Not already a member?
Join our community and
- Rate & review pubs
- Upload pictures
- Add events
JOIN for free NOW
Chat about:
Random news of the day with rpadam
on the Pub Forum
Detail Pages
Fox & Hounds, SW1
SW1
SW1W 8HR
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Moby Duck left this review about The Fox & Hounds
A very good traditional boozer serving youngs ales, normally first port of call when drinking in the Belgravia area, very comfortable bar area and you feel you would like to stay for more than one.
On 5th June 2012
- rating: 8
[User has posted 1872 recommendations about 1845 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Steve C left this review about The Fox & Hounds
The Fox and Hounds is a decent little backstreet boozer just around the corner from Sloane Square station. Having not been down this neck of the woods before I was pleasantly surprised to find a down to earth Sloane Rangerless pub. The two people working behind the bar were very friendly, as was the bloke sitting at the bar who may have been a local or maybe the governor. There is a standard draught selection and being a Young’s house the three hand pumps were drawing Ordinary, Special and Winter Warmer. The bar is located in the front room where a yard of ale hangs from the wall with various dates and records for downing ale from it. Apparently the world record is five seconds which is quite savage and apparently has stood since 1976. There is another room at the rear of the pub that feels like a study with bookshelves and a sofa if memory serves me correctly. Seating is found throughout and a ginormous dog was blocking the entrance as I walked in making me have to step over him/her. Thankfully I wasn’t that bladdered and we both escaped unscathed from our introduction.
This is a proper boozer that I would make a detour to visit again.
On 2nd February 2012
- rating: 7
[User has posted 5254 recommendations about 5222 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Rex Rattus left this review about The Fox & Hounds
This pub really doesn’t look like much from the outside, but it opens up inside into a rather nice little pub, as already described by Maldenman and John Bonser. The toasted cheese sandwich at £2.95 was a good bet, and probably superior in quality to the KFC meal my companion subjected himself to later in the afternoon. The cat and dog did make an interesting double act – the barman showed me a video clip of the 5lb cat seeing off the 8st dog in a one-sided boxing match. This is a great little pub, to which I would gladly pay a return visit.
On 7th December 2010
- rating: 8
[User has posted 2606 recommendations about 2520 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Malden man left this review about The Fox & Hounds
A pleasant small street corner pub with a friendly welcome from the chatty landlord and landlady, after we had been vetted and cleared by the large pub German Shepherd dog that is. The dog seems to have the run of the bar but became rather more subdued and quiet when the tiny and clearly dominant co-resident cat decided to show her face. Fairly narrow, but extending back beyond the bar area, the pub is bare boarded with mainly wooden bench seats and a few stools. There are two sofas in the rear section. As befits the name, there are plenty of framed hunting scenes as well as old maps of the locality and other framed artwork. Cosy with the fire lit on a bitterly cold day, the feeling helped by the pot plants, red walls and green textured ceiling. Simple food available in the form of keenly priced toasties, sandwiches and soup, all advertised on chalkboards above the bar.
Christmas decorations including a nice tree helped to make the pub feel welcoming despite it being quiet on our early afternoon visit.
Young's beers, Ordinary Bitter, Special and the Bombareindeer with irritating clip on offer.
On 7th December 2010
- rating: 7
[User has posted 1708 recommendations about 1681 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
John Bonser left this review about The Fox & Hounds
Situated in a quiet, residential side street and in close proximity to Sloane Square underground is The Fox and Hounds, a pub whose main claim to fame is that it was the last "beer only" pub in London. A full licence was not granted until 1998.
It's a cosy, characterful, street corner pub with a small frontage, although it extends back further inside than you might expect from the outside. It's traditionally furnished, with much wood panelling and a profusion of fox hunting prints and pictures. A smallish room at the front, where the bar counter is situated, leads into a slightly larger room dominated by a couple of sofas, but with still a traditional feel. Just inside the pub, above the bar, rather incongruously, hangs a Yard of Ale and we are told that the pub record for downing this is 11.08 seconds.
There's no music, TV's or fruit machines to detract from the fine atmosphere.
On my recent Sunday early afternoon visit, the pub was dominated somewhat by several groups of smartly dressed people of both sexes and, since they included several people in dog collars, I presumed that they had just come from a nearby local church service. Despite being my usual well-behaved, affable self, an elderly Miss Marple type, who was in one of the groups and was sitting in the corner sipping red wine, say fit to look at me in a rather disapproving and sniffy manner. It was, with great difficulty, that I resisted the temptation to respond with a biblical quotation along the lines of "we're all equal in the eyes of the Lord".
Formerly a Charringtons house for many years, it's now a Young's tenancy which, on my visit was serving Special, Ordinary and London Gold. The Special - £ 3.35p - was in good form, although I appeared to be virtually the only customer not drinking shorts.
I quite like this pub, but I'm hoping for a wider customer mix next time I drop in.
On 7th October 2010
- rating: 6
[User has posted 560 recommendations about 560 pubs]