The Rocket

Poor Customer Service. I ordered my food before the kitchen closed but you took my order without taking my friends? Had to sit at that bar and get cold pie while my hungry friend and sat there and did nothing. Staff did nothing to rectify the situation.

It’s a no frills pub, that does cheap food and serves alcohol at a reasonable price. If you’re looking for a cheaper pub in the Euston/​Kings Cross area then this is your spot!
For me though, the real selling point is the millions of tvs, so on a sport day, be it a big boxing fight or football match, then this is your place!
It’s not the most special place, but come the next fight night, I’ll be back again!

Don’t go here. One of the worst places I’ve ever «tried» to order. This place can not handle volume of any kind and the food is cold and taste like rubber when it comes out.

Ordered hamburger. Asked for no French fries, no bread, extra onion rings. Although onion rings had the same cost on the menu as the fries, I was charged extra.
40 minutes later (!), order came with fries, with bread, and the burger seemed to have been cooked for the entire 40 minutes (practically inedible)
Also, the burger was to come with raw onions. The 1 small slice of onions that came with the order was about ½ cm in diameter.
The onion rings were ground onions formed into rings. Terrible.
This was the worst burger I have had in at least 10 year.
All in all, it was the worst dining experience I have had in many years.
Stay away.

Decent, cheap student pub on Euston Road. Reliable beer and cheap pub grub. Service slow on this occasion, but in past has been fine. Lots of seats and some outside. Student like atmosphere but actually people of all ages and backgrounds enjoying a beer! Would recommend over other pubs in locality.

Tasty food for lunch, good choice of dishes. I eat there couple days a week and they never let me down. Also, they’ve got daught Coors Light — love it. The staff is great too!

I have basically two things to say about this place, one good and one bad… Let me start with the good one…
Price: Food and drinks are quite cheap for a pub in central London. Drinks are around £2 (they run promotions through the week) and you can get food for a fiver. The quality is ok, edible pub food.
And now, the bad thing… Very bad thing in my opinion…
The place is grimy: the carpet looks disgusting and thoroughly stained all over the place, the tables are not cleaned regularly so you will probably find a half drunk pint and the toilets… Better not to talk about them…

Nice bouncer and bartender.
Feels like a sad TGIF in the USA. Prices are GREAT, however. Come here if pressed for time or need a cocktail a bit later.
Don’t half step. This is a great late night spot near King’s Cross Station.

Don’t order the breakfast. Just don’t do it. How you can create a full English with no redeeming features is beyond me, but they managed it.
Sure it was cheap. And it was the kind of place where I did not feel judged for being hungover (as I was at the time) which is nice I suppose. I expected Wetherspoons style food, but honestly I would expect better from a Spoons.
Would happily call in here for a nondescript drink while going to and from the station again, but will be venturing elsewhere to break my fast.

£1.50 a pint on Wednesdays
full of «happy» students

Monopoly Pub Crawl — Stop #8 — Euston Road (Light Blue)
The Rocket is an easy choice for this stop as it’s large, cheap, and most importantly it’s located on Euston Road (we’re crazy like that). As pretty much every review will tell you, it’s a very popular student pub and you can easily see why. However, the Rocket does have a few surprises in store — for example, it stocks Fruli which is a sweet strawberry beer. Not the most manly of drinks, but very refreshing when you’ve been knocking back bitter ales and herbal jaegerbombs all day.
I couldn’t tell you about the food (there is no time on such crawls to order anything beyond McD’s) but they do seem to have the usual pub staples. The barstaff were very friendly and happy to see my intrepid group of rambunctious crawlers — but then again when you are used to being swarmed by students, crawlers are par for the course at best.
Overall, an excellent pub crawl pub, but probably not a place I’d opt to go for a night out.

This is the kind of pub that makes you understand why people are more inclined to go to a chain like an oniells. At least there you know what you’re getting and you’re never disappointed.
This is incidentally the first place I’ve ever sent food back. I’ve never had to cut through mash potatoe before either.
We popped in here because we’re forever walking past it and always meant to pop in as it looked nice. Bang on midday we try and order the veggie breakfast, but they stopped serving it at midday so apparently missed the deadline. That’s ok, there’s not much on the menu for me so I order a veggie burger prepared for a standard dry meal. Fifteen mins after I was informed by apathetic staff that they had no vege burger. Half way through my pint and a little unimpressed I go for the veggie sausage and mash and wait another 40 mins for the food to arrive.
The most pathetic dollop of mash potato followed by a weird, very salty gravy and vege sausages that were just chewier than your normal cheap and tasteless veggie alternative. I take my knife to try out the measly specimine and determined very quickly this was not worth anything near what I paid and took it to the bar. I stood unacknowledged for a while, then as soon as I said look, it’s just not nice the guy just said the the other guy ‘refund *sigh*’ and gave me my money back straight away. It must be common practice there. As the Mrs finished what was edible on her plate… the scampi from scampi, chips and peas I was approached and got ‘want a drink’?.
I declined.
While it doesn’t clearly advertise the fact, it is indeed a Mitchel and Butler pub.

This place was recommended to us by some of the locals so we decided to check it out. As we were told this was one of the places that was busy & open until late any night of the week. Apparently not anymore, this place now closes early on weekdays and with the new management has lost a lot of the appeal it had from the local student community.
While this is a cool place to hang out with cheap drinks from my experience this is a quite average bar around Kings Cross area.

This is a review for nightlife and not food.
My 2 friends, sister, and I were walking around close to where our hotel was located and every place seemed pretty dead. This was surprising to me since it was Eurocup so I thought everywhere would be a bit lively. Not so much. We walked by The Rocket that had a decent amount of people and a DJ inside. Finally!
We had sooooooooooooooooo much fun here, so much that we came back again for our last night in London too. We were drinking Tetley’s mostly, which I liked, and Jagerbombs haha. We freakin limboed here. Limbo. I haven’t done that in foreeevverrrr. Then we did this weird dance with guys and girls, which I hated, but whatever, all in good fun. There was a Journey sing-​a-​long at the end of the night. Typical bar fun. If I had been home, I probably wouldn’t have been too ecstatic about the limbo and things, and would probably have rolled my eyes with a «what grade are we in again,» type of question. But hey, when you’re a tourist, you have to enjoy it to the fullest extent. It’s one of the only times people actually expect you to act like fools. We definitely lived it up at The Rocket.

Damn. I cannot believe every spot that I frequented while studying abroad is considered a sh*t hole. I guess it was because I was there. However, I will add that I met a few non-​Brits here who didn’t think I was insufferable. So far so good.
I was a regular here in the Fall of 2007, back in the days when I wasn’t old enough to drink in the US of A, but old enough in the UK. I had plenty of good nights here. Honestly, is it really about the facilities and the people who are there? No. It’s about the people you are with. I can see how people think the food is deplorable, or the place is filled with punks, but beside two australian chicks who I befriended, I mostly kept to myself within my ‘party.’ Oh AND beside that time, a real, live British girl not only talked to me, but gave me a peck on the lips. Thanks only nice British girl in London.

Whenever I pass it, I always want to go in. That’s the kind of place The Rocket is. You can drink and eat cheap with some good company, or watch football. When it’s warm there are wooden tables outside for you to enjoy the weather.
«Come on Rrooooooooooneyyy!!!»

When entering The Rocket, you are faced with a contradiction. While the interior is a homey English pub, every person here is American.
That’s right, because the Rocket is so cheap and close to UCL, all the American exchange students (including myself) use it as their exclusive watering hole. The drinks here are never that great but the prices will make sure you have a good night.
On the same note, the food is also deplorable but cheap. In fact, a friend of mine remarked that the Gammon Steak there look a lot like a plastic toy.
All in all, The Rocket will definitely not be short of cheap fare and Americans in the future.

Oh The Rocket; You have me so conflicted. If I was but a fresh faced, first year student, I would revel in your cheap beer, two meals for £6 and your dbl Vodka Redbulls for £3.90. When half your optics are Smirnoff, the others with smatterings of Apple Sourz, you know this bar is about getting lathered.
I liked the screens everywhere showing music videos, the jukebox with the bartenders favourites listed above, and I even spied a few arcade games and a pool table. The food is archetypal Wetherspoons, without actually being a Wetherspoons — cheap and good.
The bar itself has an old feel, which resonates strongly with the old, ragged and often times slightly senile old folk who come in. The rest of the revellers on my visit were made up of young, spotty chav boys with their hoods and caps. They mixed quite nicely with the older, fatter, chav boys who have proudly paid for every pint of their flabby beer bellies. I can say with reckless abandon that I had no wish to converse with anyone I saw in this place today and I am far from being a toff.
My lunch meal of gammon steak with chips was tasty, my New York cheesecake not so. I have nothing against cheesecake, but my first bite coincided with me watching a mouse stroll confidently across the floor not 5ft away. Mmmmm, appetizing!
All in all, if you want a cheap night watching sport or watching young girls get wasted, flashing their ass as they fall on the floor, all coherent thought lost in the latest bottle of Smirnoff Ice, you will find no better place than The Rocket.
P. s. I have successful used free wifi here. Whether it belongs to The Rocket is a different story.

I liked this pub! I was attending Tufts when I first went there with a horde of college guys, ready to take on the WORLD. The Rocket was affordable, lots of young students, and really fun!
We went a few times, and I remember distinctly going with seven friends from Boston, and coming back with two. It was a lucky night for many of my friends! So many great stories and memories!

In writing reviews for Unilocal I’ve thought back over all the places in London I first visited as a fresher. Some places I still like to visit, while others I very much associate with first year. The Rocket on Euston Road is definitely one of the latter.
The Rocket is a pretty rubbish Yellow Card (cheap drinks) pub on the Euston Road. The pub is loosely divided in two areas, with seating in both, and a small dancefloor and snooker tables in the back half. The décor is pretty garish, though not as bad as it once was. The clientele is a mix of alcoholics and students.
I used to go quite a lot because it was near my halls and I had a crush on one of the bar maids. Essentially it’s the sort of place you go if you’re a first year, want to get very drunk, and maybe ‘get lucky’. If that’s you, you could have quite a lot of fun, otherwise avoid.