The George, Isle of Dogs

Coming from the Island I live close by and dived in one Thursday night for a couple of quick pints and to kill time before going to the 24 hour Asdas next door to for a bit of midnight shopping. The pub is beautifully ornate inside with fine cornicing and a nice (original?) tiled area by the bar. There was a half decent Timothy Taylors on offer and I settled down to kill time. Unfortunately that was as good as it got and I can confirm the previous reviewers comment that the whole bar staff have an attitude of "who the XXXX do you think you are drinking in our pub". Despite ordering 3 pints and being nothing but polite to the bar staff I was a third of the way through my third pint when the landlord out of nowhere marched up, grab my pint off the table and announced I was making everybody nervous and he was kicking me out. This has never happened to me before but apparently my crime was to "walk up and down the pub" - I was actually looking at the fine collection of historical photos on the wall - and this was making everybody nervous (though all the people at the bar were oblivious to what was going on). Coupled with the fact I had a sports bag (!)...which I had on me to collect my shopping in. I followed the fat little obnoxious landlord to the bar and tried to reason with him, explained the bag and offered to let him see it was empty but unfortunately the fat little turd was to ignorent to take anything on board. Eventually he realised he was in the wrong but his puiffed up little pride wouldn't let him back down. In many ways this sums up the worst of the Isle of Dogs and it has to be said East London as a whole. I'm biased, even though I've lived here 15 years I'm from South London and in many ways I can't stand these ignorant cockney t**ts and on a weekend I will always head south to Greenwich or Blackheath and I would rather eat my own vomit than go north of Mile End Road though I will occasionally stay on the isle for decent pubs where the bar staff are friendley - The Ferry House, the Ship and particulalrly the Tooke. I just hope Chelsea stuff West Ham and their pikey followers on Saturday then I'll be straight down the George with a Chelsea top. 12/3/10

12 Mar 2010 02:03