Very beautiful English pub, lovely customer service. The guys are really friendly. We eat there on Sunday and the food was great. There was a lot of choice, including vegetarian. We ll be there again so soon. Thanks to the staff.
I'm reviewing the pub, not the hotel. The Sunday roast we had was great, and lots of choice (including several high quality veggie and vegan options). Also I like the pub itself - high Windows, nice decor. The bar staff were also friendly and helpful. Only complaint concerns a member of (I guess more senior staff) who greets and directs people when they enter. He comes across pretty stressy and seems to have set up some weird table reservation system to tier people entering that seemed excessive for a pub atmosphere.
Food was ok in here. Better pubs in Stoke Newington
Food and service here is always terrific. We've had a number of different meals and drinks and it's consistently great. Living in the area we'll continue to come here!
Don't ever order a Taylor Walker House Platter !!!!! It's sooo s ..t
Beautiful pub, good food, average beer, Quiz not up to standard.
This restaurant is doubtless one of the most pleasant restaurants in the neighborhood. Always when I visit this place I am incredibly pleased. They maintain their high level service and the highest level of food they give. You can never go wrong with this restaurant. Warmly recommended.
Nice place not for fancy food but great environment!
Not at all good. For drinking maybe ok. But the food is rubbish. I liked alot this pub but the quality has gone down drastically. Don't eat here. I won't ever again
A really nice winter pub that's never really drawn me in for the summer. I think I'm finding a theme in my reviews in that standing on corners of busy roads aren't really my thing. In the winter though, when you're determined to stay in doors and avoid the cold and dark afternoons and evenings then the two fire places in this pub really allow you to settle in for the day.
The food is good but not very memorable, they do an above average roast on a Sunday but I'm not sure that my rating of average is on par with anyone else's; I've only had three or four roasts that I really rate and none of them were by my mum even (sorry mum).
Staff are friendly and there's a dog or two who frequent regularly.
Sat down and asked for menus and were ignored by staff for 10 minutes while waiting. This was at a time when the pub was not busy and the staff were all standing by the bar doing very little, pouring the occasional drink or serving the occasional plate of food. No need to come here, the staff here don't take their customers seriously.
Great choice of beer, good wine list, superb food, nice crowd.
Lovely food and staff. A cash free venue. Would definitely visit again
This used to be my local when I only lived a minute down the road. Food has always been good and we ended up coming him near enough every night for the first week when we first moved to the area before we got the kitchen sorted. Over the year I think we tried everything off the menu and were never disappointed.
They have a good weekly quiz night on but make sure you have a good team as it does get quite difficult and questions very obscure.
We also ended up holding a mini birthday gathering there, managed to get a small area for 25 people and they really looked after us all night and we ended staying to the early hours. (Visit - 02/06/2014 Dinner)
Wow! So I stayed here as part of a wedding and the rooms were amazing and so was the owner. Only down side was the noise from the pub after 11pm on a Friday night was loud, we were on the first floor so this was to be expected just didn't realise how loud it would be. I would recommend ear plugs if your on the first floor. The breakfast was lovely! Would stay here again in a heartbeat! Thank you for such a lovely stay!!
Great pub, friendly, good beer selection, still has character.
We ordered 4 pork roasts and 1 beef roast.
After 20 minutes 1 pork and 1 beef roast appeared, the beef roast had a giant greasy hair running through the red cabbage, as such we sent it back. Another 15 minutes passed and the beef roast reappeared minus 1 hair. The other 3 of us were still waiting for our food to arrive, at this point the girl with the roast pork had already finished as her food was going to go cold otherwise and was sitting for the rest of the meal with an empty plate.
We asked the bar staff 3 times over the course of 20 minutes when the other roasts were arriving, always getting the same answer "it will be there in 1 minute". When the other 3 roasts finally arrived, after 1 pork was already finished and the now hairless beef was half way done, one of the 3 porks arrived with yet another greasy hair in it!
The roasts themselves were luke warm and the ingredients felt like something you'd find at a green king or wetherspoons. My particular highlight was the Yorkshire pudding tasting like they'd been battered, never had that before, certainly don't want it again.
All in all avoid Sunday roasts here like the plague, thankfully the manager did take a good portion of the bill off without us asking as it was obvious how poor the food had been. That being said he didn't actually mention he was doing it just sent someone else to deal with our bill, think he'd probably had enough of me giving him an earful by that point.
Real shame as we've had lunch here before and it was delicious, a great tagliatelle I think. But I won't be coming back after that shambles.
Nice chimney and love the building. Friendly staff and good food
Went there for a Sunday Lunch. Very nice for the price. Warm and welcoming Staff with attention to most details.
Nice pub. But really poor Sunday roasts... Unless you like overdone meat soaked in gravy...
Lovely pub. Nice staff. Good beer. Seating on the street, food, and big wine list.
Nice old school pub. Staff were very friendly. Place has a nice feel about it.
Great rooms for a reasonable price, the owner is very cool and has great stories. He can give you the inside scoop on how London operates
Good lunch, had Cumberland sausages and mash, sausages were firm and tasty. Companion had half chicken, got thumbs up. Pleasant atmosphere, Victorian decor, lots of wood. Taking COVID seriously. Child friendly.
Had a pie and it was great! My friend took the German sausages and it taste good and it was well presented. Beers are good. Overall a nice place to stay with friends or families.
Warm, family friendly atmosphere. Great selection of beers as well.
Nice enough pub although it closed rather suddenly with no apology, explanation or even last orders: we all had to drink up in a hurry and get out on the street to call an uber... odd.
Hi good pub nice atmosphere unfortunately flat pint of beer not to my taste also bit dingy
Typical English pub, good selection of beers but not craft. Pub food but good quality. Relaxed atmosphere and mixed clientele (few young people). Overall a good place to eat and spend a quiet evening with friends.
Food was nice, as described on the menu, although not quite hot enough for me personally. Friendly, happy staff even with full tables being relayed at a rate of knots!
We just had one quick drink here while we waited to go to the Town Hall across the road for a wedding. It seemed a nice place and the staff were friendly.
It's the second time we go there for lunch and the food is great. The best French fries ever. Excellent service and attention to customers. Today our order got mixed up and we received what we did not order but they have apologised and looked after us. Mistakes happen and when you look the way they deal with them, you get an idea if the place has proper standards. They definitely do and I highly recommend the place not only for drinks, but for proper meals too.
Sat outside with a couple of beers watching the world pass by, perfect.
Nice, spacious pub with good beers on tap. Recommend checking out the nearby cemetery too if you fancy walking off the beer!
Very friendly helpful staff...clean...nice breakfast ...what more do you want.....
Another English tavern I did not find anything special to highlight ...
If you do not take cash for a pint of beer it would be good business practice to advertise this before the pint is poured. Otherwise I have wasted my time, and you have wasted a pint of beer.
Beer was terrible, flat, no taste, no wonder the place was empty.
Food stops a bit early other than that its a prefect little place.
Friendly and spacious pub with a great selection of ales. It's opposite a wedding venue so there's usually some very cheery people in here during the day at weekends!
It's okay food was good not enough sitting because of Covid
Nice weather and good company helped. In any case, the staff there was very friendly, good selection of beers and cocktails, perfect location, far from crowd and drunk people.
Staff here made me feel at home, which 9000 miles away. Simply wonderful.
Beautiful, stylish, clean and very friendly place. It has a fab heated terrace and great pub downstairs. Delicious breakfast served with smile. It has wonderful bathroom and I slept there like a baby. I wish I could stay there longer. It is in a gorgeous area - Stoke, near Finsbury Park, the underground is 20 minutes away, but its a lovely, peaceful walk, but there are also buses from across the street.
Cosy, dog friendly, good food, great location and friendly staff.
An institution in the Stokey area with an incredible vibe. Ales not always great, it probably needs slightly more experienced staff but I cannot give less than 5 stars regardless.
About the pub: no cash payments! Friendly staff, nice building and drink range. Like many pubs one finds old and broken toilet seat in gents' despite all the money it must turn over.
overpriced and bland food. visited on a sunday and seemed to be appallingly managed. would avoid
Really nice old school pub with a good selection of beers and chess night on Mondays.
Great food, great service, lovely pub. Old flag stone floor and open fires... One can imagine the travellers from a bygone age stopping over on their route north in their coach and horses.
Totally incompetent staff under the overwhelmed Laura and her corpulent assistant Caitlin...It's either ridiculously hot or freezing cold. Over priced food & drink...
Good beer selection good atmosphere. Food looked and smelt amazing.
A brilliant place to stay. The staff, especially the guest house manager, couldn't do enough for us, nothing was too much trouble. Very comfortable clean room, with a great breakfast provided the next day, with lots to choose from. I can recommend this and would definately stay there again.
Great Sunday roasts, love can beers and great wines
Cosy little pub with real open fire. Old school interior makes it feel even cosier. Beer selection is ok but a bit old school. Gets very busy on Thursday/Friday evenings as a lot of local school teachers and young families all get in there from about 4.30!
We didn't want to leave! This place is a must visit if you're after a warm welcome regardless whether you're just here for a drink and a meal in the pub or staying in the hotel above. We stayed for two nights in the double room with a giant More
Stayed this weekend bed/breakfast . Excellent service and breakfast great choice and nothing too much trouble- could not fault it.
Fab pub with a traditional slash Art Deco wooded interior. The long bar is prominent with friendly staff behind. A fire place sits I. The right hand corner of the open, rap-around seating area.
Really nice pub with great people. Not a great choice for vegetarians but that's not it's purpose.
Traditional English pub on a great spot in Stoke Newington. Good pub food and always welcoming staff.
A really nice pub. Really lovely staff. Delicious food. Great ambience.
Lovely pub, very relaxing with a wood fire. Great food, good wine and tasty cocktails.
A little over a year ago, the Rose & Crown decided to go "cashless".
Remember kids: "No Cash Accepted" is just code for "No Poor People Allowed". It's an objective fact that the poor, disabled, elderly, and minorities are vastly more likely to be "underbanked" and therefore rely upon cash for their day-to-day needs. This is why many municipalities around the world have been making moves to ensure that businesses must be able to accept cash payments. "No Cash Accepted" is inherently discriminatory, and to claim otherwise is deeply disingenuous at best.
The staff were really unhelpful and unaccomodating and quite rude. I went with my girlfriend and her friends for a sunday lunch and frankly had a seriously sub par experience. We had booked 2 tables and had asked to be seated outside. Neither of these were outside. When we arrived we asked if it was possible for the tables to be next to each other so we could at least interact and the man who I assume was the manager was rude and flatly denied to even help despite the fact the table next to us was empty for almost the entirety of our meal. One of our group has a nut allergy and he was also rude and unhelpful about this. On top of all of this the food was frankly average. The lamb was medium well at best and I suspect the potatoes were deep fried (they were very very oily and not crispy at all). When we asked for some plates for the birthday cake they simply never came back to tell us this wasn't possible. When we ordered we assumed that we would be running a tab since we had booked a table to eat. Instead they made us pay the minute they arrived with our drinks and weren't even friendly about this.
Overall would not reccomend this pub, they dont even have many beers on tap besides the basics. The service was some of the worst I've experienced in a long time (and I have worked in the hospitality industry for 5 years at this point).
Service: 2/5
Food: 3/5
Ambiance: 3/5
Drinks selection: 3/5
