Barblog Victoria and St James's Park The Albert (St james Park - London)

The Albert (St james Park - London)

October 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

The Albert

A pub that fancies itself as a grand establishment towered over by the urban scurry that is Victoria high street. Inside it can be found to be a clash of restaurant tables before a space followed by a small front bar which curves round to a sort of cafeteria style counter followed by more bar. You would expect this place to be rammed in the day but alas it is not. Cider costs 2.83 a pint and despite the mass of bar staff it seems too many cooks spoil one broth of a bar. James W points out to me however that the big windows allow the light to pour in and in doing so make the pub feel so much larger than it really is, that is until another punter awkwardly plants knees and elbows into your lower back as they squeeze past.

i was disappointed, i expected more, its an old Sunday-lunch-pub and it could be a million times more successful with a pucker of character from the ditsy bar persons, still it suits a warm ale on a cold winter evening. Overall 5/10.

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  • 1 Colin Price // May 25, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    I had the same experience.

    We went up to the carvery and alyjough there seemed to plenty of staff there the orginisation was straight out of Basil fawltys book of management. Two us us waited 20 minutes to be served and then another 10 to be served our drinks. We then gave up after an hour. Nice place. shame about the staff mangement. 4/10

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