Charles Lamb

This pub served me the worst roast beef of my life: I had a difficulty cutting the raw and blunt meat. The sides were unspectacular. Costing 13 pounds, one would have expectedmore. I guess the place is fine for beer, but don't order food!!! Angel has so many more better places to eat!

The staff have a seriously bad attitude. We had lunch just once and the food was ok, there are so many brilliant places nearby there is no reason for us to return. Pity because we live locally

Most of the staff are great - really genuinely friendly, attentive and helpful. One or two however are not and can be really rude and inhospitable. And the attitude seems to be spreading to other staff. (Why does this happen to places? Do they forget after a while, and after initial success, that they're in the hospitality business? Do they not actually like customers?) OK, so having said that, the drinks selection is superb, especially if you like interesting British and Belgian beer (and interesting booze of all kinds for that matter). The wines are well selected and not too insanely priced. The various snacks are costly but delicious. I've yet to try the proper food but it looks good (French bistro style). And the building is small, cosy, well and characterfully decked out (the loos have L'Occitane liquid hand soap which is v nice), with lots of pavement tables for the summer (and stoic autumn smokers). I'd still recommend the Lamb but hope that they all soon re-capture their love for what they're doing, because it was positively infectious.