Misty Moon, Twickenham

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user reviews of the Misty Moon, Twickenham

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Not a lot seems to have happened since the change of ownerships as I would have had this down as a wetherspoons.

I was served very promptly and I think that my lager was about £2.80, which isn’t bad. The pub is very open plan with a plasma screen at each end and some booths at the opposite side to the bar. Abbott Ale, Pride and GK IPA were all available along with the usual suspect lagers.

The pub shows Sky Sports and Setanta and there is very limited uncomfortable outside seating on the high street.

This place offers nothing that isn’t done better by its peers so I can’t see myself returning.
Strongers - 21 Oct 2008 15:18
Truth is, ALL pubs are suffering... income from rugby fans at least keep most going, and as only cabbage pach gets more custom, I dont see the moon having any problems... and off season I am sure most would prefer the cozy setting, compared to the fairly rough ones next door...

There are lots of other pubs only yards away for those with other tastes...
comnut - 28 Aug 2008 19:06
cool place .. shame i hear another estate agents is taking over the property... twickenham is going down like a lead balloon. keep the real pubs going and stop the shite entering.
hobo36 - 15 Jul 2008 19:23
dirty place.
nickthefish - 13 Jul 2008 19:54
Not a bad place for a Sat night, def not great. Fast service, wasnt too expensive either. Downside to this place is the place lacked atmosphere, the layout was like an old folks pub and the music was a little dodgy at times!!
MystiKaL - 16 Apr 2007 14:28
Chiken Tikka for £2.99.....That is actually impossible. Avoid
KingRaama - 5 Oct 2006 15:39
the doctor got it spot on. big no no. almost as bad more expensive, still f effin cheap tho.
therealmonkeyman - 18 Sep 2006 13:24
As it had "changed" thought I would give it another go.

Basically the same flea-incrusted, smokey hell hole populated by toothless old gits that it was before. Except as it is not a Witherspoons you pay more for the privilege. Service crap as well.Avoid.
TheGP - 4 Aug 2006 09:27
The Misty Moon...

...quite an appropriate name really, open the door, you can't see the bar for the fog that greets you, unless you're 2' tall, in which case I apologise.

Full of the elderly and the odd person who walked in accidentally and is trying to find the door out.
Ladril_Leafstar - 31 Jul 2006 12:37
No longer a Wetherspoon's house and was on the slide before the sale. Almost next door to the Cabbage Patch and a world away. Close also to the nick which must come in handy at the weekend...
anonymous - 6 Jul 2006 15:48
Not a Wetherspoons? I'll have to visit it now the Chain Nazis have gone...
TheGP - 16 Jun 2006 10:21
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A WETHERSPOONS PUB NOW. It's owned by another free house chain. Wetherspoons still have The Sorting Rooom over the road however
JohnBonser - 4 May 2006 13:04
It has now changed its name to "The Misty Moon".

Most people I know called it "The Sorry Gits" or "The Muddy Puddle". Was full of incontinent "Old Gits", you had to check if you had a dry seat before you sat down. They have now moved to the "Sorting Room" across the road, and if these guys moved, there has to be something wrong with this pub now.

Another Twickenham pub bites the dust.
leffbud - 23 Feb 2006 10:52
anyone who knows Twickenham knows that to go in here means you have given up on life and this is the best its gonna get for you .I would be too embarresed to even look in here, let alone drink in it
bobl72 - 16 Feb 2006 12:21
its not closing the lease is up for sale too much competition for a seedy pub even selling cheap drink dosnt work
anonymous - 26 Jun 2005 16:38
I hear that it's closing down soon ... anyone else heard anything??
Alastair - 5 Jun 2005 19:38
I quite like this pub, nice and cheap, not so cheerful, but a good mix of students and oldies. Good if your from the area, but prob best avoided if your visiting Twickhenam for the day.
lewis1001 - 18 Apr 2005 12:30
You feel your soul get sucked from your body as you walk through the doors. Cheap drinks couldn't even keep me from walking back out.
ArtherG - 7 Apr 2005 15:58
we absolutely love the moon, cheap n perhaps not incredibly cheerful as most of the punters are on death's door apart fromus the poor students!!
WE love it any way!!
Camrur - 24 Mar 2005 18:19
OK for a quick beer on the way to Twickenham station or the rugby stadium. Good range of real ales and cheap. Nothing else to say about the place that hasn't already been said.
snowdog2112 - 22 Feb 2005 17:07
Have to agree with alastair's comment. I have had some alright times in this pub. As Wetherspoons go this one is okay because not soooo many pikeys go here. Just the oldies.
amumd - 10 Feb 2005 15:48
David (18th May 2004) Hit the nail on the head when he described this place as a beer machine for old people with no money ... but a kinder description, especially considering the ever changing variety of good beers, is that it would be the best pub in the world, if only it had the atmosphere of almost any other pub in the world.
Go with some unpretentious friends who like beer and make a little corner of it yours for the evening. You'll be amazed how the surroundings become unimportant after a few beers when the conversation is going full pelt.
Alastair - 25 Jan 2005 23:30
Cheap. A Bit tatty. Good selection of unusual beers. Strange selection of customers - from middle-aged and elderly alcoholics to 17 year olds.
I watched a group of goths/hippies/pikeys, especially the two teenagers with beards and porkpie hats - why did they keep going off to the toilets every 10 minutes? and is this a particularly good place to buy dope?
I was there for about 45 minutes, and the police were called twice - once when a group of youths were refused admission and cracked a window, and once when a customer leaving got his nose smashed in a fight outside - great bloodstains. And I was impressed how fast the two police cars and one van arrived, especially when the police station is as much as 20 yards away.
I'll definitely go back next time I want a fight.
Mike - 14 Oct 2004 12:50
I'm not sure why anyone comments on Weatherspoons, they're all the bloody same. Move along, nothing NEW to see here.
Zod - 21 Sep 2004 13:20
Yet another identikit Wetherspoons pub. Also located near the job centre - Is this a deliberate ploy???!
TheGP - 9 Aug 2004 16:02
Can be very dirty with ashtrays constantly overflowing and food plates left on tables for ages.Mens toilets are dreadful as well and all the staff seem to have been trained not to say please or thank you or for that matter speak at all when a tilt of the head will do.
Paul Fisher - 25 Jul 2004 10:19
Not so much a pub more a beer machine for old people with no money ( and I sympathise and realise you might like it and might need it. Altho you're probably not on the Net) and ...er students with not much money getting blotto. A beer supermarket with seats. It's also filthy. I nevr knoew you could get so many fag douts in one ashtray. But they manage it a lot. Don't go near it/. Unless, like I was 3 years ago, you're skint and can sit there laughing at getting two pints for £2.18 when it would cost you £2.50 for one at The Swan.
David - 18 May 2004 01:15
Great pub and the prices are cheep and the wetherspoons pubs do great guest ale they do great guest ale at the Kings Tun in Kingston (in fact they do 4)also the wetherspoons staff are so friendly.
HayleySmithers - 3 May 2004 22:19
Tneds to be full of the local OAPs on a day trip. Typical Weatherspoons fodder. Boring. Try elsewhere first.
anonymous - 6 Jan 2004 10:15
Yawn! Boring Weatherspoons pub. Perfect for pissheads on a tight budget, but like all 'Moons' - Customers are regarded as cash dispensers rather than valued friends.
Jim - 2 Dec 2003 02:17
tends to run out of brandy often , says a lot when a pub cant order a basic thing like brandy or sufficent amounts anyway
clive - 8 Sep 2003 22:50
Cheap and cheerful.
Ben - 18 Aug 2003 15:27
Useful place to get fuelled up cheaply before a rugby game. Things like bottles of Reef for a quid or so certainly help. It is indeed another plastic wetherspoons pub clone, but the staff are friendly enough.

The funniest bit is watching the flat cap brigade jockying for position before the doors are opened, then swiftly occupying their seats like so many german sunbed tourists.
James - 18 Aug 2003 15:09
I like this pub, even though you do get drunken bums who drink the Remy etc. and I am an Irish pensioner, thankyou Clive
Seamus Hall - 14 Jul 2003 16:56
I like this pub as you don't get too many alfie's in here as they frequent the 'sorting room' across the road .Alfie's just think of S. Ritchie's character in eastenders.
Enoch - 11 Jul 2003 15:20
cheap, friendly. good for students with little money and to bump into local mates
kim - 25 Mar 2003 17:27
Another extremely dull Weatherspoons clone with rubbish draft beers and no atmosphere.
Angus - 24 Mar 2003 13:39

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