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They serve food. As of November 2008, there's an entire pie menu, with a selection of pies all at £8 including peas plus a choice of mash (lightly seasoned, wholegrain mustard, horseradish, spring onion, or cheddar) and gravy (wild mushroom, balsamic onion, or traditional). All the mashes and gravies are vegetarian, but there's only one vegetarian pie (peppered mushroom and cheddar). Other pie options include beef and red wine, fisherman's pie, and melton mowbray (pork pie with dressed salad, red apple, chutney, coleslaw, and bread and butter - don't know if you get the mash etc with this one).
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A pub in the Broadway Shopping Centre near Hammersmith Station.

Kake visited on a Sunday afternoon in November 2008. It was fairly empty when I arrived a little before 4pm, but by the time I left a couple of hours later all the seats were taken. The only beer on handpump was Greene King IPA, though they did have Old Speckled Hen on tap (not handpull). I had a pint of Strongbow (£3).

Although there's a flatscreen, it was silent on this occasion. Piped music was playing instead, at a level that allowed it to be ignored in favour of conversation.

They serve food. As of November 2008, there's an entire pie menu, with a selection of pies all at £8 including peas plus a choice of mash (lightly easoned, wholegrain mustard, horseradish, spring onion, or cheddar) and gravy (wild mushroom, balsamic onion, or traditional). All the mashes and gravies are vegetarian, but there's only one vegetarian pie (peppered mushroom and cheddar). Other pie options include beef and red wine, fisherman's pie, and melton mowbray (pork pie with dressed salad, red apple, chutney, coleslaw, and bread and butter - don't know if you get the mash etc with this one).

There's also a regular menu, with starters priced between £2.15 (garlic bread) and £3 (e.g. salmon bites) and mains priced between £5.75 (roast beef yorkshire wrap; hot roast beef wrapped in a large yorkshire pudding with chips and stuff on the side) and £7.20 (cheese and bacon burger with chips, salad, and coleslaw). There are only two vegetarian options; smoky three-bean chilli (£6.45 including rice and sour cream) and vegetable enchilada (£6.45). They also do baguettes at £3.85 and jacket potatoes from £3.75.

I tried the salmon bites (£3) photo, which were advertised as coming with red pepper and chilli dipping sauce, but actually came with sour cream. They were fine; almost certainly straight from packet to deep-fryer, but they were fried competently, and the salad on the side was dressed.

This isn't really a pub with much character, but it's very handy for meeting people from the station as it's easy to find. It does have some outside seating, on a sort of patio thing set into the shopping centre. A sign seen in November 2008 advertised karaoke every Thursday from 8:30pm to 11pm.

Accessibility: No steps to get in. There's a sign on the door saying to ask staff for assistance, possibly because the doors are a little heavy. There's a toilet marked "disabled" next to the ladies', and there is step-free access to this. Gents' is up a flight of stairs.

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Last visited by Kake, 2 November 2008.

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