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The Rocket, NW1
NW1
NW1 2AL
Reviews of The Rocket (Average Rating: 4½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Rocket
One can see that this must once have been quite a grand place, but it has for a long time been a basic characterless pub with a very transient feel. Traditional interior which has been partially opened out to leave various seating areas around three sides of the bar. Sports / news TVs. All-day food offered from a standard unbranded M&B (Oaktree) menu. On the plus side, there are now five handpumps on the bar counter, with Doom Bar, Pride, Hogs Back TEA and No 18 Yard (Shepherd Neame) Rudolf's Reward (£3.55) available on this visit.
On 7th January 2017
- rating: 6
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Tris C left this review about The Rocket
A big barn of a place that was once called The Rising Sun, but became The Friar & Firkin in 1992 and has been called The Rocket since around 1999. There's some evidence of its Victorian heyday (the pub was rebuilt in 1899), but not much.
This is essentially a banging sports bar with TVs all around, the size of king size mattresses and clients of the vocal lads in T-shirts school; multiple games machines dominate proceedings and pictorial menus display their bill of fare (basically burgers and the like).
On the plus side - and it's a very meagre plus side - ales comprise Greene King's IPA, Sharp's Doom Bar (clip reversed), Fuller's London Pride and Goddard's Ale of Wight at a very reasonable £1.85 a half, which is cheap for the area and was decent enough.
This place is everything I hate in a so-called pub and I will never return; the Somers Town Coffee House is just around the corner and is oh-so-much better.
On 3rd May 2016
- rating: 2
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Rocket
Quite busy on our Tuesday eve visit. There were five handpumps, with four in use. The Moorhouses White Witch was our pick of the bunch. Other beers were Pride, GK IPA, and Harviestown Bitter and Twisted. The bar and the back of the bar were the only clues really that this was once a Victorian boozer, I suppose the original windows give another glimpse into the past. Still, at least the developers didn't knock it down.
On 2nd March 2016
- rating: 5
[User has posted 3378 recommendations about 3378 pubs]
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London St Pancras International, 0.36 miles, 6 min walk (show)
London St Pancras International, 0.36 miles, 6 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Darts : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Function Room : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 23 August 2014 by hondo .
- Jukebox : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Live Music : Yes last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : Yes - Sky Sports. - last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Pool Table : No last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 23 August 2014 by hondo .
- Wheelchair Access : Yes - Disabled WC. - last updated 22 April 2023 by Tris C
- WiFi : Yes last updated 23 August 2014 by hondo .