re: The Londoner Pub and Grill on sherwood?

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shaft757

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Seriously...how are you tied in with this place? Manager? Brother of an owner? 2nd cousins of the owner?

shaft does his homework ..

sounds like they do .. i am going tonight .. i will report back in this thread in the morning ..

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i am going tonight

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Awesome you can watch the replay of some Champions League matches from earlier today. I am stuck at work with two people on vacation. I should be at Finn's three pints in at this point.

it will take many many many pints to make me watch soccer .. i would prolly frick teech first ..

damn shaft, i didnt want to get chided by a "forumer", chiding me because i didnt read page 2, subheading 7, half way down, in blue ink, right next to the menu button....you get the idea, just being up front

I hear he's one bad motha... watch yo mouth!!!

Gonna go tomorrow night again.
Should be a good crowd. I've heard people talking about the place at work.

Went tonight with some co-workers (2 from Canada). First off the food was very good and I liked the atmosphere. Everyone had fish and chips or Shepperd's Pie and everyone was happy with their food choices. The beer list was nice, not too intimidating like the Chimes or Coves Beer Books can be if you don't know what you want. Unfortunately even though they had Bitburger (my favorite German beer) on the list our waitress came back and said the shipment hadnt arrived yet.

Now on to some of my concerns which mainly revolve around our server. When I first walked in there wasnt anyone at the hostest stand, which must have been a fluke because there were 4-5 employees there the rest of the night. But I wasnt sure if I should seat myself or wait because I didnt really even notice it at first. A few employees were walking around but none seemed very interested in seating me until I stopped one and asked them what was up. Get seated, the rest of my group shows up and our server comes over. I ask for a beer menu and she hands me a printed receipt for all their beers. Ok its the second day open I can understand maybe they dont have beer menus yet.

While Im trying to decie what beer I want one of the younger males working in the place comes to our table to refill water. I ask him if he knows the beer menu to help me make a decision, he says he doesnt "but we have Newcastle and it rocks." Ive never seen someone so excited about a beer you can get at the corner store.

Waitress leaves and comes back to take our orders. This is where the fun began. First guy orders a Vodka and Soda, she had no clue what that was, she asked if it was a beer. Next guy orders a Negra Modelo, again she has no idea what hes talking about. We finally just started pointing to the list she had given us instead of trying to say what we wanted. Drinks took probably 10 min to come out and the waitress seemed like she had never held a tray before. I thought one of the guys was going to be bathing in all our drinks at one point.

She then tries to take our food orders. She asks what the first guy wants to eat, writes it down, asks what he wants to drink, writes it down, asks what he wants to eat, writes it down, asks what he wants to drink, writes it down (no there isnt an extra set of questions there she asked the same questions twice as if she had forgotten she had already asked). We get around the table after a few more instances if this and our orders are in.

As soon as I walked in I noticed the music that was playing, mid 2000s rock. I thought it was an interesting choice but knew there was a juke box and figured it would vary as time when on. The song selection when we first sat down went like this, Linkin Park, Linkin Park, Nickle Back, Nickle Back, 3 Doors Down, Papa Roach, Nickle Back, 3 Doors Down, Papa Roach. At this point one of my co-workers decides to change the music up and drops some cash in to hear a Taylor Swift Song and a Weezer song. Right behind him one of the waiters/hosts/employees walks up and drops some money in as well. Next songs were Deo, Guns and Roses and another power rock song I cant remember. While these are playing hes rocking out at the hostest stand playing his air guitar, and then a little air bass. My co workers song played after 30 min.

Food comes, and as I said it was excellent. Im sad no one at our table got bangers because I really wanted to try them but Ill get them next time.

Finish eating and we ask for the checks at 8:26 we didn't get our credit cards back till 8:55. Granted we did have 6 separate checks but 30 min for from what I could tell our waitresses only table is a bit ridiculous.

Overall the place has promise, good food, good beer selection, good atmosphere and something I cant get anywhere else in town.

Cliffs Notes
*Good Food
*Good Beer once everything is in stock
*Seems like it will be a chill place to hang out

Suggestions
*Train the staff - they need to greet customers, know the food, know the beer
*Dont let waiters hang out in the front of the house
*Dont let the waiters choose the music on the juke box


I plan on going back but im going to give it a few weeks until I do so that maybe the management will have sorted some issues out.