The Old Pack Horse, Chiswick — Restaurant in London

Thai food in a pub –Really, how good can it be if its cooked out of a pub (not a common occurrence in Van)? I came here with a few coworkers, partially hoping to be pleasantly surprised, moreso looking for failure and wanting to be the voice that said “I knew there couldn’t have been good Thai food hiding back here”. But honestly? I’m stepping down from my soapbox – cuz its pretty damn good.

I walked through the dark wooden interior of the pub to get to the back where the Thai resto is – which transformed into a brightly lit and modern interior, with lots of windows and a skylight, making everything more relaxed and breatheable, if that makes sense. All dishes are £7.50 (for both eat in and takeaway), so I ended up trying the Pad Thai. It’s a boring choice, I know, but I had food poisoning (sorry, TMI) and needed to stick with something light. The noodles weren’t stuck together or mushy, you get 6 large crunchy prawns, the flavour was good and I was struggling to finish my plate. Everyone else ordered different curries + rice, veg stir fries, or fried rice. They all seemed pretty happy with their choices, and as much as I wanted to dig into their plates, the professional side of me decided it was – well, unprofessional to do so. So I will have to come back here.

A tip on ordering: Their takeaway menu has about 25 main dishes, and 10 starters listed (which all slide in under £5). Its got your standard fried noodle dishes, stir fries, and curries with rice. But, this only makes up about 70% (I think) of what they actually offer! Take a peek at the black wall, because that is a list of their full menu. Yes boys and girls, it has a larger selection starters, soups, seafood & specialties (which aren’t even listed on the takeaway menu), and I bet several other rice / noodle dishes. I think the resto must have only listed their most popular dishes for ease. Understandable, but damn – I am definitely coming back here to try their other items. The catch? You probably won’t know what those dishes are unless you google the names, or ask the staff (which might be a pain for them). There aren’t any descriptions, only the Thai names. I say come with a group of friends, and order a bunch of dishes you aren’t familiar with with.

Also, this place makes it easy for you to order ahead of time, which is handy for large lunch groups rushing to get back to work. Fill out their order form, and email it in a day beforehand. Just make sure you bring the form with you, because they call the dishes out by number, and none of us actually remembered what...

Im rating temporarily 1 so that this is noticed.

I'm a regular at this pub for a year now, and I bring all my friends here to boast about how lovely the staff is, how beautiful the pub looks, and how I have made good friends randomly.

This review is about a new female member (or I haven't seen her till now because I generally don't come in on Sundays) of the staff on the evening of 25th August. My friends and I couldn't believe how rude and unpleasant this particular person could be. If you don't like people, please don't work at this pub and ruin it for the patrons and other staff.

Right from the time she served us beer because the other wonderful staff had left, she was rude and mumbling over various things. I thought it was a misunderstanding on my part, but she did the same to another man we met at the pub.

Cut to a bit later, we are informed that we need to leave, without even a final closing announcement that is usually done by others. When I ask how much time we have, she says "there is no time you need to leave". When we asked as a pleasant request if there are plastic cups to take the full glasses of beer we have left, she shouted "NO. You need to drink it or leave it, and it's time to leave".

What kind of language and arrogance is this, and that too shouting so loudly when we are mere feet away? No one is here for charity and we arent trouble makers. Heck, we weren't even talking loudly throughout. It was a simple request to which she could have just said she didnt have any plastic cups, and we would have left right away. Thank you for letting my birthday end on such a sour note.

I, and probably every other sane decent person, go to a pub to relax and spread some cheer amicably. We aren't there to make it a hostile argumentative space.

I know this incident doesnt reflect the pub and I have utmost respect for everyone else here. But this lady was just not it. The way she was annoyed with us for just existing even raised the question if she was racist. If you have other problems in life, dont channel it to random people. If you are like this generally, then...

Me and my friends we really like the pub and the staff working there who are always friendly. Last night we decided to try the thai restaurant and we were deeply disappointed. the service was terrible and the food even worst – WE WILL NEVER GO BACK THER AGAIN! To start with we got apprached by the waitress while we were deicding on our drinks, me and one of my friends were considering having quiness however we ere not sure as our other friend fancided some wine. We aked for extra time as we ere not sure what to have. Few minutes later another waitress came to take our order and we asked for a bottle of wine. The first waitress came with 2 pints of quiness and we said to her we did not order that. Then the waitress who was taking our order forced us to have that quiness as otherwise they would have to pay for it. She made us feel bad and although we fancied the bottle of wine we had to have quiness which I hardly touched. Then our starters arrived which were absolutely disgusting! My friends had some dumplings filled with air and I had tom yum soup which looked and tasted horrible! We were very hungry so we decided we will force ourselves to eat it. No one came to check if the food was ok. Then our mains arrived and it went from bad to worst – I asked for my pad thai extra spicy and it came extra sweet while my friends curry was extremely spicy which he could not handle. When the waitress came to the table and she saw my plate almost full she asked if we have finished I replied to her that we did but I could not eat my food as it was really bad – she replied ‘OK’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we decided we won’t speak to the manager as it was pointless – our night was spoiled already and we did not want to make it worst. It is the first time I am writing this kind of review and I would not do it if it wasn’t so bad. This morning I woke up and my stomach feels funny and I only hope it is not food poisoning as the food was not...