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Enjoyable pub with friendly staff and the beer is excellent. I like live music and this is one of the few places around that has it, fair enough it gets very busy at the weekends but surely that's to be expected...
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Just a quick one in here.
Guinness very good.
Handy as next to tube for meeting.
Wouldnt like to be in here late at night.
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Horrible, vile place. The sweat dripping off the ceiling tastes better than the beer and the bar staff are rude, obnoxious and more interested in serving underage girls than running a functional business. One particular barman, a small balding chap with glasses was so rude he even refused to serve me after I'd queued for 10 mins on the grounds that he didn't like the look of me. I was sober, well dressed and causing no fuss (compared to the rest of the rotten clientele!) and he was rude, judgmental and incredibly unprofessional. I'll be boycotting ALL O'Neils pubs from now on & urging my friends and family to do the same.
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I have used this site for many years as a guide to decent and not so decent pubs but O'Neills was so bad that it has prompted me to set up an account & leave a comment. Truly awful experience. Terrible beer and a bar manager/landlord who was the surliest man I have ever met. Real attitude and to quote "I like it when it is empty, dont like serving no people" as he sat around watching one poor girl do all the work. O'Neill's is always a bit naff but this is beyond the pale. Avoid.
Edlin - 26 Aug 2011 13:09 |
This pub is everything you expect it to be...busy on weekends with lower class chavs, but entertaining to say the least if you love people watching as their evening develops. I often may pop in for one pint on my pub crawl around just to get some variation to my evening, listen to some loud average music and play their quiz machines (which are sometime frustratingly not always working). Not a place to stay for a long period or to take anyone you may want to impress but a useful varied pub to have around amongst all the bistros and posh bars in the area....
gumbo - 16 Aug 2011 14:02 |
Dropped in here on St Patricks day this year and wasn't impressed. OK it's only a plastic paddy bar but I got the worst pint of Guiness I've ever had in here so any pretence at being an Irish bar is gone. The barman had to change the barrel, fair enough, so I paid for it and he went off whilst i waited. 25 minutes later he reappeared and served someone else. He then spied me waiting and remembered why I was waiting. He then poured a straight pint of Guiness with no waiting time between the original pour and the top up, basically as if it were a pint of lager. It also tasted pretty off.
Suffice it to say I wasn't impressed.
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Poor service. We turned up for a nightcap at 10.40, ordered three pints and a G & T. The barman told us it was too late to slice a lemon and wouldn't give us one, even though we asked twice (politely). At 10.50 he wouldn't serve us pints - only halves - because they were apparently shutting in 5 minutes (before 11 o'clock). We asked about drinking up time and he just lied about it.
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Avoid like the plague. Have never seen ruder bar staff in my life.
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Very Pikey!! Theres always An Argument or a Fight going on @ Least Once a Night!!
Bad Slow Service..... I'd rather go somewhere else!! :-(
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Nice big space but painfully slow service.
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O'Neills turned a group of 17 of us down from entering the pub because some of us were wearing tracksuit bottoms. We had all just been playing a 2020 cricket match. We were absolutely stunned at being turned down and our corporate organiser was highly embarrassed who was treating us all to drinks and a pub dinner.
Yet other pubs nearby such as the Windmill and one across the road will let us in without fuss. What a pompous policy. Unbelievable.
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Been in here in both it's previous guises - Plough (I think) with old timers drinking their pensions and SW4 with chavs looking to get lagered up and stare down their fellow patrons. It's massive and so has never seemed that full to me.
The O'Neills version at least offers a more pleasant interior although shifting the bar from the centre to the right hand side of the room makes the pub seem even more cavernous than it did previously.
I do however share the reservations of the previous reviewer about the customer base which seems to have derived from SW4 rather than attracting a more sensible crowd.
It was relatively quietish at 5pm on a Friday when I was in but two drunks started a shouting match at the front of the pub which continued on to the street outside (which I suppose is preferable to some of the alternatives).
I'm old enough and there is enough choice in the area that I don't need to drink in places with that sort of thing going on. It's a bit of a shame as I find O' Neills the least offensive of the chain pubs - still the Alex is over the road so no great loss
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Good pub quiz machine but the custom base are quite 'pikey'.
gumbo - 18 Jan 2009 22:48 |
Certainly better than other sites in Clapham. So I believe.
Food & drink are of a good standard. It's the best branded offer around.
Consistently solid service.
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Bog standard O'Neils. Nothing special to draw you in other than the convinient location but then there are much better places nearby.
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