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Pricey. But really enjoyable visit. Lovely grand Victorian corner pub. Horseshoe shaped bar with separate dining room. Dominated by three impressive skylights. Very decadent feel, with friendly and attentive staff. Four pumps with Doombah , two from Sambrook's and something from Nelsons Brewery? Only bottled cider available on our visit alas. At £5 a bottle. Yikes! Sometimes it's worth it to pay a little more. A treat! Food menu looked scrummy but top end prices. I could feast for £2 down the Uxbridge Road. Will look forward to my next visit. For a drink. Oh. And The Greyhound is open again. Worth checking out.
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Went in here by chance as we were looking for "The Greyhound" (which is now closed ).I have to say very pleasantly surprised .Yes the Ale is pricey but in superb condition TT landlord was excellent . Bar staff were very polite and friendly ,and the general atmosphere good. The food is expensive but I quality is superb! Have to say ,probably the best stake I have every had . The decoration of the pub is very nice inside still got a lot of the original Victorian plaster work in the restaurant .
The toilets were some of the best I seen, immaculately Victorian styled. Overall a nice experience . But yes pricey . Would visit again
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I like this place. They have a balance between yuppie f**kwits and foodies and people who just want a drink or two. They try hard to fit us all in.
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Large gastro-pub, with what was obviously quite an impressive interior at some stage (but now expensively over-refurbished). Four real ales on handpump - TT Landlord (pricy at �3.50, and cloudy), Doom Bar, Summer Lightning and London Pride. I expect some people like the atmosphere, but I'm afraid that I found it distinctly cold.
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Laughably pretentious gastro boozer. Three fifty for beer that tastes like soapy water. Clientele too stupid to realise they're being ripped off.
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great pub seriously let down by unjustified sky high bar prices - �3.50 a pint.... (for session ale)
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4 beers available when I visited on Friday (Pride, Taylor Landlord, Harveys' Sussex and Summer Lightening). Tried 2 and both excellent although, possibly, a tad expensive at �3.50. Didn't try the food but the menu looked interesting and the lunchtime special at �12 for 2 courses seemed quite reasonable. Friendly and efficient bar staff. I liked this place.
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Finally a place which has it all. Good food great wine selection, knowledgable staff and run by people who actually work the floor. Gin palace it may have been but now a bloody great place. Shame it's so far from me!
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Lovely but cold refurb. I've been here a couple of times now and found myself whsipering at the bar!
The food is very good but objected to being snootily told you cannot eat off the main menu in the bar. This is supposed to be a pub isn't it?
Also found the service to be efficient but lacking in personality.
All in all a welcome addition to the Bush and hopefully it will act as a kick start to some of the other pubs in the area, (I noticed scaffolding going up on one just down the road) but chill out a bit.
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Beautiful pub but seems management are so keen to be the next big thing they are cramming in too many people to eat at weekends. Go off peak until it settles down as the wine is great and the restaurant could be excellent when it's not stuffed to over capacity.
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Nice pub on Uxbridge road! The food was simple and nice (a bit pricey), while the four real ales (Summer Lightning, TT Landlord, Ruddles Best and London Pride) were a welcome sight. However, I've never paid �3.50 for a pint in London to date (was for the Summer Lightning). I think the pricing structure needs to be reassessed.
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tried this place for the first time today with work colleagues - glamorous victorian interior indeed. spacious & light and a great alternative to other pokey dark pubs in the area. a lovely place to spend a lazy lunchtime and we've already earmarked it for a potential christmas-lunch venue.
the lunch deal is great value at �10 for 2 courses (�15 for 3 i think); the pork belly & duck liver pate with grape chutney was a little garlicky but otherwise great texture & flavours, followed by a generous portion of creamy smoked haddock risotto with broad beans and a perfectly poached egg on top.
service was friendly and prompt and, refreshingly, there was no automatic service charge on the bill.
and as everyone else is commenting on the black shirts... if you're going to have a uniform (a good way to spot staff in amongst customers), black is as good and smart as any!
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At last a decent pub on Uxbridge Road near my house.However �3.30 for a pint of Landlord or Pride is over the top.This is Shepherd's Bush not the West End!
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A tremendous make-over for one of the scuzziest & scariest pubs in the area. Plenty of comfortable seating. A very popular resurrection and could well take trade away from the nearby Thatched House.
Couple of real ales (Tim Taylors Landlord & Fullers London Pride)on pump. Assorted lagers.
Enormous wine list in price range �15-�45 max. One of the managers was a sommelier and has put his mark on the place. One might wonder, given it's location, how the Princess Vic expects not only to sell such a wide selection of wine but also whether it's economically viable to keep stocked up with maybe only 2 or 3 bottles to hand of some items.
Menu is just the right size, portions reasonable, though quality was hit and miss, some things prepared extremely well others not so well.
Staff, as others have said are very good. Great attitude.
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A fantastic new refurb and new owners has put this pub well and truly back on the map.
Personally, I loved it..!
I found the staff very friendly, the food delicious and they do a "mean" martini cocktail.
Shepherd's bush really needed this.
I like the black shirts too by the way...
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A return to glamour - this pub is a vast space of dark eccenticity - high walls, ceilings reaching up to elaborately detailed sky wells, old oil paintings and hung game heads. A separate and grand dining room that is intimate and candle lit - an elegant menu. But in my view there are two things that dont work and kill atmosphere - the choice of music, out of place and very Radio 1, then the uninteresting, ubiquitous staff in their black uniforms - out of place, should be in Starbucks!
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Just had a major make over. They've kept the old bar and introduced a separate dining room, which does gastro pub food. It has an extensive wine list, probably the biggest i've seen in a pub and you can buy the wine to take home as well. Extensive beers, including Timothy Taylor. I've only been a few times, and have yet to eat their, so the verdicts still out but as a local I'm hoping for high things. One criticism is the staff all wearing black shirts, which makes it look like a chain pub and not your friendly local - what happened to individuality!
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If you've never laughed so hard you've nearly choked, make a visit to the Saturday night karaoke here. The bloke with the single white glove belting out Michael Jackson is worth the trip alone. I've heard there's a halfway house across the road which would explain a lot.
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Very much an Irish pub.
Avoid in the afternoon though, there were loads of infants from the local school running around and neither the bar staff nor the kids' parents could give a toss.
Not a bad karaoke night.
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Victorian pub with beautiful ornamental skylights. Unfortunately covered wall to wall in Celtic flags and pictures.
Tim - 26 Nov 2003 13:56 |
