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The Ship Tavern
A busy male-dominated pub set just behind holborn station packed into a cobbled street and rather small. The place is decorated for Christmas even in the middle of november which would suggest the staff have little else to do yet it look all of twenty minutes to be served in here though the place was only moderately busy one friday evening. The variety of drinks was rather standard, nothing special what-so-ever and there were not enough seats at all- in fact looking around there were no women in the pub at all.
Overall I would really have to say it is a waste of time- even for the male ale lover this is in too busy a location for any merit and there are far better tradtional pubs in walking distance. Still, no actual bad points so to speak of so a slightly-below-average 4/10.
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1 Dave Glancern // Mar 17, 2008 at 2:34 pm
The best pub in Holborn by a mile. Not sure what you were on at the time Greg but this has been my local for the past year and & proud to say its exactly how a good traditional pub should be. Great food, great ale and v efficient friendly staff. Ladies galore when I was there last night!
2 John Evans // Apr 10, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I agree with Dave,It is one of my favourite pubs too! Maybe he should spend a bit of time in all the pubs he goes to and get a real overview.How can the variety of drinks me mediocre when there are 5 good real ales on and 6 other lagers etc on tap? I think he has mixed his reviews up with the wetherspoons round the corner.
3 realbeerman // Jun 19, 2008 at 4:38 pm
It seems to me that Greg is not a real Pub drinker when he misses the great atmosphere in my favorite pub and is oblivious to all the real ales !Did he visit this pub when it was closed?
4 LindaW // Feb 10, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I had read the good reviews here about this pub so decided to meet a friend there yesterday after work. We arrived at 5.30 and waited to get a seat. We ordered some food at 6.30 and had another couple of drinks. At 7.30 our food hadn’t arrived so I went to the bar to find out about the delay. The barmaid told me that she was sorry but there had been a party of 20 upstairs which she hadn’t been told about by the kitchen or the manager. I assumed this meant the food was further delayed - but no, it wasn’t going to arrive at all. I got a refund for what I paid for the food and the bar maid offered us a free drink for our trouble. I explained that we had just ordered a drink which we now had to finish before leaving to find somewhere else to eat, so could she refund what we had just paid. She said she couldn’t so I asked to speak to the manager. He told me the barmaid shouldn’t have offered us free drinks and there was nothing he could do to compensate us for the delay, lack of food and inconvenience caused.
If we had known there was no food available we would not have stayed two hours to drink there. There was no indication that staff were going to let us know that food we had paid for wasn’t going to arrive if we hadn’t asked ourselves. A decent apology would have been nice.
I accept that mistakes happen when staff are busy - the pub was full - but it seems that staff at The Ship Tavern are not interested in caring for the customers they are lucky enough to have.
If you want to be sure of good service - and an evening without an argument with the bar staff - find somewhere else. I won’t be going back.
5 BOB // Jun 4, 2009 at 4:37 pm
I had the best fish and chips ive ever got in a pub from there, and really liked the cosy and vibrant atmosphere, would recommend it.
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