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Young’s house, great riverbank location near the Tate Modern, tables outside, mostly very pleasant bar staff. Manager truculent, aggressive, and best avoided.
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Don't go here any more if you have children! I have visited this pub occasionally; but for the last four years have also make an annual visit on or around the 6th/7th June. A friend and I have one of these days each as a birthday, and a group of us meet (some with children in tow) for a few drinks, and food later on. This year (2004) my friend arrived first, bought 3 bottles of wine, took a table outside. Myself, my wife and daughter (age 12) arrived, and my friend light-heartedly offered my daughter my wife's glass of wine, and a humourless staff-member pounced. I was on my way to get my daughter a coke at the time. Other friends arrived - total 13 adults, 5 children (4 under 5 yrs but well-behaved, not screeching ones). At some point the manager decided he wasn't going to serve us. He wouldn't explain why, beyond saying we were having a children's birthday party, that a minor was drinking alcohol, and that there was a rule that children were not allowed in the bar unless they were eating. It was mine and my friend's 40th birthday: we were planning to eat; we were on the patio, next to the Thames (not in the bar) - but would he listen? Last year we spent about �20 a head; this year we sat at the table finishing the drinks we already had and talking on afterwards (total time approx. 3 hours, 2 hours unserved, but determined not to have the afternoon fully spoiled). And we will not be going back.
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The manager seems to want rapid turnover: fine, but he couldn't think far enough and turned down about �360.00 on one table & some chairs, for about 4 hours a year.
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Drinks

Young's Special, Ordinary, seasonal (Winter Warmer / Waggledance)

Food

Food is on offer

Service and Ambience

Pub is quite light, with plate glass windows facing the Thames

Layout

A single floor, parts of this are on raised platforms. The overall shape of the pub is square, at 45° to the river.

There is also a terrace outside on the river bank.

Facilities

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