The Freemasons Arms, Hampstead

I too was at this pathetic excuse for a pub on Saturday night where I was appalled that after 25 mins of waiting in a reasonably busy but manageable queue I still had not been served.

After 30 my friends and I walked out.

To start with if you are going to run a pub that is 10-15 mins walk away from the closest tube or overland station - it should be worth the walk. I was eagerly anticipating my first lager and catching up with a good group of mates whom I had not seen for ages and would be well keen for a chat. Sadly I would taste no such lager, nor would my nice group of friends be in any mood for conversing for they too had been waiting in excess of 30 minutes to even secure eye contact from the bar staff.

As KEF mentions the staff were completely incompetent and had issues pouring a basic pint or even cranberry juice as one girl next to me discovered. At the point when they ran out of glasses, I discovered perhaps 90% of them scattered around their garden bar, smashed or fallen over (which in a place like this I was happy to accept from the patrons. What perplexed me most was how they got like that in the first place with Dumb and Dumber behind the bar)

The only good experience I had in this pub was leaving it.

Unless the manager of this farcical establishment is fired I will not be going back to Freemasons Arms again.

5 Aug 2008 13:40