The Bull and Last, Gospel Oak

Went for a dinner with a large group of people this past weekend. Overall the place looks nice and the food is decent but the service lets it down. The bar and wait staff are a pretty spaced out bunch, they dont seem capable of carrying more than two plates at a time in the upstairs dinning room. This is not great when you have to serve a table of 16 people as half the dinners have finished eating by the time the other half get served. One highlight of the night had to be when the barman thought it necessary to inspect a fiver for signs of counterfitting in front of a customer, even asking the manager to have a look. Another annoyance is the large sign outdoors telling punters they cannot drink around one of the corners of the pub and the glares I got from staff while standing there smoking will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Walk a few minutes down the road and you'll find better more welcoming pubs with staff old enough to have full driving permits and maybe even the ability to tell a good fiver from a bad.

7 Jun 2010 21:19