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Has yet again reopened as another gourmet restaurant, for which Eggs Benedict at breakfast will set you back �7.65. Doubt it will ever return as a boozer. Bring back the Well!
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All I can say is I hope the utter morons who closed down a great local pub to turn it into a pricy, poncy veggie lentil restaurant lost a load of money!!!. I know all the regulars (40 plus people) boycotted the awful place which hopefully helped it close. Disgrace. Its been empty best part of a year and was a community pub. Unfortuntely its guts have been ripped out and its unlikely (being opposite the slug) ever to open up as a proper pub again. .....someone didn't do their market research.
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Well the new restaurant they put here did not last long just Six Months. After replacing a very successfully Pub that was always full of drinkers & very busy with a horrid veggie restaurant it lasted only six months. Maybe someone will make it back into a proper Ale House again we live in hope.
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I can't believe this place has closed. Absolutely dreadful news. See my comment below; there was nowhere else like it for miles.
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Now replaced with a restaurant called "Eat and two Veg" selling really poor food. If tempted to eat here, save your money - buy a cheap pasta dish in Iceland instead, take it home and defrost it, and charge yourself 20 quid.
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I never saw this coming as I thought that they were doing reasonably well due to there always being a few people in every time I�ve gone. As said before, it is a real shame!
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Oh dear its being turned into another bloody restaurant just what Muswell Hill needs to go with the other 37 eateries already there. On average one restaurant a month is closing in Muswell Hill there�s so many this one Eat & Two Veg won�t be no different. Again high Rents and chain restaurants take over pushing out all tradition creating an ever increasing Plastic high street.
anonymous - 17 May 2008 10:22 |
Sadly Now closed at Present Hope its only a temporary closure.
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Serves the important function of being the last place to get a 'no-frills' pint in Muswell Hill. Fantastically unpretentious. Prices have gone up recently but still very reasonable. More jokes-man-in-the-pub stories than most town centres put together.
One-time vistors will wonder what I'm on about but if you go there enough you'll start to love it.
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This is the only decent Bar left in Muswell Hill Broadway as all the Other Pubs around here have been turned into glorified over expensive restaurants.
They serve a good Pint of Guinness in here and it has friendly staff & customers. Best when theres no sport on the TV as otherwise it gets a bit too packed probably because its the only decent bar round here at least it don't get full of foodies & half Pint merchants.
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guinness is always good in here and the staff friendly
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I like this place. Its got decent beer, reasonable prices and football on the box. Proper working man's pub.
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This is a reasonable �old man�s� pub on Muswell Hill Broadway. Pretty cheap booze, 2 TV�s and a �1.50 a game pool table. There is a food menu with your usual pub grub on it at very good prices, but I have not tried any so cannot comment on whether the food is edible.
I had a good time in here and stayed until closing, but I still do not understand why in this day and age bar staff can still harass people to leave before time. My girlfriend and I were asked four times by 23:15 to drink up and leave. My annoyance was further compounded by the fact that two of these times were by a drunk off-duty member of staff who then proceeded to pile the stools and chairs onto tables around us. I�m sure that the cleaner in the morning wouldn�t mind spending an extra 3 minutes putting the chairs on the tables.
It was a shame as the regulars are a very friendly lot, but I cannot abide the attitude of �we�ve had your money, now feck off�.
I will go back to The Well, but maybe I�ll leave earlier and have my couple for the road elsewhere.
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Had a really good steak in there recently, food used to be a rarity in this place- you could never get any unless the Manager was in the mood to cook, the new Boss seems to have food on the go all the time
anonymous - 28 Dec 2006 10:11 |
Went to The Well on christmas eve, had a great night, the place was really busy (obviously) but service was still good and they had a late licence until 1am, going back on New Years Eve- free entrance apparently, The Church(O'Neills) just gets too busy, it's like sardines in there, and they charge to get in.
anonymous - 28 Dec 2006 10:08 |
This pub benefits by not being trendy!
It's surrounded by pretentious bars in muswell hill but manages to maintain a real pub feel.
New manager is always around making sure the staff are busy cleaning when not pulling pints, and making surethe customers are not putting there feet on the chairs
It is a bit battle weary but that adds to the feel.
Beer is good quality and well prices, new menu does what is says on the tin, good quality/good portions, and you can get fed right up to ten at night.
You can watch the sport on a large screen as well as a regular tv so 2 events can be on together.
Not too many baseball cap types in here, music's not too loud and not too contemporary.
The only problem is that the tube isn't very close
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The Well is a small little pub which has a grown up feel to it. It's over 21's at weekends which makes a nice change. It's got the old style feel to it as the public and saloon bar sides are clearly defined. If you're looking for a nice chardonnay it's probably not for you though. Cheap beer, good real ales, relaxed atmosphere and nice bar staff.
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this pub, is not where david and dan are on about, they are talking about the oneills which is a church,this pub, the well, i went into once, on a thursday afternoon, because it was next to my bus stop. Well what can i say, im sorry, but it smelled funny, like an old sweaty smell. The bar staff were really nice and a chap sat on my table was quite pleasant, but i had half a lager and got out of there asap, it had a nice 'old proper pub' feel, but sorry, it stank.
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What can i say, they always let me use the john when i'm passing. Great pub!
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Do not confuse "The Well" (a converted shop and nice little pub) opposite Woolworths on Muswell Hill Broadway with the huge "O'Neills" (a converted church)on the corner of Princes Avenue and Muswell Hill Broadway.
andrew - 9 Jun 2004 16:57 |
guinness pub.
used to be o'neills until they moved to the church.
horseracing shown on big screen convenient for the bookies' a couple of doors up.
pool table. grown up pub.
andrew - 9 Jun 2004 01:17 |
What fantastic building, sacrilege of course if you're Godsquad. Rubbish beer and towny feel let's it down.
Dan - 14 May 2004 11:53 |
A great place for watching football, but they reallly don't make the most of a stunning location. It's bang in the centre of very trendy Muswell Hill in a huge old church yet they cram it full with daft "Irish effect" brick-a-brack and serve cheap and mediocre food. This said though, the atmosphere is friendly and the staff are polite and helpful.
David - 9 May 2004 18:22 |
No Real Ale
StatusBaby - 13 Feb 2004 20:46 |
this pub is not bad for an O'Neills. The staff are nice and fit and there is a DJ on Saturday nights which is good cos the pub gets packed.
Andrew - 12 Feb 2004 09:22 |
The best pub in London for watching major sporting events. An atmosphere like no other!
Cornelius - 24 Jan 2004 18:37 |
Very good atmosphere,played 'closing time' instead of ringing bell!
Seemed friendly enough bar to me.
fred fencehead - 23 Jan 2004 23:59 |
Lovely inside except for loads of tacky fake-Irish stuff (e.g. massive papier mache Guinness Toucan hanging from the celing, and drinking slogans pasted onto the walls)
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Enormous Church on the outside, enormous Pub on the inside. Beer, Guiness etc is always V good, the staff are friendly and the place is always clean; the staff are always wiping the bar free of any spillidge etc. and lets face it, the place looks spectacular. Music, Live Music and on occasion DJ's. Cheers!!!
Boozehound - 14 Aug 2003 23:47 |
