The Kings Head — Restaurant in London

A loathsome place with rude, racist door staff. I bought a Groupon voucher which was supposedly for a year's membership including cocktails. Me and my husband attempted to go there within the first few weeks of buying the voucher but were told there was a 'private party' so we were denied entry. The next time we attempted to go, a white couple ahead of us in the queue shared with us that they'd lost their Groupon voucher. Nevertheless they were waived on through. It was a different story for us. We were told that our voucher hadn't been redeemed in time so we couldn't enter. I looked at the fine print on the voucher and it did indeed say it had to be redeemed within 3 months. I tried to negotiate that as we hadn't been before, despite trying, we just wanted to come in this one time, to have a drink and then leave. I got the impression that from the minute the door lady saw me, she expected whatever was coming out of my mouth to be lies. She was extremely disrespectful and I've never been treated as badly by any establishment in my life. When I said I would post a negative online review she threatened me with, "well we have your name and know your face!" Interpret that as you will. She also tried to retain my 'expired' voucher by forcibly holding onto it, perhaps as some kind of 'evidence' (she probably struggles to remember African names). We could also see that the place was completely empty but yet they turned away paying customers for the flimsiest of reasons. I asked to see the manager and was refused. Apparently he was 'too busy' to talk to me. The only conclusion we could come to overall from the experience was that we were treated differently on the basis of our race. Disgusting that anyone should have to endure this kind of treatment in 2018 and in Hackney of all places! If I could leave no stars I would. Avoid...

AVOID MASSIVE FRAUD! Went to The Kinds Head private members club for a friends birthday celebrations. All the staff in the bar are rude and miserable, they'd rather talk to themselves than actually serve customers. I was drinking Gin and Tonic on the evening, when I went to get my next round for myself and my Girlfriend I discovered it had no Gin in, but was Soda Water. I paid over £20 for two Soda Waters, when I complained the barman took a bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin and poured a huge amount into my two glasses in front of me, I tried the drinks again and definitely no Gin. I asked my girlfriend and one of my mates to try, who both confirmed it was Soda Water too. The Barman said if you have a problem go speak to the owner who was sitting over the other side of the bar. I explained what happened and he tried the drink and said it was Gin and If I was saying his bar staff were pouring water instead of spirits I will be asked to leave. I told him the glass definitely had no Gin in it and I'd been conned. Now this is the funny part, when I went back to my friends and explained I was about to be asked to leave because I complained, the apparent "owner" came over and told my friends to try my drinks (the same friends that had already tried the drinks) The barman had leaned over and poured Gin into both glasses. I will be reporting this place to trading standards and I can't believe I am the only person they have done this to. A joke of a club run by rude people, expensive drinks and very poor music and decor. Any private members club that has to sell its memberships on Groupon is hardly...

I visited the Kings head as part of a friends wedding party.

It took us a while to get in as the guy who booked the club was in the last of 3 taxi's to arrive and so a group of us (Including the bride) were waiting around outside what looked like a closed down bar with flaking paint and boarded up windows.

When we finally got in past the door man and the girl on the reception desk there was almost a burlesque/fetish club feel to décor and the people in the entry hall which left us wondering what we were walking into. We got past this into a very cool looking bar and were lead through the bar and up several flights of stairs...

We ended up in one of the private rooms, a slightly crazy looking dining room full of taxidermy, If I remember correctly there was a couple of tigers a lion and a few other things.

A bottle of whisky was ordered for the table by the groom. after it was finished and the beside me who was telling us all how good really heavy peaty Islay malts were asked to get a bottle of either Lagavulin or Laphroaig for the table and was told that Whisky was priced by the shot rather than by the bottle which would make the bottle around £150 at this point he turned funny colours and decided to leave it.

All in all it made for an enjoyable end to the evening in thoroughly surreal...