The Green Man, Fitzrovia  fancyapint.com rated pub, rated3 pints - click for an explanation of our ratings

location:

Fitzrovia

address:

36 Riding House Street, W1W 7ES

phone:

0871 258 7350*
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nearest stations:

Goodge Street London Underground station
(360m) - zone 1

Oxford Circus London Underground station
(460m) - zone 1

Great Portland Street London Underground station
(610m) - zone 1

Warren Street London Underground station
(620m) - zone 1

Tottenham Court Road London Underground station
(640m) - zone 1

how to find it:

From Oxford Circus, walk north on Regent Street until you reach All Souls church. Riding House Street is the right turn just before the church. Follow it along for about five minutes and the pub is on the right, just past the Kings Arms.

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nearby attraction(s):

The Langham (320m)

The Photographer's Gallery (450m)

Young Vic Theatre (490m)

picture of Green Man
Previously a rather anonymous pub, this one has been tidied up and relaunched and is all the better for it. Its main point of interest is now its devotion to cider - they are usually at least eight variations on tap listed on their board above the bar, not to mention the many bottled options - both cider and perry. Safe to say then, that the Green Man has replaced Chimes as London's top spot for cider fans (all rather befitting for a pub with a name so redolent of countryside traditions). However, this one isn't geared at middle aged exiles from Ambridge: the feel to this one is fresh and contemporary, with the CD choices and free music papers more familiar to the bars of E1 than the pubs of W1. With fairly solid pub grub to soak up the often over 7% strength of the ciders on offer, we're pleased to see a pub trying to do something different and succeeding.

reviewed:
06/07/2009
reviewed by jack

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music DJ - click for explanationjukebox

second opinion:

posted by PeterG - Tuesday 11th November, 2008, 3:44pm
Couldn't agree more. A potentially excellent pub spoiled by hipster retards who are too busy spending their parents money on expensive trucker hats they forget that in pubs customers like to get served. The last straw was when I had bangers and mash here. 50 minutes later and stone cold. Needless to say i got my money back and have never returned! The Fitzroy Tavern - now there's a good local.
posted by dave - Tuesday 26th August, 2008, 4:25pm
recently renovated and themed as a cider house. very nicely done but the place is ruined by the painfully style conscious staff. The problem is that they don't like serving drinks. they are the slowest I have ever seen and are quite surly. no matter how many people are waiting to be served they refuse to move any faster or to cut short their conversations with each other (perhaps comparing outfits or swapping tips on vintage t-shirts and tight jeans). it's actually amazing to watch for a minute or two but very irritating when you're waiting to buy a drink. i've been quite a few times as I work nearby and it really feels like they resent having to serve you. a shame because it's a very nice pub.
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click to visit the randomness guidesRandomness - for an alternative point of view, see The Green Man's review on the Randomness guide to London.
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