The Prince Arthur

My friends and I had an absolutely marvellous new year at the price Arthur.

The food was amazing, as were the staff.

They handed out party hats and the DJ had the whole pub dancing.

Definitely a good spot for a yummy dinner and lovely night out.
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Lorna
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 9
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Great food in cheerful price! The combination of house cured Scottish salmon with celearic remoulade compliment each other. Fish and chips was divine! Thick cut of fish in crispy but not oily batter, like the one in Heston Blumenthal 'In Search of Perfection'. Apple crumble and custard made for a hearthy dessert. Well done to Matt, who is the new head chef! We will definitely be back. Just wish that The Prince Arthur is my local pub!
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Phaik Gee Choo
9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Sunday, January 02, 2011

A large group of us had our annual Christmas dinner at the Prince Arthur last night. The food was scrumptious and the service was great - it's a great pub and would highly recommend it. Considering our numbers (28), the food was cooked perfectly every time - especially the Turkey and the Venison. Will definitely be back!
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Emma C
9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Monday, December 13, 2010

Some of this has been said, but just to confirm, The Prince Arthur is a wonderful little pub. It's got everything you'd want from a London local. That it is a proper, in amongst the houses, people's local is the first draw. It has immense character too. A lovely building. It's large enough to have a vibrant atmosphere, but not too big. And the roasts are indeed legendary. Cooked to perfection every time I've eaten one, and I've eaten a fair few... Some great beers too. Love it!
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Chris
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Friday, February 12, 2010

WOW! What a tremendous lunch. My wife and i are local to Hackney and often sample the food at the Prince Arthur. However we not until recently had sunday lunch here. Delicious beef, gorgeous roasties and a yorkie pudd to die for. I recommend anyone that likes a good sunday lunch to visit this wonderful pub.
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Brian
9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

I found this little gem last week in my lunch break. The food was scrumptious, very friendly staff and lovely atmosphere. Will definately be going back soon!
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Rachey100 - View all reviews by this user
8 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Monday, November 30, 2009

I went to lunch here on Sunday and was pretty unimpressed to be fair. The service was decent enough but our roasts were a real disappointment, uncooked vegetables and very ovecooked meat. Was lateish afternoon and felt our meat had sat there for hours, not good enough at £13.50 a pop.
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David Martin
5 Overall rating
Food 4 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 3
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

What a gem! My friends had been raving on about this place to me for a while and I eventually decided to get down their for a meal with the wife and basically fell in love! First thing that hit me was the welcoming atmosphere and the fact that ABBEY ROAD was playing (there are few things that could make me happier when walking into a pub for the first time!). Had a lovely well kept pint of London Pride, the bar man told me that all the ales (only 2, could be more...) are cask conditioned on site, and regularly tasted to make sure they're up to the mark.

We didn't go for starters as we were dining on a budget and the puddings looked too good to be true! I had a mushroom burger (finally! a decent vegetarian main in an east london pub!) with a beautiful onion marmalade and my wife went for the pork belly, which apart from being a little too brown (needs some greens with it, without having to pay for a side order) was beautifully cooked and seasoned.

Dessert was a no-brainer, Sticky Toffee Pudding, with banana ice-cream and toffee sauce, always a winner as far as I'm concerned, and the pudding itself had hints of banana in, absolutely gorgeous!

All in all a great experience, nice setting, great music, lovely food, lovely beer and friendly helpful staff, my one gripe is that it was a little out of my usual price bracket, but hey, you've got to treat yourself once in a while!!!
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Julian Ross
8 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 6
Saturday, October 24, 2009

I went to the Arthur for the first time this weekend just gone, and was more than pleasantly surprised. Lovely pub, lovely staff, lovely food, lovely atmosphere...er, lovely! I turned up unannounced with three friends and - although it was busy - the staff were friendly and found us a table to eat. And eat we did. We plumped for a roast guinea fowl to share between us all, and then got a whole load of side dishes to go with it. There's something really nice about getting a whole bird and sharing it like you would at home, but without any of the effort of actually having to cook it yourself. I'm really gutted I don't live closer as I'd love this to be my local, but will definitely be bigging it up to all my east London friends.
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8 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Me and Vics are out on one of our usual treks through town. “It’s been a while since we’ve done industrial” she says

So tonight it’s Three Mills island through the Lee Valley (that’s industrial let me tell you) pick up the regents canal, through Victoria Park and on to London Fields. The plan is usually to end up in a local rather somewhere too obvious. This can be a rough spit and sawdust or something a bit more up market. All part of the adventure. This fell into the latter category. The staff were friendly enough for sure and the locals? Mostly Broadway Market overspill. A mate of mine runs some very successful and well known pubs and trend setting bars in south London. I questioned him about the fact he doesn’t serve food. He explained, “If you can move lots of beer you can make money, I don’t want the hassle of food costs, temperamental chefs and all the rest of it. You have to decide if you are going to be a pub or a restaurant, don’t do both unless you can do both well” This place does both and boy does it make sure it makes a profit. It’s just left the “well” out of the equation. It promised to be a gem. It wasn’t until we paid for the first round that we realised we needed to pawn some jewelry to pay for it. As for the food, I had the wild mushroom risotto. If the chef is not Italian can someone explain the phrase “al-dente” to him? Can someone congratulate the owner on getting away with £11.00 for it? Vic’s lamb was dry served with new potatoes and prepared with little care (got away with £12 for that). Some poor bloke went for the “Spanish olives (purple and green pitted olives marinated with peppers and onions) £3.95 the state of the marinade made me consider the fact that the olives probably left Spain with the conquistadors. This place does well by its monopoly of convenience. Prince Arthur? If I had a Prince Albert I would have felt a rope put through it and led up the garden path. Locals only.
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Steve
3 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 1
Friday, July 17, 2009