The Longroom (Faringdon Craft Beer) Review

Amazing selection of quality craft beers from all over the world. Probably 50 on draught and hundreds more in bottles.

The beer fridges here are filled with stuff you didn't even know you wanted! The building still feels like an old fashioned pub, upstairs is cool, but it gets full!!! Ideal.

If your a fan of craft beer in a relaxed atmosphere then this gem of a pub is for you. One of the largest selection of beers on tap I've seen. This pub is a pub that does not judge how you look but wanted you to enjoy good craft beer.

Great place for one or two pints on the fly since if you want to eat they make you order at the next room that makes delivery to the door. Good selection of labels and very accurate tapping.

Limited seating space (so there's always a big overflow of people outside), but an excellent selection of beers and ales, both local and imported.

Another great pub opened by the same people behind Cask in pimlico. This pub offers a fantastic range of ales and keg beer, along with a bottle selection to match. It is quite expensive, but you do get a fantastic range. This is not a Greene King pub anymore (as the google tags suggest).

There's no food apart from a few reasonable bar snacks, but you are surrounded by lots of places you can get food to eat.

Great beer selection but not much else. No atmosphere. No decent food.

good staff and a great place to watch the world go by.

My favourite member of the Craft Beer chain - it is always a bit busy but the bar is fast and there is plenty of space upstairs. The bar snacks are dependable and the surrounding area has a good range of other food options

A wide, varied, changing range of interesting ales especially IPAs. Outside is the bustling Leather Lane market (weekdays at least) with a fab selection of street food. Pilau Pot tandoori wraps recommended - the silver truck at end of street.

Great selection of beers and ales. Bartenders are knowledge of what's on tap. Excellent atmosphere. Will go back again.

Quite beer house with one of the largest selection of craft beers you can find in London. The selection changes constantly so it's worth coming back from time to time to see what's new.

It seems quite small downstairs but there's another floor with more tables upstairs. It's quite busy during the week as people from nearby offices stop by but relatively quite during the weekend.

Nice staff behind the bar, despite being very busy on a Thursday night! Great atmosphere and even a little beer garden on the street to get out of the hot crowded bar.

Really bad service, the "assistant manager" make me pay 7.90 for a pint of kernel..then she was "pretty sure" she give the change back .but she did not,,, looking over at me as suspicious.. not polite and total shameless behaviour, totally unacceptable..

Always a good selection of new beers and old favourites.

Massive selection of beers. With a nice range of ales and craft beer

Get some burger from singtong and a beer from there and you'll have a nice time

Great selection of beers however when I visited a few of the drinks that were on offer had already run out. This was during opening week so there's a chance that they were slightly busier than normal.

They have a small terrace available on the street to allow some al freshco drinking and when the sun goes down you can retire to the basement where there is plenty of seating area available.

There's a wide range of drinks covering all tastes and budgets and the serving sizes make it perfect for sampling a number of different beers. It's well worth a visit

Well run bar with lots of good choices, around 25 taps, that are well chosen. I visited late on a Tuesday, and the place was loud and sticky and felt like a wrap up of a corporate group event. The bartender was apologetic of the mess.

It is a narrow modern bar with seating along the edges of the room. Beautiful mirrored ceiling and chandelier added a classic touch.

It was not my favorite of the Craft Beer emporiums around town that went to Covent Garden, but a great place to visit for people looking for a great Craft beer experience.

The staff where very friendly. And the beer normaly good. But got served a bad one.. no refund.

Just like the other Craft Beer Co. Pubs around London. It has exactly what you need, a good selection of varied beers that change regularly, plenty of tables and music that the bar staff change depending on the vibe. My only issue is that it is so similar to the other ones! So if you want an independent pub with character then this pub isn't for you. If you want a tasty beer in a friendly environment then it is.

Good selection of beers. Staff friendly and knowledgeable. Nice place to hang around. Prices are correct for drinks. Never tried the food.

Probably the vest Craft pub in London. 14 hand pump beers with at least the she on keg. Knowledgeable, friendly staff superb!!!!

Another great visit with a really good selection of

Great pub with friendly staff and they always have a wide and varied beer selection on, which changes all the time. Good for the proper beer lovers.

It's an OK pub, nothing too bad, nothing too great.

Fantastic selection of beers, ales etc, perhaps a little pricey but the choice makes up for that! The actual bar as a place is nice and the staff are friendly. Well located too.

Wonderfull selection of craft beers. Highly recommended.

Huge selection of beers on tap and bottles from around the world. You will be spoilt for choice!

Also make sure you grab a pork pie, they are fantastic!

Great choice of crafts. nice atmosphere. Friendly and helpful staff. Big space which is super cool for big groups. Lovely location. Enjoy drinks there time by time with my love.

Excellent choice of craft beer and knowledgeable bar staff

One of my new favorite places in London - this place has an enormous selection of beers. Charming and witty bartenders who make you feel very welcome. Not much for food unfortunately but that's not why you come here.

Awesome bar with knowledgeable staff and a fantastic selection of beers

The place is always full of locals. The ambiance is very cool and relaxing, service is great, and the staffs are all friendly, attentive, and knowledgeable to all the beers that they offered, and they can also give you a few samples of all the beers for you to taste and choose the beers that you want. It is definitely a cool and perfect spot, and certainly worth stopping. You should definitely go back!

Lots of craft beer and some bloody good scotch eggs

Great selection of beers (including Beavertown), plus awesome bar food - pork pies, scotch eggs and sausage rolls.

Incredibly large selection of beers (check out one of the official photos with all the beers on tap). There are mirrors on the ceiling and on the wall so it feels bright and spacious on a sunny day. It's a shame they don't offer food apart from Scotch egg and crisps, otherwise I imagine it would be a lot busier than they are currently. I'm not a Scotch egg fan normally but I was impressed by theirs! And if they spend a bit of money doing up their sofas and chairs it would feel a lot more premium and they could justify charging more (but then of course we don't want to pay more)!

Great choice very knowledgeable bar maid. Can I say that.

Great beer selection, but compare to other pubs of this chain, this one looks bit dated and dirty.

Came in on a Thursday night, rather unwelcoming on entry despite being quiet - directed to table from someone behind the bar, lighting overly bright and a tad sterile. Women's bathrooms were unclean with smears on the walls of either vomit or something else.... left after one drink as a result. Decent beer but expensive compared to equivalent establishments poured in such a manner most carbonation was lost. So much for the beer mecca this used to be...

Great variety of beer on tap but this come with prices quite a lot above the London average.

If you like real ale you have to go here absolutely fabulous choice of Ales in the hear of the East end

It's a beers its staff are friendly, it's clientele are too...

Great little pub lacking the in your face ponciness (and suits) of many London craft beer outfits and feeling like a proper boozer. Pricey but happily spent an hour here alone despite it being packed. Friendly, attentive, bearded barmen.

Nice pub to hang out after the office. It gets pretty crowded but beers are good.

The staff here are always friendly and helpful, and will offer a sample and a chat about what's on tap---which is always changing. When a lot of places near here are closed on weekends, it's usually busy but not full if you pass by on a weekend afternoon.

Top pub. Plenty of cask and keg beers, with friendly staff and an amazing old fashioned mirrored ceiling.

Great beers which change regularly.friendly staff who know their beers.quieter at weekends.an oasis.

About 30 beers on tap and a lot more in the fridge. Worth a visit for the beer enthusiast.
Especially appreciate that there's imperial stouts, barleywines, trappists, and other tasty stuff beyond the lager.

A tad pricey but great selection! Try the strawberry cider!

Great selection, friendly staff. Not too crowded on a weekend mid afternoon.

The selection of beers here are incredible, but limited seating space

The pineapple and rhubarb ciders are very tasty. Try them!

Excellent beer selection and I only wish I'd been able to try the pies.

Great selection of beers, food could do with a revamp

Great customer service and beer.
I think everyone can find something for themself from large variety of crafts they have

I love this pub and travel past hundreds of others (honestly) to get here. The beer's not cheap but there's always something worth drinking.

Cool little pub serving... Well you guessed it craft beer! As well as craft cider and the usual range of soft drinks and spirits. Only issue is it's pretty cramped - even with ~20 people in there it felt full... I'll go back but maybe in summer when standing outside isn't quite so chilly.

Great beers, friendly staff. Lots of different drinks to choose from. I will definitely be back.

Great selection of beers as usual and knowledgable staff.

Incredible selection of craft brews, knowledgeable friendly staff and a choice of quiet seating upstairs or atmospheric bar at ground level.

A fantastic pub with the widest selection of craft beers I have ever seen. Always great to visit and try something new

Good range of interesting craft beers at daft prices. And no stools at the bar, so there.

Apparently this place gets really busy at times, but when it's quiet in the afternoon? I don't expect to be this uncomfortable in an empty pub.

If you want to try some interesting beers, this could be your place. If you want a pub, no. Someone in da management has fixed, bossy and irritating views.

If you do go, a tip. The ragingly expensive craft beers from round the world are on the left. The normal beers are on the right. I assume the helpful young lady behind the bar thought I wanted a ragingly expensive craft beer because it was where I was standing... I got to taste several before we picked one I like. Made the seven quid a pint fair enough, if you can afford seven quid.

Amazing cask conditioning skills, never an off flavour in the beers! Knowledgeable staff, huge beer selection, local beers and guest tap takeovers. Old boozer atmosphere, with a few (cold) pub snacks to enjoy. Great venue!

Great selection of beers. Comfy seats and booths. They are super friendly behind the bar and you can usually have a taste of a beer before you decide. Wine selection and G&Ts also good if you're not a beer drinker. But the craft selection is why you should go.

A traditional London pub...revived by sheer volume of real ales / craft beer available and an adventurous bottled selection. Can get busy with office workers early evenings. Lunchtimevis a much quieter vibe. Rightly has leaning towards vast range of London brewers.

Fantastic craft beer selection, great atmosphere and friendly attentive staff, plus you can grab a posh burger from across the road and bring it in. What more could you want from a pub?

Nice place great food, atmosphere, and staff. Prices good too.

For me a pub has to tick a few different boxes. Firstly the beer has to be good. Tick, the beer here is excellent. Fantastic choices... However, another box a pub has to tick is atmosphere and service. For me here is the problem. After visiting the pub on a relatively quiet lunchtime I was told I could not sit at the bar because the owner was 'funny' about it. Normally that would be fine if there was some place else to sit, but since all the other tables were taken I would have been forced to share with a stranger or stand in the middle of the pub on my own! Frankly all I wanted was to enjoy a quiet pint and not have to listen to someone else's conversation or intrude in other people's space. For me this pub fails completely on this alone. Sorry, not for me. Very pretentious attitude, not from the bar-staff but from the management. Not an enjoyable experience that I would ever want to revisit or encourage through my patronage. I'm sure all the locals and people who like this pub will hate on this review, and that's fine, I can see the potential, but this was my first and last impression of the venue and frankly, we didn't hit it off.