Sean W

Overpriced and pretentious.

Sadly no amount of villagewashing will take away the fact this is a busy thoroughfare in London suburbia and very busy.

When people here move to a village one day they’ll realise they have no transport, one shop, a pub that’s open for a few hours per day and no street lights. That’s the real village experience!

Much nicer parts of the world nearby offering much more and many better things.

Tall and ugly building at the top of Blackfriars Road, which is also full of tall dystopian buildings making it a constant cold wind tunnel with no character.

The worst thing about One Blackfriars is that it reflects the sun onto every other building nearby depending on the time of day and blinds all nearby. All you ever see is delivery drivers going in and out providing cold food to whoever lives there and can’t be bothered to leave the house.

The main occupants seem to be rich oriental people, which says it all about the priorities in this country these days when housing is affordable and unattainable for the country’s residents. This complex offers zero value to the area.

My first visit here since the new management took over. It’s a decent pub and has quite a few different beers on offer and a couple of ales. They also show all of the sport.

The main issue was the service. It was pretty quiet and myself and another customer waited ages to be served whilst two staff members were chatting away at the end of the bar. Worse still after they served the first person they tried to serve someone else who had just got to the bar ahead of me! Not having a handle on who is next at a quiet bar is unforgivable. Added to that it took an hour for glasses to be cleared from our table from the previous customers. The staff were not doing much at all and were being generally inactive.

Plenty of potential here but the staff need better training and a kick up the backside.

A decent pub in the backstreets behind Piccadilly Circus. It’s pretty small downstairs so don’t expect a set after work time. There looked like there was an upstairs too so there may have been more space up there.

It was good to see Paulaner Municher Hell on tap too. Despite recent reviews this came in at £6.50. Not altogether bad, but also not sub £6 either.

Worth popping by for a flyer but not the sort of place you’d spend all night at.

A basic selection of beers available. Pride in keg was teased but not available. The pub was simple if not spectacular. They had sports on which was good a what seemed to be a decent sized garden.

All in all three pints of quite run of the mill keg beers for £21 was not good value. The price versus quality just wasn’t there.

No better than a Spoons but at joke prices. Sort that out and I may return.