Captain Kidd

I visited with two friends and thoroughly enjoyed this pub! The staff an attentive, the views of the river are wonderful, and the seating both inside and out is plentiful. The food menu looked great, but unfortunately had closed 10 minutes prior to our arrival. This is an already highly rated establishment and I’ll add to the praise. Definitely worth a visit for anyone who loves a great pub!

Reall nice pub we found, it has everything: nice pub food, beer, river view and an overall special interior which I really like. It's good to knpw tho that they have their own brewery so you won't find any other type of beer there

Great pub on the Thames river with fantastic views and a friendly service. Good Sunday lunch served with a choice of beef , pork or chicken. It's a Samuel Smith pub so only serves there own beer and beverage. Lovely outside seating area with bar.

Start with the negatives, the food is pretty abysmal considering the price, 18/19 pounds for the chicken schnitzel and fish and chips. The fish was slimy and a slightly weird taste to it, the chips were frozen so it had that strange undercooked texture, not fluffy inside or crunchy outside. The schnitzel was okay albeit underwhelming and over salty, the fries were okay and the cheese over the salad was unnecessary. The toilets was small for the size of the pub, cramped, and a bit dirty. The pub itself is wonderful, the selection of drinks was decent and the fruity beer were decent. The service was really good despite them forgetting the desert and the staff were very nice. The apple crumble was ok but the crumble still tasted over flowering rather than crunchy and the apple was lacking. The custard had the consistency of hot tarmac, it was so thick I was wondering if it was going to leave the saucer. Huge area, lots of table, great view and outdoor area, just avoid the GCSE standard food and you'll have a lovely time.

Stopped by The Captain Kidd on a Saturday and really enjoyed the atmosphere. Had one of the Samuel Smith brews — a solid, classic choice that hit the spot. The pub has a lovely antique vibe, full of character, and the riverside setting gives it extra charm. Great place to unwind with a pint. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the Wapping area.

Named after the infamous pirate, Captain Kidd is a pub that leans into its maritime legacy with swagger. Set in a converted warehouse right on the Thames, it offers sweeping river views, exposed brick, and a raw, industrial charm that feels both authentic and cinematic. Inside, it’s spacious and unfussy — wooden floors, nautical relics, and a long bar serving cask ales, lagers, and classic pub spirits. The vibe is relaxed and local, with a mix of solo readers, riverside wanderers, and groups soaking up the view. There’s a terrace overlooking the water, perfect for sunset pints or stormy musings. The food is traditional pub fare: fish and chips, burgers, pies, and Sunday roasts. It’s hearty, straightforward, and reasonably priced. While it may not be a culinary destination, it delivers comfort and consistency — especially when paired with a pint and a view. Service is friendly and efficient, and the pub retains a sense of East End character — a little rough around the edges, but full of charm. It’s part of the Samuel Smith’s family, so expect classic brews and no music, keeping the focus on conversation and atmosphere.

Fantastic location genuinely just let down by the food. Went for a roast - not the cheapest in London nor the most expensive…but… - cold vegetables - ‘four’ roast potatoes that were not roasty nor were they actually four. Rather one cut into four bits - meat tasted ok - suspicious looking deep fat fryer bits in Yorkshire pudding - everything generally cold - gravy v bad - even packet stuff can taste ok, this was not! But the counter to this is the location. Might be better to grab a pint here and eat elsewhere…

Great Riverside pub in Wapping. We have visited here twice, first in the summer where we sat outside on the terrace and then in the winter where we were given a cosy table inside. Good atmosphere. Some great beers and ales to choose from. Eaten once and food was OK - decent pub grub.

One of my favorite pubs in East London! This aisle a proper local pub with tons of history serving great food and good pints. I love coming here for a pint and sit and watch the Thames go by. Best pub in Wapping as far as I am concerned.

came here with some old university friends and had one of the worst experiences ever. the service was terrible, they had almost no food, and the food they did have gave my child food poisoning (the beyond beef burger). they kicked us out at 9 (no kids allowed in the bar after 9) after we had ordered food and paid ahead of time- with no refund! 0/10, will not be coming back.

Beautiful Riverside pub with a good size terrace guaranteed to be packed on a hot summer day. Food is served upstairs, the bar staff are very pleasant. Prices fairly reasonable and the food was pretty good. Try the fish and chips or the beef bitter pie.

Probably my second favorite sam smith pub. The barkeep could have been a little nicer. This pub is very nice, but not as old as you may think, built in 1980. I love the outdoor area with the riverfront views. Really nice spot. The kitchen is closed on Mondays (or Tuesday after a bank holiday).

From the Wapping High Street this pub looks like nothing special, with an old warehouse front and not much to hint at what you'll find inside. However this is simply the façade and as you walk through into the courtyard to the tavern, it appears Captain Kidd has a lot to offer. Named after Captain William Kidd, who was convicted of piracy and hanged in Wapping in the 1700, the pub walls hang framed illustrations and writings telling his grisly story. Paintings of ships, nautical diagrams and maps of the Thames crowd the remaining wall space whilst the low beamed ceiling is very traditional and barrels are used for tables. There's an olde worlde feel to the place and is quite easy to imagine what is must have been like a couple of centuries ago. Next to the Thames, this pub has the most fantastic window views and in the summer you can enjoy the lovely terraced area, where you can relax and watch boats sailing by. The beer is well priced (all pints are under £3) which is impressive feat in London and the bar staff are friendly too. It is mostly occupied by locals but it's worth a trip from further afield on a nice, sunny day. Ahoy there sailor!

I've lived in London for nearly 10 years but had never been to Wapping until the other day. It is a massive hassle to get to but the journey is worth it for the Captain Kidd. This is a Sam Smith's pub so expect their brand drinks at reasonable prices instead of the usual pub stuff. The place is situated right on the water and as there was a large group of us our table in the upstairs dining room seemed to be in the best spot with views over to Canada Water and Canary Wharf. The food is good and cheap by London standards, they had Sunday roasts, mac and cheese plus fish and chips. I'd like to come back in summer as there is an outdoor seating area on the river!

I suppose if I had to name a London pub as my "local", this would be it. I've lived about 5 minutes from its front door for the past four years, so consider myself an experienced consumer of its offering. The ups: fabulous cheap beer. Seriously, a decent pint of lager for £2. As the price of a pint spirals into madness elsewhere in London, the Kidd has maintained a very decent price list. The service is always very friendly, with not a single sour-faced student in sight. They have a fantastic beer garden to the side, providing excellent views onto the Thames - though I'm consistently amazed more people don't fall in each summer - the wall is about knee-height. Possible downsides? Well, once the sun comes out, the beer garden can get a little crowded. And it occasionally falls prey to large groups of aged tourists who take up vast numbers of seats and nurse a half-pint of beer for three hours. All in all though, a quality pub.

Nice pub, right on the water, so it offers brilliant views - especially if you go outside. The vibe is very casual and fun. Everyone seems friendly and at ease. They serve some lovely cider on draft and best of all, they serve chilli peanuts - and not the plasticky kind either! The whole place is made of dark wood and it has loads of little nooks and crannies, rooms off of rooms and places to have an intimate conversation. My only serious gripe is the smoking outside - such a beautiful spot with amazing views from the docklands to the city, and people spoil it with noxious cigarette smoke. Bleuh!

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me! I love this pub for a quick drink as it's very close to home. It's a real shame that the upstairs space which is beautiful is wasted on perhaps the worst food you'll come across in all of London. I have given the food several chances and today's food was so disgusting that I had to update my post. The reason I tried again is that the menu seemed to have been updated with tasty sounding dishes. I ordered a fish platter which consisted of Goujon of lemon sole, two crab cakes, two prawn tempura, two scampi and potato wedges. When the food arrived my heart sank. It was like a snack selection from Iceland for a kids party. Minuscule pieces of fish - about the size of a pen lid!! - I wasn't convinced that it was even lemon sole. Absolutely hideous crab cakes that tasted like mud. Mushy scampi and inedible prawn tempura that was limp, greasy and leathery- I couldn't even bite through one of them. All the pieces were insultingly small and clearly cooked from frozen. Oh and the (yes cooked from frozen as well) potato wedges numbered a grand total of four. About the size of a small mandarin wedge. I couldn't help but laugh not in amusement but sheer astonishment. To top it off it was accompanied with the smallest side salad I have ever seen, but worse than the size it was dried out, brown and slimy. I think the plates had been dressed with salad hours before in anticipation of the frozen "food" that would soon grace the plate. At £10 I felt this food wasn't just disgusting it was an insult. If I were the cook I would be ashamed of what came out of that kitchen. I was not at all surprised the room was empty. Close down the kitchen. Open up the upstairs bar and serve only snacks. The food is an embarrassment and shameful and spoils what is otherwise a lovely pub. GO HOME CAPTAIN KIDD - YOUR DRUNK! DO NOT MAKE MY MISTAKE AND ORDER FOOD HERE AGAIN!!

I've always loved this pub, which is a standard English pub -- don't expect to order too many exotic drinks here -- with a beautiful traditional interior, and a great patio outside with a view of the Thames and flower boxes. Has a solid selection of beer, whiskey, spirits, etc. Usually staffed by a crowd of friendly Australians. Next door/upstairs is a posh restaurant that has really outstanding food.

Popped by this place not expecting much and was pleasantly surprised by warm and spacious themed interiors and really lovely service. Excellent menu signage indicating what items were vegetarian or vegan, and the mushroom wellington and aubergine/beet curry were both surprising and excellent vegetarian dishes.

To be honest, the pub doesn't look extremely special, but it has its own magic! Especially at night when the weather is calm (doesn't happen very often these days, but still - it's lovely in the summer), the full moon is right in front of you and a pint of Taddy Lager is in your hand. I don't need nothing more! I've never tried the food, because I go there for the atmosphere. The beer is quite good though! I simply love this place - it's one of the most enchanting pubs in London.

One of the best spots in London to enjoy a pint. The real find is The Gallows Restaurant upstairs. The food is superb there and as a veggie I'm always surprised with the decent choice they offer outside the usual red onion and goat cheese tart cliches. With a table over looking the river you won't want to be anywhere else.

This may well be my favourite Sam Smith's pub, well.in the summer at least. If you like this chain of pubs then you should come here in the summer and head to Ye Olde Cheshire cheese in the winter! Has the usual selection of cheap Sam Smith's drinks. I think I have found a new favourite in the stout, which looks like Guinnessbut tastes much better. This is a good development for me as I sometimes find the selection in these pubs a little limited. This pubs major asset is the beer garden with the view over the river. They have a number of tables and benches outside on which to spend one of those lazy weekend afternoons. When it is busy a number of people end up sitting on the river wall, in defiance of the 'DANGER: Do not sit on the wall' sign.depending on the tide, you could fall into the river or into mud. It's quite interesting seeing the variety of buildings on the opposite bank. Although the pub is new and has no history of its own, it does look out over the old location of execution dock. You are supposed to be able to see some remnant of the construction at low tide, but I haven't ever seen anything myself. The pub also takes it's name from a famous pirate (http://www.captainkidd.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk) who was hung there (three times!) in 1701. And thank goodness for this name as other establishments nearby seem to have renounced old fashioned names in favour of bland monikers. The pub has an old fashioned feel to it too, even if this is not particularly authentic. I haven't been upstairs to the restaurantthe food menu looks very expensive, so I'll give that a miss.

Each time I visit, I am delighted by the cheap but good beer, and the similarly bargain steak and ale pies, which are very filling and taste fresh and splendid. The Thameside view is brilliant, and there is plenty of comfortable seating in the side garden. My friend Charles Dickens probably used it regularly, it still being so similar as in his letters by Boz (mid 1830's) Apparantly, Wapping High Street once had more than 40 pubs, so it is a great tribute that this one still thrives.

Yes this is a Sam Smiths and yes the interior does not budge far from the generic decor that this chain has become known for. But it is not to sit inside and drink that you come to this pub for, it is for the fantastic patio garden out the back which overlooks the eastern part of the Thames, looking over into Rotherhithe. The drinks are the usual Sam Smiths choice, their own brand of spirits, lagers and ales from their own distillery. The price is also usual Sam Smiths, a pint here will cost you less that £2.50, and for a lovely part of East London with a location along the Thames as amazing as this, that is a real bargain. A strong recommendation, especially if you can get over the fact that it's a chain and the city boys packing it out on Friday evenings, you can't do much better than this in lovely Wapping.

Here we go: sadly another example of a pub with self-righteous staff imagining themselves trade union leaders standing up for bureaucracy. Customers are a hassle. In an empty restaurant, my family are rejected to secondary seating away from our own choice due to the fact that we won't occupy all seats. Well good bye. Although I'm not that unreasonable to recognise that tables need to be available for larger groups but if you got a customer who's actually standing in the establishment with cash in their pocket do what you can to keep them inside and not existing down the stairs to another place. I'll continue to stick to establishments that are successful due to good service, business understanding and good food. The only good thing about the Captain Kidd is its location and flowering history; otherwise staff horrible, food awful, booze mediocre.

I am so sorry to have to write this review as the Captain Kid Pub is a great pub in atmosphere. I am an honest person and should perhaps wait until the morning to write my comment. I have been out with six of my great City friends. I encountered a situation with a young barman that misunderstood my order. Our conversation was overhead by what I think was the Manager, The man with the Ginger beard, I asked for a single Bacardi, the young barman quickly replied to say we do not sell Carling, I said sorry I asked for a single Bacardi, he looked at me as if it was my fault that he heard me wrong. He then came back with a Bacardi with a coke mixed in it. I questioned this and said that I am sorry you have got this order wrong. I want a single Bacardi, I was then challenged by the Manager to take things easy. I explained I have asked for a drink and your man has got it wrong twice. I then asked to speak to the manager on my own at his convenience, we did so and he apologised to me shaking my hand. However, following this the bar staff came to our table picked up two unfinished drinks and took them away, I questioned this and got abuse from a younger man working behind the bar. I am prepared to leave things at this, however I am an ex serviceman, whom regards all people with jobs to do. I respect all levels of service people, But feel that this was not my fault. Hence dealing with this before I go to bed. Please for the sake of customers that may not have the patience that I have, talk to your staff and point them in the right direction. Respectfully yours Mr Paul Jackson

Good pint of bitter. Crap food. Do not eat here. I ordered a mushroom Wellington and it was clearly microwaved or heated in some other way from frozen - and not well might I add. Mine was mostly frozen/cold in the middle. When I asked for HP sauce to go with my potatoes I was given catsup. My American accent isn't that thick. C'mon.

Recently I completed a temp posting with an organization who were in the middle of a major office move. For the first while we were at the dreadfully dull Holborn. The only benefits to the location that I could find were the Princess Louise and Lincoln's Inn Fields in behind. It was with great relief that I greeted our move to Clerkenwell. Ah, charming Clerkenwell. Design companies, film companies, creatives galore, a lovely old green, some colourful pubs, all in all a major improvement upon our former situation. The next step, of course, was discovering where to eat. Luckily, the first place I tried was a gem. Bon Appetit is an unimposing little place at the corner of St John and Great Sutton. Aside from the hot dishes everything here is made to measure, and the prices are better than reasonable. Bon Appetit makes simply beautiful food, generally quite healthy with a few guilty favourites (burgers, chips). My favourites in the brief time I spent there were the sandwich of houmous, carrots and spinach and the goats cheese, roast veg & spinach. Occasionally, when suspending my horror at the thought of eating fish (they breathe their own feces) I took the fresh poached salmon which was, for certain, delicious. As for their toasted ciabatta, perfect but for the fact that crisp bread sometimes disturbs the roof of my mouth, I delighted in the brie, tomato, roast veg and pesto. When feeling flush I took the mushroom risotto. Risotto! For lunch! For under a fiver! It is very much the sort of virtuous small venture that you want to patronize. Surrounded as we are with healthy fast food options it's a delight to find somewhere with real character and real flare making your lunch lovingly on site. I almost miss that temp gig. Almost.

One of my favourite Sam Smith pubs. The interior is huge and wherever you plant your bum you're guaranteed a great view of the Thames. There is also heaps of space outside on the terrace. The food isn't going to blow your mind but is very reasonable.

Not a bad pub if you're in the area, but don't go out of your way to get there. It's in the upmarket part of Wapping, near all the converted warehouses and the Overground. It attracts a more local crowd, and there's not much else happening nearby, so not the place for a big night out. Typical traditional pub interior, but only Sam Smiths Brewery beers and unusual brands of other drinks. On the Friday evening I visited, service was erratic sometimes quick, other times the small bar area was three people deep.

a sammy smiths pub, warm wood interior but the selling point is the huge patio on the thames. this is a must-do on a (proper) summer's day to enjoy a pint and soak in some vitamin d.

Awesome atmosphere and nice friendly staff. The location is a bit out of the way, but super nice. The beer garden is great, would be even better if there weren't so many smokers out there, but hey, it's a pub. I was pleased that there was samuel smith on tap, and very reasonably priced as well. Overall, I think it was a great place. I would give it 5 stars, but Ive only been to 3 pubs on this trip. I may re-evaluate after trying a few more.

Not sure how Sam Smith does it. He owns some great pubs around the country (Cittee of York, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, The Botolph Arms). Despite his brother John disapearing into no more than another bland S&N brand Samual has another fine pub perched on the bannks of the Thames. Hats off.

Nice in summer overlooking the river, and dog friendly!

Had a nice relaxing and welcoming time here on a Sunday afternoon with 3 muddy boys. Bought chips and beers and bar staff didnt seem to mind the boys drinking smoothies we had brought with us. Friendly staff.

One oft the best pubs in London. Cozy, nice crowd, good beers. Nice views of the river and great for sitting outside in summer.