The Swan, Hyde Park

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#1,444 of 21,650 Restaurants in London$$ - $$$, Bar, British, Vegetarian friendly

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9:00 AM - 10:30 PM

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9:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Tue

9:00 AM - 11:00 PM

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9:00 AM - 11:00 PM

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9:00 AM - 11:00 PM

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9:00 AM - 11:00 PM

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9:00 AM - 11:00 PM

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Bar, British, Pub, Gastropub

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Vegetarian friendly, Vegan options, Gluten free options

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Lunch, Dinner, Drinks

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66 Bayswater Road, London W2 3PH England

+44 20 7262 5204

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This beautiful coaching inn is right opposite Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens - offering traditional hospitality, a great menu and a long list of cask ales and wines in a historic part of London.

CUISINES

Bar, British, Pub, Gastropub

Special Diets

Vegetarian friendly, Vegan options, Gluten free options

Meals

Lunch, Dinner, Drinks

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Reservations, Outdoor Seating, Seating, Highchairs Available, Wheelchair Accessible, Serves Alcohol, Full Bar, Wine and Beer, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Digital Payments, Free Wifi, Discover, Accepts Credit Cards, Table Service, Live Music

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cannygirl

Lake District121 contributions

Breakfast

Mar 2024 • family

Nice pub, grade 2 listed, opposite Hyde park, which you get great views from up stairs. The food sadly was very mediocre.. order was wrong .. tepid food and dry £12 for full English Management did to be fair rectify the mistake but resulted in dry over cooked, I suspect the food was placed under a heater rather than cook the order fresh .. Would I go back .. I would but not for food

Written March 22, 2024

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Dritan Qosja

I am sorry we've not been able to meet your expectations on this occasion, but please do give us a try again as this is not our usual standard. Take care!

Written March 23, 2024

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Maru S

Puebla7 contributions

Excellent

May 2024 • family

They are super friendly, a typical place, the food is abundant and very delicious, we ordered the traditional fried fish and dads, there they recommended the beers and wow!!! What a good surprise!!! It has everything, place, attention and delicious

Written May 12, 2024

P R

Vidouze13 contributions

No drink included with breakfast. Expensive then even for London.

May 2024 • couples

We popped in here for breakfast. I was surprised that at the price of the breakfast a drink was not included and who has breakfast without a drink? So what seemed a reasonable price for breakfast turned out to be an expensive option as having a cup of tea really ramped up the price. Should have checked first, felt a bit ripped off. For the rest of our stay we found local hotels offered a better value. Shame as i liked the pub and the food was fine, nothing special but fine.

Written May 24, 2024

Sam67

Tamworth3 contributions

Looks great but it’s not

Nov 2024 • couples

Looks great but service and food was a shambles. Sat there 15 mins without a menu, waited a further 40mins for our drinks to come out had to ask for them(1x tea and 1x juice). Food come out bacon roll one small piece of bacon on a roll £7 👍I’d be embarrassed bringing that out

Written November 23, 2024

tonygill101

Glasgow13 contributions

The worst Sunday Roast ever!

Aug 2024 • couples

My wife and I visited London for a long weekend in August 24. The Sunday roast they advertised as the best in London! Quite a boast, but we decided to take the restaurant at its word. Without doubt, it was the worst Sunday roast I have ever been served. First of all, there was no roast beef option - it had sold out - so I opted for the roast pork option and my wife roast chicken. The roast pork had been completely overcooked, tough as `old boats`, cabbage was also overcooked to mush, apple sauce was stale and tasteless, and the Yorkshire pudding was burnt and hard as cardboard, carrots overdone, weird tasting potatoes from a tin which they roasted, can`t even be bothered to make proper roast potatoes - while the gravy was synthetic, unpleasant and made out of a packet. How hard can it be to caramelise the meat and use the meat juices and stock as a basis to a gravy? My wife was served overcooked grey coloured chicken drumsticks, and all the other trimmings which were all badly cooked. You would expect a chicken roast to have white breast meat but no, they served up cheap, tough chicken drumsticks. The meal was the worst I have ever been served in a restaurant, I wouldn`t serve that rubbish to my dog. Even after complaining to the waiter and telling him what we thought of the food and how terrible it was, we were still still given the bill for the full price of that muck - no reduction was given despite sending back plates of uneaten food. I bitterly regret paying the bill and wish should have refused to, but did so just to get out of there. Advice to diners, do give this place a miss it will leave you with a very disappointing dining experience. After leaving we went to another restaurant (Park Restaurant, Bayswater Road), where we had a great meal.

Written August 8, 2024

Dritan Qosja

Hello Tony, We are really sorry to hear that you had such an experience in our pub. Our priority is always excellent service/food and happy customers. We apologies for any inconvenience and we hope we see you soon and we will try our best for you and your wife in order to have an excellent experience.

Written August 23, 2024

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Alex W

Leamington Spa5 contributions

Weak service

Dec 2023 • friends

We booked a table for a small work Christmas dinner, but were dismayed to find that they had no vegetarian dinner options, as the only one on the menu was sold out. This was at 6pm, so I dont see how it could have sold out. They obviously hadn't prepped any. The waitress suggested a mix of chips and onion rings, which doesn't really do the job as a Christmas dinner. I had a salad instead. Brilliant. We asked for a second wine list so that more than one person could read it, and they said that they only had one list available. Seems a bit strange. When we were about 20 minutes into our dinner, a waiter came and moved our glasses and bottles aside to put a "reserved" sign on our table for the next seating. We found this to be incredibly rude, as it felt like we were being hurried. The reservation wasn't due for another two hours, so it felt unnecessary. We took the sign off while we ate, and the waiter argued with us until we let him put it back. Not very Christmassy, and I didn't have the energy to fight him too much on it, because all I'd had to eat was a salad. Well played, The Swan. So all in all, OK food (if what is on the menu is actually available), awful service.

Written December 22, 2023

Dritan Qosja

Falling short of meeting your expectations is not to the standards we strive to achieve, and we humbly ask for the opportunity to make this right. Thank you for providing this information so we can improve upon our services. We hope to hear from you soon.

Written December 23, 2023

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J G

London30 contributions

12.50 % Service charges !

Dec 2024 • family

Through the years since 2004-2024 this pub remains one of my favourite pubs in central London , I have went through many management and staff through the past 20 years at this pub ! I am still a loyal customer , but the food prices specially Sunday road you pay £22.50 plus service charge 12.5 % is too much it’s absolutely crazy , for a small portion , 2 slices of thin beef and half parsnip , one carrot 4 roasted potato’s to pay £22,50 plus £7.50 🍺 a pint ! and no pork road any more ! Could be not Halal ! But must be something behind it ! However I kindly need my service charge back because it’s illegal ! I knew the staff were nice and polite but you should inform me before I start dine in .

Written December 22, 2024

Sean W

Girona2 contributions

Great ingredients poorly delivered

Jul 2023 • couples

The location was great and the beer available was good. Breakfast service was disappointing, no butter was brought out with the toast even when requested. The sauces we requested took so long to turn up that we had finished our breakfasts. The scrambled egg on toast was really poor it had been under a heat lamp for a while. I would congratulate on the poached eggs I had though they were perfect. The actual ingredients used very good with great flavour. Just don’t expect butter with your toast or any condiments to turn up. We did complain to the staff, who didn’t seem to be that interested.

Written July 2, 2023

Dritan Qosja

I'm sorry we've not been able to meet your expectations on this occasions, but please v do give us a try again as this is not our usual standard!

Written July 21, 2023

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Warren B

Iowa City4 contributions

A huge disappointment and not worth risking your evening meal for!

Jul 2023 • couples

This pub was well-rated; we were especially looking forward to the signature dish, a chicken, leek, and ale pie. But although we had an early dinner (6:30), we were told they're out of the pie. The waiter (who barely understood English) couldn't understand why steak and cabbage pie wasn't the same. They refused to bring a trout salad with salad dressing on the side (perhaps were unable to understand that request!), so the member of our part who does not eat beef had a dinner of soup and pita with a surprisingly scant amount of beetroot dip. The atmosphere is loud and greasy with no refinement. I do not recommend this place.

Written July 29, 2023

Dritan Qosja

We'd like the opportunity to turn your experience around. Please reach out to us at swan.Hyde park-manager@fullers.co.uk at your earliest convenience to discuss how we can turn this experience into a positive one.

Written July 31, 2023

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Michelle B

8 contributions

Shocking breakfast & poor service.

Jul 2023 • couples

Ordered & waited ages for breakfast. The porridge with fruit was 4 blueberries & 4 thin slices of banana. The avocado & egg was the tiniest pot of avocado, one slice of tomato & a not quite cooked poached egg. The full breakfast has 2 solid poached eggs. Service was very slow Would not recommend for breakfast

Written July 8, 2023

Dritan Qosja

Written July 25, 2023

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JanDP201505

7 contributions

Disappointing!

May 2024 • couples

. The waitress was friendly and attentive, but after placing the order it took a long time for the food to arrive. The food was only lukewarm on arrival. We had to send the chips back and they gave us a new serving. The slow braised beef and ale pie was mostly mash potatoes with few beef morsels. I would not recommend this restaurant.

Written May 4, 2024

Nancy R

Malvern104 contributions

Disappointing Sunday roast

Mar 2024 • solo

Went for Sunday roast. The meat was overdone but the accompanying vegetables were quite tasty. There was a Yorkshire pudding that seemed tired. Everything was helped by gravy. But … this pub has one of my FAVORITE beers, Fuller’s Black Cab porter. That was the highlight for me. Next time, I’ll just have the beer.

Written March 17, 2024

Dritan Qosja

I am sorry we've not been able to meet your expectations on this occasion, but please do give us a try again as this is not our usual standard. Take care!

Written March 23, 2024

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AJ62

8 contributions

Don't Bother - lots of better places around

Mar 2023 • friends

I came here on Thursday, March 16th with my adult daughter. I had made reservations from Canada a couple of weeks earlier and we arrived in good time. The pub was very busy and there was a large birthday party beside us, so I understood that service might be a little slow. I was little perturbed that there was a thick electrical cord hanging down against the wall behind our table, plugged into another cord from the floor, but it wasn't a serious issue. After a considerable wait (just over 15 minutes) we managed to get the attention of the gentleman who was serving the birthday party and ordered a glass of wine and a beer, and our meals. My wine arrived a few minutes later but my daughter's beer did not arrive for 40 minutes, nor did the food. When I flagged down the gentleman (who was not easy to get hold of) and told him it had been forty minutes there was no apology, and he looked very annoyed. A few minutes later my daughter's beer arrived, along with some quite indifferent food (neither of us finished). It was our first night in London and the feeling was that we were more of a nuisance than anything else. My recommendation is that the pub not accept reservations from more people than it can serve in a reasonably timely manner. There are many great restaurants in the area (as we fortunately discovered during the rest of our holiday) so I wouldn't make a beeline for this one.

Written March 24, 2023

Eli Kafarani

Thank you for letting us how about your recent visit to our pub, and I am really sorry that we’ve not been able to give you a great experience. This isn’t our usual standard and your feedback will be taken on board.

Written March 28, 2023

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soinic

3007 contributions

Typical English pub ambience 🍻🥂

Oct 2022 • couples

Located at Hyde Park, separated by a street, close to Lancaster Gate. Typical English pub ambience, with terrace outside, it has a kind of "beer garden" feeling. Service was friendly and fast. Prices are correct for well served drinks (one glass of French sauvignon and one pint of draught beer for 11 💷). The only thing that surprised us was the fact that no "drink menu" was available for customers. We had to ask the waiter and he verbally told us the prices..... Pub food available but not tested by us. Would go back to this busy pub.

Written October 7, 2022

huskerunner

Omaha18 contributions

Delightful & quaint pub

Apr 2023 • couples

The Swan by Hyde Park was the perfect stop for our first day in London. It’s the quintessential cozy English pub. The patio has great views and the food hit the spot. My husband has fish and chips, and I had the sea bass and both were cooked to perfection.