The Golden Fleece — Restaurant in London

UPDATE - FAKE MUSIC! The permanently muffled music is NOT MUSIC! IT'S A BACKING TRACK THAT SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC! What a revelation. It's not real music. We spent 2 hrs trying to identify a single song and realised (confirmed by a staff member) it's a Green King audio track to con customers that it's 'lively'. Why? It sounds bloody terrible.

Reliable City pub with good friendly staff usually. Really busy between 5-7pm both inside and out. Men's toilets are very bad and way way too small (4 urinals in a space barely big enough for three and only one battered trap) for the size of the pub. Not sure what they can do about that. Taps not attached to sink etc.

Other than that it's a fairly good pub selling a good range of beers. Plenty of room, a few TVs showing footie without sound with permanently muffled music playing that you can't really identify even though they turn it up later on. Still our 'go to' city pub for meeting up. There's hardly any pubs left in the City these days so you take what you can get. Wouldn't ever eat here with those toilets though -...

My wife, mother, sister and I stumbled upon the Fleece looking for refreshment after a walking tour of Roman London. The pub is a lovely old traditional pub with plenty of seating - not many London city pubs have as much. We sat up behind the bar for some table service lunch. Even for a weekday lunch time we we able to get seated and were served quickly.

The food was great. Every one of us enjoyed our meal and ale. Proper good old English pub far like fish n chips, sausage roll, scotch egg, steak pie. And a dizzying array of drinks available on the menu.

As you enter the pub you see the bar in the center of the room with wood panelling all over the place. It's a very typical old London pub vibe, very welcoming. What is less typical of my memory of London pubs is the quality of the food. They've sure come a long way since I as last back in old Blighty. Everywhere we ate was top notch, the Golden Fleece included.

If you are in the City on business or visiting an attraction like the Amphitheatre or Mithraeum, I definitely recommend the Golden Fleece...

Seemed like a decent enough pub for a quiet drink with the girlfriend. However, I will certainly not be returning here.

I actually have a brain injury which I sustained 10 years ago. This has left me with slight mobility issues (I use a walking stick if I'm traveling far, or having a drink), and my speech is slightly slurred. I knew there was going to be an issue with this by the barmaids expression when I was ordering a drink. I understand that I may look/sound drunk, but she could clearly see I was using a walking stick, and said "don't you think you've had enough to drink?". I explained my situation, and although she apologized, I think it could have been handled a lot better and a bit more sensitively.

We quickly left after the one drink. This was after risking my life going down 40 steps to the toilet. No, they didn't have a disabled toilet...

It would seem this place is not accomodating to us cripples, and in fact, they seem to hate us. I did not enjoy my visit here and would...