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Ye Olde Rose & Crown, Walthamstow, E17
E17
E17 4SA
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Thuck Phat left this review about Ye Olde Rose & Crown
Mr Fastard nails the details below.
It's a very large boozer this and it feels it although not in a negative sense. The welcome was warm and the clientele is mixed with a generally friendly and chatty atmosphere.
Beers on four handpumps were Hoggleys Resevoir Hogs, Old Mill Winter Warmer, Triple fff Pressed Rat and Warthog and Windsor and Eton Windsor Knot. The Winter Warmer was in good nick but as all four were rotating guests it's a lottery as to what you'll find.
I wouldn't necessarily make a big detour to return but it'd be my first stop if in Walthamstow.
On 16th December 2011
- rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Ye Olde Rose & Crown
A very substantial Victorian building situated on Hoe Street,an unfortunate address given the modern vernacular.This is a theatre pub and there are various performers from comics,folk musicians to off broadway plays.
The ground floor bar area has very high ceilings,some wooden booths to the front and a raised area to the right with a mini grand piano and substantial speakers,with bench seating,tables and chairs.The corridor to the somewhat pungent gents has interesting glazed tiling probably an original feature.The rear section has a pool table and a vast collection of board games if you are so inclined.A selection of clothes are on a rail for sale,as are a lot of the paintings that adorn the walls,enterprising if unusual.
The large L shaped bar has a handpump for Thatchers cider and four real ales on our visit with a further handpull unused.My Hoggleys Resevoir Hogs and Old Mill Winter Warmer were both extremely well kept.The pub is part of the SIBA scheme,so the is a constant rotation of guest beers which means you dont know in advance what you might encounter,and my trip coincided with an avarage kind of selection.However quite rightly this pub features in the GBG and it would be my first port of call when in Walthamstow.
On 2nd December 2011
- rating: 7
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