The Enterprise, Chalk Farm

Don't get me wrong. There are a LOT of good things about this pub. The character of the bar itself, the open fires, the whole energy of the place is dead on. The DJs have their sh1t covered as well, and all told you could while away a very cheery evening in here.

Except for the people that drink here.

I don't know if I was missing something, or if there exists some special code of practice for people who drink in Camden, but the whole atmosphere of this place was wrecked by constant, relentless spilling of pints. My mates like a lively pub as much as the next man, but when the next man empties his pint down your girlfriend's front then tells her she's 'in the f***ing way', then another of your mates is flattened by a group of four brawling men who are being bundled out the door, you start to feel a little less like staying. The real crowning moment on the night we were there was the guy who fell into our table - and I mean actually sprawled out across the table top - knocking pints and glasses of wine into our laps, then again told us barefacedly that he 'didn't give a s**t'. By this point the place had gone beyond a joke.

That'd be one thing if it weren't for the fact that the staff couldn't be less arsed about what's going on. Of the fight, the security guard told us 'what, I'm getting rid of them, aren't I?'. The bar staff asked what we wanted them to do about it then wen't back to talking about the difficulties of back-combing hair and how terrible it was to be constantly mistaken for Noel Fielding. We had to ask the guy that smashed into our table to leave ourselves, which he duly did only because one of the lads we were with looked a bit scary. But you don't want to be the w**kers making a fuss, and you don't want to drink in a place that's going to wind you up so much you have to be.

It's such a shame this place can't make more of all the good things it's got going for it, and it's all because of the spineless people working there that let arsey customers walk all over the joint. I really, really wouldn't recommend anyone visit this pub. I'd leave them to tear the place to pieces themselves if I were you.

9 Mar 2008 14:53