Good deals with food including drinks. Descent choice of beers. Good venue for a beer and food, served quite fast.
Hesseh S.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Tividale, United Kingdom
Excellant Weatherspoons on High Holburn. At 5 on a day wasn’t too full got served quickly with food and ale at a very reasonable price. Fairly standard W layout and décor.
Jennifer F.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
This is a pub where you can meet up with friends or co-workers for a drink. I loved how big and spacious the pub is. There is plenty of seating, and servers to make sure you weren’t waiting long for a drink. My group of friends meet here once a month, so someone always pre-books a table for us. It is a Weatherspoon, so everything is cheap and cheerful. They had a wonderful variety of beers to taste. Try Devil’s Backbone(IPA)! However, I can’t say much about the food thought. I had the Tennessee Burger and it was very… «meh» If you can’t find a space on the ground floor, try checking downstairs for more room.
Klara L.
Rating des Ortes: 4 Prague, Czech Republic
I enjoyed the JD Wetherspoon chain pubs in England for their favorable menus(like burger + beer for 5,95GBP). I visited this one on many occasions and always liked the interior(carpets on the floor, bookshelves, .) as well as food and drinks.
Michelle C.
Rating des Ortes: 4 Anaheim, CA
Okay, definitely not known for their customer service but most of their employees are fairly pleasant. A great neighborhood spot. Delicious food, good beers, fairly priced. Only negative is that they always ran out of the craft cans. They need to keep the bar better stocked.
Kenny C.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Brooklyn, NY
A decent enough sports bar with American«craft» beers, and a backyard smoking area. Beers are reasonably priced, and you get a varied crowd.
Mital P.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
It’s a Wetherspoon which means it’s never going to be great but it won’t disappoint either Decent atmosphere, good prices but the basement area has a weird layout that doesn’t work well for larger groups
Leighton S.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
A JDW, somewhere between American truck stop and old, wood-paneled library. An interesting place. There is a quite expansive ‘cellar bar’ as well, so make sure you don’t miss that. About 12 casks on offer plus the typical Spoons kegs and bottles. And the typical food. Prices are on the upper range for Spoonies(2.70 quid per pint of cask beer). Nice enough ambiance. Worth a quick visit.
Barnab
Rating des Ortes: 3 Manchester, United Kingdom
Reasonable Wetherspoons but nothing special. Always pretty busy and the beer is not much cheaper than other pubs in the area, which pretty much defeats the point of a ‘spoons. Perfectly tolerable place to have a drink but not a destination pub
Streng
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
Alright for a wetherspoons but its really a beer and burger supermarket rather than a pub(which implies some kind of atmosphere)
Lorraine W.
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
One of the better Wetherspoons pubs in the area, and much better than the Shakespeares Head on Kingsway. The Penderels Oak is a large pub so ideal for larger groups and there’s quite a nice Lloyds bar downstairs.
Daisy-may B.
Rating des Ortes: 2 London, United Kingdom
Boring boring boring! This place is huge and characterless, I don’t know what else to say about it. When I came for a drink there were a mixed bunch drinking in there, all pretty drunk and loud… and old. Just another Wetherspoons… Except more expensive, because of it’s location. So many better places to drink in London!
Kylzo L.
Rating des Ortes: 4 Melbourne, Australia
Apparently Unilocal advises me that I am a regular at this venue so in saying that I had better get to reviewing it. Being close to work this pub always is great to pop into for a quick pint, jäger shot or JD(In my case). The drink prices are standard Wetherspoon prices and the food variety goes down as decent pub grub + selection :) The venue itself is rather open and large and has an upstairs and downstairs area with dining tables, bar stools, sofa seats etc and there are large tv screens around the place with sport, news and film clips being played. The staff are friendly but not the friendly type to have a natter with — maybe I am not so regular yet!(I will work on this one and may update my review over the next month lol)
Lysh J.
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
To put it simply, Penderels Oak is a vast weatherspoon set over two floors based in the city. The décor is dark wood and navy blue with a choice of high bar chairs, loungers and intimate tables. The warm, comfortable and cosy layout makes it easy for you to spend the whole night nattering to your friends without looking at the clock. The food is traditional weatherspoons and the price is very cheap! Every Thursday they do a £6.99 curry night which includes a main Indian meal and a drink. Whilst you tuck into to your tasty dinner, you can watch one of the many plasma screens playing the most recent club tracks! I imagine it to be quite busy on a Friday and Saturday, so it advisable for you to reserve your place early. In all, it’s a weatherspoons, so we all know what to expect! However, this one tops the lead for a good local cheap booze up.
Zoe B.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
Despite being a ‘spoons, this is a pretty nice pub with a decent amount of space. A bit dark, and the staff don’t clear up as much as I do when I have worked in bars which can be annoying, but this pub is really convenient when trying to gather large groups because of its size and location.
Matt J.
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
It’s a Wetherspoons. For many of you, that may be enough for you to take this review as read! That said — it’s a pretty good Wetherspoons. The bar is amply staffed, and it’s a *big* venue with lots of tables — even on a busy evening, finding a table is usually not problematic. The location is also impressive, right on High Holborn between Holborn and Chancery Lane tube stations — for anyone in Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury, Holborn or the Inns it’s extremely accessible and a good place to meet. Food is typical ‘spoons fayre. Nothing special whatsoever, but does the job. Drink prices are as competitive as ever, although the specialist Weston’s still cider they had on draught tonight was distinctly unimpressive and didn’t taste well-kept at all. So yeah, it’s a Wetherspoons, but a pretty decent example of the species.
Chris F.
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
My favourite Wetherspoons. What differentiates it from many of the chain is the layout. With lots of different rooms and areas you never quite feel like you are part of the mass intoxication ritual that you can sometimes feel in some of the chain’s other barnsI mean pubs. The pub is set in Penderel House, named after the bloke that hid Charles II in a tree(an Oak tree I would imagine) and helped him escape the roundheads. Morrissey would have approved. He went on to father 12 illegitimate children(Charles.not Morrissey). Princess Diana(and thusly William and Harry) are descendants from the aforementioned b’stards so Penderels Oak is fairly significant in todays Royal family. Bad family tree pun gracefully sidestepped.
Bel
Rating des Ortes: 1 London, United Kingdom
I work very close by and for many, this is the local watering hole. Not my style though and –even as Weatherspoons go — as mundane as they come. All that is missing to make this equal to the dingy, ‘traditional’ pubs one used to associate with London, is the smoke With the variety of excellent pubs in the area, you can definitely give this one a skip!
Sinj
Rating des Ortes: 3 London, United Kingdom
Been here a few times as its very close to my office in Holborn. Its the standard JD mix. Once you have ben in one you have been in them all. That said the staf are nice and the food is ok and if you go 12ish you will get served quickly so you wont have to scoff your food down to get back to work inside the hour mark lol.
Guybta
Rating des Ortes: 4 London, United Kingdom
Afraid I have to disagree with phil and andrew here The Penderel’s Oak is a pretty decent watering hole with a good range of cheap beers, no rubbish music and niceish décor. It’s not toooo chavvy either — just make sure you get a booth where you can’t see or hear any that might come in. Always a danger to go to with any friends you might have who are fans of strong ciders such as westons I almost got pressured into having a second pint of it the other night. that would have been a BIG mistake.