The Old Star in City of London, Westminster

Breakfast in bags, we expected something different for the price

Friendly and knowledgeable. Catered to our needs

The Italian manager was genuinely great, he had amazing recommendations for both food and drinks, very kind with great service, eats and atmosphere

Food is great. Thanks for taking care of us. Ciao!

Lovely service and super cute Italian manager!!

A real English Pub! Sunday Roasts at it‘s best! 🍻

Absolutely wonderful staff and the food was delicious. The Italian manager was humourous. Thank U so much

We wanted to make a 1830 reservation but the earliest available was 1945. We arrived 10 minutes early & the doors were locked on both sides with a server at the bar ignoring multiple people trying to open the doors. We finally got the attention of the wait staff and asked if they were closed as we have waited several hours for our reservation. They said we are closed due to an event. I told them we had a reservation and they said sorry we have an event and can’t serve you tonite. Why would they allow online reservations? By this time it’s almost 8pm and we have to find another option for a busy Saturday nite, not cool.

Don't go here if you want to hear yourself think.the caverns make it impossible not to hear everyone's conversation.staff insisted we give them a table number but they weren't any!!Food edible but nothing to write home about.and beer that was flat and tastless.

Fantastic service, friendly staff (especially the lovely Italian manager) and great decor post renovation. My favourite local pub

Good experience. The Italian manager was the soul of the place.

Very tasty food, a large selection of drinks. Friendly people and a great atmosphere

Fish and chips were great and the drinks were exactly what you are looking for

Enjoyed the fish and chips here. One of the better ones I’ve had in the area. Definitely order the curry sauce. Wicked with fries! My wife enjoyed the BLT. We saw others who had ordered wings, which also looked good. The waiter we had asked about the wings said he wouldn’t recommend them. I read complaints about the wait. We didn’t experience that as we had gone before the rush.

Chicken burger was great, so cripsy the fillet was. Highly recommand it

2nd time dropping by and 2nd time I me there had been, "a problem with the kitchen." Seems as though they'd rather serve drinks than food.

Brilliant - good atmosphere and great food! Italian manager was super!!

Roast dinner was a disgrace! Stone cold. How beef can be rock hard and full of lumps of fat is a mystery?? The worst roast potatoes, rock hard a terrible taste. Very odd flavour gravy too. Half our table had finished their food before the rest of us even got served ours.

Kaysha and Ifty were both great. Lovely place.

Really Like the Italien Manager, cool fix ;)

Disastrous food experience. Food took close to an hour to come and was cold. We sent it back but it returned having merely been microwaved: the lettuce in the burger was piping hot. Chips were dry and chewy and the burger was slimy. Decent pints though.

Nice pub with a nice atmosphere. The Italian manager is really cool

Really nice pub with a very kind managing staff!

Nice little pub stop for a cheeky pint before heading to Buckingham Palace. Not too expensive. Exceptional location right outside St. James Park underground.

Authentic and jummy food, free tap water and nice service from friendly italian manager.

Really good food, and sympathetic people who work there! Thank u !

We have a good Experience and the food is good specially the beer

Fish and chips dégusté par hasard dans ce pub sur notre route. Prix très correct pour la quantité et la qualité. Ambiance typique

Clean, comfy, had reservations to see Champions League match and were seated promptly. Aldo (manager) was so attentive and personal. Our 2nd time here but not last!!!

A very cozy pub in the middle of London. We had snacks here for lunch with two families.

Great Food, great atmosphere. Come and try it, you will love it. Tip: the barbecue chicken

The Italian guy is so kind and friendly.

Wonderful place and atmosphere! Loved the Italian manager! Made the place so inviting! Highly recommend

Loved this pub, the best one around!

Stopped in with my family for lunch and a pint. Lovely service and good food. Recommend the share plate deal!

The Italian manager was super helpful and nice. We had a larger party, and we were able to get seating easily. Everyone enjoyed their meals.

We found this pub by chance while looking for a place to eat in London. The experience was really cool! Good food, attentive service, fair prices. Very good!

The food is very delicious!! Thank you!!

Good was wonderful and staff - especially the manager was amazing and even accommodated Gluten and DaIry allergies ! We highly recommend the food and the atmosphere !!

Amazing Pub. The food is really amazing. Highly recommend. The staff are super friendly and very helpful. A must go!

Ordered their lunch deal with a steak sandwich and it was 2 large white slices of bread with mustard and some arugula with a few pieces of meat. Only tasted mustard so I left more than half the sandwich but their beer is so good! The staff were rude who hardly spoke to one when they set the table or served the food. Will not go here again or recommend this to anyone.

First day visiting London and I had an amazing experience (: will be coming back

We didn't eat at this pub so can't rate that side of things. My choice of beer I had to take back as it was not very pleasant, tasting vinegary but the bar staff changed it for something else when I complained without too much protest. A bit of a downer were the toilets which were mostly out of use due to blockages and those that weren't blocked were not in good condition with no locks on the doors and wet toilet paper on the floor. Don't think I would have been happy eating at this venue going by the state of the toilets!

Stopped in for a pint and fish n chips. Good food.

For first time visitors to the Buckingham Palance and St. James's Park, this restaurant is a must try. Aside from its prime location, the food and friendly staff made this one of best meal experiences in London. Highly recommended!!

Great bartenders! The Italian gentleman that help me out was fantastic! Stopped in to rest from walking the city and got to watch a game in the meantime while I enjoyed great food. Recommend visiting!

Characteristic London pub located halfway between Westminster and Buckingham Palace. We tried a pie and a hamburger: more than generous portions and excellent quality! The presence of beyond-meat burgers as a vegetarian alternative was appreciated.

Great atmosphere and very helpful team! Great place to stop for lunch :)

Here all the way from Canada had a great lunch delicious sandwich and pint of Guinness! The Italian manager was lovely! Great spot near Westminster Abbey!

Staff could show a more friendly face.

Un pub Greene king, gallina de oro en el grifo, pero era brumoso y cítrico, así que no creo que la cerveza coincida con el clip de la bomba, así que lo dejamos. Pub se veía limpio y bien presentado.

The italian bartender was really kind. Nice food

This place is fantastic, the fish and chips were amazing and a good price, we also had the steak. The service is great Aldo did an amazing job.

Great food and drinks Very good reasonable prices , Manager is very friendly and helpful Will be back for another visit

Everything was delicious, super friendly and everything was super clean.

Excellent food!! Very good attention from the local manager!

Very nice pub. The service was good and very nice. The Italian manager was very funny and very great to have as a server.

The Italian manager and the restaurant itself provided a great atmosphere for a quick lunch stop after touring London. Would highly recommend any of the small plates

Italian manager made sure we had everything we needed! Great food and beer!

The hours listed online are incorrect, and we were disappointed to learn that the pub closes at 7 pm on Saturdays. We had made a reservation for 7 pm through their website, but when we arrived, the manager dismissed our concerns and asked us to leave without offering any clarification or solution. This was an unfortunate experience, and we hope they update their hours and improve customer service moving forward.

When they advertise that they’ll have the rugby on; don’t believe them. They’ll have whatever football match the staff want to watch on instead, and they’ll refuse to change the channel. Edit: Greene King customer services have been in touch, ad been impressed by the way they have dealt with this.

Be prepared to wait at least 1.5 hours for food. Don't take kids there. Don't take elderly people there. Don't take people who have not been to English pubs before there (tourists will never want to go to a pub again and will remain with the very wrong impression). Be prepared to climb >3 floors at least a few times (to (not)find table, to order, to ask why the delay). Unfortunately, we received a really bad service here. We were 5 people including a child and an elderly person, and at first nobody from staff could tell if there were tables available, which was the reason people were constantly going up and down the 3 levels checking for seating. This was not the worst though. When we finally found a table, we couldn't order online as we were underground with no reception, so we had to order at the bar, where there were two tills and the person went away, leaving us to watch how people at the other till were ordering away. Staff didn't even know the table number or where the table was at all! The worst was that we then had to wait for more than 1h 30min for food, not being informed about what was going on, until we started asking. When we decided to eventually go, having wasted a significant amount of time on our day in London (instead of what we were there for), they came with the plates and not a single sign of curtesy to the fact that we received the worst service in the country. Taking a starving kid and a person with diabetes who needed to have food at certain times - this was a horrible experience to me personally. I went through a great spectrum of negative emotions and I paid the full top location price for it. We all had ordered Fish&Chips and on the positive note, fish was delicious (hence one star from me), but to this day I can't tell if it was because it was well cooked, or because we were left starving for so long. I suspect that a single slice of bread would have achieved the same effect, considering the state we were in. A good host could have probably offered something simple to keep us alive for that 1.5h (while they catch that fish and bring it cooked to our table LOL)!

The worst sunday roast, ever. The meat couldn’t be chewed at all costs. The potatoes: horrendous. The carrots were ok, but you couldn’t wrong boiled carrots now, could you? The waiter highly unfriendly. It was super gross food, but on the other side it was extra expensive. Avoid at all costs.

A typical London pub with a good atmosphere and typical London food. As in all, a huge variety of beers

great environment and we enjoyed the food. The Italian manager was fun and made fantastic cocktails.

The Italian bartender has such a bad attitude (if you are male). And they serve the smallest glass of prosecco in town. I shared a photo of the glass they serve me for nearly £8. The guy is more charming with Ladies. Maybe they get a proper glass of prosecco as well

It was a good bar, the beer was nice and the staff was friendly

The food was tasty, the beer was great, the staff (both the lady behind the bar and the Italian manager) were kind and helpful to us.

Tasty fish'n'chips, beer and nice Italian manager!

Beautiful place to enjoy good food and a pint, or a glass of Charonnay, or Pinot Noir. The staff are great.

Great Food. Great service. Will be back.

La vieja estrella debería llamarse 2 estrellas, la única razón por la que no voy a ir con una estrella es el hombre principal que supongo que lo estaba ejecutando, fue agradable. Las bebidas eran caras £ 4. 55 para el jugo de manzana de un niño, y el niño era la comida terrible, patatas fritas servidas muertas y un sándwich de bistec, no es una gran experiencia en absoluto. La camarera fue grosera, y también fuimos testigos de demasiado ojo rodando del personal.

Cracking burger, had the special brunch. The wife had the pie. Told me to mark down by a star as no mint sauce for the mushy peas.........it must be a northern thing. Good service, italian manager is polite and checks on everything. Would come again when in London

Food was grim, pie pastry wasn't cooked, chips were half cold and took ages to come out

Good food. Service was fast and the Italian manager was great and had a great attitude towards his staff and his patrons. Also they had the footie on the tele so that’s always a bonus.

Lovely manager was very hospitable and allowed me to get the football on the telly upon request. Excellent service and great vibes :)

Great food and beer! The manager is so kind to ask us if everything was okay 👍

Slow service Average products at typically high London prices

Needed a pub near Westminster Abbey that served fish & Chips. My friend from Italy had never had it. Unfortunately, this place probably served the worst Fish & Chips I have ever eaten. We were told the kitchen was having problems when we first got there, but it would only be a few minutes before we could order. I wish we had gone somewhere else. The breading on the fish was not true to form, and the fish itself was hard & chewy. This is not the place to go for traditional Fish & Chips.

A delicious steak and ale pie, and wonderful service from the Italian manager. Highly recommend!

Dreaming of a trip to London, I always wanted to taste beer in their iconic pubs. I recommend it to everyone because it is an interesting experience. There are plenty of places that look like an "old English pub". Especially in the center. But there are also some of them on the outskirts. I don't know if the one I chose was old, but it had the right atmosphere. And I guess it was popular because there were so many people at 5 p.m. on a weekday that I don't know how they get along with the bartender. It's just that everyone is talking at the same time. Noise and laughter which creates an amazing atmosphere. It is worth noting that you cannot enter the pub with children after 5 p.m. We wanted to eat something and drink something. We entered around 4 p.m. and there were already reservations on the tables. When we got the dishes, it was around 4:30 p.m. and it was already full of people, later it was even better 😀. You can eat here, even quite well. And it's not the most expensive place. And as for drinks? My wife and I chose several types of beers. Not all of them are good in my opinion 😄 but each person's taste is different and you have to try different flavors 😁 . I recommend . From curiosities. I don't know about others, but some of the basements of this pub are located under the streets outside the building. !

Service and food were great. The landlord had a great sense of humour

Very good pub, nice food which is reasonable priced

We had a lovely time. I loved the union rings! :)

Amazing food amazing service the Italian manager was very helpful

Very good atmosphere, staff was nice and the Italian manager was very friendly. Food was good was a nice experience of a Sunday lunch in London.

We enjoyed the place and Aldo, the Italian manager! Thanks

Lovely manager very friendly will come again

Placed quite close to the Big Ben but with no tourists around, The Old Star is a nice pub where to stop for lunch. We ordered a fish&chips, maccaroni&Cheese and garlic ciabatta for the four of us (Inc a 3yo and 6yo children). The size of the dishes was not massive but enough for a menú (as It is the case), and the taste of each of them was clearly above our expectations. I can say as well that it has been the best garlic bread I have ever tasted (4 slices). I can clearly recommend this place!!!

Muy mal servicio. La comida era terrible. No hay queso en la tostada de queso, embutidos, etc. Las personas de servicio eran groseras y no tenían mente de servicio

Fast and friendly service. Food slightly disappointing, the bacon beef burger was quite dry.

¡Probablemente el mejor pastel que he probado en años! Gran ambiente en el pub y el gerente italiano no podría haber sido más servicial!

Top tier pie and pint at a fantastic pub. A great atmosphere, warm and welcoming - highly recommended and will be coming back for sure!

We got sick after eating the BLT chicken sandwich. Unfortunately it didn't taste that good either. The pub looks nice, but wouldn't come here for more than a simple drink.

Very chill spot, got served right away

Fantastic friendly service, great food and a great pint. What more could you want!

Great food great staff great drinks had a lovely time

One of my most favourite pubs in central London. The steak is amazing and beer as well! Staffs are quite friendly!

Unfortunately the worst experience possible. I booked a table for NYE for drinks and dinner. I received confirmation on my email and then also a reminder about my booking. At the arrival manager on duty had no idea about my reservation. And told me that kitchen is closed . And I can only order food if I know what I want because chef is really upset already. No menu. Nothing. She told us that she had no idea about our reservation. Nobody ever bothered to call about early closing. So unprofessional. It was NYE. Not just a normal day. She also said that everything around is closed wich wasn’t true because we went to w pub across the street and they welcomed us with dinner. After last orders another women came, i think someone who work there, as she came behind the bar and took a bottle of beer. Even though I was seating just next to them manager on duty was talking about me. She said that I just didn’t want to order food. But how could I, if I didn’t even see a menu. And obviously she was talking about me. Honestly it’s unbelievable to me how come you can treat your guests like that. I work for hospitality myself. And taking care about guests and their plans and celebrations it’s the most important thing for us .

Buffalo wings just what we needed, friendly staff, warm inside. Thanks!