The Prince Albert, Greenwich

Pretentious and pricey now. �4 for a pint of Aspall's Cyder and the food seems to be various expensive antipasti options (Parma ham, crostini etc). Decor is very wooden now - there also doesn't seem to be a single table or area to accommodate groups of more than 4 people at a time.

3 May 2010 14:11

The Devonshire Arms, Camden

The Devonshire Arms is now the Hobgoblin. It's just grim now.

The tables were originally recovered with some kind of anime characters which peeled off and have now been re-recovered with phone-box porn. Most nights it's too loud in there to have a conversation; various kinds of metal being played at high volume so half the pub sits out the front. The (men's) toilets have fallen into a completely unclean state, doesn't look like they've been cleaned since the handover - there was a guy urinating in the sink when I went in there, but given the state of it I wouldn't want to wash my hands in it. The bar staff don't really seem to care about any kind of service. The beer was ok though.

Shame really. It seems to have really headed rapidly downhill since the changeover a few months ago.

9 Nov 2008 14:04