Ye Olde London

Don’t understand where the bad reviews are coming from — This pub has a fair selection of beers at normal prices for Central London. Service was quick and friendly and you can order at the bar or sometimes at your table. Food (we all had Big Ben Burger) was also good. Nothing spectacular, but certainly solid.

Das Echo in den Bewertungen ist ja durchaus gemischt, ich kann nur sagen, wir waren sehr zufrieden.
Recht urig eingerichteter Pub, das Personal ist gut auf Zack, das Bier schmeckt. Was wir besonders gut fanden, waren die gemischten Platten, die man fast so wie Tapas einfach mitten auf den Tisch stellt und jeder nimmt sich, was er mag. Wir hatten kleine Mini-​Burger mit dabei, kleine Fish & Chips Häppchen, Chicken-​Wingsund so eine Art Wraps mit pikanter Füllung.
Das alles wirklich lecker und wir kommen bestimmt wieder, von daher: Absolute Empfehlung!

My husband and I stopped in here after lots of walking, ready to have a late weekday lunch.
No major issues or stand outs here, but it definitely did the trick. The pub was clean, and our food and beers came out quickly. Maybe things were a little overpriced, but I am not sure. We got the Taylor Walker Favourites Platter (£13.49), which included two burger sliders, two minced beef pie, two battered cod pieces, chips, mushy peas, tartare sauce, and ale BBQ sauce. It definitely did the trick.
I guess their beer selection is only mediocre, but their Guinness was spot on.

Just like others have mentioned, this spot if ok but nothing great or special. I ordered a pot pie &I to be honest, it kind of reminded me of a TV dinner pot pie sold in grocery stores back in the US. My bf had a chicken burger which was nice and light but not that flavorful or memorable. There was only 1 woman working the entire floor and bar so the service wasn’t top notch but what can you expect when a restaurant only has one person running the front of house. It looks nice and cozy inside and the food is filling without feeling super heavy after but again, nothing memorable. If you’re very hungry, eat here because it’ll fill the hole in your stomach but if you can hold out, I’d personally wait to eat at another spot. I’d normally give 3 starts for a spot like this but since there was only 1 server & she was trying hard to be on top of her job, she’s earning another star for the restaurant.

Highlights:
— a really cool squirrel out the back
— 3 flavours of peanuts
— a small beer garden that you wouldn’t expect
— TVs for sport
Lowlights:
— beer selection
— staff (mainly the manager)
— staff are weirdly possessive over pool table
— the manager

Just finished a tour of St Paul’s and found this pub. Quiet and decent service, limited local beers outside the major brands. I am enjoying a an Otter Bitter, quite nice. Pricey but what do you expect. You’re in London. Nit planning to eat buy folks look happy with recognizable pub food.

We popped by Ye Olde London for lunch during my husband’s quest for the ultimate Fish and Chips. The chips were great but the fish was a little lack luster since the fish was over cooked. I had a Pot Pie, but their wasn’t much flavor. The service is only ok. However, it is quite a spacious restaurant if you have a large party. It is also conveniently located next to St. Paul’s Cathedral.

After wondering around St Paul’s for ages trying to find a drinking establishment on a cold winter’s night, my exhausted legs could take no more… trekking from pub to pub, what was my result? — no room at the inn! …or even worse, a lone chair in the middle of the pub (hardly convenient for 2). After several attempts, there was indeed light at the end of the tunnel (hurrah) — Ye Olde London pub! A warm, cosy place for the evening — with Christmas cheer, drinks galore and wonderful music! What more could you ask for?!

Nice pub and saved us from our miserable Big Bus tour. Pints were reasonable with a nice selection on tap. Child friendly for the baby who was well behaved while we took a break.
They were also kind saying it was not a problem to bring our sandwich from Gregg’s in. While we didn’t oblige it was quite nice to offer.

What a strange place this is! We stopped in, knowing full well that it was a chain, but, desperate for some curry (none of the surrounding establishments had any on their menus). It’s basically identical to N. America’s TGIFridays restaurant chain, but, UK style.
There was no one in the place but it looked in shambles as a huge party had just cleared out. Music was so loud we had to yell to be heard… eventually asked them to turn it down (which lasted approx. 15 min. until they turned it back up again).
Mediocre beer selection, but, one can get by. The food wasn’t half bad — huge portions, decent flavor — quite reasonable for the money.
However, what was most noteworthy was the abysmal service. The waiter only had our table and couldn’t even get that right. He forgot to tell the chefs about one entrée, so, two came out and the third had to be quickly prepared after the fact. The two that came out were missing major components. When we pointed this out to him he studied the menu to make sure we weren’t lying. Seriously, why on earth would a party of three diners make up a story about a curry entrée missing it’s chutney? Seems like an unlikely scam… even for tourists.
Waiter made multiple trips back and forth to the kitchen to sort out aforementioned errors. To top it off he was painfully slow and a bit rude… am beginning to understand why tipping servers isn’t as popular in the UK as it is in the US.
Despite the issues, we were able to get a solid meal at Ye Olde London — a lot of food and beer at a fair price. I wouldn’t go out of my way for this place, but, in a pinch, it will do.
Overall score would be 2.5 if Unilocal allowed half scores.

Pretty average. A tourist trap.

I’ve eaten here before, once in 2008 and now just a couple of days ago.
Ye Olde London is very much alike all of the pubs in central London, often crowded, and great Fish and Chips. I have not experienced the problems which other people are writing about in their reviews during both of my visits.

It’s 2012, your waiters can’t treat the public like that and get away with it. Avoid.

I popped into Ye Olde London while on a monumental day of touring and walking through London. For the time I spent having a pint and then a tea, I was not displeased. Portions of food that passed me by looked generous and tasty, the cider selection was standard, they had Costa coffee and tea, and they left me in peace to pour over my map and rest my weary soul and soles.
I wandered downstairs for the loo, and while I didn’t linger long, enjoyed the atmosphere I found down there as well. Staff was friendly and checked on me often, though I did notice occasionally people were left waiting (the restaurant began to fill up as I sat) and a few got up and left.
It was certainly not a notable or distinct place, but nothing overtly horrifying to make me regret my visit. Given that it’s along a major street for walking from the Tower to St. Paul’s (whose bright idea was it to walk that far? And not a cycle hire to be seen!), it’s not a bad spot to stop in.

Man, I thought that my friend recommended this place to me, but it turns out that what he had recommended was Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese… Do I wish I had made this mistake? No, hell no. Do I wish that I wasn’t so darn racist thinking that the British name everything «Ye Olde»? Yeah, probably.
This place is horrible. We sat down, looked at the menu and then made eye contact with the bartender and several waitresses until I realized that they were not going to talk to me. They were busy speaking Russian (Not that there is anything wrong with that) behind the bar. Finally, I just stood up and went to the bar to order. I realized that everyone was doing this, but the waitresses were all busy doing their side work when they could have at least acknowledged us.
The beer we ordered came out of these hand pump taps which were cool to look at. The beer, however, tasted like dish water. But it was hand pumped dish water…
I ordered some kind of fish, chips and sausage sampler. What came was sausage, bread, nachos and wings. Totally the wrong order, but I wasn’t in the mood to deal with Ivan. When I went to pay, what I had actually ordered was on the bill. I told him that it was wrong and he apologized. I then had to tell him that what I ordered was more expensive than what I got and wanted to pay for what I ate. He then blankly stared at me for what seemed like a John Wayne minute. I don’t care if you’re in the mob, I’m not paying an extra 4 pounds for midget chicken wings.
This is probably the worst pub in the entire country of London. Every person that comes here should be ready to experience the worst service and food ever. I would rather be holed up in the Tower of London for 7 years living off of toilet waterthan ever have to come here again.
I thought about giving this place 2 stars because I liked the staircase, but then another Russian guy (nothing wrong with being Russian) came out of the kitchen with a hair net and glared at me. Then I thought about giving the place 2 stars because he was wearing a green hair net, but you know what? I hate green.

At first I was walking with a deep deep thirst through the City on a Saturday.
We’d had a few free Carlsbergs and needed something to take the taste away.
We walked in here, and walked right out.
The smell of wee comes from downstairs.
Fruit machines and cold lagers dominate the walls.
It’s terrifying. All I could think about was the film «This is England». And not in a good way.
I did suggest that something called «Ye Olde London» was going to be terrible.

Nice, traditional little pub between St. Paul’s and Fleet Street. Regardless its real age it looks quite old and it is cosy and nice.
It seems still to have a real resident landlord (not some ignorant French student) who knows his drinks, is quite friendly without that stupid honey-​sweet but stupid smile you often find nowadays.
Choice of drinks normal. Food available.
A good original place.