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How does this place keep going? It's horrible, and would be more at home in Toxteth, Moss Side or Handsworth. And don't park in the car park, you'll get clamped.
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Make sure you cross the road to walk by this total dump and its chavy clientele!
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Well looks like more new managers even worse than the previous at least they were not so loud and garish the new female in charge looks like a man in drag and sounds like a very rude cockney the place is dirty,and the patrons are about the same don't think the lines have been cleaned for weeks really poor beers advice to all don't bother even going in
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A 'community pub'. If you are going to park in their car park make sure you are actually using the pub as they have attentive car clampers around the corner. Garish decoration and an interesting clientele. Part of the Tanners Pub Co. a chain of 18 pubs I believe, the landlord is actually quite enthusiatic about real ale, Loddon Hullabaloo when I was there, Loddon Hoppit was breathing ready for the weekend, he is also getting is own badged 'Chequers Ale' brewed by Tetley.
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That isn't Marge Jeb, her name is Mary. Overweight woman with an iffy temper late forties/fifty something? Sounds like her better 'alf Mark is getting the free cider although granted they do look very similar heh heh!
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One is not really sure how anyone can consider the nefarious Chequers to have improved anytime in the last century. I was unfortunate enough to have risked a return visit this past week to be confronted by this year's winner of "The Rudest Barmaid/Gnome Award". I took objection to the fact whilst I, a paying customer, had been waiting five or so minutes she let a fellow gnome (albeit a balding male one) push in then be given free cider without any indication he would pay now or later. Why he was receiving free Strongbow is anyone's guess but for reasons of good taste I don't want to consider the possible favours this freebie entailed. I pointed this fact out and was asked to mind my own business but upon sitting down noticed the fellow was back again within 10 minutes and sure enough another free pint was forthcoming. I can only presume this Marge (I think that was her name) must have shares in the pub otherwise they could be out of business at this rate!
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the chequers has improved in resent months since being taken over,it seems to be getting more people in,its certainly cleaner & more friendly, good real ales that change from week to week. work is due to start soon to tidy up the decor,beer is much better now the lines are cleaned evey week.on the whole alot better than its been for a long time
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My God. I went back to this pub today after a break of 2 years since my enforced patronage some years ago.
TO explain why I've given it two points:
It shows football.
It serves alcohol.
It has nothing else to credit it. The lines are never cleaned and the staff hygiene leaves much to be desired. On my last visit, an elderly patron ( who should have been ejected by this point because he was so drunk ) was repeatedly served whole bottles of wine. Halfway through his third, he wet himself all over one of the seats on his table. Despite the fact that he loudly let the whole pub know what had happened before shuffling out of the pub, the staff did not bother to clean it, arguing amongst themselves. until the pub was totally infused with the stench of urine.
I went there today to check if they would be showing the Arsenal West Ham game and have returned home to see if there is anywhere else in Woodley I can watch it.
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The most disgusting decripit venue for a drink in the whole of Reading, usually populated by rude arrogant wankers as it seems to be a "locals locals" bar, crap bar service, the new land lady seems to have a chip on her shoulder into thinking they're doing the pub some good but really nothing changes even when the pub changes hands.
Don't expect any real ale options as the taps are normally off and the beer taste shite, lines are probably never cleaned and never take the other half here.
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I visited this pub yesterday for the first time in a long time and hopefully will not have to visit it again for another very long time. (My visit was mid-week at around 5p.m - it was reasonable quiet but I would imagine that weekends are a bit more "lively").
Bog standard "unit" in the shopping precinct with two rooms;machines;TV's and music. It did have 2 cask beers available (Sharp's Doom Bar and the local Loddon Brewery - Razzle Dazzle). They were OK but nothing special. I would not want to spend the rest of my drinking life in a pub like this and if Wetherspoons ever opened up in Woodley then this pub would have a fight on its hands to survive. I think it has, however,improved from my previous visit so that's a plus.
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So dragged into this place again despite my previous review, seems to be London Pride available now so at least a Real Ale option exists. Still not really somewhere I would choose to hang out for reasons discussed previously. I have however upped my rating slightly
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This pub has somewhat of a bad reputation. Decided for a visit on a Sunday afternoon whilst in the town centre to judge for myself. From the outside it looks grotty but often it is what is inside which counds. Fight your way through the smokers who are not willing to leave the entrance free for others to easily pass by and you will be inside, which at first glance is not particularly inspiring. Then you find that this is another desert of real ale only selling lager and blue based booze. If you find yourself in the area wanting a drink, the better option would be to purchase your can of Special Brew from the near by Waitrose and drink it in the car park shouting at the pigeons.
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This is the most disgusting pub I've ever been to since the legal age of drinking. The staff are rude, the tables are sticky from residues that look like they have been there for decades and I had the worst bout of food poisoning after eating there. I have since called the Health & Safety board who will take steps to investigate. On the way out I noticed two cars being clamped there too which I was told first hand that the pub take a commission from. I think you get the point!
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