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CLOSED - This pub is now a Japanese restaurant called "Ping Pong " - I know this because I went to the pub last Saturday and found it wasn't there any more !
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Some kind of japanese restaurant is opening here - lots of posters on the windows with pictures of sushi bits have been slapped up while the renovation work goes on inside.
Although this wasn't a good pub, the closure of this one and the conversion of the previously decent One Tun into some kind of "pub-lite" has left Goodge St all the poorer. Sad.
anonymous - 17 Aug 2006 10:11 |
YES!!
Made a point of going past this place on Saturday, in just the same way that warring Mafiosi go to each others' funerals just to be sure the enemy really is dead. And it is.
Just hope its closure doesn't have a knock-on effect by displacing the dross that used to drink in there to The One Tun over the road.
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A crap soulless bar which is going to be converted to a pizza restuarant after the 2006 World Cup
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Went in here again last night (a thursday). Desperate stuff. Smoky and getting slightly tatty (despite being refurbed recently). They had a pub quiz (on a thursday?!) which saw more people come in and walk straight out again than it actually attracted - what was the point? They had the footie on as well on the various screens. Every time the quizmaster asked a question, they turned the sound down, then turned it back up immediatley afterwards, so that the sound was continually going up and down. the worst of all worlds. It feels like the boozer could be a nice little characterful place but has hoplessly lost its way and doesn't know what it wants to be. I've popped in to this pub on and off for years and the toilets ALWAYS smell of sewage ...
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A medium sized 1 room pub in the heart of Fitrovia. Whilst there is nothing specifically wrong with the pub, it does come across as a rather bland and uninteresting place to spend an evening. Beer selection is very ordinary (2 ales - IPA & Bombardier). Overall the pub is a bit cavernous with a high ceiling and large arched windows. A pillared beam spans the pub at an odd angle like some kind of viaduct. Behind the bar is a rather ornate clock built in to the surround. Entertainment offered by way of 2 large well positioned plasma screens and a Quiz night on Thursdays. And that is about it. Fine for a quick pint or to meet someone but not worth an evening session.
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Dreadful pub and always has been. I live within a hundred yards and have done for the last ten years - so every year I pop in to see if this place has improved. It hasn't. Only thing that can be said in its favour is that its big screens keep some of the sadder sports freaks out of the One Tun. For which we should be thankful.
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I once intended to have a drink over the Easter holiday in The One Tun over the road but found it closed and so came in here. While I was deciding where to go I noticed �40 under my table, which I swiftly trousered - the �40, not the table. Not even this has ever tempted me to return.
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Airy single room pub with a tall ceiling, interesting interior pargetting and three TV sets for sports events. Two casks on offer - London Pride & Youngs Bitter in reasonable condition. Relaxed atmosphere, but quite ordinary and anonymous.
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Absolutely shocking food. Mediocre beer. Horrendously smokey.
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Big screen footie pub, badly kept beer, low rent crowd. The smell down in the toilets is rank.
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Strange pub. A bit anonymous. Can be convivial at times. Gets very smoky though and when they have footie on, not good.
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I had my bag nicked here. Had hardly taken a sip of my beer when I discovered my bag had gone walkies.
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