BITE user comments - Bezmina
Comments by Bezmina
I used to live round the corner from this place and I used to go there for a pint when I had rowed with my boyfriend (i.e. often), I now still live nearby but not with the boyfriend.
It was a cheap but not actually very cheerful place which was dirty, sold horrible microwaved food and had a slab of concrete for a garden. Great... oh how we all hark back to the good old days but they weren't good.
Now it had been stripped back so you can see the lovely orignal features of the building, sells great (though not cheap) food, and the garden will be lovely come spring and summer. The beer is well kept and I have always found the staff friendly.
31 Jan 2007 13:32
Went here on a Friday night and it was alright, drinks were expensive but staff were lovely, get's busier later and the music gets cranked right up. Becomes the kind of place a young lady without a man on her arm will get hassled in by drunken city idiots after about 11.30. Not the best bar in London though by miles....
10 Jan 2007 12:57
I really like this place, the drinks are good, food is lovely, staff are totally helpful and friendly. I hope it doesn't get overrun by the yummymummy crowd like loads of other decent pubs in the area so it is remains the great place it is for a roast, pint and spot of football on a Sunday, without Tarquin and Jocintas running amok...
10 Jan 2007 12:05
I disagree with Matthew of Ham, first up there aren't many students in there at all and secondly when I visited post refit|I thought they have kept all the good things about the pub such as the intimacy and little nooks and crannies. Also there is now an entire upper floor with no smoking and air con which is a big change as I don't remember that bit being open in donkey's years...
Still some of the best kept beer I have ever had and the best view in London can't please everyone I suppose!
13 Jun 2006 16:18
Best pub in London bar none, Marie and Paul have been running it for nearly 7 years now and all the staff give a warm welcome, food is reasonably priced and beer is well kept. Great pub for meeting up with friends or warming up in after a jaunt round Richmond Park!
12 Dec 2005 13:54
The Lamb and Flag, Covent Garden
My work local, full of braying suits with no manners, beer isn't well kept anymore, wine often makes people feel sick, is dirty, toilets are horrible, always packed and outside smells of wee and lard in the summer, food is microwaved, veg from tins, I also once got spiked with something in there a couple of years ago.
But still we go back, why? Because for all it's flaws it is a real pub and there aren't many about anymore, and it is stupidly close to the office and we are lazy after our hard labours....
31 Jan 2007 14:59