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Maple Leaf, Covent Garden, WC2
WC2
WC2E 7LJ
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Tris C left this review about Maple Leaf
Dating from 1739 as the Dukes Head, it had become the Bedford Head Hotel by 1792, rebuilt in 1873 and known since 1984 as the Canadian-themed Maple Leaf, eh.
There’s a modern boarded floor, with bare brick to the rear, but then planking to walls, some of which displays red maple leaf motifs; there are similar motifs to the modern wood bar front. The ceiling is low, with white matchboard and flush aircon. Furniture is untraditional and is completely mixed. Décor amounted to a life-size toy moose head above the bar, then framed Canadian sporting memorabilia and not all of it relating to ice hockey, hard though that may be to believe. What really cannot be avoided though are the 10 – yes 10 – TVs showing the football, with just two showing baseball. Customers were quite mixed with many becoming quite animated when Scotland scored.
My card payment unmasked this joint as being owned/leased by Greene King, but despite this, there’s no real ale here unsurprisingly (no loss), with just loads of chrome founts, me opting for a half of Neck Oil at a punishing £3.50, served by a pleasant English barmaid.
This is a pretty awful place, but then I wasn’t expecting much; a Canadian friend once told me he wouldn’t be seen dead in here.
On 23rd September 2022
- rating: 3
[User has posted 2207 recommendations about 2164 pubs]
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custodian 42 left this review about Maple Leaf
No real ale at all, just keg/craft offerings. Not to be revisited.
On 18th January 2017
- rating: 4
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john gray left this review about The Maple Leaf
Its a bar with lots of sport on tv. Average selection of mass produce Canadian beer.Very busy.
On 5th October 2013
- rating: 5
[User has posted 1023 recommendations about 1009 pubs]
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- Accommodation : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Darts : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Function Room : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Jukebox : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Live Music : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 03 April 2011 by hondo .
- Micropub : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Pool Table : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Quiz Night : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
- Real Ale : No last updated 11 December 2022 by Rex Rattus
- Real Cider : No last updated 22 September 2022 by Tris C
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