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Tris C left this review about Queen's Head
Located in a pleasant Chiswick enclave, this pub dates from the early 18th century, rebuilt in 1925 with attractive gables in the brewers’ Tudor style and a reasonable walk from Gunnersbury tube.
If you like pictures of cutlery and vol-au-vents, then you’re in for a treat as these can be viewed in high definition on the pub’s website gallery. Otherwise, the somewhat twee interior features strikingly pale floorboards, pale grey wainscoting and matching walls, mixed furniture including some peripheral pews, vases of flowers, lots of modern drawings, most – if not all – available for sale, the product of The Queen's Heard Artists' Collective, established to promote local artists' work to a wider audience; lighting is mixed and there's an attractive left-hand snug with the right-hand side geared towards dining and all to a tinny soundtrack. And almost no customers on a Friday night.
Aside from two sadly unused pumps, the only cask option here was Doom, so I opted for a half of Neck Oil (£3.35), served by a friendly barmaid.
This isn’t a bad pub, but being virtually dead on a Friday evening isn’t a great selling point, neither is the choice of cask beer, the former perhaps a product of the latter.
On 25th May 2023
- rating: 4
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Smokehouse
The door was open as I wandered up to this pub, so of course I went in and had a good look round until someone emerged from the back to tell me that they didn't open until 5.00 PM on weekdays. However, although I didn't get a drink in here I did note the presence of two handpumps on the bar counter, with Sharp's Atlantic and Sambrook's Wandle clips on them.
There's a standard bar area as you enter, where the counter and handpumps are sited, with a larger room on the right which was obviously the dining room. I didn't get a good look around the dining room, but I did spot that the seats had on them black and white cowshide covers, presumably to aid the cowboy/BBQ theme. You could tell that the smokehouse food operation was well and truly up and running by the BBQ odours as you walk in the door. I have yet to eat in a Smokehouse pub, but I can guess at the sort of food that might be available
On 10th April 2015
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john gray left this review about The Smokehouse
Now the Smokehouse.Same layout as before but very smart interior.Left side room very posh bit like a gentlemans club.Right hand and main bar set up for dining.Big rear garden but not yet finished.About 10 Craftish sort of kegs,lots of bottled beer and 2 cask beers were on.My Sharps -atlantic ipa £4.30 was very good.Expensive pub for drinks.
On 4th April 2015
- rating: 8
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Hole In The Wall
Quite an attractive building in the 'Brewers Tudor' style. The main bar area with traditional wooden furniture is in the centre, with a more comfortable lounge to one side (with a TV) and a large rectangular dining room to the other. Sparse, gastro-pub decor. Beer garden (not visited). Three real ales on handpump - TT Landlord, Doom Bar and Pride (£3.40). (NB - Does not open until 17:00 Monday to Wednesday.)
On 9th December 2011
- rating: 6
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Steve C left this review about The Hole In The Wall
This is not a bad pub if the sun is shining and you can sit in the beer garden. Service was adequate, but I only saw Pride and Spitfire alongside an extensive range of lagers which is a little strange for a pub a stones throw from the Fuller's Brewery.
I can't really say a lot more about this pub another than it is tucked down a one way street in the back roads of Chiswick and there are better pubs around albeit quite a stroll away.
On 6th May 2008
- rating: 6
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