Stone Horse, Liverpool Streetback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Quite the rudest staff in any City bar
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Award for the most miserable barman / landlord in existence - doesn't mind taking money off you though.
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Staff, management, beer, food, AWFUL!
anonymous - 16 Jan 2007 12:15 |
OK, let's bring things up to date a bit!!
It's called the STONE HORSE (as in the thing that you ride NOT the thing you live in) & it has changed drastically since I was last there. Very spacious, clean & the black stuff wasn't bad - £3.05 a pint which is reasonably high for that bit of the city. Good selection of Bitters & Largers.
Seems popular with diners & has a good menu.
Worth another visit. In the meantime it gets a 6!
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It's bad but there are worse in the vicinity. The beer selection is limited (Directors,and Greene King IPA as I recall) and the staff are a wee bit hopeless (though they do try). The food isn't very expensive and is acceptable if completely forgettable. it's got a pool table and a big screen which comes in quite handy for the football/rugby/golf. There are better pubs nearby, but there are far, far worse so I can't judge this one too harshly - 'nondescript' doesn't quite do it justice, but in the interests of brevity that's probably the best summation.
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Gave this place one last chance. Only one out of four ales were on, Directors, and they refused to turn the clips round saying it was against company policy (Puzzle Pub Co). They then ran out of Directors, found a barrel of Bombardier that was absolutely awful, had no John Smiths, then ran out of cider. At 4.00pm they stopped serving without any notice and threw us out because they had a private party to prepare for. This place is a joke and has had it's last chance for my custom. Now re rated as a 2.
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OK when it’s not busy but get a crowd in there and the bar staff struggle to cope. There is sometimes a lack of urgency and “bar awareness” of who is next to be served, in a long bar like this that is very annoying. Even more annoying is that they have four real ales (Bombardier, IPA, Directors and Pride) but rarely are more than two available, even worse they don’t turn the pump clips round when they’ve run out so you have no idea what’s on and what’s not, on occasions they have run out completely. Quality of beer is not good but generally drinkable. Typical complacent City pub that knows it is going to make money because of its location so doesn’t really try too hard. Good prices for the City though, around £2.40 a pint. The food seems popular but I do worry about any pub that has “quiche of the day” on its menu.
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The Stone House is just next door to the Halifax and is in the basement. The decor could do with some updating but the staff are very friendly, and the food is fantastic (steak pie is superb.
There is a quiz on a Wednesday night, £1 to play. This tends to seem disorganised, I don't think it has been going on for very long, and so it might get better as the weeks go on!
Whispy - 16 Sep 2003 13:28 |
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