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Noticed one toilet closed for repairs - so perhaps at last we will have decent toilet - can only hope. Still best pub in Egham for mixed varied crowd of customers.
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Have to agree with you about grubby toilets, but service good and staff friendly, will be back.
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Best of a bad bunch in Egham, and the only place with a decent atmosphere in town. A bit grubby around the edges (especially the loos) and service can be hit-and-miss but you can get a decent pint and its good for the footy.
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What a friendly pub, had a great laugh with the barstaff, love the way there is always a good crowd outside when the weathers good, busiest pub in the area, well done.
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Why, Malverns, didnt you post before when you thought 'this was excellent pub'. I am sure the gentleman from kitchen will have a good laugh over your description of 'gurning face'. I have seen him offered dfinks many times and he has always said 'i'll have one when I finish work'. So why shouldnt he have a drink on his day off and I have certainly never seen any staff drunk. The Red Lion has had a hard time recently please do not start on the crown. Its still the best pub in Egham and the 'gurning face' guy - wont mention his name - is great guy.
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I have never seen anyone drunk serving behind the bar, and this is still a good place to have a drink at any time, much more friendly than The Red Lion, with a much more reasonable landlord and other customers to chat to (unlike the Red Lion, which is only busy weekday lunch times and some Saturday nights) keep supporting The Crown
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I'd like to say that this used to be an excellent friendly pub to have a early evening drink..... However it remains to be seen why the bar staff are allowed to get drunk whilst at work & also when they are not at work in the pub. I find it quite a contradiction in terms when the management are quick to bar anyone that isn't staff and is a obnoxious but if they work in the crown they seem to get away with murder. I will send a personal message to the manager (who NEVER seems to be there) regarding what else people have witnessed as this doesn't seem to be the place (I have however reported the incident to the brewery). I would like to add that whilst I have no proof, us customers wonder how when your eyes are rolling in your head and your face is gurning you can run a kitchen!
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As I have been away for the last couple of weeks I have not seen any of the comments made by 'blackfingernails' but condemn any personal attacks on any fellow publicans. Just because we are in the same business doesn't mean we slag each other off. We are all just trying to do the best jobs we know how, and continually try to get better.
Personal attacks and lies don't help anyone. Why not grow up, tell us what you think face to face so we can do what we can to keep ALL our customers, new and old, happy and proud of the pub they choose to call 'theirs' THANKS MAT @ THE CROWN.
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Well its approx 2100 on a sunday evening and the red Lion completely empty. A very warm welcome in Crown with great diversity of customers. Well done Matt and staff at Crown - a great local pub.
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I find this pub to have very good atmosphere with good mix of customers, students through to pensioners and good range of beers. Bar staff tend to remember drinks and usually a polite hello. There have been comments about slow service but then it does get busy sometimes.
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Visited pub couple times recently, mainly due to good weather and nice to sit outside and people watch. Found service considerably improved and seem to have efficient bar staff at moment. Good beer and next day the barman remembered what I was drinking previous day and greeted with very polite hello - a small thing that can make such difference to a pub. Will visit again more frequently.
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Found the service to be a bit slow but fairly friendly crowd. Least its only pub in central Egham to have any atmosphere. On warm summer evening quite nice to sit outside for few beers - or the beer garden. Probably the best pub in Egham - given the limited competition.
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Walked in and couple customers waiting. Barmaid did about turn and started to collect unnecessary glasses. Went to toilet - floor covered in urine - and the smell. Jeez - for sake of his profits if anything - why doesnt landlord get grip on this pub.
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Went in last week and the smell that hit you was awful
Agree with recent postings re speed of service with ONE exception.
No real competiton in town currently...
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Went into Crown one week ago and about 4 people waiting to be served - 2 barmen but one just wandered off to do unimportant tidying up leaving customers waiting. The next customer asked the remaining barman if they did any dark beer - the response was 'ummm dunno what do u usually drink' Another visit few days later the barman picked up glass to serve me but then decided to adjust the volume on juke box and completely forgot he started to serve me. Useless staff and badly run pub. Such a shame as only Crown and Red Lion within short walking distance central Egham. Perhaps they get enough trade from students not to worry about local residents but would be nice to have decent local pub again.
anonymous - 5 Nov 2007 21:24 |
Have only lived in Egham for few months and have used this pub few times as always seems to have reasonable amount of customers - other pubs being very deserted mid week. But unfornutately can be very slow service. Tried Sunday roast lunch but this was terrible, beef so tough could not cut and bland vegetables. Perhaps I was unlucky but wont try food again.
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The service is terrible. Expect to wait for ages while people who arrive after you get served first. The problem is the dozy students behind the bar.Also, the toilets are usually ankle deep in urine.
anonymous - 24 Sep 2007 05:30 |
We have just seen these awful revues of the crown. How sad and depressing.This used to be our pub untill sept 1998.So if any of our old customers are reading this all we can say is how sad and sorry we are to hear of the state of the crown.
When we were there we took exceptional pride in the quality and range of our ales.The food was good and plentiful,the garden beautiful, the staff friendly(well most of them),the toilets clean and our customers some of the best people you could wish to meet.
ps.Some of you may remember our pub dog Benjie, well unfortunatley he died in august 1999, 1 year after retiring
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I'm afraid I'm going off The Crown. The SA landlord is a really nice bloke, but the standard of beers is rapidly going downhill and the clientele are going the same way.
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just came back from H.K what a real shame,used to be the best pub in egham ,now just a pub,i will not return to,the service was just well s..t,
sorry cant think of anything else to say
anonymous - 24 Jun 2007 18:50 |
have got to agree with previous postings,the ale was not up to standard,staff rude,toilets (gents) dirty,what a shame!
anonymous - 22 Jun 2007 18:43 |
not been in since febuary,dont think i,ll go back,tried two ales both of poor quality,service still slow,will have to drink in the foresters
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just came out,wished i had not gone in,tried the abbot and the l.pride,could somebody please explain to the landlord that the lines MUST be cleaned on a regular basis,complained about both ales and was told that the lager was o.k,i ask you !if i wanted FxxxxxG lager i would have asked for it,but that was not the point of the visit,ended up in the red lion,with a decent pint of l.pride,went around to the foresters and had a couple of courage best, in very good nick. lager i ask you,the crown used to be the pub in egham, but not anymore.
anonymous - 22 Mar 2007 19:01 |
please somebody clean the lines
anonymous - 14 Mar 2007 18:53 |
cant believe a pub has gone down hill so much,real ale,dont try it,nobody seems to have a clue,if you do go in drink something out of a bottle,and dont use the gents,the smell made me want too be sick,and the water??? on the floor is just unreal,do the owners realise what has happened to this pub???once the best pub in egham,now not the worst but getting there,try the foresters or the red lion.
anonymous - 10 Mar 2007 16:15 |
SERVICE POOR,BEER POOR,will not return,full of burberry,chavs local,used to be a nice pub,no attention to real ales,still showing banner 2005 camra pub of the year,past glories in 2005 mean nothing,the banner should be taken down,staff are not trained to pour a pint,and need to learn the words please and thank you,rather than grunt,leaves little choice in egham,new lanlord in the red lion,seems to keep a good pint,tried the spitfire was in good nick,pub clean and tidy,good service,will try the foresters when out next.
anonymous - 4 Mar 2007 18:30 |
not been in for a while,but still the same chav hang out,service still slow but the abbot was in very good condition
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Beer good.
Service mostly good.
Too many disturbances recently for my liking.
Gents are awful, wellies required some nights
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Bloke that works behind the bar looks like that guy from Outkast
anonymous - 14 Jun 2006 12:40 |
Nice pub, new landlord/Manager is doing really well. Good selection of ales, on a recent visit I sampled Brain's Golden Dragon - Delecious
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New landlord's doing a pretty good job, beer is well kept and theres and interesting range of bottled stuff like Leffe Blonde now. Improving.
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Great pub, great atmosphere and nice at lunch times and staurday night
anonymous - 6 Nov 2005 19:33 |
I quite like this place - certainly the best pub out of the limited choice that the High Street has to offer...ie White Lion/Red Lion. Their are some cracking little barmaids down there, and also the infamous TankGirl behind the bar.
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Nice traditional english pub. friendly staff and reasonable prices. food pretty good for pub standard
anonymous - 7 Sep 2005 12:59 |
Visited on a weekday lunchtime, quite busy mixture of people, a few guest ales on good form, still prefer the old crown 2 bars setup
anonymous - 31 Aug 2005 22:39 |
Very expensive and very smokey. But the beer is always excellent (Adnams and Archers). So you get what you pay for in that respect. Couple of beer festivals a year, and there's usually a nice twist to them (like the beer Olympics).
The food is diabolical though, you could have robbed a jewellers with battered fish i was served up with a few weeks back. If you're hungary, go to the Fish & Chip shop over the road or the Red Rose curry house. Though if you give up your seat, you're unlikely to get it back.
Customers are a fairly broad bunch, but beware the pinstriped estate agents that come in at 5:30 braying loudly and Royal Holloway staff members getting wasted on a Friday night.
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New landlord has got some real rippers behind the bar. Still a rubbish pub though.
anonymous - 23 Jun 2005 09:06 |
Pants, absolute pants. 23rd May went in no Stella and they wouldn't have any until after the bank holiday. Who the hell is running this place? The Keystone Cops? Its bad enough that although dire its the best pub in Egham but unfortunately is usually full of estate agents and charvers but running out of beer? For a week. Jesus, time to move house.
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Like it's rival hostelries in Egham, this pub is crap. But it's about the best place when your options are so severely limited. Food is dire, clientele are mostly wankers/job-dodgers/both. Egham has potential to be a very quaint little town but instead it's rubbish and its many pubs with varying degrees of crapness reflect this. Old Soft Sword would be ashamed.
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Went in here on Friday and was left waiting for 10 minutes as the oblivious barmaid happily served some scruffy students who had come to the bar after me. Unforgiveable. These people don't deserve your patronage.
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Had a few short pints here myself and been short changed on more than one occasion. Usually full of estate agents and charvers.
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Unfortunately I have had to endure this hostility (Yes I spelt that right!) on a number of occasions and I have always vowed never to go back, the food if you can get it (had run out of Eggs last time)is poorly cooked and presented, the real ale is poorly kept and often "not on" and the bar staff are amongst the most surly and un-customer friendly I have ever come across, try somewhere else, although you will find your options in Egham very limited !
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Only place worth visiting in Egham, although Aaron is spot on with some of the barmaids.
There is a sanctuary of sloths somewhere in Surrey that must surely be missing a few residents.
Is_it - 31 Jan 2005 14:19 |
The Crown is the most popular pub in Egham and for good reason, not because all the others are worse. It attracts a wide section of the local community because it offers a warm welcome, a good selection of beers and good food. True, there is the odd charver but you get that most places. It holds beer festivals at least twice every year and the choice of guest ales is usually pretty good.
Si - 8 Sep 2004 13:16 |
The only reason this pub gets away with it is that all the other pubs in Egham are even worse. Short pints that you accept because it would waste even more time getting them topped up. The quality of the real ale depends entirely on random sampling and even more unforgiveable, the management don't even care. Popular with pikeys.
anonymous - 4 Apr 2004 23:23 |
Lovely pub - great selection. Try the Toffee Vodka!
Grey - 18 Mar 2004 14:33 |
Unfortunately the all day breakfast is gone but it was lovely. And "John Palser", I'm sure I've seen you in there on SATURDAY mornings! Nice selection of beers, a bit pricey though, nice garden, pool table, Sky, friendly locals, not sure about those barmaids though!!! ;-) Sorry chicolita!
Aaron - 9 Jan 2004 01:34 |
Ahh, many's the time I've spent a sunday morning at this place, out in their great beer garden getting my head together with a superior pint of John Smith's and one of the Crown's SUPERB meals (try the all day breakfast). And "Stoph" is indeed correct - the staff never seem put out by anything. A pub you'd be proud to call your local
John Palser - 14 Dec 2003 17:52 |
FANTASTIC lunch time pub for food and service with a smile: bar staff very friendly and curteous, excellent selection of food and obscure ales = a proper pub!- MARVELOUS!
"Stoph" - 31 Jul 2003 15:35 |
