The Globe Reviews Summary

Staff Service

Pros:

• "Excellent staff."
• "The staff was friendly and efficient!"
• "Great pub, with friendly and knowledgeable staff who genuinely look to give good service."
• "All the staff was super friendly and very attentive/professional."
• "The staff were incredibly helpful and friendly."
• "The staff are welcoming and friendly."
• "Staff were so friendly and service was quick!"

Cons:

• "Below average pub with quite rude staff. My wallet was pick pocketed and the staff including manager were very unhelpful."
• "A different waitress served us but she had a permanent scowl on her face. She was extremely unfriendly and made us feel unwelcome."
• "Great interior - proper pub - but unfortunately suffers from that very common feature of London pubs nowadays: staff who have no idea their job is a customer service role."
• "Service isn't bad but isn't pleasant."
• "The 2 young girls (blonde and foreign brown haired girl) at the bar were constantly messing around and not attending to the customers."
• "Waitress was so incredibly rude I’ve never met such a rude waitress in my life."
• "The staff aren't friendly, take their time to serve and seem to prefer chatting to each other rather than help customers."

Food & Drinks

Pros:

• "Drinks were decent price for Central London."
• "The food was excellent I was recommend the fish and chips and the house ale."
• "I had the ocean fish and chips. Huge portion of fish plus scampi prawns."
• "Good range of beers on tap."
• "Had wild boar, steak and ale and also roast vegetables pie. All three simply delicious, pipping hot and very big portions."
• "The food was delicious (especially the sticky toffee pudding - yum!)"
• "Good beer selection (better in the back bar, especially bottles)."

Cons:

• "The music is SO loud."
• "Only reason I didn't give 5 * was that our nachos with pulled beef topping was stone cold and my partners ham, egg & chips was only luke warm."
• "Nice enough pub with outside space but not impressed being served a watered down drink with cheap juice."
• "Food was of decent quality however was expensive for the portion size."
• "Not impressed being served a watered down drink with cheap juice."
• "Slow, bored and disinterested service from an overstaffed bar crew."
• "2 rounds, 2 different prices, 1 much more expensive. They refunded the difference when I showed them the receipts however it seems like they are trying to overcharge people who they feel may not notice after a drink."

Ambiance & Location

Pros:

• "A traditional London local in a building that looks like it dates from the 1960s, with amazingly cheap drinks."
• "Lovely, spacious pub with plenty of room for all the thirsty drinkers in the City."
• "A great social hub for this part of London, just off the Barbican development and down from Moorgate tube station."
• "Really convenient place to watch Six nations rugby."
• "A really fab environment and so central."
• "This is a busy, BUSY city pub and it's packed most weeknights with post work drinkers."
• "Lovely traditional pub, right next to Moorgate station."

Cons:

• "Terrible! Asked the manager to make sure we had food quickly as we were really busy and she fobbed me off."
• "Sadly the room we were assigned to was very poorly lit and icy cold."
• "A rowdy, male heavy crowd with loud music in a small space causing raised voices all round, makes the space feel very noisy."
• "It gets busy when people finish work on weekdays and they do play music which I think is unnecessary as it makes it hard to hear your friends speak."
• "If it's sunny, this pub is a popular attraction for people who want to sit on the grass mound outside. Plenty of room outside too, sadly, it can get quite busy."
• "The pub is a little dingy."
• "Some limited heritage features almost hidden by modernised panels and untidy installations."

Special Events & Accessibility

Pros:

• "We held our work Christmas party at the Globe and it was a really great experience!"
• "The manager Matt was also brilliant at helping us plan the logistics of the event."
• "Matt had been brilliant with the planning and set up of the event and the bar staff were amazing on the night."
• "We used one of their private rooms upstairs for a corporate event - great communication and well organised and they really looked us on the night."
• "I'm a wheelchair user, and sometimes that leads to dehumanising experiences... Throughout the time I spent there that evening, staff were kind and helpful, and I was able to just get on with being sociable and relaxed."
• "I'd highly recommend the Globe to anyone that needs a private space for an event in London."
• "Thank you so so much for the use of your facilities as we queued on Saturday to pay our respects to our late Queen."

Cons:

• "Update: I had my backpack stolen here right out from under the table we were crowded around. Watch your things!"
• "I went out with a bunch of friends after work to have a few beers... Later security came in and took my glass of beer from my hand saying I disobeyed the pub rules."
• "Okay for a pub, though I was cut off after one drink having arrived from York, as they had cut individuals in my group off."
• "I'm a wheelchair user, and sometimes that leads to dehumanising experiences. So when I turned up at the Globe to meet some friends and both main entrances had steps, I mentally prepared to have to message everyone and try and find somewhere else to go."