Yates’s

I have been here on various occasions and you know, it does what it says on the tin. It is a Yates and it is a typical one. Probably a 3.5 star, I wouldn’t push it as Yay I am a fan, but I would definitely put it down as when in the area, I normally end up there having a few drinks. The service can depend on what time you go there, but in comparison to the other bars in the area, it is relatively good. There are loads of drinks to chose from and they always have special offers on. They do the typical Yates food here and that is of an acceptable standard. It does have an outside seating area and when the weather is good, this place is awesome for having a drink and people watching. On busy nights there are bouncers here, but they are not aggressive and are quite calm and don’t do the normal London thing of giving people death stares and thinking they are terminator. The pricing here is very good as well. They ahven’t smashed the prices through the roof as most pubs in this area do, due to the location and the fact that you don’t really have a choice but to pay prices, for that I think this place deserves a point!

I know it’s a Yate’s bar, and therefore shouldn’t be expecting much to begin with, so it’s pretty bad that it still deserves just 1 star.
It’s dirty, and sticky, and the service is only ok when it’s practically empty. If it’s even remotely busy, good luck getting served in a timely fashion… and if your order is completely correct and has everything you asked for the first time round, then feel extremely lucky!
It has 2 of my absolute pet hates in a bar as well. Toilet trolls that hassle you for tips for handing you tissue paper which they are withholding from you in the first place… and «shot» girls who walk around trying to awkwardly pretend they like you so you’ll buy over-​priced shots from them. Ugh. Stop trying to hard-​sell me shit! I’m in a bar, I’m going to be drinking. You don’t need to walk past me every ten minutes and try to guilt me into buying a drink strapped to your arse.
With the exception of one very friendly doorman, the security here tend to lean towards the aggressive side of «keeping the peace», and then wonder why people kick off. A male friend of mine who was being harassed by a guy who kept grabbing his arse, and touching him tried to complain to staff about the situation, and when they did nothing, he tried to talk to the guy himself. He got a bit annoyed, and my friend tried to push him back to keep his distance. The security thought it was a great idea to grab my friend from behind, around the neck… and then wonder why he starts lashing out. He doesn’t know who the hell has grabbed him! Who trained these guys?!
Anyway, despite not actually being involved in the situation, and being the one to diffuse it… I was rewarded with being barred.
No need, if I don’t ever wander into this establishment again, I’ll be perfectly ok with that. Everyone I work with has another place we go to now, so the only people missing out are the people making money off this place.

Place was fun :) Had a good time.

I’ve been here a couple of times, once in the day, and once in the evening.
In the day time, as you can imagine, it’s full of normal people and families, and it’s similar to a Wetherspoons with reasonable food and drink on offer. The bar staff seemed a bit slow, but when you’re in Leicester Square it’s one of the cheaper places to go.
In the evening, it’s very tacky. It seems to be a popular destination for stag/​hen nights, so expect people who are way too drunk and way too loud who can’t get in anywhere else to be in there. It seems to be the destination of choice for older men and women to take their «escorts» who are in abundance wandering the square outside most evenings.

The wait staff and bar tenders have zero customer service skills. Our table was dirty and so were our plates. They were out of bangers and mash and had us order something else then they couldn’t prepare it to our allergies (remove tomatoes and onions) and we asked if we could the ribs instead and they said they would have to charge us the difference even though it was there fault we were already charged for a meal they were out of. And in the end the food was the same price as the bangers and mash we originally ordered so there was no price difference and they made it difficult for no reason other than them being uneducated on their own menu.

THIS PLACE HAS A STRIPPERS POLE… SCORE!!!
There’s nothing too special about this place is just your standard Yates bar, fairly spacious, but doesn’t get pretty busy.
If you order food, don’t expect it to be prompt, or for the order to be correct! Me and my mate Lauren went, she ordered a cheese burger and I ordered 2 chocolate cakes (2for1 on cake, not going to just have 1), the burger came minus cheese, sent back, came back, no salad, sent back (still no cake) came back, Lauren starts eating (still no cake) Lauren is half way through eating (where the hell is my cake) ask for my cake ‘you sure you ordered cake?’ no love, I didn’t just thought I’d give you money for cake just for the fun of it!
Lauren finishes her burger and YAY my cake arrived, was ok, nothing special, tasted kind of Tesco-​y, so thinking I was massively overcharged for what I was paying for.
In summary, stay away unless you want a £5 bottle of wine, or 3, and fancy showing that council trash skanks how you actually work a strippers pole! :)

Zentral gelegenes Café, wo am Wochenende ein DJ Musik macht und eine Tanzfläche statt Tischen ist. Außerhalb vom Wochenende normales Café/​Restaurant, wo man auch recht günstig essen kann.
Das Personal ist freundlich und das Essen kommt flott daher. Die Einrichtung ist modern. Zum abendlichen Ausgehen gutes Ziel

A decent bar when your out in Tourist Central!

Oh no, not very cool at all! Constant flow of people through the pub, dizzying! However nice staff and fun

Awesome pub. I’m a frequent customer when I was studying at a university in the UK. Amazing pub food and at a clearly good price. The servers are usually grinning from ear to ear. The beers are ok-​ok, but I’m here for the environment and the food!

Super long and narrow bar.
It’s ok to get a few drinks in here before moving on at a reasonable price.
Not much else to say except typical Yates.

We never had particularly good experiences going to Yates in Leicester Square, but last night we received a particularly appalling one.
We went there at around 8pm and we ordered some food and drinks from the menu — one of the items was a bacon, tomato and mozzarella panini. The waiter took our order and was nice at first. When we got the panini though it wasn’t the one we asked for, it was a cheese and onion pickle one.
So we went back with the food and politely told him there had been a mistake with the order. The same waiter first said that that was the tomato and cheese one we ordered, then insisted that he hadn’t heard us saying bacon. We accepted that it was noisy and mistakes occur so we just asked him if he could change it, and by that point he was getting irritated and had an attitude; he went to speak to another staff member (a tall guy who had a black shirt and tie and looked like a supervisor) and after the conversation he took the panini from us and without a word took it back in the kitchen.
We were a bit unsure as to what was going on and then he came back and put the plate in front of us with a panini on it. My friend asked if he’d modified the panini himself, and he said, «No, this is a new one, the other panini is in the bin».
We were a bit wary but we took it to our table and looked at it: it was EXACTLY THE SAME PANINI, with cheese and onion pickle, but with some bacon and mozzarella haphazardly stuffed into it.
Obviously we were very disappointed and we asked for a manager: he first hurriedly apologised saying he had something else to sort out and was going to be back «in 7 minutes», needless to say he didn’t and after more than 10 minutes we went back to look for him and he came to us after and pushed the money in front of us with a rushed «sorry» which sounded anything but apologetic, and left quickly.
Yet again Yates has provided us with an APPALLING customer service, not much for the wrong order but more for the fact that the waiter lied to us and just wanted to dismiss us making us believe we had the food we wanted. We are not even sure that he didn’t stuff the extra ingredients in the panini himself! The manager was rude and uncaring as well.
We will never go back to that Yates or any other; we have never had such a horrible customer service in any other place. I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone as well as he disgusting customer service, the night crowd is made of mostly chavs and lonely weirdos who like to go in as they get in free and can just look at scantily clad women who lack taste in clubs as well as in fashion.
Definitely AVOID IT. The food might be cheap with not of good quality, the drinks are more or less normal price and in any case I’d rather spend 1 pound more but have my drink in a nice place.
AVOID!

Horrible food, terrible service. and they even don’t know how to pull a pint.

The woman who was serving behind the bar huffing, puffing and rubbing her face out of frustration and complaining to my friend (who ordered a latte) that she should not be serving coffee… To be given cutlery with dried bits of food stuck to it… and waited over 40 mins till our food arrives…
Should be a crime…
…end of story

It’s a Yates pub. .. no review required.
If you can relate to any of the following, then this place is your cup of tea:
~ You don black leather shoes with buckles
~ You wear pin stripe trousers from Next
~ You still purchase or have a Ben Sherman shirt collection
~ You like to punch men, women and /​or children in the face
~ You wear gold loopy earrings in combo with clown (with moving arms n legs) necklace
~ You are from Chesterfield
~ You have done time
~ You enjoyed the Film Pearl Harbour
~ You shave your head shaved to the extent of the Bic look
~ You like Fosters and it’s your lager of choice
~ You had a child at the age of 15 or below
~ You think a gold sovereign ring looks the «mutts»
~ You are clueless and in London as a tourist and fancy a beating
If you have any of the following contrasting traits, you might want to avoid this particular /​peculiar watering hole:
~ You are sensible
I have only felt it appropriate to drink in a Yates twice in my adult life once which was immediately after the world trade centre was destroyed by terrorists and it was the nearest boozer.
The time before was my 16^th birthday where I proceeded to drink a bottle of white wine and chase it down with a bottle of red. Thanks to the lovely traditional Yates’ carpet my purple projectile vom went unnoticed to scary meathead regulars.
Never again!
Avoid, avoid, avoid!

I use to work right next to this place and one phase that my mother always use to say to me sticks out in my head when it comes to this review;
«If you can’t say anything nice Elizabeth, say nothing at all»
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Now, I preface this review by saying I would *not* want to be here of an evening or late night, because that would just be *so* not my scene — I’m already aware of the Leicester Square Yates’s reputation as a meat-​market, and I don’t think that’s ever going to change.
However, I ended up going in here for a drink or two with friends on a civilized Sunday afternoon… and, if I’m honest, it wasn’t bad at all. It’s a big venue, with ample amounts of seating, and… y’know what? It did the job. Drinks are reasonably priced, decent service… for all that, it does what it says on the tin.
So – during the day — it’s not an outlandish idea to ponder here for a drink, particularly if you’re in a largish group. However, it will be a very, very dark day before you see me in here on a Saturday night.

A nice cosy atmosphere with a dance floor if you want to boogie!
Each night is a different theme, with great offers on drinks midweek (my fave is Wednesday evenings when Vodka Red Bull is only £2.99)!
They also serve food, which I have never tried but might next time as they do some good offers!

There was pretty much only one reason I ever went to Yates’s — ladies’ night! I believe it was on Thursdays, ladies drink for half price. With no restrictions, actually half-​price on every drink!
I didn’t go more often because the place was just kind of meh. Lots of gropey guys on the dance floor and most of the time, bad music. However, they do have two stripper poles on the dance floor, and that was usually entertaining to see all the drunken people getting up there and trying to do a sexy pole dance! Bartenders are, for the most part, not so nice, but there were a couple of nice bartenders in there who at least pretended to like their jobs.
Best part of it being in Leicester Square? Falafel is right around the corner!

Before making acquaintance with this pub, I only knew Yates to be the county which housed the golden summer camp of my childhood. Then I discovered that Yates was also a pub. «Oh boy,» I thought, «Maybe Yates pub will be as glorious as my summer camp.»
So, were there ravines whose banks turned into mud slides on days of torrential rain? Were there young boys flirting quasi-​innocently with the girl bunks? Mmmmm, no. There were corporate types drinking in a corporate bar. There were vast rooms with tables and casino-​type machines. This place had less personality than a steak and kidney pie. I mean, it was fine I guess, but absolutely blah. I sipped my drink — vinegar — funny I thought I’d ordered red wine. It looked like the right thing, but wooowheee you wouldn’t have guessed it by taste.
It’s the regular kind of place that one finds in a very touristy area. If I go to Yates again, I’ll stick to the county where I can buy me some delicious Amish-​made pies and not the bar.

I have been in here a few times and althoug it is alright, it certainly is nothing special. If anyhting it is a bit cheesy and the clientele are not the best. It used to be a bit rough and last time I was in there a glass flew past my mates head
Now, however, the bouncers are on the door early and have a scanner. If you want to go in, you need to be carrying ID — either a passport or photocard driving license — which is scanned and stored on their computer. I am never going there again!
First, i do not like to carry ID when out drinking as it can very easily be lost or stolen.
Second, and more importantly, who knows how many people ca access your personal information. Is someone can get a hold of this computer and all this sensitive info, there is a strong possibility that someone could steal your ID nad empty your bank accounts.