Rose & Crown English Food

Taps: 16 | Bottles: > a dozen
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  • AMBIANCE 4/5
  • SERVICE 8/10
  • SELECTION 13/15
  • FOOD N/A
  • VALUE N/A
  • OVERALL 14/20
Schlenkerla  (1343) Vienna, Austria | November 28, 2023
Came here on 27.11.2023. Very simple English Pub in the old part of Palo Alto. I like the dark and wooden ambiance although everything seems to be quite old and a bit unorganised. Very different to the modern and stylish beer bars opening nowadays. The highlight is the beer menu. At least 5 beers from Russian River on tap + beers from Europe like Franziskaner, Spaten and Delirium. Excellent quality ! Small food menu, mainly Burgers.
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  • AMBIANCE 5/5
  • SERVICE 7/10
  • SELECTION 11/15
  • FOOD 8/10
  • VALUE 6/10
  • OVERALL 18/20
wetherel  (679) Cupertino , California | November 22, 2020
Great place to visit in downtown Palo Alto. Surrounded by a beautiful town with many shops and restaurants. Very English pub style food (e.g. fish and chips). Great selection of 6 beers from Palo Alto brewing. This may be the only place to get their beers. Nice outside patio with live music in the park beside the pub.
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  • AMBIANCE 3/5
  • SERVICE 8/10
  • SELECTION 11/15
  • FOOD 7/10
  • VALUE 8/10
  • OVERALL 14/20
WestCoastHawkeye  (626) Redmond, Washington | June 7, 2019
There are SO many places rated much higher than this which are no better. They have some decently interesting drafts (but nothing which really grabs you and is a no brainer something that you have to get) - mix of very local and Euro - bar only service, solid but unspectacular food - basically I would go to the Redwood City places over this, but if you're craving a pub atmosphere with some good beer, this is a good place. It's a solid single - don't go out of your way for it, but there are so many worse places than this on this site. Oh, I got a 2012 Sucaba to take home from here. So there is some good stuff here if you're willing to shell out for it.
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  • AMBIANCE 3/5
  • SERVICE 7/10
  • SELECTION 12/15
  • FOOD 5/10
  • VALUE 6/10
  • OVERALL 14/20
k6rfm  (11) Palo Alto, California | December 26, 2014| Updated December 21, 2015
Best place for a beer lover in Palo Alto. Can get crowded in the evenings; I always go at lunch or just after. Always something interesting on the taps. Dark pseudo-Brit pub inside, picnic tables outside.
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  • AMBIANCE 3/5
  • SERVICE 7/10
  • SELECTION 10/15
  • FOOD 7/10
  • VALUE 7/10
  • OVERALL 14/20
t0rin0  (1528) Do Not Resuscitate, California | November 20, 2012
Visited 4 or 5 times over the last 4 years. The place stays pretty much exactly the same (same bottled beers that dont move, same bartenders, same food menu, always full) but thats not necesarily a bad thing. 4 years ago I went to meet with some BAs for one of their first Bay Area meetups.

There are always a few interesting taps going. The owner has something to do with Palo Alto Brewing which is all contract brewed. They usually have at least 2 or 3 offerings on tap along with a dozen other interesting beers. The bottles are crazy expensive but where else can you find Anchor OBA or FW XI at a bar?

I dont go to Palo Alto often so I’ll continue to stop in when meeting someone in the area.
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  • AMBIANCE 4/5
  • SERVICE 6/10
  • SELECTION 13/15
  • FOOD 7/10
  • VALUE 4/10
  • OVERALL 13/20
bytemesis  (1592) Sunnyvale, California | August 28, 2012
It is what it is. So so service, unnaturally crowded at night, decent beer menu at high prices. They do have a pretty interesting "executive bottle" selection if you have the cash to spend. One of the places to get Pliny the younger in February, which is cool, but otherwise there are better places to hang out.
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  • AMBIANCE 4/5
  • SERVICE 6/10
  • SELECTION 11/15
  • FOOD N/A
  • VALUE 5/10
  • OVERALL 15/20
TheBrewSherpa  (47) Belvidere, New Jersey | June 29, 2012
Drug my brother, who lives in the area to this pub and had a great time. I had Firestone Walker’s Parabola on tap, as well as Pliny and some other California beers. Will be headed back to SF in a month and will arrange a meeting of friends for darts and great beer at the Rose & Crown. If you are in the area, you would be remiss to not visit. Sure, it’s far from perfect, but has all the charm you could want out of a great beer bar.
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  • AMBIANCE 4/5
  • SERVICE 7/10
  • SELECTION 11/15
  • FOOD N/A
  • VALUE N/A
  • OVERALL 13/20
fidel  (114) Livermore, California | May 22, 2012
Classic British pub. They had a solid tap list when i was there. The bottle list was really nice, but pricey as bottle lists can be.
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  • AMBIANCE 4/5
  • SERVICE 6/10
  • SELECTION 12/15
  • FOOD 5/10
  • VALUE 7/10
  • OVERALL 15/20
mweston  (1) La Honda, California | October 29, 2011
No one has reviewed the Rose and Crown for over two years, so I had to speak up. I’ve had many great beers here. I had my first sour (RR Supplication) during a 2010 SF Beek Week event. I had Lost Abbey Angel’s Share for the first time. On my last visit (last weekend) I had Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A. and Sierra Nevada Estate Harvest Ale, passing up the Highwater No Boundary IPA since I had already had it. The food is so-so, and the service is variable, but I’m not aware of other places in the area with such a good (and changing) selection of interesting beers.
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  • AMBIANCE 3/5
  • SERVICE 6/10
  • SELECTION 7/15
  • FOOD 5/10
  • VALUE 5/10
  • OVERALL 11/20
Ungstrup  (372) Citizen of the universe, Denmark | July 18, 2009
I stumbled over this place by acident - was looking for a place to have a tuna steak, but on the way wanted to see if the original locoation of Gorden Bierch might have something appart from the standard lineup, which they didn’t - saw an ale house and found that they had 3 beers on tap and 4 in bottles I hadn’t tried. Was hungry, so I had their fish and chips, which was edible, but not great in any way. Two of the beers were from Palo Alto Brewing Company, brewed under licence at Mayfield in Belmont - I have to enter them on RB - and the bottled beers were the three Iconoclast from Mayfield, though at 45 USD a bottle I didn’t buy them and they had one bottle left of Sonoram 100 at 85 USD, which I didn’t want to spend either. The service was OK, but the different waitors didn’t know that I had a tab running, so they kept asking - that’s what happens when there’s 3 waitors overlapping with no coordination, but they were friendly and had an OK beer knowledge. The place is tried to be kept in English style - and for a place in the US the job is done quite nicely - except for the fact that they had no cask beer. If you find yourself in Palo Alto or the vicinity you should go - if for nothing else the seldom Palo Alto beers.

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