BITE user comments - Silentio
Comments by Silentio
Used to be known by locals as the "The Dead Hippy" was sold. converted into a fake french bar and has now been re-converted back into an imitation of the Dead Hippy.
Its handy for the market, you send the tourists there and you drink whilst waiting for them. Like the Mixer its a place to take tourists to say they have been somewhere. But really it needs fumigating.
There is now nothing special about this bar.
24 Sep 2007 00:38
The Shakespeare's Head, Holborn
Its a big crap pub with staff who have never worked in a hospitality environment before and speak english as a third language.
Like all Wetherspoons it has the same ambience as a bar on a railway station.
A good place to meet up or get tanked before going out on the town. If a touristits a pub experience. Watch out for bag snatchers.
I use it to pee in and wait out of the rain for the bus.
24 Sep 2007 00:23
I must agree with all the previous reviews. What was once a decent pub with quality beer worth travelling for is now but a poor clone of the Rye Hotel (as was).
Mismatched furniture stuffed into a room gives an air of desperate claustrophobia.
The food I never tried in its previous ownership and am unlikely to now. I have not seen anybody eating since then so maybe the voted with the stomachs.
Draught designer beers are here. Peroni is disgusting lager and was a major reasons the Italians surrendered so easily.
The exterior with benches and flowers has not changed but access has.
This should be shown as an example of how to screw up a class bar.
24 Sep 2007 00:17
The exterior has just been painted black, the interior is still tobacco stained though.
Music of the country and western Irish free brigade is on most weekends. It has a "pub garden" for smoking and hitting children but most patrons prefer the narrow pavement. No food that I know of.
The clientele are are criminals professional gamblers or insane or any mixture thereof. A pub for locals.
24 Sep 2007 00:10
Sad to say I go there for the Wifi in the afternoon. I update the machine finish my beer and I am off. I am the only person there. In the evenings I have been there it is quiet with locals stopping off for a quiet pint or three before home.
It affects what is now quiet common in the area, mismatching furniture from peoples homes to give an authentic fake atmosphere. Haven't tried the food as I live local.
I suspect that on quiz and entertainment nights it will be busy with its own crowd.
24 Sep 2007 00:05
The pub has a lot of screens so if you want to watch a match you are in luck. Bound to be able to see form somewhere.
Never tried the food but going from the smell sight and the empty plates it is supposed to be very good.
They layout of the bar area does mean that being served a beer is hit and miss, you go from bar to bar to catch the barmans eye.
The clientele are locals and not welcoming. With the smoking ban the large outdoor area is now well used.
I am happt to watch footie natches here and I will try the food sometime.
23 Sep 2007 23:59
It used to be famous as a drug dealing pub.
Has a famous or at least a preservation order upon a wall with tiles on.
It has been closed for years.
23 Sep 2007 23:54
The Bun House, Peckham
At the risk of a cliche, this is a local pub for local people.
Once accepted and they are used to your scent the locals do not bite, much.
If you want to go to a pub and drink a frisky Burgundy whilst waiting for your �9 burger and discussing house prices don't go to this pub.
If however you live or work or shop nearby the place is friendly, serves excellent Guinness and has .50p pool table.
The clientele watch the racing and the football and talk with each other. Being a locals pub everybody knows everybody else.
No food is served but you can bring in takeaways. The landlord has fish and chip nights where he hands out portions to everybody. On pool and other competition nights there is home made food going around.
To sum up this is a village pub in a London suburb with all the best and worst that goes with iy.
25 Sep 2007 14:16