Hop Poles

"Large bar with lots of seating options. Good selection of beers and spirits, and friendly barstaff. Can be busy when the Apollo has a big event on, but clears out pretty quickly after the rush."

"Pretty good spot, I've been there a few times. I was looking for a ' sports bar' which they bill themselves as, but I only saw one tv on sports, the rest were showing ads. There was a picture of the pizza on another review which made me order it, but I was a bit disappointed by the flavour. It was a bit undone, but definitely a good oven. I'll still go back, but might look at street places first."

"Horrendous. Avoid! We reserved a table for dinner before going to the Apollo for my brother's birthday. The service was appauling, the rudeness of the bar staff was unreal - having my food slammed down without a word was a real highlight! None of the food apps work, over 3/4 of the menu was unavailable, and what turned up was poor quality. The £2.50 topping on the mac and cheese was 3 pieces of cold beef, the burger was swimming in water with half the ingredients listed in it missing (they also had no veggie burgers at all, so it was already missing the main element!) and it was all luke warm at best. Made even worse as we had waited over 45 minutes for it! I have since emailed and had no response, wish I never paid but we were in a rush to make our show on time as the poor service made us 30 mins late. Save your money and eat elsewhere! Avoid avoid avoid!"

"Been many years since I've been to the Hop Poles. It will be many years since I'll try it again. I am visiting from the States and took family here on our first day back in London for lunch. Half the menu wasn't available. Same with the bottles of wine, not bottles of Chardonnay for sale in the pub. Food took 40 odd minutes to come out. Then the burgers on our order are done to a beer matt consistency, my mother in law from Illinois thought it was hilarious. My loaded pepperoni pizza came out looking like this. Loaded….? After waiting for so long and being brought such disappointing food i took the pizza straight back and asked for a refund on my credit card but no one had the refund code behind the bar so they had to call someone to get it. Ended up giving the £10 back for the pizza rather than refund the card Should have gone to the poxy Wetherspoons across the road. Avoid."

"Extremely disappointing experience. During our short trip to London we've decided to have a lunch at Hop Poles at Hammersmith. The variety of dishes in the menu has attracted us, but we found out that approximately 70% of it was not available. When the order was made, the waiter brought us couple of glasses along with a cocktail pitcher, but the glasses were extremely dirty. I asked the waiter to change them, but the ones that he brought were not better at all. My chicken battered burger was substituted with the frilled chicken one, both burgers had no flavor, the buns were absolutely dismal, loaded fries (with bacon&cheese) were dry and unsalted. I would never recommend this place, especially due to staff's cool and ungracios attitude."