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Ye Olde Rose & Crown, Walthamstow, E17
E17
E17 4SA
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Aqualung . left this review about Ye Olde Rose & Crown
I dropped in here yesterday for day 1 of their beer festival. The only other time I had been here was when it was a keg only Truman's pub. The festival beers were served straight from the cask from somewhere round the back of the pub, so this may not have been the best test for the beer quality, but luckily it was a cold day and the pint of Dark Star Winter Meltdown was well kept. I thought it had a slightly sour note but discovered from the web site that it has spices in the recipe which would account for it.
I would liked to have stopped for a second but was put off by the price. £3.30 is steep when you're used to Spoons prices. It has been said that this is the best pub in Walthamstow, and it probably is, but at the moment there isn't much competition. The Nag's Head is not that far away but the Coppermill is a mile or so away.
This may change when the Bell just up the road re-opens, but I'm not expecting it to be at all cheap.
It is advertised as a Theatre pub, which hopefully attracts extra custom but holds no appeal for me.
On 27th October 2012
- rating: 8
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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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