Lord Palmerston — Restaurant in London

I've lived around here for years, and this used to be the sort of place where you got what you paid for. It was not flashy or high-quality, but it was a solid, old-fashioned boozer where you could get a cheap ale and some pub grub while watching the football. Now you don't even get that.

In the last few months, new management has wrecked what little quality this pub had. It's constantly understaffed (sometimes just one person serving a full bar), the kitchen has been permanently closed, they have barely half the drinks on tap most days, and it seems like you need a degree in electrical engineering to use the speaker system, because not one member of the team ever knows how to change the feed. It doesn't help that staff turnover is turning over like a washing machine (obviously they're as unhappy as we loyal customers are). It was never fancy to start with, but now it has really gone down the pan, and it shows because people who used to come here all the time now go elsewhere. Meanwhile, the prices just go up and up. I know this isn't the fault of the people who do their best working there; it's the management's problem.

Sadly, if you're after anything more than your third-choice drink served very slowly by underpaid and undervalued staff who don't want to be there anymore than you do, then go to the Chequers instead, a great pub on Walthamstow High Street. It's a bit dearer, but they do good food, it's cosier, the atmosphere is always fun, and they have multiple screens where you can watch live sports with commentary.

I waited a long time before posting this review, because I wanted to give the new era a chance over several visits, but it just...

We hired the private room and booked the buffet for 20 people for my brothers wake.The food was excellent, the service was superb .We had the room for the whole day, to arrange how we liked.We set up the tables ,added tablecloths, and flowers, then left it up to the pubto provide the buffet.There was more than enough good wholesome food, including assorted sandwiches ,fried chicken wings, mini burgers, nachos with guacamole and salsa with sour cream, sausages, onion rings, hunters chicken with chips and chicken gougons.All of it cooked to perfection and served beautifully. We had delicious coffee and drinks from the bar.The staff could not have been more helpful.Thankyou manager and staff for making us so welcome.We would definitely recommend this pub to anyone wanting a good time with good food and helpful service .The only drawback is there was no disabled access to the private room,but the manager was happy to have wheelchair users in the public...

The worst bar meal experience I have ever had for over 20years at a London pub.Many items on the menus were “out of stock” even though we had a 2.00pm Sunday Reservation. Settled for a chip starter to share and had to ask for 4 sets of cutlery. It was supposed to have toppings of chicken,bacon,cheese and sticky barbecue sauce. Very little of each BUT then also NO BARBECUE SAUCE !!!!!! As a main meal, as we could not have our original choices, we resorted to the old faithful Beer battered Cod and Chips with tartare sauce and peas. A beautiful picture on the website and menu What a DISASTER. No jokes, the fish was like a piece of cardboard. It was 7 inches long, 1and a half inches wide and ONE EIGHTH OF AN INCH THICK. And no tartare sauce and when queried was told very rudely that IT WAS OUT OF STOCK. DIGUSTING and I had to pay at the bar when placing the order so didn’t have the option to refuse payment. I will NEVER visit this...