The Court

The Court is a nice pub. I come here when I am working in London for lunch. They have a decent menu but you have to order and pay at the bar. The bar tenders are nice and knowledgeable. The food is very good with a fair selection. I had to learn how to eat and order here. First take a table, then select your food and remember your table number, proceed to the bar to order and pay, return to table, and finally food is delivered to the table.
I really enjoy the look of this place and it does have good food for London. I have not been able to enter this place during it’s peak evening hours. The pub is very busy with people hanging out of all doors. They also have some tables outside for eating and drinking patrons.

I often go here after dominating my football match and expect a delicious meal to support my massive muscular body and I am always left disappointed. Now I mainly just drink to give my muscles the energy they deserve, however lately they have stopped all offers on drinks apart from the «4 shots for 6 pounds» which doesn’t help the muscle. The Court losing the respect of a dominating man is disrespectful to mankind, put some offers on and help the world out.
PS
The Barman could do with losing a few pounds and barmaids could flirt a bit more.

Great place and very friendly to American’s (like me) who are clueless on proper pub protocol.
Had two meals here during my stay and it was great!

If I could give The Court 0 stars I would.
I went on study abroad in 2008 at UCL and this place was the main hangout spot. Wasn’t that great, but not that bad, and the yellow card was a nice feature. However, I had a major problem with the staff.
I didn’t know, but a friend of mine wasn’t 18, and we were all regulars at The Court. His 18^th came up and he celebrated it there and made the mistake of letting the staff know. There was no mention of a ban or anything, they even let us finish the night. The problem came later. I went back a few days later and the bartenders flat out ignored me. I’d stand at the bar and signal politely to bartenders to try and order something. They would serve people on either side of me but not me, I walked out after like 10 – 15 minutes of this and 1 ignored me after I KNOW I got her attention. Not my loss since I didn’t need to be patronizing them, what with their £4 pints of Guinness and nasty food.
My problem wasn’t necessarily the ban, it was the passive way they went about it. Be straight, tell me to my face I’m banned and I understand. Instead, they wasted my time and made me look like a fool.
The only thing I can recommend The Court for is demolition.

Just went there in the morning for there «Classic» English breakfast. It was fantastic! And absurdly cheap at 2.79 pounds! Go there for this. Seriously, you won’t be disappointed!

The court is your typical student bar — cheapest drinks in the area and cheap food but dont expect quality. If your looking for a cheapish place to go that plays sports and has a fruit machine then this is your place to go!

With inexpensive drinks (many under £2) and two floors of seating, The Court has the feel of a local pub, but a crowd that varies from solo-​drinking locals to loud university students.
Because drinks are easily affordable, this is the type of pub where you can either stay for a while to chat with friends over a pitcher in the many different booths, or pre-​drink before visiting one of the much more expensive clubs in the Soho/​Covent Garden area not too far away.

I like this place for lunch-​a good place to eat for cheap and catch up with friends. I’m not a huge fan of it at night thought, it tends to get a little too crowded for my taste.

Located right next to UCL’s campus, this place is always packed with people.
The food here isn’t bad, but not great either. But then again, London food isn’t great in general. It’s a good place to start the night, and have a few beers before you go hard.

Over a summer working in London, The Court became a second home to about 30 of us. The drinks were good and affordable, and there was enough seating for all of us. I swear we spent more time here than in our actual flats.
The staff were all so fun and generously threw us a 4^th of July bash. I racked up so many fond memories here over the course of a few months. Court will forever have a dear place in my heart: D xxx

This bar is small, hot, and gross.
There are so many great places in the area and this is not one of them. The upstairs is like boiling and the downstairs is very crammed. Don’t take a step into the bathroom or you’ll land in an enormous puddle of urine. This bar is for students that have much lower standards than they should. There are no tables or space and the smell sucks.
If you have any standards, avoid this place.

At night, this place is a definite 2 — It’s impossible to get a table and the music/​décor/​clientele/​smell all suck.
But today, on the hottest day of 2011 so far (ok, it’s March…), I’ve decided that in the daytime, it’s a 4, sitting outside in the sun, with a really cheap pint. So I’ve given it an inbetween 3… Just don’t go at night.

I am taking the court, into court for being so dirty.
I don’t mean the level of cleanliness, b/​c I do LOVE a good dirty pub, but I mean overall atmosphere of the bar = Dirty.
Dirty bar staffignoring their even DIRTIER customers. Maybe my standards were too high, but I was expecting more from the area.
not going back.

Being 22 years old and a recent graduate — I do enjoy a good bar with a significant student population. The Court provides an ample amount of this specific demographic with its close promixity to University residences.
The Court has a significant amount of outdoor patio seating on a very busy intersections right on Tottenham Court Road.
The Court has flat screens that consistently have Sky Sports on for our viewing pleasure.
The Court has pitchers (4 pints) of beers for £10.10 (a random amount indeed)
The afore mentioned positives of this establishment coupled with the hordes of students that populate its booths, tables, and bar area, essentially makes The Court a location that embodies everything a young person needs to have a good time.

It’s a pub with beer, and I like pubs *and* beer: 3.5 stars.
Douche-​y clientele; big groups of 20 year old dudes getting wasted: -.5 stars
Gruff security dudes (necessary because of the yobs above, to be fair): –1 star.
Thus, a 2 star sort of place. Nothing terribly wrong with it, but nothing terribly right about it either.

So many evenings spent here watching football, watching pitchers disappear, and generally enjoying the good prices and good vibes of the Court. It’s close to several university dorms, like LSE and UCL, so the student population is quite high, especially on game nights. Best to arrive early for a table… and sign up for the free yellow card for discounts on pitchers.

If you are a student, can get a Yellow Card, and are not accompanied by people who are about to judge you: welcome to what your wallet will call «Heaven».
The crowd mix is eclectic at best, or a plain definition of the chaos theory. I’ve never been able to pinpoint but two characteristics: studenty and pretty hammered. Which is kinda all you need to know.
If, on the other hand, you are there to spend money at the full rate or are over the age of 21 please do yourself a favour and seek out a calmer and classier bay to drop your anchor. Unless picking up students (freshers in particular) is your cuppa tea, in which case be my guest. I’ll wait for you in Potion.

Kind of like Chili’s for UCL students, with cheap beers and decent food if you’re drunk and hungry. The beef burger was like a hockey puck, but the veggie burger with fries was actually pretty good. I’d order it again for 4 GBP.
And, of course, the yellow card – your ticket to cheap pitchers of Carling beer to share. I recommend ordering 2 or 3 pitchers at a time on a Friday or Saturday night, because the bar wait is insane.

The Court is a good place to enjoy a meal and the company of some semi-​obnoxious UCL students enjoying a rip-​roaring cheap pint good time. There are a few televisions with different games going on and the crowd is actually really friendly.
The food here was good and also very affordable (I think it was less than £10 for a couple of pints and Fish and Chips), and they have some good offers on meals (buy one, get one free-​type) during certain hours. It’s nice that there is outdoor seating, although they don’t allow you sit outside after a certain hour for some reason.
I really enjoyed how friendly the bartenders were (they also seem to know many of the students and regular patrons by face or name), and of course it’s probably a very typical London experience, so well worth visiting at least once, although I doubt you’ll be able to resist visiting again.

So many memories have gone down at The Court.
Soooooo many memories.
Nicknamed the «yellow pub» — since it’s part of a chain of pubs which hand out these yellow cards which give you discounts on certain drinks etc — this is where I would often come with my old roommates. We came here mostly because there was always such a random, diverse group of young people inside (since The Court is so close to University housing etc — there was always a good sprinkling of college students — as well as cute tourists etc.)
I have particularly fond memories of The Court because it’s where I first met my then boyfriend. It was at The Court where I would recruit his friends to help me with my math homework as I sipped on Strongbow. It was The Court where I would go my roommates to laugh about the week. And it was at The Court where my ex and I so appropriately met up — after his own «court hearing» due to a minor embarrassing incident of drunk public urination (def another story for another time… or maybe there’s never a good time to tell this story).
So yeah — if you’re in the area, and looking for a fun casual place to go to meet people or bring a group of friends — The Court is worth a visit. It’s by no means a destination spot — and you can actually get cheaper drinks down the road at the local pub (still trying to figure out the name of it!), but it’s a place I will always remember with a smile.
It’s a place where alot of memories have and can go down.