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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Shaston Arms
Small Hall & Woodhouse pub, with a short bar counter and a somewhat cramped layout of various little seating areas (including one in a modest modern extension at the back). The main room also has a row of booths which further sub-divides the limited space, but the overall effect is a place which is quite good for a quiet chat just a few steps away from the hustle and bustle of Carnaby Street. There are also a few tables on the front pavement (but you have to have a plastic glass if you are drinking outside). Three handpumps offering Badger First Gold, Tanglefoot and Fursty Ferret (£3.40). Overall, wortk seeking out if in the area.
On 24th November 2011
- rating: 7
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Shaston Arms
Previous reviewers reckon this has been either a wine bar or sandwich bar, or possibly both. Anyway, it certainly looks as if two small houses have been converted into a pub. The two front doors are still there, but only the left hand one is in use. As you enter you immediately turn right into the other “house”, as that is where the bar is situated. Most of the central dividing wall is in place, including a fireplace in what would have been the back room, making it seem very much a pub of two halves. Most of the seating, which is mainly normal tables and chairs, is in the left hand side of the pub for the simple reason that it doesn’t have a bar counter taking up a large part of the room. There is also a small conservatory extension at the back, providing more seating. But this is not a basic backstreet boozer (such a thing could hardly exist this close to the tourist hell of Carnaby St). Although it’s small and cozy it is still an upmarket kind of place – prints carefully and tastefully arranged on the walls, sombre colour schemes, bare-boarded floors, and candles on all the tables.
As others have pointed out, it’s a Hall & Woodhouse pub, with Badger Bitter and Pickled Partridge on during my visit, the latter at £3.30 a pint. Despite its modern and slightly upmarket feel, I quite liked this pub. It didn’t have any of the tourist pub grub look and smells that many of the chain pubs in this area suffer from. I would be happy to drop in for another pint sometime.
On 9th January 2011
- rating: 7
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Shaston Arms
The Shaston Arms is one of only 9 Hall & Woodhouse pubs with a London postcode. It is a fairly recent pub and was opened in December 2000 when converted from a former wine bar.
It takes its name from the old English name for Shaftesbury, which is near to the home of Hall & Woodhouse and was seen as a fitting name as Shaftesbury Plc is the landlord of most of the Carnaby Estate including this pub.
The pub itself is quite small and despite its recent build, a lot of effort has been put in to making it look Dickensian and fitting in with its cobbled street location. The copious use of dark wood, old mirrors, low level lighting and a series of interconnecting rooms with plenty of nooks and crannies providing seating booths, make it appear a lot older than it actually is.
And although a lot of effort was obviously taken to make the most of the available floor plan, it is still quite cramped when there is a crowd in, which there invariably is during week days. But fortunately the cobbled street outside doubles as an extension to the pub and is usually full of drinkers on a decent weather day.
Usual decent range of Hall & Woodhouse beers and the Badger and Tanglefoot have always been in good condition when I have visited.
One small negative is that this pub is closed on Sundays.
On 25th May 2010
- rating: 8
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