The Walkabout, Covent Garden

I've been to the Temple and Shepherd's Bush Walkabout now numerous times and enjoyed myself on each occasion. Plenty of sport on TV, plenty of beers at a reasonable price and a great atmosphere with friendly, attentive staff. The Covent Garden is the complete opposite! We also wanted to watch Euro but instead were stuck with 20/20 England v New Zealand. I could understand it if the crowd were watching both but I could only literally see 2 people watching the cricket with dozens trying to watch Euro. I love it how the angry girl behind the bar somehow didn't manage to capture the correlation between the '15 people asking for the manager' and them refusing to properly broadcast the soccer. But I guess that's a successful commercial strategy- ignore the wishes of 90% of the customers because the manager wants to watch the cricket.

I'm an Aussie and am dead set embarrassed to have any association with this place. They did have 2 for 1 Coronas that night but I don't care of they make it 3 to 1- I'm never going back!

17 Jun 2008 09:34