Horniman At Hays

A name that gives you all the jokes and likely not the best place for a first date.
Decent food, good price, and lovely atmosphere around a nice environment near the river!

Great pub right on the Thames! We had the fish and chips, the steak and pale ale pie with mash, and both were great. The portion size was nice and filling as well. Awesome atmosphere, especially around Christmas. We would definitely return!

Very nice pub, one of the best interiors in the neighborhood. High ceilings, beautiful bar and river view. Besides beer they also specialize in gins. So you may have different types with carefully selected flavors and tonic. We haven’t tried food, but the menu looked quite interestin, as for a bar of course.
Will happily be back sometime.

Hey, it’s not too bad. As an American looking for something to eat walking along the river there that’s not gonna be too weird or expensive, it was decent.
We checked out the menus to the other spots in the same center and went with this one. It was around 5−6pm & we were hungry after hitting the tourist sights. We were weirded out when we walked in because there was no host or sign telling you about seating. After making a round around the place, we asked the bar tender for info.
The way it works is you’re supposed to seat yourself, pick your menu choice, & walk back up to the bar and place your order. You must give the number of your table so the staff knows who to bring it out to. Weird. Different… But it worked.
I ordered the chicken breast burger, it came out with ground beef patties. By the time they fixed the order & it came out, the rest of my table was almost done eating. Sad face.

Good pub, gets very busy but you can book an area. We got stuck by the kitchen as they were a bit dissorganised but still pretty good and nice location

Really cute underground bar — the cocktails are delicious and have a good variety. Can get very busy at peek post work times but provides a nice buzz and atmosphere. Be warned meet your friends before you go in as no signal inside. Haven’t tried the food myself but have heard good things about it.

Try somewhere else as there is plenty of better around. Fish was once frozen and tasted soggy when cooked, and chips must of been sitting under a hot plate for a long time. This pub must up its game or down its prices!

Don’t go here.
Service is slow. But that’s ok. But they don’t observe that you came first. They literally ignore it.
Don’t come here. Please.
They have to learn.

Had average scampi — other people had food that looked better but mine was a small, boring portion. It was also quite dark and gloomy, which wasn’t great as we partly went there as it was on the riverside and felt summery.
My friends later saw a mouse after I left.

Two stars for the view
One star for the reasonable prices
But that’s it. Nothing special about this place. Drinks food service.

Good pub atmosphere at lunch time and very busy.
Meals are small portions, not particularly tasty and expensive. The burger is okay though.
If you have the time I would recommend walking to the nearby Horseshoe pub.

The food and the drinks are pretty good i mostly go there for the beautiful view of the thames

Nice pub. Traditional, tasteful décor and a lively, friendly vibe. That’s what makes the place.
Right on the river too, which will make it a winner, no doubt in the Summer.
The staff, however, seemed surly and indifferent. Food was average and slightly over-​priced.

So if you’ve read any of my past reviews, you’ll see I’m a bit nutty about London. One of things I LOVE about it is that sunny afternoon where you’re just in the mood for a nice relaxing glass of wine with friends by the sparkling river, catching some rays and people-​watching (if that was a sport, I would finally be classed as athletic!) Right by London Bridge is one of my new fave spots to do this. So perfectly situated is Horniman at Hays.
This particular trip we couldn’t find an outside spot (it was just too popular!) so we plumped for a table inside — a good second choice considering how nice the inside is! Filled with tables on different mezzanine levels, it reminded me a little bit of Hogwarts with all the staircases (you know in that hall where they all move?) but this just adds to the charm I think. We decided to accompany our drinks (typical London Bridge price) with some nachos and chicken wings to nibble on — again good price and really nice afternoon snacks. All in all, you can’t moan with a life like this!

In a nutshell — it’s a pub. In a larger nutshell — it’s a pub that is close to my office — so I do find myself there quite a few times. On a sunny day you can enjoy your glass of Pinot Grigio overlooking the river and feeling the light breeze on your face. On a cold winter night — they have heaters in the same area — and it is as nice nevertheless.
I’ve had a couple of meals here and all were to a good pub standard — nothing exceptional but not bad either. Service is pretty quick — even on a Friday night — they are quite efficient there, despite of the place often getting extremely crowded.
What good about it is its location. If you happen to work nearby — then it’s a good place to have a few drinks before hitting some other, more ‘hip’ place either in the City or West.

Nice place to grab a quick beer afterwork, but never really stayed long enough to see what it’s like for an evening, the view is great overlooking the river and nice outside area (which will be nice when we get that one or so of summer this year). Some of the draft beers are rather strange but I’d recommend the doombar but suggest you stay away from the juipur, which was too tart for my liking.

The main reason I come here isn’t really for the pub itself. The pub is nice enough. there are drinks and lights and seating like any other pub.
The prices are standard, as is the service. The alcoholic treats are of good quality, but the food is average and the bar is always a little bit past too crowded.
But what brings me here is none of these things. What brings me here is the view from the garden out front.
Battleships. Great big metal battleships. And they are awesome.
Someday I will steal one and invade Belgium. (Jokes…)

LOOOOVE THE NAME
Love the view
Love the drinks — not too £££$$$
They can take their time serving though, and food can also take a while to come.

Fast wären wir einfach an dieser Schönheit vorbei gelaufen. Horniman musste ich mir von innen anschauen. So einen tollen Pub habe ich noch nie gesehen.
Von außen glänzt dieser nur so, tritt man in die gute Stube ein, ändert sich nicht wirklich was. Meine Frage nach einem Foto wird nicht verneint. Leider wird die Aufnahme zu dunkelauf der Homepage von Horniman at Hays erkennt man dienPracht –Pub viel besser. Gerne hätte ich dort ein lokales Bierchen, natürlich, gezwitschert
Ein kurzer Blick auf auf die britischen Zapfhähne verriet eine gute Auswahl. Dir Parkmöglichkeiten sind recht beschränkt, da dieser Pub direkt in einer Fußgängerzone an der Themse liegt. In London per se sollte man wirklich das Underground-​System ausnutzen.

An adequate pub as you trudge along the south bank of the Thames on your way to Tower bridge. Nice wide selection of beers on tap. Many choices of seating type. We came on a cold winter day and it was fairly busy (if poorly heated). I’m sure this place is a tourist zoo during good weather.

While walking towards Tower Bridge, I was hungry and I saw a neat looking green pub. It looked like an Irish pub near my workplace, so I decided to go inside. I went inside and a lady brought me a menu and I kinda laughed at myself because of the name of the place. Okay, I’m at a pub, and I don’t drink alcohol and I’m one of those people who like to eat healthy most of the time. I kept my promise, and I ordered a traditional English ploughman’s lunch. I wasn’t expecting anything spectacular because the ploughman’s lunch came with just bread, cheese, apple, tomato, avocado. celery, egg, and a salad. Although the ingredients were fresh, the dish just tasted really quite bland and I probably should have order some greasy fish and chips instead.