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The Queens Arms, Walthamstow, E17

42 Orford Road
E17
E17 9NJ

Phone: 02085209184

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Pub SignMan left this review about The Queens Arms

Upmarket gastro pub with a modernised, minimalist interior about five minutes from Walthamstow Central. The large front room features bare boards and a wide, U-shaped bar with an angular counter and a cut-out bar back forming a central island. Seating includes standard tables and chairs, with some padded banquettes along one wall and potted plants by the windows. To the rear right, the space extends into a more formal dining area, where Chesterfield sofas, dark painted walls, and bare brick are offset by fireplaces, mirrors, and scattered art prints. A pump clip display adds some character, but the lighting is quite stark and sound levels were high due to a lack of soft furnishings, drowning out the music playing quietly in the background.
There was just the one cask ale on—Wylde Sky Gold—with Five Points Best having recently been taken off and one other pump left unclipped. The beer was in reasonable shape, but I didn’t notice anyone else drinking it and wonder if ale has started to become a bit of an afterthought here.
I was a bit underwhelmed by this place, which I felt leant too heavily towards a foodie, middle-class clientele, at the expense of providing somewhere pleasant to just sit and enjoy a drink. I guess there are loads of pubs like this through the ever-gentrifying suburbs of the city, and whilst this one at least retained a cask option, I couldn’t really settle down and was happy to drink up and move elsewhere.

Date of visit: 22nd March 2025

On 8^th September 2025 - rating: 5
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Tris C left this review about The Queens Arms

This is a mid-19th century pub, situated in the trendy epicentre of Walthamstow ‘Village’ that is Orford Road; you know an area has arrived when it acquires a branch of Gail’s. There’s certainly food here and when I first started visiting friends in the ‘stow back in the late ‘90s, if you went to a pub and asked for burrata with tomato granita & pesto, you’d have got punched in the face.
The place has been heftily made over, with a scruffy and notably undulating bare boarded floor, plain white walls with black reveals; the only item of décor was the plethora of pump clips fixed to an upper wall and above the bar. The rear – which may be a dining area – features bare brick and eclectic prints. Furniture includes dark blue studded peripheral banquettes, then conventional round tables and upholstered stools, all to Pink Floyd’s Money at quite some volume; customers were young professional types, many quite shrill.
Despite the promises alluded to by the pump clips, at the time of my Saturday visit at just gone 10.00pm, there was an unused pump then just Pillars Cold Porter and Proper Job, £2.60 a half, served by an old-school landlady and in good shape.
This place isn’t bad but it’s a little stark, underperforms on the ale front and with the massed ranks of highchairs, offers the kind of child-based entertainment you thankfully won’t find at the neighbouring Nags Head.

On 15^th October 2024 - rating: 5
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Moby Duck left this review about The Queens Arms

A large corner pub on an attractive street, unfortunately another gastro effort with all open space taken up with tables and chairs all occupied with screaming kids and their parents,numerous parked up pushchairs and buggy contraptions had to be negotiated to get to the bar, I'm sure this place serves a purpose in the community and maybe its different in the evening, but this is not for me. That said the Five Points Railway porter was excellent at £4.00 a pint, other beers on were Fullers Wild Holly and Pride plus T.T Landlord.

On 1^st January 2018 - rating: 5
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