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this is my local even though i dont live local...very nice pub...very nice for the football and a nice place to get a bite to eat...i recommend the allday breakfast plus drink....dont know what they put in those baked beans but they are out of this world!!...staff are kool...and football nights are something else...great pub...id easily give it a 8 or even a 9....
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Now renamed the William Blake
Seems to have a lick of varnish, Real Ales from Wells and Youngs + guests
Had a very mediocre Taylors Landlord
no change, doesnt stand out, ideal for the hords of rowdy office types that this place seems popular with
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Good pub for watching footy especially Arsenal games, with loads of screens and plenty of seating. Staff in my experience have been efficient and friendly, and have usually got served pretty fast. Food is ridiculously cheap and decent enough. I'd definitely put it higher than 2.3/10
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My recent visit here was my first for many years and apart from the staff seeming a little friendlier it was pretty much how I remember with cheap booze and a clientele of basic education. There a couple of small projector screens at the rear of this large pub and there are also some plasma screens dotted about for showing the football.
As they were in March last year, the many hand pumps found amongst the standard draught taps are still all dispensing Bombardier. The Guinness was cheap at �2.25, but I would rather pay the extra for a decent pint.
There are better pubs in the area so there is no need for me to drink here again.
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Went to this pub to watch the football the other day. I think they must have be growing bananas in the cellar as the temperature was stifling.
I had an okay time and spent time talking to a very strange bearded gent called itchey.... other than that the pub reminds me of an old cinema lobby serving shit beer and cheap but nasty food......my mate the loins of bunhill row goes there friday to pick up young ladies from the local guineess trust.
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This is the worst pub in the country. Rude Staff. Bad beer. Really bad. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
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I very rarely consider a pint in any pub with bouncers on the door, but I realised walking from the tube station that I probably didn't have time to reach the Artillery Arms (my intended destination) for a quick pint whilst passing through. On my previous visit, all six handpumps had London Pride clips - this time they were all for Bombardier. Busy, but I got served reasonably quickly and found a free seat by the front windows. There is no way you could call this a good pub, but its a bit better than the current rating of 2.2 would suggest.
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went in here on a sunday afternoon , oct 2008 , watched chelsea on the tv,s , the place wasnt busy but had reasonable turn out. bar staff were friendly and helpful when I asked where the commentary would be. Drank lager ( fosters , I think) as no real ales. its was ok , good place to watch sports and whittle a few hours away
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I cannot understand the Litten Tree as a concept. They're like Wetherspoons but without the real ale, and more expensive - in other words, what is the bl**dy point? This wasn't awful, but it was entirely unremarkable, on the weekday evening I visited. The clientele was possibly a little better than the almost next door Wetherspoons (the Masque Haunt), but there wasn't much in it.
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I was going to write a steaming rhetoric of how terrible this place is, why pubs liek this shouldn't exist, and bemoan the lack of decent beer emporiums in the Old Street area.
However since this is not the worst pub in the area, I score it 0.75 - roudned up to 1. Because at least I can get served there on nights other than Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, or Monday.
So there. It's not a load of fegging spit after all
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Oh dear!
super - 13 Nov 2007 12:14 |
Dead during the week, even worse at the weekend if it is actually open. On two occasions have seen two mice at the same time running around at the end of the night. Have never got any "food" from there for that reason.
Friday nights have the usual city types getting off their face and builds a rather unpleasant environment for those out for a relaxing pint.
The beer isn't that great either if you can actually get served without waiting half an hour at busy times, and for the recent Liverpool v Marseille match they didn't put it on until almost 10 minutes into the game even though it was advertised as being on.
Oh, and they had a fully decorated and lit Christmas tree up at the end of September.
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Nothing special, but I obviously picked a better time to visit that those described below. Some reasonable window seats, but most of the interior looks very gloomy. Six hand pumps, but all had London Pride clips!
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Went to meet up with Liverpool fans for the Chelsea game. Dreadful pub. No atmosphere. Understaffed. Took 30 minutes to get served. Beer was awful.
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Awful place. Poor service at the bar and in need of a major refurb.
anonymous - 20 Dec 2006 15:24 |
This isnt too bad for a Weatherspoons pub (I will duck before someone throws something at me!). Its big, got TVs/music, never been too rammed when I have been in there.
The only annoying thing is the flies which hover around your drinks all the time - or maybe they are hovering around me!
Cheap and convenient - what you'd expect from JDWs.
Jo984 - 28 Sep 2006 10:24 |
during the day its just unpleasent, but after the sun goes down it becomes pretty horrible with alco-popping yoofs; the back part of it reminds me of the "bar" on the ferry to holland. Help!
anonymous - 14 Aug 2006 16:38 |
Wasn't bad for a qucik drink after work. Wouldn't make a habit of it though...
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Ales can be okay or just plain off, okay for a quick one on the way past or to meet up after work for a brief chat.
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Litten Tree = Wetherspoons + TV - OAPs
If you dribble at the thought of cheap beer and dislike television then grab your walking stick and head the 4 yards next door
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No, the food is appalling. Had the misfortune of stumbling in here for lunch a few weeks back when working off my manor. Food took almost an hour to arrive (no exaggeration), and the place was near dead. When it did turn up, my shrivelled greyburger was straight out of a Captain Birdseye frozen burger box, half cooked of course. Cold chips. Drank my flat beer and watched two disappointed punters from opposite table have their food sent back also. Complained upon exit, staff didn't care. What a shame this hole isn't my local.
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The foods not that bad, but I wouldn't be seen dead in here after lunchtime, its all a bit hooded top in here of an evening.
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Awful like Wetherspoons. large amounts of grubby carpet and unfortunate individuals.
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like all litten tree pubs, this is a poor man's weatherspoons.
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Good for 5 or 6 after the gym on Bunhill Row,...
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Top place to go to start a drink up, only 1.50 a drink and there is always a dj there playing the best of all old and new.
Te Mistery Man - 13 Aug 2004 15:50 |
