popped in as handily located for the station and it was showing the footy. Otherwise, this pub sucks! How the blazes did it get a Casque Mark award?!!
Darren in the City - 26 Aug 2004 16:40 |
Good splattering of romainian barmaids - 'Eezz zere enting elze you wood liek?'. Reasonable priced booze with fairly nice food. Effing ace!
Jonny Boy - 20 Aug 2004 15:55 |
Well its one of those typical old London type of pubs with the main advantage being you can stumble to Liverpool St Station without much trouble even after a few pints. Not the sort of place you are going to run into a Britney but for a quiet chat its worth a visit because you are guaranteed not to get interupted.
geoff - 23 Feb 2004 11:29 |
The picnic tables outside when the temperature has not reached double figures for the last 3 months declared an optimism that drew us to the place. If you read the history (on the back of the food menu), there has been an Inn or hostelry on the site for hundreds of years. The decor adds weight to this, having firmly resisted the rapid pace of refurbishment by the competition. After 5 beers though, the decor isn't that bad. After 6, the proximity to the station is an advantage. After 7, the picnic tables became a serious impediment to my intended route home. Not a place to impress the ladies, but for cheeky beers on the way home near the station it will do fine.
Alex - 17 Feb 2004 09:10 |
But it's only saving grace is that it does Old Speckled Hen (or at least it used to)
Darren - 5 Aug 2003 08:42 |
Quite seriously - rubbish. Opens on weekends, if you're stuck in the City, and has big screen sport all the time. But always full of the kind of weirdos who hang around railway stations, and with that horrid, cheaply-furnished sticky-lino-floored non-ambience that London pubs often have.
Matt - 5 Aug 2003 06:14 |
If your friend finds it impossible not to fall off of bar stools then I would stay clear... although we have never managed to! Good for a giggle and a cheesey boogie in the middle of the week.
T - 22 Apr 2003 15:29 |
