The Magic Garden Reviews Summary

Atmosphere & Ambience

Pros:

• "A wonderful experience as a travellers with kids from Australia. Excellent food, great ambience, great service, friendly staff."
• "Brilliant outside seating area, folly live music and a good atmosphere with plenty of room."
• "Really nice, without being pretentious. Somewhere you could easily see kicking back for a whole day, live music, bbq and children's entertainer... what more do you want - Oh yeah great beer and cocktails!"
• "Fantastic live music and one of the best beer gardens in London, has a real festival vibe."
• "How cool is this place!? Festival atmosphere in the heart of the city."
• "Great vibes here, the staff are friendly and helpful, the garden is truly magical, and the live music is always stand-out!"
• "The garden and general atmosphere are fantastic."

Cons:

• "It felt like we were in some trashy central London club."
• "Dark dingy tacky. Had absolutely no atmosphere at all."
• "Outdoor/garden may have been better for that, but inside just felt run down."
• "Literally the rudest people on earth!!! Also someone should probably clean the toilets / whole place in general is filthy and smelly."
• "Pub itself (inside) felt tacky rather than quirky like the pictures suggest."
• "An expensive and pretty non-magical garden. Very mediocre."
• "The worst experience I've had in London."

Service & Staff

Pros:

• "Majority of the staff are hardworking professionals."
• "The staff were friendly and helpful."
• "Super friendly and welcoming staff."
• "Friendly staff."
• "Kind and fun staff really top it off!"
• "The staff are very friendly, the atmosphere is nice and cosy, and the food is DELICIOUS."
• "The staff are helpful, kind, and approachable."

Cons:

• "The bar staff are way too slow and inattentive."
• "The service was absolutely terrible."
• "Staff were unfriendly and stopped taking orders at 9pm because they didn’t have enough glasses to go around despite many empties around."
• "The drinks service was very slow and the owner was pretty rude so hesitant to come again."
• "Expensive drinks, staff indifferent to guests."
• "The owner is probably the rudest most irrational person I’ve ever come across."
• "Appalling service with rude manager."

Food & Drinks

Pros:

• "Decent selection of drinks at okay prices."
• "We also ordered two fish and chips and were gorgeous... Our favourite side was the minted mushy peas."
• "They do the best bloody Marys!"
• "Lovely food, good coffee, tea & wine & beers."
• "I had the roast beef for my dinner and it is extremely good value and tasted great."
• "The Magic Garden Burger is the best burger I have ever had in my life."
• "The food is delicious! I had the cauliflower burger and it is a work of art."

Cons:

• "The food is typical food that someone can find at a pub (burgers, sandwiches, fish & chips, etc)."
• "Food arrived barely warm and we found pieces of paper in our fries."
• "Long island ice tasted like liquidised lime rind."
• "The beef was like leather."
• "Food there is an overpriced maccies."
• "The food was not what I expected, not very much to choose from and not very detailed on what you actually get."
• "£7 to get it in, then £5.20 for a pint? Urgh."