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This pub is now called the Botanist and seems to be a kind of zoo for posh chaps with no chins and for braying sulky inbred women...They're all kept in the same cage and for entertainment will spend huge amounts of money for stuff that is more or less the same as you might get in Wetherspoons for a tenth of the price. I think they like it because they are a particular species called the Sloaney Aloofs and I imagine they're endangered and will have died out soon because it's unimaginable that they would want to mate with each other or that any other species would want to mate with them.
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This pub does not exist as The Royal Court anymore & hasn't for over a year !! now a very pretentious bar rather than a pub
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Went to this bar recently [two months ago] and enjoyed a good few beers, a bit pricey [but hey, you're in Sloane Square, what do you expect..] but friendly bar staff and good lager.
Being a Bitter/Ale drinker normally was a bit disappointed at Lager Only taps, but other than that I can recommend it.
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still closed with no real idea what is happening here,the hotel next door reopened a long time ago but it looks doubtfull whether this will re emerge as a pub.
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I'd be keen to see whether they've learned any lessons when they reopen - prior to 2005 it used to have rude staff and overpriced drinks and the most draconian attitude to drinking up time i've ever encountered (they actually threw people's stuff out on to the street to encourage them to drink up!)
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Closed for refurbishment...............
anonymous - 3 Oct 2005 13:47 |
Definite lack of atmosphere and not particularly impressed with the bar staff- was quite happy to show my driving licence when asked for ID, but having it scrutinized for 10 minutes and tossed on the bar was a bit unnecessary!!
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Bar staff were rude and dismissive, was charged �3.50 for a half of (flat) lemonade and a cup of tea (no milk - only UHT). Freezing cold. Empty, yet smoky, somehow.
Never, ever, ever go to this pub.
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This pace is an utter shambles. Zero atmosphere, very smoky and dead - empty and desolate. Plus there was a guy there so drunk he could hardly stand up who insisted on insulting and absuing my friends and I. The barstaff did nothing except for laugh at us and him and serve him more alcohol. When we complain they laughed at us more and muttered to each other behind the bar. Apalling in every sense of the word - nearly ruined my night.
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eeh haw eeh haw ....yah!
im a local, well fairly-anyway, nice pub, nice drinks -bit plain and stripped bare, yes self absorbed people but what of it? theyre hardly there to entertain you!
good for a stop point, have a drink and move on-not one for an all night or day session.
barrytherightwoofta - 28 Jun 2004 12:08 |
Full of braying yaahs who can't be arsed to walk along the King's Road a bit further. A Void.
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friendly diverse crowd, good bartenders, my favorite pub during the two years I spent in London, and I visited many. Royal Court Tavern became my base.
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Aren't they all?
Nige - 4 Mar 2004 23:46 |
Oh come on, it isn't that bad. I never had a bad time here. Besides, the barmaid was cute.
Bob - 4 Mar 2004 20:56 |
Souless bar. No character. Customers loud and self absorbed. Bar staff disinterested. The Antelope round the corner is better.
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I would say more, but the word dreadful sums it all up. Who could have thought that you could get that many yobs in a Chelsea pub this far a walk from Stamford Bridge?
robin - 9 Jun 2003 13:40 |
