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Crown & Two Chairmen, Soho, W1
W1
W1D 3SB
Pub Type
Castle (Mitchells & Butlers)Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5 of 10) see review guidelines
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Steve of N21 left this review about Crown & 2 Chairmen
Have utilised the Crown and Two Chairman on a few occasions when it’s been standing room only in the nearby Dog and Duck.
Can get quite busy as it is popular with the media & production crowd who ply their trade in this part of town, but I’ve always found it to be a decent enough pub.
The main street level bar has a modern design interior albeit a bit on the dark side with large wood tables and chairs in the bar area and then a seating area at the back. This tends to be quite busy at most times, but I usually manage to find a seat in the fairly spacious upstairs Chairmans’s Lounge room which has comfortable settee type seating and its own serving bar area. There are five handpumps on the main bar but I’ve only ever seen two beers on offer, as it was the other night when two of the pumps were dispensing Doombar and one other with Sambrook Wandle with the others idle. And then these two beers were replicated again on the two pumps in the upstairs room. Both beers were in reasonable condition albeit at usual Soho prices.
On 19th January 2011
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about Crown & 2 Chairmen
I came to visit this pub by pure chance. Having been turned away from a packed De Hems on the night of the world cup final, I ventured down the road with a great many other Dutch fans and found this place showing the game on several screens throughout the building.
The pub has a large open area with a few tables and high stools dotted around and more conventional pub seating to the rear of the room in an area perhaps best suited to those who choose to eat here. The conditions were clearly not representative of a normal night here, so it was a little difficult to judge the place, but staff coped admirably well with the huge volume of customers and the intense heat around the bar area. There were inevitable delays with the food, but we ordered a sharing platter, which was very good and more value for money than some of the other dishes on a seemingly expensive menu.
There were five hand pumps, but just Sharp's Doom Bar and London Pride to choose from, plus Old Rosie Cider. The Doom Bar was very well kept and I sank several pints in a bid to keep myself refreshed in the heat. They also had a good range of international lagers available on draught including Peroni and Red Stripe.
There was a cracking atmosphere during the game, including in the smaller upstairs room, which had a large screen to itself, and it was a shame that the result meant that there was a bit of an anti-climatic feeling at the end of the evening. A pleasant enough place and perhaps worth a second look when things are a bit calmer.
On 19th July 2010
- rating: 6
[User has posted 3387 recommendations about 3387 pubs]