The Rose & Crown Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "The service is spot on, simple friendly and welcoming."
• "Staff are attentive, friendly and make you feel like it's your living room."
• "Efficient and friendly service."
• "The bar staff were also friendly and helpful."
• "The staff were absolutely lovely and couldn't do enough for us."
• "The staff is always super friendly."
• "Staff super friendly and welcoming."

Cons:

• "Lunch today was lacking in service and quality of food."
• "Sat down and asked for menus and were ignored by staff for 10 minutes while waiting."
• "They couldn't even be nice to us on the most basic level."
• "Totally incompetent staff under the overwhelmed Laura and her corpulent assistant Caitlin."
• "The man I can only assume was the manager was snappy and rude to us without any cause."
• "I was 'served' tonight by the most rude 'lady'."
• "Incompetent staff, very rude to the customers."

Food

Pros:

• "Food was nice, as described on the menu."
• "The Sunday roast we had was great, and lots of choice."
• "Tasty lamb roast with all the trimmings."
• "Brilliant pub atmosphere, friendly staff, great food."
• "The food is simple tasty and more than affordable, unlike some other venues in the surrounding area!"
• "Food and service here is always terrific."
• "A really good lunch. Excellent Bavette Steak with some great skin-on skinny fries."

Cons:

• "Chicken Burger: definitely not worth for the price. Ordinary."
• "Sunday Roasts nothing really special."
• "Terrible service, long hairs in two of the meals."
• "But the food is rubbish."
• "The lamb was medium well at best and I suspect the potatoes were deep fried (they were very very oily and not crispy at all)."
• "The lamb was like eating shoe leather and the pork was pretty much the same never again would I eat here."
• "Vegan burger: just not good. Tasted very basic."

Ambience & Location

Pros:

• "It is in a gorgeous area - Stoke, near Finsbury Park, the underground is 20 minutes away, but its a lovely, peaceful walk, but there are also buses from across the street."
• "One of Stokey’s best pubs."
• "Lovely old wood panelled pub with real fires and candles to create a cosy atmosphere."
• "Cosy little pub with real open fire."
• "A nice pub, looks super old in a good way."
• "Beautiful flagstone floors, a huge wooden bar & candles on the tables all gave this pub a warm welcoming feel."
• "Fab pub with a traditional slash Art Deco wooded interior."

Cons:

• "The actual joint itself needs a bit of love."
• "Only downside, it is a little bit cramped, a lot tables very close together and not much space."
• "A bit dingy on the inside."
• "Only downside as others have mentioned is the noise."
• "Only down side is the noise from the pub below, the Suite is on the first floor so Friday and Saturday night were very loud."
• "A lot of traffic noise outside."
• "No tube stations close by."

Accommodation

Pros:

• "The rooms were beautifully decorated and very comfortable."
• "Max welcomed us warmly and showed us to a very pleasant room."
• "A brilliant place to stay."
• "The rooms are very nice with real, sturdy furniture, excellent bathroom fixtures and comfortable and clean beds."
• "Comfortable and clean room for our one night stay."
• "Amazing place to stay we had the suite also if u stay there is a roof terrace which is a nice touch… would stay again if in area… bed was one of the comfiest iv been in away from home."
• "We stayed for two nights in the double room with a giant bed (super king?) and a spacious bath, which made our trip very memorable."

Cons:

• "The place keeps its 1920's charm, but is being ruined by the reservation system."
• "The lamb was like eating shoe leather and the pork was pretty much the same never again would I eat here."
• "Our room was very tastefully decorated and the perfect base for seeing Beyonce at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium."
• "The room has air conditioning and a comfy sette."
• "Everything was exceptionally clean and well looked after."
• "The guest room was charming, comfortable, well appointed, and clean."
• "It has wonderful bathroom and I slept there like a baby."