Green Man

Stopped in one cold windy and rainy day just to duck out of the messy weather. We were warmly greeted instantly and seated by the window to watch the world trudge on by while deciding what to eat. I elected the soup and a pot of tea. Both were delicious, warming and restorative. By the time we finished out meal, we had solid directions to where we were headed (the other way, she said!) and we had full bellies all for reasonable prices. Not bad at all… think it is a pub chain, but again, no shame in that. Particularly if you are getting the job done!

The southern fried chicken pieces is OMG good. You only get 3 so order multiple. Great beer selection and top knotch service. They get very crowded but worth the wait.

Real mixed bag this one. Yes it does have really cheap drinks and is one of only a handful of places that have sky sports and show the football in the west end, but it does smell, it is dirty and some of the people you find in there look like there one step away from a park bench.
However, please don’t be put off by the latter if your in the area, check it out.

The Green Man is in a prime central location and sells some of the cheapest drinks for a central London night. The food is also very reasonably priced for the amount you get and is actually quite nice considering its probably from frozen. Good little place for some pres.
However, it is very shabby and it’s obvious why it’s so cheap. This is not anywhere I’d recommend to people other than for the drinks prices, or would really go out of choice actually. I wouldn’t recommend sticking around for long as although a vibrant atmosphere, it’s not somewhere I’d enjoy spending much time in and can have some questionable characters. Also: do not venture into the toilets if you can help it.

I judge places mostly by the service but I’ll list down some of my observations.
Pros:
–A great place for very cheap drinks. Which other bar can beat 4 shots for £5.50?
–nice environment and good place to start off the night if it is going to be a messy one.
–did I mention cheap?
–it is close to both TCR station and Oxford Street station.
–I had their spicy chicken wings and it was quite nice.
Cons:
–I’ve never seen staff so unhappy with their job before.
–service is very slow and you are likely to get into an argument with some drunk person who thinks they were at the front of the line before you.
–did I mention the service? Oh boy oh boy. So bad!
–the toilets are nasty and need a lot of improvement
There are lots of other «standard pubs» in London which maintain their business and service a lot better.
Nevertheless, this is the sort of place one would have a friend visit just to «start the night».

Now i’m as much of a fan of football as the next man or woman, so i was in central London on a Saturday tea time, and my West Ham supporting brother wanted to watch his team on the tele, really wished i hadn’t and it was a great game too which says a lot about the pub.
My brother and I ordered two Ales, our two friends ordered beers. The Ales were possible the worse Ales i have ever tasted, so much so that i only drunk a third of it, fearing i would be stuck on the can for the rest of the night. After that experience i thought i would play it safe and have a rum and coke, oh if only i could taste the rum, or even the coke for that matter. Think of the flattest tasting coke left over from an 80s soda stream and you still wouldn’t be close to what i was drinking.
Being in central London god knows how they get away with it, the tourists must think as a nation of drinkers are taste buds are shot to bits, mine were after drinking in here.

Perfect for lunch on a weekday with the family. All the food was nice and reasonably priced. Pints were good with a fair selection.
Definitely great for a quick bite. If it was busy it might be slower, but we had no issues.

Standard London Pub

Nice Pub. Good range of beers and ales. Good atmosphere.

Nice price for the beer. Burger & Drink less than £7 .
Everybody loves to buy a bottle of wine for a couple.
Nice bar with a separate room and different types of tables and chairs. A lot of traffic with people dropping in from their Soho shopping tour. A little loud!

My review is based on visiting Saturday afternoons. When in town with the girlfriend and you’ve had enough of carry bags and giving the wrong opinion on every garment in Oxford Street, this place serves you beer and shows you football scores. Priceless. Usually has a few tourists and a few regulars, but all in all quite pleasant of an afternoon. No idea what the evening is like.

I had my bag and passport stolen at this bar, and even though I thought the atmosphere seemed ok, obviously it was not. Perhaps locals might like it, but as one who just popped in for a pint and a pie, the ramifications of having your bag stolen is not good. The bartenders when queried simply said that you have to keep an eye on your own belongings. ‘Nuff said.

The Green Man is a slighty grotty pub on Berwick Street (just off Oxford Street) but it’s saving grace is cheap booze — just over a fiver for 2 pints of lager! It’s a great pub for watching sport as there’s several tv screens dotted around the place. It doesn’t have the best atmosphere, but it’s ok if you want to watch the match and have a few cheap beers!

Yes it’s grotty, yes you have to queue a bit on a Friday night for a drink, yes it’s got steep stairs leading down to the toilets. But this place sits between Oxford Street and Soho with the cheapest selection of drinks and food in the area. For those facts alone makes this pub a winner!
The atmosphere is great in the evening with a mixture of tourists and office workers all looking to have a laugh and a drink.
If you’re a smoker be prepared to stand together outside like you’re all on the tube during rush hour, there’s not much space on the pavement.

A bit shabby inside, but always rather full on the weekends due to its excellent location just off Oxford Street. Its just your average pub and really not worth going to as there are so many better pubs around the area, EXCEPT if you want to watch live sports.
This is one of the only pubs in the Oxford Street area that shows live sports, so its a perfect place to retreat to if the missus is out maxing your credit cards while that all-​important Man Utd vs Liverpool game is going on!

Pretty poor in nearly every dark, dirty, over-​screened, volume-​amped, boozehead, flairless way a pub can be. There are TVs everywhere you look; last night they were showing NFL from Fox, much to the whooping delight of the gang at the table in the middle of the pub.
They’d forgotten to re-​stock the bar with the by-​the-​glass red wine I wanted, and although they went to the cellar for more it was freezing cold.
Give it a miss unless you’re a group of men, already three sheets to the wind and jabbering nonsense, and looking to watch the footie. They seem to be the main clientele.

A pub that’s grotty in the wrong way. It looks like it was refurbished in the 80s but hasn’t been maintained since. The toilets, in particular, were in a poor state of repair as tiles were falling off the walls and some of the loos themselves were even falling apart.
Service is nothing special either. I was served by a surly french barmaid last night who barely made the effort to make eye contact with her customers and went about her duties as if she was doing them under duress.
Purely for those who don’t care where they have their drinks as long as those drinks contain alcohol.

Well it so happened that one cold, brisk night I found myself in Oxford Street at the same time as The Sugarbabes. a coincidence I assured my girlfriend! I didn’t know anything about three vixens on a stage in front of thousands people, free of charge… ahem. No, me and my friends were there to see the christmas lights turned on (London starts Christmas as early as possible because it maximises profit) and after standing around, I wanted a stiff pint and maybe even some JD. So we retired to the Green Man!
The Green Man has a good atmosphere. Especially on nights this brisk, when eveyone wants to cram in close together to maximise the warming effect. like penguins. There are also multiple screens showing sort all around the place, which definitely raises it up in my estimations. The menu, I feel, is pretty freakin’ awesome. The prices are amazing for pub food and there is alot of choice available for the money (eg, a Roast dinner for £4.95). The music is loud and upbeat (though this might have just been during the one hour stretch I was present) and with the press of bodies and sounds of chitter chatter, an excellent atmosphere. An excellent pub.

It’s a solid 3 for the Green Man, which is a handy pub just off the Oxford Street ‘drag’ (and isn’t it a drag at times?). It’s a decent sized boozer, which sells a decent range of drinks at reasonable prices. It’s open late, it shows sport on big screens & it has a pool table. It does pub fare.
Stylish it is not, and nor will it ever be. However, it’s a good place to go for a bit of respite from the madness of shopping on a Saturday and to catch the footy results. Not somewhere I’d head as a destination pub to watch a match — but handy to know about if you are meeting people in town.

Ce pub est tres bien pour aller bramer en l’honneur de son equipe de foot (ou dans mon cas, bramer contre l’equipe que l’on né veut pas voir gagner).
C’est un pub anglais mais avec un style international, je né pense pas avoir vu un non-​latino las-​bas.
Pour un endroit aussi central, la biere n’est pas cher et il y a une super ambiance pour y aller avec plein de copains. Les grands ecrans aident aussi vu qu’on né peut pas les rater!
A tester aussi, la nourriture, j’ai entendu que c’etait pas cher et plutot bon mais je n’ai pas eu le temps de gouter.

tightly related to football, the green man is the ideal place to go with a large group to cheer your team up.
it is quite resorted, since food and drinks are so cheap that it attracts loads of young and working class people. How great are these no-​frill places? I love them.
pints float around the two pints, wine is cheap as well. There is even music in given days from 10pm on. However, at this stage having a seat will be just a daydream, and it becomes noisy.
green man is ideal for after-​work reunions, football matches and booze-​ups

A loud place, this bar is popular as it has the cheapest beer and wine of anywhere in Soho.
If you don’t mind loud, boystrous people, jostling for places with no seats left if you arrive after 6pm, this is the place.
The food is decent, well cooked and cheap so for anyone on a budget, this is the place to go.

I like being able to relax in a pub. After all, that’s the whole point of going, isn’t it? In this case it was to watch the Arsenal /​Wigan match on a Sunday afternoon.
The pub house about 8 different tvs in it. Some of them showing the rugby (and later Crufts!), and some of them showing what was actually a pretty dull game.
So what on earth was wrong with the pub? Well, we felt like we were being watched by the beer police.
We weren’t allowed to sit at the bar. So we moved. Then we weren’t allowed to stand at one end of the bar. Then we moved back to the bar and were asked to move again. The bar wasn’t even that busy.
When we finally did get settled, I gave my friend his birthday present. Part of which was chocolate brownie and a some Haribo. We were asked not to open our sweets in the bar. They’re sweets for goodness sake. We’d have ordered food, but we weren’t allowed to eat at the bar.
After all this, how were we meant to relax? It’s not the worst pub in the world, but it’s not special and we don’t like the service. Even the friendly flirty barman didn’t make up for it.
We’re not going back.