An unfussy, welcoming pub on North End Road near Fulham Broadway, doing all-day food, live sport on the screens, and a good honest pint at a fair price
Goose holds fourteen hundred and twenty-two reviews and a 4.1 – a solid score on a very large sample – and it is a genuinely honest, welcoming local: an unfussy pub on North End Road near Fulham Broadway, doing all-day food, live sport on the big screens, and a good honest pint at a fair price.
The unfussy local
Goose is a genuinely honest, unfussy pub – and there is real and lovely appeal in that. In an age of ever-fancier gastropubs and cocktail bars, there is a genuine and enduring appeal to the honest, straightforward, unpretentious pub – the proper local that does the simple things well, without fuss or pretension. Goose is exactly this – a warm, welcoming, no-nonsense pub, doing a good honest pint, good honest food, and a warm welcome, at a fair price. There is real honesty and warmth to it – the unfussy character, the straightforward welcome, the good honest offering, the fair prices. It is exactly the kind of honest, welcoming, unpretentious local that this survey respects – the proper pub, doing the simple things well, warm and welcoming and fair. There is genuine warmth and value in it – the honest local, the good welcome, the fair price.
The all-day food and sport
Goose keeps a genuinely appealing and generous offering – all-day food and live sport, a winning combination for a proper local. The all-day food is a real convenience and appeal – good, honest, crowd-pleasing pub food, served throughout the day, whenever you fancy it. And the live sport is a genuine draw – the big games shown on the screens, creating a lively and convivial atmosphere, the proper sports-loving local buzzing with the match-day crowd. There is real appeal to it – the convenient all-day food, the live sport on the screens, the lively and sociable atmosphere, the whole generous and welcoming offering. It is a genuine sports-and-food local – the good all-day food, the live sport, the warm and lively welcome. There is real appeal and value in it – the generous all-day food, the big games, the convivial sporting atmosphere.
The North End Road spot
Goose enjoys a genuinely handy position on North End Road – an ancient Fulham thoroughfare, home to a bustling street market since the late nineteenth century, near Fulham Broadway. There is real appeal to this – the handy North End Road position, near the market and Fulham Broadway, the convenient and characterful location at the heart of a lively Fulham street. It is well placed – a natural local for the North End Road neighbourhood, handy for the market, the shops and the Broadway, a warm and welcoming local hub. There is genuine appeal to it – the handy market-street position, the convenient location, the warm local welcome. Combined with its unfussy honesty, its all-day food and its live sport, it makes Goose a genuinely good, honest, welcoming local. Its solid 4.1 across a very large sample confirms it – a genuinely good, popular pub. There is real warmth, honesty and value in the whole thing.
Between its honest unfussy character, its convenient all-day food, its live sport, and its handy North End Road position, Goose is a genuinely good, honest, welcoming Fulham local. Its solid score across a very large sample marks it as a genuinely good and popular pub. The Prat’s desk enjoys a good honest pint and a plate of all-day food while the match plays on the screen, and raises an appreciative glass to Goose.
The pub
A solid, hugely popular local doing a good 4.1 across a very large sample – Goose, an unfussy North End Road pub near Fulham Broadway with all-day food, live sport and a good honest pint.
Verdict
Solid, hugely popular, and genuinely honest – Goose, an unfussy all-day sports local doing the simple things well.
Have a good honest pint and some all-day food at Goose on North End Road, and catch the match on the screens – an unfussy, welcoming Fulham local doing the simple things well.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: editor@prat.uk
