Went to the Gypsy Moth for Sunday Roast today, I ordered the pork - the food arrived lukewarm with five slices of carrot, three little broccoli stems...for the price, the portions were lousy. The meat was average, watery gravy. Simply not good enough for the price.

During a period when the pub trade is suffering, it saddens me to see a pub like this in a great location that is a complete dive.
There is no excuse for:

1. Filthy cutlery and glasses
2. Rude brats for staff
3. A strong smell of urine in the main bar area
4. Filthy toilets
5. Ash trays outside full of water, black mush and cigarette buts!
6. Bird crap and general dirtiness all over the out door tables
7. Flat pints

As the pub is in a prime location, it will probably survive on weekend and tourist trade, but I hope the owners take note that all pubs require regulars to prosper in the long term.

I am a local resident and as such when local pubs come up in conversations, I will tell everyone to avoid this place.

I am only giving out 2 stars because the garden is gorgeous, however even if the pub interior design is shabby chic the staff are more shabby than chic! Usually there's one person serving at the bar and 20 other playing about on the background not caring about the amount people left waiting! The staff are generally careless and rude I think in a time like this were there's not enough jobs these guys should definitely be replaced! You can't use your card cause the machine doesn't work (it's been like this for about 3 months) and the filth on the tables inside and outside could be scraped off with a knife, the staff should worry more about cleaning then looking pretty useless behind the bar! I want to find out the owner or the chain Gipsy Moth belongs to and want it to be taken over!

I am a regular at the Gipsy Moth and though it is not the best pub in London it is certainly one of my favorites! The food is always of a good standard and is extremely affordable. The staff may not be schooled a la Disney, with perfected "Have a nice day"'s programmed in, but when you take the time to speak to them they are all really nice people and genuinely helpful.

In a recent family lunch at the pub (11 adults and 2 very young children who were welcomed) meals were delivered hot, all together and of excellent quality (I recommend the burger) - It cost under £80 for all of us and that included some drinks.

This is an unpretentious venue with a great atmosphere whatever type of afternoon or evening you are looking for, from summer afternoon drinks in the beer garden to raucous drinking sessions till the last bell tolls, if you are 6 months or 60 years old (or anything in between), The Gipsy Moth will provide.

Having read the reviews here I must say they come across as spoilers.
On 3 ocassions recently me and a friend have enjoyed a mid-week lunch here. There is a full printout menu folder plus chalkboard.
The food was excellent and two upfront staff welcoming, friendly and efficient.
The pub on every time was quiet and (as someone suggested) you're welcome to go to one of the other pubs if you want midday noise and chaos! Not for me I'm afraid.
The wonderful thing about the Gipsy is that it's like going back a hundred years. Love it.
B.A.B

We visited on a busy Sunday lunch time. The sun was shining and so the bar was full of people eating. When we eventually got served we were told that food would take an hour. No problem - we had time. Our food was delivered quicker than expected. It was dumped on our table at one corner with no effort to try and ascertain whose meal was which. This was a bit annoying. Cutlery was then dumped in a similar manner and it was filthy. I told the waitress who demanded I gave it back to her and stormed off leaving me to seek new cutlery. She eventually bought new cutlery but again it was filthy. This was even more annoying.

Then two of the meals were cold. And I mean really cold. It must have been left on the side for a while. When we complained the staff were not really interested but eventually agreed to new meals. We waited and waited until one member of our party got fed up and walked to the hot plate and found the meals sat there once again going cold. By now two of us had finished the lukewarm meals which were delivered. The food was poor. The food was cold. The waiting and kitchen staff (apart from one blonde girl) were unbelievably rude and disinterested. The cutlery was filthy.

All in all our lasting impression was that the Gipsy Moth is rubbish! Do not eat here!

Bad food, flat beer, uninterested staff..... but the beer garden was excellent and we did get served quickly unlike other reviewers.

Not sure about these other reviews, but if you're looking for a range of ciders, beers and ales on a sunny afternoon or cool breeze evening in their beer garden, check this place out. Excellent! They stocked a range of Aspall's on tap and bottled, as well as organic cider, cloudy with the most commercial being bulmers. Not a strongbow in sight, thank god. Wonderful blonde beers like Leffe and stocked fruili strawberry beer.

The garden is by far the best feature- lots of tables, nice and shaded by potted plants and foliage. Had a wonderful afternoon chatting to friends, eating lunch and steadily (deceptively) drinking. Almost forgot I was in London

Food- I had the beef burger and marsh piper chips (yum), which was a reasonable £6.50, and my friends ate the cod, chips and mushy peas (about £7). Not huge portions, but filing enough and good quality. Our experience was positive, although one chap was overheard complaining loudly about the long wait for his food. The staff were very apologetic though, and he was appeased soon enough.

Service- this is where they could improve. There is something a little smug about the main men serving when I went. The bartender looked about 18, prob a student topping up her funds, and she was chirpy and friendly but the other dude...well, I wouldn't rave about their hospitality, put it that way. Which is a real shame, because this is the kind of little pub with some great features, with potential to be claimed as a recommended boozer/local by many instead of just somewhere you stumble on and think nothing of after.

Sub par and sad. Disappointing as it could be so good as many others have also noted - great location and near some of the best sights in London. Why does Greenwich have to have such crap places? It pretends to be and wants to be the new Soho or other trendy West London area but the standards are just too low. This pub is the perfect example, it's overpriced, dirty and the service ethic is nearly non existent. It saddens me as I think that Greenwich and this pub could be so much better if someone just gave a cr@p...

It seems this pub can be very patchy. One day last summer, I had a good time here. The service was slow and the food was average but that is nothing new in Greenwich. Many of the pubs in this area rely heavily on tourists so I suspect they don't really care about repeat customers. More recently, I had a horror of a night, more similar to what I have seen in some other reviews. The fag machine did not deliver after taking my money - the bar guy just shrugged and this just started off a chain of bad expereiences. A woman came around the tables with a cloth to clean when we were sitting and knocked over a pint on a bird I was hoping to pull, end of conversation as she went home to change her dress. A fight broke out outside when we were leaving between two blokes having a fag at the front door, although we were not involved my mate ended up slammed against a wall. I thought this area was nice but it seems to get rougher at night and the pub has no door man or security even though it was really crowded and it was one of those nights. Maybe you'll have a better night but I'd advise to only come at day.

I went to the Gipsy Moth after a lovely day seeing the sights of Greenwich and frankly, this pub spoiled our day. We waited for 20 minutes to be served, despite bar staff visibly doing nothing in various corners of the pub but instead of cutting our losses we ordered food. Then it became obvious why the staff were so surly. After over an hour waiting for our food my wife asked to speak to someone in charge about the delay and the most irritable little man came over and told us that we weren't welcome here, threw our money back on the table and flounced off. I objected to his tone and said I would complain. He said that he was the manager, do youre worst. He then moved six inches from my face and spat out that it was moaners like us that made his life hell. No wonder the staff are in such a state! We will never go back.

Avoid Gipsy Moth like the plague. We lost £6.20 in the cigarette machine and the manager would not help us at all and was extremely rude. In the past friends have ordered food which never came despite asking three times. They had waited an hour and a half and the staff didn't even apologise.

The Gypsy Moth has deteriorated immensely over the last few years. It has a great location, good decor and music, but the service is beyond reprehensible. We went down late afternoon on Saturday to celebrate my birthday with a few friends and were very disappointed.



First, I was told that they were out of Fruli, but later saw some people with pints of Fruli. Then when I asked for a wine list, I was directed to a board that listed soft drinks. I asked if they had one printed out somewhere and was told it was on the back of the (barely legible) menu, which it was not.



When we ordered food, the staff didn't know what was available and what wasn't. Then we ere told no cheese was available, so we had to choose a meal without cheese! I had the fish, chips and mushy peas and though the fish was okay, the peas and chips arrived freezing cold! And to top it off, the air-con where we were sat was on full blast and after asking four times to have it turned down, were told that it was hot behind the bar so they needed to leave it on. Everyone in the area where we were sat were huddled under their coats.



I know better than to complain, too - I've heard how rude the manager can be to customers (as noted in a previous review too) so there really wasn't any point.



It's such a shame - the Princess of Wales in Blackheath (run by the same company) is lovely, but the Gipsy Moth in Greenwich is nothing more than an overpriced Wetherspoons with bad service. It is by far the most sub-standard pub I've patroned and realise now why none of my friends ever go there. I won't be stepping foot in there again.

If you like being insulted and treated like dirt then the Gipsy Moth is the perfect place to eat. After waiting an hour for our food, the manager eventually brought us our meals and then returned with an inexplicable third meal, which was obviously not for our table of two.


When we told him the third meal was not ours he aggressively whisked all three meals away from us and then told us off for letting him think they were all ours. When I asked how much longer our order would be, he was rude and aggressive again.


For the prices the Gipsy Moth charge the service should at least be satisfactory - in fact it is appalling and completely ruined our lunch.

Do not go to the Gipsy Moth. When we ate there we had to wait for our food for almost an hour! No explanation was given and the manager was aggressive to one of the ladies in our group who questioned her food which was not what she ordered. If this man wishes to work in the service industry - he should be washing pots behind the scenes at Gipsy Moth.

The Gypsy Moth has a great location and could be really fantastic. However, I may have just visited on a bad day, but the service for food was incredibly slow (over 45 minutes for fish and chips and burgers) and when the food arrived it was not as advertised on the board. There was no apology from the manager - who made me feel like I was inconveniencing him by complaining - instead he just threw a refund down on the table. Unfortunately there are so many tourists around here that he can probably afford to treat customers like this as there’s no shortage of passing trade. Definite case of over promise, under deliver at the Gipsy Moth.

Avoid Gipsy Moth at all costs! I have never had such appalling service as I experienced in this bar - the waitress got our order wrong (3 sandwiches how hard can it be?) and kept us waiting for well over an hour. Tables had arrived, been served proper main courses and left, and still our sandwiches hadn't arrived. To add insult to injury, when I politely enquired a second time as to an estimated time of arrival for our lunch (I was with a diabetic relative so we did need to know) I was angrily approached by an almost comically confrontational waiter/manager, who spoke to me aggressively within an inch of my face, slammed our refund onto the table once we had to leave (as we had a train to catch), and glared at us as we left the premises (very hungry).

I cannot advise people enough not to go to Gipsy Moth, an over-rated tourist trap of a pub. There are so many lovely places to eat in Greenwich, avoid this one like the plague or risk the mincing manager...

Gipsy Moth is a gorgeous Sunday afternoon pub - cosy, well-priced and, if the weather is nice, there's a cracking beer garden.

The Gipsy Moth is best for snacks (the tasty portions are on the small side if you're wanting a man-size lunch) and prepare for a short wait during their busy times (up to 40 minutes).

After a hard afternoon of bargaining around the local markets, the Gipsy Moth was the perfect place to stock up on a burger and beer.

To be honest, my girlfriend and I went in to the Gipsy Moth because it looked nice from the outside, but it is really busy at weekends. It takes 45 minutes in my experience to have your food on the table, plus the waiters are busy and sometimes mean. The area the Gipsy Moth is located in is nice and so is the beer garden but I did not feel well inside. Too many tourists perhaps?