Prospect Of Whitby

So its not often you find a pub that is still so traditional but yet so modern
From the moment i walked in i just loved the place. The fact that is old, by the river and so big that we found immediately a good table to seat although it was a Saturday and around 5pm.
The staff was very politely and wam bam they had our food on our table in just 15 min. Now food wise you can expect the traditional pub food but with a higher quality than usual. The portions are big and the selection of food is wide
Finally been a lazy bum i am i love the fact that its 10 min walking away form my place… Heheheh cant wait to tap everything they have: D

This place is certainly not for the faint of heart if you’re not local to Wapping — it takes some travelling to get here. I live in North London, on the Piccadilly Line to be precise and made the pilgrimage here because it was highly recommended by a friend. It was over an hour’s worth of travel, but totally worth it!
The pub itself is really old and rich in history — it’s London’s oldest riverside pub, dating back to 1520. It has kept its original flagstone floors and pewter-​topped bar, and various barrels and ship masts are built into the structure. This pub was originally frequented by smugglers, thieves and pirates due to its location (no, really! Look it up)
The pub is set across two floors and is absolutely beautiful; keeping much of the original fixtures has helped it retain a charming aesthetic that’s cosy and quaint. There’s plenty of seating both indoors and outside — the beer garden and upper floor balcony in particular are great for drinks, particularly in summer. The views of the river and London skyline are breathtaking, especially at night when the city lights up. The beer is moderately priced with a good selection. One of the few pubs in London I’ve found that sells Innis & Gunn by the bottle.
The food is fantastic — I highly recommend the vegetarian fish and chips, You get two large pieces of halloumi that have been marinated in lime juice, then deep fried in batter and served with chips and mushy peas. Delicious!
If you’re a history buff that appreciates proper pub grub and a decent selection of ales then The Prospect of Whitby is definitely for you. This place is worth the journey for the views alone, especially at high tide when you can stand in the beer garden and see the river lapping close to your feet.

Decent pub, lovely location right by the river. Very friendly staff. Sunday roasts were not the best in the world, but good value for money.

This place was filled with amazing history and was a good representation of a good olé pub! The outer deck will be busy on a nice day but don’t worry, you can take your beer to the riverside if you like!

Incredible food, historic atmosphere, super friendly staff! Ask for the local, east London brews and pies!!!

A lovely Thames side pub with river views in Wapping. It’s really big inside so there are always new places to explore or places to sit. It has a nice outside area, which fills up fast on sunny days. I don’t think the pub itself is very special but its river location makes it good for the summer. Samuel Pepys used to drink there in the 1600s too — bonus!

Such a nice pub in a lovely part of London. I called to book a table for 20 people, when I got there they had no record of my booking. The staff were fantastic and put us in the function room as all other areas were busy. We had a lovely quiet room which made it easy to talk. We also appreciated the great views as it was all windows. The food was good and we were very impressed that they went out of their way to ensure our group was comfy. Would recommend for large groups or just meeting up with some friends. The noose is a nice touch!

Tourist hell. People from all over the world come to visit this «traditional» old pub, often delivered by coach. Building itself is old, quant and historic as one would expect from one of the original London docker’s pubs with lovely riverside views, original suspension-​wrecking brick paved streets and multi-​million pound apartments created from former wharf warehouses.
For people expecting traditional, home-​made pub food — you may be disappointed. Looks like mass-​produced, pre-​made and cooked on premise type fayre that one gets in the Harvester.
By all means visit as the history can’t be denied and is a great spot for a pint but please don’t think that this establishment offers the height of achievement in terms of «pub food».
Pricey — for what it is.

Great building, location and river views. Pretty good selection of beer here too. But don’t eat here, food is expensive, average quality and it took us over an hour to get our Sunday lunch. To be fair they did tell us it would take 45mins but not sure why as the place was not very busy. Anyway at the end the waiter told us that I could pay his gratuity (tip) though my credit card or he would accept cash (seriously)… So to summarise, great place for a beer but eat elsewhere.

6 amigos deseando comer, entre otras cosas, un buen Sunday Roast.
Nos acordamos de este sitio y decidimos probar un domingo.
Para empezar ya nos avisaron de que la cocina iba a tardar un poco, muy a nuestro pesar decidimos quedarnos esperando que ese poco no iba a ser la hora y pico que estuvimos en la mesa antes de que la comida llegara. Teniendo incluso que reclamar que nos sirvieran al menos las bebidas, que parece que nunca llegaban.
Siendo la mayoría de nosotros los que pedimos el roast, ni el de ternera ni el de cordero valían la pena. Carne seca, patatas congeladas (roast potatoes), y verduras cocidas que no decían nada.
El fish & chips que uno de nosotros pidió no estaba mal. Y las hamburguesas pecaban de muy hechas.
Los postres no estaban mal, pero aún siendo algo que no tiene que cocinarse también tardaron mucho en llegar.
A la hora de pagar tampoco cambió la situación, y tuvimos que esperar también una barbaridad para que nos trajeran la cuenta.
El personal fue amable pero muy despistado. A parte de esto, y normalmente no me gusta comentar sobre estas cosas, el camarero que nos atendía olía extremadamente mal, lo cual era bastante desagradable cada vez que se acercaba! Su camisa, por cierto, tampoco parecía muy limpia…
En definitiva, si volvemos será sólo a tomarnos una pinta.

A very nice old pub the peaceful yet atmospheric revamped Docklands area. It’s a large pub with plenty of nooks and crannies — my friend had his birthday party in a room upstairs. A buffet was provided which looked fairly generous, although the remnants were far from delicious (nachos made with small heavily seasoned packet tortilla chips normally don’t work well).
I second another review (from 18 months ago) about the poor state of the ladies loos, which had a very wet floor on this occasion. They serve Big Tom which is always a way to my heart and I probably should have paid more attention to what else was available but according to the website it involves cask ales (also the website says it has been visited by Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, Whistler and Turner… and PIRATES!). I wouldn’t necessarily travel here again but it’s a great local asset.

What a place! From incredible food and amazing views from the upstairs terrace. Staff are friendly too. Glad we found it!

I loved this pub, it’s part of the Canary Wharf to London Bridge pub crawl.
We actually ended up going to different pubs ourselves but this was one we managed to make it too!
Its a really old pub, apparently the oldest in London (i’m sure there are lots that say the same). It has history around smuggling which is quite fun to read about.
There is a great outside area (which is a bit small) but it has wonderful views of the Thames! Also outside is a hangman’s noose. Morbid but pretty fun!
Didn’t have any food, but it looked and smelled nice enough.
All in all a great pub out of the way in London. The walk along the Thames is amazing as well!

Great pub, great river views. Decent pub grub. I like it.
It’s a little out of the way but worth the effort to find. Nice outside space and wonderful inside ‘ye olde worlde’ charm inside.

The Prospect of Whitby is charming. Is old pub, on the river so beautiful views (from balcony or terrace can enjoy). It has many drinks you can get — good ales (Admans) and world beers. Also they’ve wines and spirits. They and have food. I had a pie– chicken and mushroom. My food was very delicious and the other food I saw look good also. I want to return to try the ‘cod father’ (fish in chips).
Is a good pub– I recommend trying.

Actually pretty impressive although we did find ourselves there when no tour parties were present. The bar staff were polite and helpful. The beer selection was exceptional, including local breweries and a personal favourite of mine — Dark Star! And the beer was well kept too.
Food was your standard pub grub, but it couldn’t be faulted, a decent portion of cod and chips with my guest opting for a fresh looking ham, egg and chips.
A few drinks and lunch came to £45 so fairly reasonable overall and impressive.

Nice local pub. I love coming here with my mates for an ale or two (or more). The service can be slow sometimes but the food and drinks are great so it’s worth it.

This pub could be the best pub in London. Only it’s really not.
The building is gorgeous, lots of old rabbit warren rooms all over the place and no less than three outside spaces. Almost everywhere in the pub looks out onto the river, and even Princess Margaret used to like coming here. The first fuschia brought to England was traded here
So what’s wrong with it?
1. The food. It’s very expensive and really sub-​par. the snacks are all £10 each and are tiny. The main meals are just not very high quality and the only thing worth having are the chips, which are also very expensive for the tiny bowl you get. They are tied to a brewery, which means that they serve Pepsi instead of Coke. (Pepsi is waaaay too sweet for me).
2. The service. They didn’t have enough people on, and there was only one really nice person behind the bar. everyone else was a little officious and a bit curt. Perhaps they were overworked.
3. The cleanliness. The ladies loo downstairs was a fright. There was loo roll everywhere, the floor didn’t look clean and the hand dryer was not working. I told a chap behind the bar, who just looked at me blankly, didn’t say a word and went to walk away. I had to check that he had understood me! Oh, and I had to come up with the plan to put napkins in the loo as a temporary fix for the broken hand dryer!
4. The smoking policy. Fewer and fewer people are smoking, but lots of people would like to eat their meal outside. With three outdoor spaces (one a kind of rail that you lean on) it would be easy to designate just one as a no-​smoking space. I suggested it to the day-​manager who told me that it was illegal to do that. I think she needs to check her grasp of the law!
So, it has HUGE potential, but right now, I really wouldn’t bother.

This pub is cozy and has a warm gas fire and beautiful Thames views.
However… this is not a free house, alas, so Prospect of Whitby is associated with one alcohol and food provider. This is generally thought to mean bad food and alcohol, though my beer was just fine.
It is also not quite as old as you’d think — it only dates to the 19^th century owing to a fire. However, the floors do indeed date to the 1500s, so think of all the pirates and thieves and prostitutes who walked on them over the last 500 years!

I love The Prospect for three reasons:
1. Pewter bar
2. The Greatest used to drink there
3. The best views of the Thames on the river
3.1 probably the best Guinness I’ve had in London for a long time
There are huge amounts of historical reasons alone to visit the Prospect — it used to be a smugglers den, it housed the first prizefights in London, the noose outside was really used — but in terms of everything else, you’ll find solid pub food (better than a Wetherspoons, not quite a gastropub) and really, really good beers on tap. There is a fantastic barman, not sure of his name but he’s Italian who is always joking and having a laugh with the clientele as well.
Beyond this, despite being on the Thames it has only a few tourists heading to it every week; this works out well if you’re a local and don’t fancy heading to The Dickens Inn for a decent beer in the area which as it’s part of St Katherine’s Docks is typically rammed with tourists. Prices are standard London prices, but really you’re coming to The Prospect because of the views. Or possibly becaused The Greatest drank here.

My family and I went here while on vacation in the UK, and it was awesome. Not only was the food great, but it just had so much history to it.
I forget the schpeel the guide gave us, but it’s been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. There’s even a noose still hanging out on a pole on the wharf where they used to hang people back in the day.
The food was delicious and they have an excellent beer selection. A little on the pricey side, but it’s totally worth it. Plus you get a nice view of Canary Wharf across the water.

I’m officially old. I’m writing about the floor I’ve just seen. Yes, the floor in this pub is impressive. It’s flag stone and pretty damn old, dating back to the 1500s. What use to be a drinking hole for pirates and smugglers is now a generic boozer with standards drinks, poor quality mircowaved pub grub and a potentially chavy clientèle. Don’t let that put you off though, they have a few lovely outside areas looking over the Thames and a hangman’s noose dangling in the wind.
I like this pub, it’s in a funny area that is partly locals and some purposeful tourists wanting to explore London’s history. Is it work the trip? Maybe…

sehr schöner riverside pub in etwas trister umgebung. schöné theke und hinten ein traumhafter blick über die themse. vorher sich das «wapping project» gegenüber anschauen (ehemalige anlage, die ganz london mit druck für hydraulikanwendungen versorgte, was es nicht alles gibt … jetzt galerie mit sehenswerten alten maschinen).

Attention voici un super pub
Un pub ayant garder sa décoration d’antan en pierre avec vue sur la Tamise… excellent. Des plats à 7 livres mais arrêtez vous pour boire un verre. Vous pouvez même manger un sandwich pour 3 livres.