The Penny Black - 26-27 Boat Quay

The Penny Black is an iconic English pub and sports bar at the start of Boat Quay. Food is English pub style, can recommend the Bangers & Mash and Fish & Chips. Good views from the Terrace on the Quay side. Gets especially lively on Fridays and Sundays. Recommended.

Expressing a big shoutout to Jason who works as a waiter at the bar. As he attended to our table late in the night, he was so kind and sincere in sharing with all the current items available for order, and the popular beers available to choose. I appreciated his kind gesture! It made the experience at the bar amazing. ? thank you!

Came here for pub trivia. Was fun. Staff were attentive. The chicken wings were suitably crispy. The quesadillas were kind of small hence somewhat pricey from my perspective but I could be biased as I'm used to large servings found in Australian pubs.

The people are extremely friendly. The food is our of this world. First class service.

Visited this place for Sunday roast with a visitor in town as suggested by a friend to try since my usual fave place that serves up an awesome roast (Oxwell & Co) for me and my girl squad had decided to close down its business for good :(. The meal at this place was decently alright though the roast was a tad dry. However, the meal itself wasn't the reason that prompted me to give the place such low ratings with upcoming negative feedbacks but rather the poor service instead. I had wanted to order a Bloody Mary to go along with my roast so when the female server (I believe her name might have been Jessica too) first came along to place the cutlery down for me and my friend, I checked with her if they might serve that cocktail. She was just right by me but without any eye contact or lifting up her head at all while she was harshly placing the cutlery on the table, she simply gave me a hard "No" followed by "We don't have tomato." and rushed off. There was no checking if I would have liked some other drinks or any recommendations made at all which thus led to me to not ordering any drinks while dining there the entire time cos I was fairly offended by the bad attitude I was treated with. My poor friend sitting across me was also taken aback as he he was fairly new in town and I could not be more sorry about my country's standard of service as misrepresented by this one place, especially being an image training consultant who conducts programmes for front liners on service excellence as well. To make matters worse, my meal was removed before I was done. Half way through my conversation with my friend with my cutlery placed down for awhile, a male server came up suddenly and removed my whole plate without asking if I was done with my food and hurried off before I could react. 1) There was no checking if I was done with my meal. 2) My cutlery placement did not indicate I was done so the server needs training in this aspect too. 3) It was simply just rude to reach across us in the midst of our conversation without any signal and grab the plate away. Once again my friend and I stopped and looked at each other in astonishment. The bill came very fast though even before we asked for it. However, we were thankful for that bit and could not be happier to leave soonest possible so much so I could not even be bothered to share our ordeal there and then with the supervisor/manager on duty. One thing for sure, I will never visit Penny Black again nor make any recommendations to anyone else to visit this place especially when we'd love to be merry and order more on drinks. Definitely a first in a long time in which I did not even order a drink which said a lot on its own ....

had to come here after visiting Muddy Murphy's irish pub and no regrets! this time i went for a Bacon Butty and the Beef and Guinness Pie and of course, the holy grail guinness stout. Bacon Butty - A simple yet tasty dish. I think the highlight of this dish is the sandwich bread. Slices are toasted both ways and buttered to perfection giving it a nice, moist and salty finish. Bacon slices nicely seared but nothing too great about the marinade, quite homemade tasting! quite like the fries as well, chunky crispy and too overly oily. Beef & Guinness pie - A dish to go for on a rainy day. It's so unique as well! just look at the size of that puff pastry! Pastry was v good, light and fluffy and enough bite to it, a good dough. You will not be disappointed by their beef stew hiding underneath! Beef is so tender and melts in your mouth, the stew just goes along great with the pastry or alone. For me, I drizzled some stew onto my Bacon Butty sandwich xP Guinness stout - Crisp, dry and chocolatey. So refreshing! never a dull one. Happy hour is until 8pm fyi~ overall a great foody experience! would love to catch the seats by the river next time.

The Penny Black has become one of our absolute favourite places to eat out in Singapore. Whether it’s Fish & Chips on a Friday night, the awesome Sunday Roast, a delicious Hamburger or the amazing English Fry Up, we’ve never been disappointed. The service is friendly and attentive and it feels like we belong here.

A very old authentic English style pub situated on the banks of the Singapore River at the end of a terrace of bars on boat Quay. In the middle of the floor stands an old English post box very quirky, an old traditional wooden bar you would of seen in London 80 years ago serving traditional Sunday roast dinner, the whole place is a well kept throw back from the old colonial days of Singapore with very friendly and helpful staff