Historical version 8 of Founders Arms, SE1 9JH (view current version)
- 52 Hopton Street (map of this place)
- SE1 9JH
- Brewery: Young's
- Nearby Tube stops: Blackfriars
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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
Where and how clean the toilets are, is there a public phone, can you book rooms, etc.
Other Reviews
Young’s house, great riverbank location near the Tate Modern, tables outside, mostly very pleasant bar staff. Manager truculent, aggressive, and best avoided.
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.
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.