The Green Man, Soho, London

Yes it’s shabby, has too many TV’s and is no way trendy. But it’s very cheap, especially considering it’s Soho location.

A bottle of (drinkable) rose wine was £6.50. SIX-FIFTY. A bottle of vinegary-tasting white wine in a bar in nearby Poland St was £16.

So it’s not nice. But for anyone on a budget (perfect for students), it’s a good place to get tipsy before heading off to a much nicer Soho bar.

A bit shabby inside, but always rather full on the weekends due to its excellent location just off Oxford Street. Its just your average pub and really not worth going to as there are so many better pubs around the area, EXCEPT if you want to watch live sports.

This is one of the only pubs in the Oxford Street area that shows live sports, so its a perfect place to retreat to if the missus is out maxing your credit cards while that all-important Man Utd vs Liverpool game is going on!

Pretty poor in nearly every dark, dirty, over-screened, volume-amped, boozehead, flairless way a pub can be. There are TVs everywhere you look; last night they were showing NFL from Fox, much to the whooping delight of the gang at the table in the middle of the pub.

They’d forgotten to re-stock the bar with the by-the-glass red wine I wanted, and although they went to the cellar for more it was freezing cold.

Give it a miss unless you’re a group of men, already three sheets to the wind and jabbering nonsense, and looking to watch the footie. They seem to be the main clientele.

A pub that’s grotty in the wrong way. It looks like it was refurbished in the 80s but hasn’t been maintained since. The toilets, in particular, were in a poor state of repair as tiles were falling off the walls and some of the loos themselves were even falling apart.

Service is nothing special either. I was served by a surly french barmaid last night who barely made the effort to make eye contact with her customers and went about her duties as if she was doing them under duress.

Purely for those who don’t care where they have their drinks as long as those drinks contain alcohol.

The Green Man served just for a quick one on the way to another pub.
I found it terrible! Yes, its quite big and the interior is OK. It was noisy and dirty.
I got Pedigree from one of the two working handpumps and it was very cloudy. The barman only changed it with a hostile look - no word. My question, whether the second beer (as it was weaker) had the same price, only send me the same look, just a little more intensive.
It was hard to find a place that was not wet and dirty - same with the toilets.
Disgusting place!

It’s a solid 3 for the Green Man, which is a handy pub just off the Oxford Street 'drag’ (and isn’t it a drag at times?). It’s a decent sized boozer, which sells a decent range of drinks at reasonable prices. It’s open late, it shows sport on big screens & it has a pool table. It does pub fare.

Stylish it is not, and nor will it ever be. However, it’s a good place to go for a bit of respite from the madness of shopping on a Saturday and to catch the footy results. Not somewhere I’d head as a destination pub to watch a match - but handy to know about if you are meeting people in town.

A pub where there is a great ambiance to watch the footie! If you are supporting the right team of course. Although it was quite mixed and everybody amazingly behaved…
The green man is easy to find, central and great to meet up with some mates and scream about goals while staring at one of their massive screens. The barman is flirty and funny, the bear is quite cheap and it really looks like an english pub with an international twist.
The food looked good and affordable as well but I didn’t have the chance to try. Too busy screaming against Italy!

tightly related to football, the green man is the ideal place to go with a large group to cheer your team up.
it is quite resorted, since food and drinks are so cheap that it attracts loads of young and working class people. How great are these no-frill places? I love them.
pints float around the two pints, wine is cheap as well. There is even music in given days from 10pm on. However, at this stage having a seat will be just a daydream, and it becomes noisy.
green man is ideal for after-work reunions, football matches and booze-ups

The Green Man **shakes head**, a bar of reputation, predominantly bad. Just off Oxford Street, sitting in trendy Soho is a dreadful bar that harks back to the small town feel and attitude of the horrendous and souless holes littering town centres across the country.

It’s cheap in here, very cheap. Accordingly it’s full of groups of men getting drunk. In darker days one has been known to consume the remarkably cheap wine in here by the bottle. The wine itself is perfectly pleasent, as is the beer and the typical deep fried microwaved pub grub. It’s the atmosphere in here that so dominates.

Big screens, flags, adverts, posters, standing tables and increasingly rude staff make the Green Man a place to avoid. Only large groups of lager swilling men and unfortunate tourists will stumble into here.

The Green Man is one of the cheapest pubs in London. Located on Berwick Street, Soho, it is in an ideal central Location.

The best points are the prices. Bottles of Blossom Hill wine (red, white and rose) with change from £5. Pints for just over £2. Spectacular deals on spirits. This is bargain central. Of course the prices attract a mixed clientele - local office workers, students, tourists and those who just need a drink or two.

Food is standard chain pub grub, but very reasonably priced. A ‘chips and sausage platter’ for £4.99 consisted of 8, fat and meaty sausages and a humongous amount of wedges, baguette and butter - more than a small evening meal for 3!

One word of warning though, the pub is a pick-pockting hotspot, so make use of handbag clips on tables and keep an eye on all belongings. An ideal pub for meeting friends in when money is tight. Nearest tube is Oxford Circus. Friendly bar staff and seasonal drinks offers (for St Patricks Day, Australia Day etc)

A loud place, this bar is popular as it has the cheapest beer and wine of anywhere in Soho.

If you don’t mind loud, boystrous people, jostling for places with no seats left if you arrive after 6pm, this is the place.

The food is decent, well cooked and cheap so for anyone on a budget, this is the place to go.

I like being able to relax in a pub. After all, that’s the whole point of going, isn’t it? In this case it was to watch the Arsenal / Wigan match on a Sunday afternoon.

The pub house about 8 different tvs in it. Some of them showing the rugby (and later Crufts!), and some of them showing what was actually a pretty dull game.

So what on earth was wrong with the pub? Well, we felt like we were being watched by the beer police.

We weren’t allowed to sit at the bar. So we moved. Then we weren’t allowed to stand at one end of the bar. Then we moved back to the bar and were asked to move again. The bar wasn’t even that busy.

When we finally did get settled, I gave my friend his birthday present. Part of which was chocolate brownie and a some Haribo. We were asked not to open our sweets in the bar. They’re sweets for goodness sake. We’d have ordered food, but we weren’t allowed to eat at the bar.

After all this, how were we meant to relax? It’s not the worst pub in the world, but it’s not special and we don’t like the service. Even the friendly flirty barman didn’t make up for it.

We’re not going back.