BITE user comments - MickyTheHippo
Comments by MickyTheHippo
decent pub bordering on being a bit poncey, eight beers when i went, seven dark including two porters and one blond, wtf? pint was £3.60, food is superior albeit pricey, £9.90 for (a very nice) sausages and mash.
My main objection on the night was a clientele that was 99% Walthamstow hipsters, you could count any other type of person on one hand but I suppose that's not the pub's fault.
I had a very good beef Sunday dinner a while back
24 Oct 2013 15:25
Stopped in here briefly for a swift lunch en route between Station and a wedding, after reading good reviews here. Very busy doing a lot of good looking lunches, four beers on, the one I had (twice) was perfectly served and delicious, and we were both served a nice lunch quickly. Quite pricey but nice, my pint was £3.70. The staff were slightly offish but efficient and polite which is fine by me, more than a little gastro but a good example of it's kind.
19 Mar 2013 16:01
Liked this one very much, had the pie lunch once, quiet, nice pies, good bitter
two evening drinks, good bitter, Pendle With once which was gorgeous, the bar staff were jolly verging on lippy, it's very different but very good too
13 Jul 2011 14:52
The Duke of Wellington, Hackney
Went here before and after the Hackney Empire and liked it very much indeed, fairly quiet before hand, pints on the ay home types, very cheerful and friendly traditional pub, nice barmaid, primo pint of Hobgoblin for �2.85.
Returned later and it was busy with a very mixed local crowd, a band playing out the back, geezers playing cards, dominos, and now two cheerful pretty barmaids, they even sold dart flights behind the bar which took me back in time, a good looking small beer garden although it was damp when I was there
Thoroughly enjoyable and I wish them well for running such a traditional proper pub
13 Jul 2011 14:24
The Dog and Partridge, Bury St Edmunds
drank a lot of GK IPA in here over a long weekend, the beer was bang on every time although the rather exotic beer pump didn't inspire confidence
A roast dinner was generous and good although the roast potatoes were way past their best
The pub is a bit clean and shiny but the beer garden was satisfactory, I'll forgive a lot if the beer is spot on
1 Jun 2011 10:34
Up in BSE for a long weekend with a wedding, we came here for lunch, the food was very good but my GK IPA wasn't
I was in a very good mood and so drank it, and ordered two more
The first was almost flat with just some suds and tasted not bad but not right, the second was fair as a pancake like it had been sat under the bar for an hour, the third was almost ok, proper head and altogether more like what I'd expect (I don't GK IPA much in London although it was a fav from my youngers days as an Essex boy)
in short I wouldn't drink there again, having three such different pints brought to says to me the bar service is rubbish
as others said, it crossed the line into being more of a restaurant than a pub
1 Jun 2011 10:30
The Seven Stars, Chancery Lane
oh, and they served us food at the bar, some sort of toulouse sausage affair and it really was excellent but my wife's request for some sort of gravy was met with horror/terror, they refused to ask the cook/chef but agreed to make some as long as we didn't tell the cook/chef
30 Mar 2011 12:54
The Seven Stars, Chancery Lane
I like this pub very much indeed, yes the barstaff are quirky if not outright moody but if you roll with it rather than getting offended it's cool, I had a lovely few hours with the wife sitting at the bar, various usually pissed types came in and got the almighty hump with the staff, to my barely concealed amusement. If you want smart and efficient service then avoid I suppose, if you can get on with the humour and style of a place like this then try it, as others have said, it's different and in a good way, the beer I've had in there has always been A1
there's so many bland chain pubs out there doing it by the book that's it's a joy to see a place with it's own style
30 Mar 2011 12:47
supposedly drank in by the people banned from the County Arms, big old pub in the classic style, not very welcoming the one time I went there, vague memories of a bad pint, a couple of friends that went there reported a suspicious and xenophobic set of regulars, I may be doing it a disservice but I doubt it
23 Jul 2007 15:36
not the smartest place but it's good fun for football on the telly, two big plasma things, strictly lagers but they're ok, cheerful local girls, gets a loud and lively local crowd in there
23 Jul 2007 15:33
erm yes, what the others said, killed some time in here a while back waiting for a train and the only good was laughing at it, overstaffed and undermanned, sloppy and ignorant staff, the ceiling was actually leaking all the time I was there and no-one seemed to care, a mop and bucket stood next to the puddle of water while the staff chatted on mobiles and did nothing, a classic example of a rudderless ship, the pub was fairly decently if soulessly refurbished too
23 Jul 2007 15:24
9.15am last Thursday for a fry and two pints of Guinness to prepare for Lords
all three were first class, especially the kidneys, might be the best I'd had, tender and loads of them
23 Jul 2007 15:17
one of my favourite pubs over the last twenty years, quality beer and a nice last orders scotch egg, pork pie and pickled egg supper, the bar staff certainly have attitude but it's always been good fun attitude that I've enjoyed, as for prices, welcome to London, I have no problem at all if it's for good beer and food
23 Jul 2007 15:08
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The Plough, Walthamstow
this pub has sadly been a mini mart for some time, I never went in there (hangs head) although i was always endlessly planning to, I met the staff when they manned a first class beer tent at some low key fete in Walthamstow, their barrel of London Pride was A1
anyway, closed and gone, sadly
24 Oct 2013 16:05