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A good place if you just go for the beer, the Winter beer was my favourite but the others are equally tasty.
I would recommend going early and getting in for free. It eventually get pretty busy and they then start to play music.
Service is okay-ish, though we stopped from buying a round of drinks by the waitress (we thought it was a favour) but they then charged us 75p for the privelege. Go for the beer though!
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Modern bar with attached (visible) microbrewery just off Oxford Street. Had reserved signs on almost all tables on Saturday night, (we just sat down at an empty one anyway - nobody seemed to mind), and tried a sample tray of 4 beers for �3.20. I thought the quality was pretty good, with the Blonde and dark lagers being the best. Worth popping in for a quick drink, but this is not really the kind of place I'd personally want to stay all evening.
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I turned up here last night (Friday 20th October) to join my friend, who was there on an office party. Already, I was not allow in quickly to check that he was indeed there as he unfortunately could not here his mobile due to the music, which was crap by the way.
When I did find him, I proceeded to the bar get get a round, to find what can only be described as one of the messiest and most unorganised bars I have ever seen. When I finally got round to paying, the barman was unable to locate the card machine, I think it took him at least 10 minutes.
Once I finally accomplished the near impossible mission of ordering a round of drinks and paying for it, I start to proceed slowly to the back to where my friend and his colleagues were, only to have someone walk backwads into me and spill half my drinks. Obviously I gave the person a slight nudge to let them know I was there, and got accused of rudely barging through. I kindly explained that they had split half my drinks and that I was trying simply to save the other half. It transpired this woman was one of the patrons of the bar, and that this miserable person descided to wield her power and have me kicked out because she split my drinks!!!
One of the bouncers kindly asked me to come outside for a chat, and having worked in the bar industry long enough knew exactly what that meant. As everyone knows there is no point in trying to debate with a bouncer so I asked if I may just pick up my umbrella, having come straight from work, and was immediately told this was no possible!
In short the patrons of this bar will kick out cash paying customers just because they have had a tough day! Maybe they should have a few courses in customer services! I will never step in here again, and I advise visiting some of the much finer establishments the west end has to offer, trust me there are a lot of them!
Mash was one of the greatest dissapointments of my drinking career, but deserves one star for being the first place I have ever been kicked out of in my 30 years of existance! At least now I know what it feels like!
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Deadly house-brewed beers at this funky bar that gets going pretty early in the evening. Highly rated on the blurr-ometer - its a blurr where I left my phone and how I got home, and its a blur where my mate left his Ukraine-girlfriend.
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The place is bar rather than pub. It is modern, light and very Ikea. It could be a cafe or a hairdressers or an airport lounge. It so lacks character you don't even notice. However, the infinity toilet is amusing - shame the staff are not. Be aware that there is a charge of 40p per transaction if the waitress takes your order rather than the barman.
A sample tray of all four of the beers brewed on the premises can be bought for �3.20.
The Mash is a blond beer. Initially clean and crisp, some diacetyl soon comes through - leading into a mildly hopped finish. Mostly bland - the flavour is just a bit too greasy caramel.
The Belgian Wheat ia very limp, lacking body and flavour. Sam Smiths do a better wheat. This is muggy and muddled - some caramel, some wheat - touch of band-aid, hint of warm, woody spice, some strange decay. Not good.
The Festival Golden is their attempt at an ale. Residual sweetness gives this more body than the lagers, but that sweetness does tip over into mould and rot, like a honey left in the cupboard too long. However it's the most pleasant so far.
The Vienna style lager (a dark lager) tastes surprising old for a beer made on the premises. As with the other beers there is too much belching and bloating gas. rough caramel and cardboard flavours both clash and add interest.
Mash mix - add the Vienna and the Festival together for a splendid drink. The other two beers don't improve even when mixed.
Brewpubs are rare in London - Zero Degrees being the only other true one - so this is worth checking out for that. But don't expect much. Prices are slightly high for the area.
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i had the great misfortune of going here this past saturday night. it was closed for a 'refit.' and after the night i and 3 friends had on saturday - i wish it stayed closed. the music LET ME GET THIS CLEAR - WAS COMPLETE RUBBISH! previously [as a few others below comment] at least the music was top notch - now its nothing but sub-standard, sad, suburban and extremely rubbish - what have they done? and the 'refit' has turned this place into a white elephant that charges the highest prices and looks like the foyer of an Ikea. even the touches that made it work like excellent DJs for instance have been forgotten. the Friday we went before the closing was bang bang bang house we were in and out of there in 2 minutes. and as we thought the saturdays were better, we'd give it 1 last chance. i'm happy to say - BEWARE THIS PLACE and the nasty people who don't know any better who go there. its gone from bad to worse - CLOSE THIS BAR!
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At 32 quid a round of drinks. Your'd expect high quality beers, great decor, somewhere to sit & Hooters style barmaids, but you got none of that. Music is decent though, but certainly not worth the overprice on the drinks.
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Highly pretentious. Staff act as if they're doing you a favour by serving you and are only biding their time behind a bar until their modelling deal comes off. Not a good start.
Beer is good, but at their prices it needs to be. Like MichaelSmall says the DJ's are good. But there are better places to go for music and much better places to enjoy a drink.
Overall one to steer clear of, but good for the odd 'livener' cocktail if you fancy something a bit different.
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crap, and the decor is looking increasingly tatty...still you got to rate 'em for selling that filthy homebrew to soho arseholes
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In agreement with most of the other comments, this place seemed rather expensive to me for nothing special. Basically very boring with no character.
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don't know what norstar is writing about -because in the last three weeks we've gone there every saturday for the DJs [which without a doubt] are some of the best in london with or without paying to get in] .... and me and my girlfriend formed a two-person mojito appreciation society here - they mix a mean one... but a couple of negatives- the service on saturdays can be stressed as there were so many people here and when the DJ starts revvving things up around midnight it does get crazy - so perhaps get there early... most didn't seem to mind and when you have a soundtrack that is definitely NOT west end - very little r&b, more rock, 80s and bootlegs - it works... but i agree its a little expensive? and on saturdays = no suits... 10 for the music - 6 for the rest ----
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Mash is a fall back bar for us. Yes it has quality home brewed beer but it ain't cheap. If you go there early evening Mon-Fri yes it's full of arrogant suits but at other times is frequented by beautiful people and eastern block girls! Personally I think it's lost it a bit since the early days of live DJs and the cocktails cost a fortune but it is free to get in at all hours, is chic and stylish and you always know it's there if your other plans go boo boo.
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Quality beers made on site at the microbrewery - can take a while to get served unless you are skilled at the art of pushing-in. Could be perceived as at the poncier end of the pub spectrum, but the quality beer more than makes up for this.
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A pub with a micro brewery should be a Godsend in Central London but this place stinks to high heaven.
Full of city boys in suits so drunk that they have no standards or manners meaning that most of the females in here are on their guard making for a properly crap atmosphere. One of the few places in the west end where you can get a late drink without paying to get in but if I were you I wouldn't bother.
John - 30 Oct 2004 12:14 |
Alright for a late one. Be prepared to be ripped off on drinks.
Loz - 5 Oct 2004 13:42 |
EXCELLENT beers - If you want cocktails go elsewhere you cretin.
Has the micro-brewery. Not too difficult to get a seat either - Not overpacked.
TheGP - 12 Aug 2004 14:23 |
Franklu very disappointing drinks quality. When I pay 6GBP for a G&T I want Bombay Sapphire Gin, not just J.Random crap, and a slice of lime, not lemon. The Margarita didn't have enough triple sec in it. the dark and stormy was dulll, and i didn't have the courage to see what their attempt at an old fashioned would be like. <mutter/> Far better to go round the courner to Margaret Street to "Match".
anonymous - 29 Feb 2004 20:15 |
Food also good but restaurant style/prices rather than pub ones.
Vindaloo - 24 Aug 2003 18:17 |
Another one of these micro-brewery places. Quite nice, not too busy (or rather, big enough to never feel too busy) live DJs and their bottled own beer is REALLY nice.
TheG - 12 Aug 2003 09:34 |
