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Was closed for a major refurb after being taken over by Craft Union, now reopened and still chav central, due to very low prices for the area. Under £4.00 a pint and double spirit measures from £3.50, also be advised when we visited yesterday two days after it opened the gents toilet's where backed up and overflowing.
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Easily the worst pub in the Victoria/Pimlico area. Come here if you want to buy crack cocaine or get glassed. Horrible Place
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Large pub that I'd guess mainly caters to a regulars crowd. Still the bar staff were friendly enough and the regulars in there were generally OK. That said one did come over to our group to 'tell us a joke' with the bet that for each one of us that laughed we'd give him a quid. No one did and he went away skint.
The place is pretty poor as pubs go with a limited selection of beers and not a great atmosphere. I can't see any reason to go there unless it was to get out of the rain.
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Has to be smelled to be believed. Pool table, though, innit?
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Popped in on a Saturday morning, we planned to go to the Cask (just up the road) but it didn't open until midday so tried this one instead. Unfortunately they had no ale at all so we didn't stay. Landlord looked somewhat put out by us leaving but he had nothing to offer us.
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It's not often I say this, but I walked in once and turned straight around and walked out. This pub should be bulldosed down and buried, and if you want to save the tax payer some benefit fraud, then do it with the punters in it!
The curtains are still nicotine stained from before the smoking ban!
The customers sit outside drinking cans of super in the mornings while they wait for it to open!
The people sitting around have plastic pipes in their arms, oxygen masks and crutches, or are obese tatooed thugs propping up the bar. Rough, Ugly, Smelly, Sickening, take your pick. The only thing I'll say for it is the NHS should do a documentary there to put people off drinking.
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This is my local and one I choose ahead of all others in the area for its lack of pretension and because its easy-going to the extent of being a law unto itself.. It is quite grotty - the gents is truly grim- and it doesn't have any ales but it is a serious old-fashioned boozer with a hard core of alkies, a guvnor who is fond -maybe too fond- of the gee-gees and a regular loyal crowd who are at the older end of the scale. Anyone who reckons it is lairy or even dangerous is truly a big girl and should go up the street to the Cask - an excellent pub by the way- which is full to the gunnels with Jeremys and Tims. But if you suffer from inverted snobbery then stay in the Pride. I remember not so many years ago being in the Pride when then minister of defence and the hopme secretary (Des Brown and John Reid) and a shower of other jock politicos were in there watching Celtic play. Don't know what that means but it must mean something.
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I lived in the area as a student in 2000/01 and i frequented here quite often. At the time it was a very friendly and enjoyable place. It was always a bit of a laugh and was a typical back street pub. Little bit dirty and tatty but it added to the charm in a way. There are a few retired day time drinkers that you have with any residential pub and unfrotunately they do seem to want to talk to each and everyone but they mean well.
I have been here more recently in October 2010 for old times sake and it has not changed apart from the number of day time drinkers which now includes a good number of the unemployed and the light heartedness has been replaced with a gloomy atmosphere. I wouldn't say its a rough place, but it certainly stands in contrast to other pubs/bars in Pimlico.
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As the previous reviewers have clearly stated, you'll only like this place if you like drunken irish men or you are one! Having said that the landlord seems a decent enough chap and is pretty friendly and even some of the drunks seem friendly too if you can work out what they're babbling on about through their stupor.
Unfortunately they don't have any ales so I had to make do with a Guinness and I'm reliably informed that smoking is allowed during the lock-in...
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Pimlico is an area of contrasts with a grid of neat stucco residences in the centre fringed by a number of estates and the railway lines from Victoria. Tachbrook St is one where the two worlds collide with one side of the road given over to said stucco buildings and the other side to a red brick 60/70s estate.
The Pride of Pimlico (and never has a pub been more inappropriately named) inhabits the ground floor of one of the estate blocks and is all you expect from such an establishment. Having fought my way through the gaggle of surly smokers in and around the entrance I found my self in a largish irregular shaped single room bar. Bench and table seating in the front of the pub, bar in the middle and pool table to the rear.
Decor can only be described as fake Irish shabby with a few Gaelic football jerseys adorning one wall. As one would expect it is all slightly dishevelled with bits of last years Christmas decoration still stuck to the ceiling to add to the overall impression of sloppiness. There is a very large flat screen (50" I should think) mounted on the wall in the front bay area which indicates sport watching is an important part of the activity in this pub. A further TV in the central area was broadcasting racing in the middle of the afternoon which is never a very good sign in my view.
The clientele were a colourful cast of the aged and unemployed (and probably unemployable) - as with all these sorts of pubs there were a considerable number for mid-afternoon. It is not too difficult to imagine this place getting quite lairy later in the evening.
No pumps that I could see - just a selection of lagers, Guinness and John Smiths.
A genuine shithole.
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I went into this pub on St. Georges Day with a group of friends. We all walked straight out en mass. Totally unwelcoming. There are several other good, friendly pubs in the area, but avoid this one
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Walking into this pub and walked straight out again. Full of thugs, football hooligans, coke heads and chavs.
AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR HEAD KICKED IN
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Horrid, green-fronted pub. A lot of wood inside but also some ghastly and very rude clientelles there. If you want good beer and great food come out of the Pride and do a right, then walk into the first pub you see. It's not rocket scence.
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Dodgy estate pub for dodgy locals. No ales available on tap apart from a strange version of Courage Best through an electric pump. Two pub dogs, one of which isn't long for this world.
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This is not the most welcoming pub and it wouldn�t be out of place in a dodgy sink estate. Like any self respecting estate pub there is a standard draught selection along with three plasma screens for Sky Sports, a pool table and a mix of dodgy looking characters smoking in the entrance.
Pride of Pimlico � I don�t think so.
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Nice friendly boozer, recommend. Good landlord.
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All these nice reviews about old fashioned family local are very out of date... this is a terrible place, very unfriendly and unwelcoming, etremely dirty and at times pretty dangerous
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this pub I know very well. I used to go here every Friday night and have a great dance. The pub then was run by an Irish fella, nice bloke, I fancied his misses, but she said to me that it wouldn't work. She was right. Only had one fight in here. Never got on the tables, but a fun pub at the time. Good Fosters, good staff and good company. Recommend to a tourist.
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This is an excellent pub. Its friendly atmosphere is a must once you have been in there a few times the locals are very friendly including the landlady and landlord. There is a juke box, darts board, fruit machine, cigarette machine and pool table on a saturday night there is always live entertainment by some very talented entertainers. Just remember to treat others as you like to be treated. Shame there are not more family run oubs rather than brewery pubs these days. I would recommend this pub to anyone looking for a traditional Irish pub.
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This pub was a pretty random find for me. Stuck in the middle of Pimlico, I was astonished to find an irish type pub full of working class people smoking and drinking themselves silly.
This is not a bad thing - a good unpretentious boozer, don't know how they will cope when the smoking ban comes in, but served an excellent pint of guinness. Posers stay away though.
TheGP - 26 Feb 2006 20:51 |
Not a bad local pub. Nothing to go crazy about.
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The Pride is a good local, with great beer. The natives are friendly and definitely not smelly (see Morag below). The owners are great.
ps - 6 Oct 2004 16:21 |
Currently closed for renovation, I suspect it'll be another bloody wine bar.
bob - 12 Jul 2004 12:03 |
The pride of pimlico is one of the best pub in london the owner is a great man and they do a great pint.
if your up for a good time go there
BP - 25 Mar 2004 22:24 |
In defence of the pride of pimlico, its an "exactly what it says on the tin" type of place !
Its a PUB mot a fancy neon light ridden hell hole which unfortunately have become the norm in London.. You'll never have any trouble in the pride, the pints are absolutely fantastic !!! Trust me i know a good one from a bad one, and this place treats its "gargle" with respect ! As i mentioned before it wont win any awards for cleanliness, but if a decent pint in a pub with some tradition is what you are after, then you can do far worse in Pimlico !
Now where did i leave my stapler ?
BK - 4 Jul 2003 16:18 |
pretty much the nastiest pub in pimlico.last time i was in there it was full of old men smelling of armpits and the odour of the loos preceded their presence by about 20 feet. beers shit too.
morag - 3 Jul 2003 17:31 |
Full of OLD irish men supping their pints ! Its about 50 Yards from the Pimlico tram, but worlds apart really..Pool table, no food, dukebox, and drunkeness is perfectly acceptable if not encouraged ! A bit dirty, but very very friendly place.
BK - 11 Jun 2003 17:26 |
