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Munich Cricket Club, Westminster, SW1

61-71 Victoria Street
Westminster
SW1
SW1H 0HW

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Philip Carter left this review about Munich Cricket Club

Great place, German soaps on TV, German/Bravian/Austrian staff serving behind the bar. Nothing fake about this place as far as I can tell. Love it. Update, it has now moved to another basement place, quite close by. It is at 1 Abbey Orchard Street, SW1.

On 7th August 2019 - rating: 8
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E TA left this review about Munich Cricket Club

Eine Parodie einer bayerishchen Bierkeller, hinunterbeschreibt. Ich redete mit dem Oberkellner, der nicht aus Bayern sondern aus NordDeutchland stam, und er erklaerte, das diese Kneipe eine Konzept war: ie that this was a German’s idea of what a Bavarian Brauhaus was, and he thought it was the German perception of what the English thought a German bar should look like. It’s the equivalent of someone from Essex opening an Irish bar in Portugal. Either way, it was all a bit surreal; the banging of glasses on the neat little rows of tables with their monastic-looking benches called to mind a very different Munich experience from a very Different Germany. It gets quite crowded in the evenings leaving very little Lebensraum. Six Bavarian and German beers on draft, expensive and predictable in taste due to the Bavarian Beer Purity regulations and served cold as is the custom over there. German food was advertised, but there were no Pommes (chips), the Saurkraut tasted like it came from Sainsbury’s and the Kartoffelsalat was just whole boiled potatoes with salad cream on them. OK, it’s a bit of fun, but it’s not quite authentic in any sense of the word, and I don’t think I’ll be annexing it any time soon. Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voller Aalen.

On 5th June 2018 - rating: 5
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custodian 42 left this review about Munich Cricket Club

All right if you like German beer and German TV which for some reason was showing. I found it a bit dark but no doubt livens up at night.

On 8th March 2017 - rating: 5
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Munich Cricket Club

The former Old Monk Exchange has been thoroughly remodelled and refurbished, and although it is still a cellar bar it is rather lighter and more inviting than before in its new incarnation as a Bavarian Bierkeller & Kitchen. Now features elongated dark-wood tables, a blue-faced bar the far end and more plain furniture in the row of vaulted alcoves up some steps along the right-hand side. Eight mostly Munich beers on tap, e.g. Hacker-Pschorr Gold (£5.25), and oddly Lindermans Kriek. Also has a range of German bottled beers available. A bit different, but none the worse for that.

On 9th July 2016 - rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about The Old Monk Exchange

As well-documented elsewhere, this is an underground cellar bar that looks fairly innocuous from the outside, being at the base of a modern office block just off Victoria Street; I’d been meaning to do this one for a while as they regularly advertise in London Drinker. After entering the foyer and descending the steps you enter a large, fairly dark open-plan room with dark wood laminate flooring with the bar immediately to the left. To the rear is a split level with some under-arch booth areas and I can imagine that on an unbearably hot summer day this would be an ideal place to retreat to. I was a little disappointed to see only three ales on at the bar over the six pumps with a fairly bland selection, the W&E Windsor Knot excepted. To be fair, the quality of the Knot was very good. Apparently there is also a cider and perry plus a few Meantime bottles but I didn’t note these. My trip to the traps involved traversing some (unsignposted) warped laminate flooring that had obviously fallen victim to a recent leak; an accident waiting to happen. Perhaps I caught this on a below-par day but I left feeling a little ambiguous about the place, maybe I had over-high expectations. I’d probably look in again but only if I happened to be two minutes away.

On 6th April 2013 - rating: 6
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Old Monk Exchange

The tiny entrance in Strutton Ground leads downstairs to a fairly large subterranean drinking area that comes over as something of a drinking barn. It’s bare-boarded, there are a few high tables/stools, a couple of sofas, but the majority of seating is normal tables and chairs. They clearly cater for largish groups, as some of the tables had seating for ten or twelve customers. They advertised a current beer festival on boards outside the entrance, which is what attracted me in there, but on later examination of my photograph of the exterior, seemed to have finished a few days before my visit. Anyway, there were four ales on, of which only one (GKIPA) I had seen before; another pump had a cider on, and a sixth was unused. So, I didn’t really miss the absence of said beer festival, although the beer selection might have been enhanced by festival leftovers. I felt obliged to go for Skinner’s ambiguously named “Ginger Tosser” (£3 a pint), which according to the clip contained Cornish honey, and turned out to be an excellent drop of ale. There were menus attached to clipboards on the tables, advertising mostly normal pub fare – the “homemade pie of the day”, with mash and peas, was £.7.95.
There was the inevitable pop music being played, the TV monitors were showing (muted) Sky Sports, and of course the one-armed bandits were present as well. Overall, I found this place to be particularly, and perhaps inevitably, gloomy and characterless, but on the plus side the ale choice and quality was good. It’s certainly not my first choice of pub in the area, but the ale selection, if maintained, would certainly induce me to pay a return visit.

On 21st October 2010 - rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Old Monk Exchange

For a pub that advertises regularly in the London Drinker magazine, I was a little disappointed to discover only two ales on during my recent visit. A row of hand pumps offered me a choice between Greene King IPA and Welton's Fury (£3.10). I had an admittedly very good pint of the latter, but a lack of further choice meant that I had no reason to stay any longer than it took me to drink my pint. Service was nice and quick and the barman was fairly jovial.
The pub is a large, split level cellar bar with a big open area at the front which eventually fills out towards the back with a number of long tables and chairs. A raised section at the rear has further seating, most of which is under the arches of the vaulted section and therefore provides nice 'private' seating booths. Each arch has it's own TV screen, most of which were showing muted cricket highlights and there are a large number of other screens throughout the room as well. Background music was playing at quite a loud level, but this was strangely drowned out by the chatter from the modest number of punters dotted around the place.
The décor was pretty bland, with plenty of bare brick walls and not much else. A few wine signs were hanging from the ceiling and unsurprisingly for a cellar bar, wine was being promoted and seemed popular among the office set. Food was also available, with a typical bar menu, including a two meals for £8.50 deal, although this was mostly restricted to burgers, ciabattas and salads. There was a dartboard on the far wall although a little furniture arranging would be required in order to play on it.
Not really my sort of place and it was a real shame that the beer choice was so limited as my one pint was in top condition. Maybe worth another look.

On 16th August 2010 - rating: 6
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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Old Monk Exchange

This pub looks a bit cheap and nasty from the outside, with its cartoon signage and bare walls, especially compared to the adjoining Strutton.

However, once inside its totally different and I'm very glad I tried it.

Its a well presented large cellar bar & very much has that feel. Well decorated there is a bar to the left and various seating areas, including a pick of your very own 'railway' type arches, where through the light well you can see the shadows of peoples feet passing above which is rather bizarre.

Well kept beers, including a mild when I visited.

Very nice pub, don't be put off from the outside.

On 19th May 2010 - rating: 8
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Nicola Matera left this review about The Old Monk Exchange

Visited the pub earlier in the week. Good atmosphere, excellent and very friendly staff. Good food too and excellent choice of beers. I would recommend highly.

On 19th November 2009 - rating: 10
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Steve C left this review about The Old Monk Exchange

This is a large basement bar that had Twickenham Ales Grandstand, Barnstormer, Greene King IPA and Abbot available during my visit last week. There was also a selection of premium and standard lagers available from staff that I found to be pleasant enough. I spotted a plasma screen and the six nation’s rugby was being heavily advertised, although I spotted no sign of any Sky Sports advertisement.

I got the feeling that most of the other customers were local office workers that had crossed the road to drink/eat here and there was no atmosphere to speak of so I wouldn’t make a special trip to return.

On 24th March 2009 - rating: 6
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