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The Gipsy Moth, Greenwich, SE10
SE10
SE10 9BL
The Gipsy Moth
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Reviews of The Gipsy Moth (Average Rating: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
Steve of N21 left this review about The Gipsy Moth
This is a pub I have been to many times over the years, but only when it’s a fine weather day when we can use the beer garden. And as our trip to Greenwich last Wednesday was blessed with a very fine weather day we visited it again.
I tend to find the two-room interior of this one a bit dark and not very inspiring, especially the front bar and especially on a sunny day, although the back dining area is a bit lighter. But when the sun is out the KSP of this one comes into play, which is the outside drinking area which initially wraps around the side of the pub, affording excellent views of the Cutty Sark, and then opens out into a spacious garden area with the back 50% under the shade of large garden umbrella structures.
The pub serves two ales with two hand pumps on each extreme end of both bars and for this last visit they were dispensing Adnam’s Ghost Ship and Dark Star Hop Head, both of which were in perfect condition. This was our lunch stop and its not too bad food wise. £18 for a Sea food Linguini and Pizzas around £12 isn’t too outrageous for the area. Generally find the young staff team fairly efficient here and there was no difficulty pulling our pints from the team working the bar on this visit. Had to chuckle that the sisters of misfortune had thrown a rogue one in for the visit of the reviewer below.
On 10th May 2024
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2236 recommendations about 2098 pubs]
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Tris C left this review about The Gipsy Moth
Originally the Wheatsheaf and renamed after Frank Chichester’s eponymous round-the-world sailing boat’s exploits, the pub dates from at least the mid-18th century and could easily be original, or at least the façade, if not the interior.
This is a large affair, going quite a way back to a modern extension, then beyond to a beer garden; it was also by far and away the busiest pub in central Greenwich on my Thursday evening visit, indeed the only busy pub in central Greenwich. The floor is modern boarded, the interior sporting a dark grey colour scheme, with little if anything of the original pub remaining. Furniture is conventional, décor amounting to hanging ferns, nautical prints with lighting being either hanging things with filament bulbs or bulkhead lights. Customers were very studenty with a few tourists and an elderly group, the patriarch looking appropriately enough like Captain Birdseye.
There were just two ales on, pumps marginalised to the far end of the long bar, drawing Birmingham’s Pale Brummie and Hadrian Border’s Farne Island at a jaw dropping £3.10 a half, served by an absolutely hopeless barman, who seemed not to have pulled a pint before; it was though rather good.
This place is fine if you want a bit of action and a decent half, as on balance this is one of the better places in central Greenwich, but perhaps it’s just a bit too lively for me and the prices are obscene – you don’t pay this much for cask in Mayfair.
On 5th April 2023
- rating: 4
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Gipsy Moth
Corner pub just opposite the Cutty Sark and close to the Cutty Sark DLR station.
The pub has recently started opening at 11am on a Sunday, to take advantage of the summer tourist trade. It suited my early start and will undoubtedly suit the needs of thirsty tourists to Greenwich.
The ground floor bar felt dark, but window seats are a good place for people watching. The bar is split into two separate areas, the rear part being slightly below the front, if my memory serves me right. Toilets are upstairs.
Two cask ales can be found at the end of the bar nearest the entrance. For my visit, the regular Doom Bar was supplemented by Hophead.
The craft beer range is more extensive - New Belgium Voodoo Ranger, Beavertown Neck Oil, Camden Pale, Signature Backstage IPA, Big Hug Pave The Way, Brewgooder Tropical Pale & Vocation Life and Death. My Voodoo Ranger was enjoyable.
A pub I'd not visited on previous trips to Greenwich. But it's location may mean I will make a return visit.
On 14th April 2022
- rating: 5
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- Accommodation : No last updated 22 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 22 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 31 March 2023 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 01 May 2015 by hondo .
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 31 March 2023 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 22 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 01 May 2015 by hondo .
- Darts : No last updated 11 June 2014 by Strongers .
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 01 May 2015 by hondo .
- Jukebox : No last updated 22 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Karaoke : No last updated 22 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Live Music : No last updated 31 March 2023 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 22 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Micropub : No last updated 30 March 2023 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 22 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Pool Table : No last updated 22 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Quiz Night : No last updated 31 March 2023 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 01 May 2015 by hondo .
- Real Cider : No last updated 22 October 2013 by Pub SignMan
- Wheelchair Access : Yes - Disabled WC. - last updated 31 March 2023 by Tris C
- WiFi : Yes last updated 01 May 2015 by hondo .
