The Ship Tavern, Holborn

A traditional pub with a nice athmosphere. Beer is good. Food is even better, especially the amazing pies. Highly recommended.

11 Aug 2009 11:26

The Yorkshire Grey , Holborn

This is truly awful place. I don't even know where to start. The drinks menu is very limited. you can't find any good beer on tap. They have a bettter selection of bottled beer but it is severyly overpriced (over 10 pounds for 3 small bottles). Upstairs the choice is even worse, they don't even have Coke on tap and use a 2L bottle instead. Obviously that is neither fresh nor cold.

As bad as the drinks are the food is much worse. Everything is tasteless, over- or undercooked. The ingredients are obviously not fresh. The cooking is apalling. However, the staff never acknowledge this and if you try to return a meal they always say you are the problem, not the meal. And did I mention the prices were way too high?

The staff is not just unfriendly, they are unqualified. It always takes ages to order a drink. And the person serving you is never going to smile or apologise for an obvious mistake. Instead they will always blame you.

The only good thing about this pub is the quiz they have on Tuesdays.

11 Aug 2009 11:21