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Great local, with fantastic staff and landlord. Great atmosphere especially on rugby days and have some great live bands! I have eaten here on several occassions and food has always been fantastic. Great garden with climbing frame - very child friendly pub. Overall great pub!
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Very friendly, slightly back-street, St. Margaret's Pub. Excellent pints of Leffe on offer. I find the above comments on the pub inexplicable. Always seem very pleasant to me - although I cannot comment on the food. As someone who comes in regularly for a couple of quick pints and has been coming in for the last 13 years, I couldn't ask for a better House. Current manager is excellent.
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perfectly reasonable pub - interesting lay-out and friendly atmosphere
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I have only ever been to this pub at lunchtime and in the week it is filled with the irritating sounds of the mindless waffle of telesales agents from the nearby Arvato Loyalty Services on their lunchbreak. Regulars include a short balding Irishman who is always eating pie and chips sometimes joined by a massive roly poly guy who eats a whole tub of mayonaise with his cheesy chips! ! !
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Nice interior - refurbished without being ruined. Patchy food - roast lunch a damp washout; other options better. Garden a den of kids, which is fine but it could be cleaned more regularly. Pride is indeed a disappointment; when I went the ESB was on good form but then they ran out and didn't have another barrel. Needs to get its act together.
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The staff at the Turks possess the uncanny ability to ruin the Pride as no other pub can or does.
It's high time that Fullers did something positive, that they have done so much damage to what was a great local pub.
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Saved by the Bearcat Comedy Club. Otherwise a complete disaster as a local. Took my dinner date six attempts to find a dish from the very limited menu that was available. Beer is served average at best. It has stiff competition from a host of pubs locally including the Red Lion and the Swann in Isleworth. Rugby matches and TV may be saving it's income but it lets Fullers down big time.
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Typical looking West London bar; beer very average, though somehow pleasant enough.
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An alleged flagship pub for Fullers.
The Pride is regularly flat, tasteless and insipid.
We have decamped.
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they may have repainted this joint but it takes real skill to serve beer this bad. The pride is dead the discovery needs to be found and the ESB tastes 6months old.
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Turks Head has re-opened following a refurbishment.
Sterile and lacking character.
Beer as ever dreadful.
Service, as of old, awful.
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Fri 10th August.
London Pride flat, insipid, thoroughly nasty. All that for £2-70, a rip-off.
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GREAT PUB AND LOCATION SHAME BEER IS CONSTANTLY BELOW PAR AND STAFF HAVE TAKEN LESSONS AT THE JOHN CLEESE SCHOOL OF MANNERS
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Very poor quality London Pride.
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Top quality London Pride, always. Real mixed bunch of locals and passers by. Not incredibly exciting, different or ground-breaking but the Turks is a real pub worth visiting. Comfortable, cheery and villagelike. Recommended.
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Visited a couple of weeks ago after the smoking ban. Seemed a bit quieter not surprisingly. They have spent some money doing up the beer garden outside - which is a nice touch. Good Fuller's (Discovery) on tap and the pub grub was decent value and quality. Recommended if you're in the area.
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WhatI meant to say was "dumpy", and It was a Hard Days Night!
anonymous - 22 Jun 2007 15:16 |
The Beatles once filmed here. I don't think John Lennon would have taken any rubbish from the dark haired dump barmaid the night I visited. Shame, quite a nice pub, decent pint. I was a hard days night though.
anonymous - 6 Jun 2007 15:32 |
Great little Pub - worth a visit if your in the area. Avoid match days!
anonymous - 5 Jan 2007 17:04 |
Just discovered this pub relatively recently. A bit hidden away but worth finding - nice pub with good real ales, decent food and very friendly staff. An excellent blues club runs every Thursday with top level live acts. If you are into blues/accoustic music - a real find.
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Visited after watching England get beaten by NZ at rugby over at Twickenham (disclaimer - I am not a rugby fan - was invited by work mates). Very busy, gratified to see football on, enjoyed every minute of Chelsea's frustration.
Pub itself isn't up to much - big, lacks character, only serves London Pride in plastic glasses on match days which is annoying. Nice girls behind the bar thoughbut. 5/10
anonymous - 6 Nov 2006 11:33 |
it's getting a little run down and uncared for but used to be alright. However popped in for a quick pint yesterday and was put off by the amount of foul mouthed builders, obviously their not aloud at the St Margs anymore (a plus for that pub) so have gatecrashed the Turk's. I hope someone sorts that out soon
anonymous - 4 Nov 2006 16:09 |
what a cracking idea to have boulle or ball or whatever you want to call it, made my day to have a couple o rounds in the evenig sun. great staff ok ish food nothing special but at least its served with a smile which is more i can say for most richmond and twickenham pubs. will be back soon
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Good pub, friendly staff & excellent landlord - the best pint of Fullers London Pride that I have had anywhere.
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This pub is my local and normally very consistent. Went last night (13 Sept) when the footie was on. I'm no big fan, but the pub had advertised the event with screens in most rooms - so it was pretty packed .... and yet: only 2 people serving, with average 10min waiting time and not enough manpower to clean the tables - so the place was a bit minging. Could have been a one-off... let's see.
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First visit to the pub last night, for opening night of Brooks Blues Bar in a new venue for them.
Very favourable impression all round: excellent London Pride, good food, nice friendly staff, good atmosphere and absolutely superb music, sung and played by Gordon Smith and Rob Mason, two of the greatest living British Traditional Blues artists.
The gig is in the Function Room, which is a classic example of a vanishing species: it’s where your best mate had his twenty-first back in 1965, where your Mum and Dad had their Silver Wedding the following year, where Aunty Dorothy had her third and final wedding reception and Uncle Brian disgraced himself on Jubilee Night...
The music fits in as if it's always been there, an ALMOST perfect environment for it.
If they had a decent piano, I’d give them 10 out of 10.
For more info about gigs, go to www.brooksbluesbar.co.uk
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Decent pub; friendly guv'nor and barstaff. Quiet during the week, busy at weekends. Good beer, plenty of screens for football. Not bad at all for a local, but wouldn't travel miles to go there.
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James's quiz back??? I took a fair few quid out around 10 years ago when Chris Brazier had the pub and Jack (RIP) was still behind the bar. He met the Beatles don't you know!
I visited last Wednesday afternoon and was shocked to see the changes.....two bars knocked into one, living area turned into a third bar, garden opened up. St5ill, the beer was pretty good and if the quiz is back...who knows?
What night is the quiz?>
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Have been here a couple of times and have enjoyed the atmosphere and food. Bar staff are friendly too - always a plus.
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The Turks has really improved since the new manager took over. Good to see James' quiz back as well.
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The Turks Head is a real gem of a local. Friendly punters, excellent staff and really good food.. It's such a charming place and a great place to pop into for a pint whether with friends of by yourself as it's so laid back.
The best pub in St.Margarets by far..
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I've been a few times a while back and whilst it was a nice place, it seems a bit quiet. Seems a bit busier now and is all the better for it.
Great beer - food is more than adequate for pub grub - look forward to frequenting here a bit more often now.
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This Pub is home of The Bearcat comedy club, Saturday nights, £10 in, really good acts. Have seen Rich Hall, Ardal O'Hanlon and Al Murray here in the past. Brilliant. The pub itself is good too, nice food, good wine and quite posh, but still a local pub. Way better than the tatty St Margarets Tavern down the road.
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Nice beer.
Too smoky.
Friday night live band so loud we couldn't talk even in the other room - why have amplified music in such a small venue?
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Despite what the other people on this site are saying we have found this pub to be great. The staff are really friendly and have made us feel part of the community. Very good fun on Friday nights - great bands playing. The beer is always good. Its got a lovely area outdoors in the summer months, Everything a local pub should be.
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another mournful reviewer tells his tale of woe - this pub used to be great.
It's now like a an idiot tv set-builder's half-arsed impression of what a pub is like: bare floors, bare atmosphere, barely worth walking past.
survives purely because of the lack of alternatives in the area, and the continuing presence of the comedy club upstairs
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What a waste. A previously fantastic pub spoilt by the bean-counters in the brewery.
It's sad when such a great pub now has to advertise "Karaoke" to drum up business. How low can you get?
More atmosphere on Mars now. Poor food.
I feel sorry for the staff now, as all their customers have gone to the St Margarets Tavern - which shows how a pub "makeoever" can be done.
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We occasionally visit the Turks for old times' sake but it is nothing like it used to be. The refurb a few years ago was an object lesson in how to wreck a fantastic local. Some of the old regulars are back I see but it is still like a morgue on Friday and Saturday nights I am told. On our last visit the Pride and ESB were served far too cold and we saw they had installed a cash machine that charges £1.50. Nice! I can't see Fullers letting this go on much longer.
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Seemed very quiet last Sunday afternoon. Staff were pleasant enough and the Pride was on form, but this pub seems to lack soul and atmosphere whenever I visit
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Just off the A316 (Chertsey Rd) and just a dogleg on the route from Twickenham Station to the rugby stadium, this is a sometimes crowded but always good-natured favourite with rugby supporters. Excellent staff, good beer.
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Pretty average sort of place really. Foods OK. Best avoided on rugby days. Good for a few drinks before going next door to the excellent Bearcat Comedy Club.
anonymous - 11 Mar 2005 11:32 |
This pub is getting better all the time, catching up on the St Margarets. Great place to watch football.
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Hello Bulldog. The Turks is a lovely pub full of Twickenham charm and rugby pundits. I'm suprised you do not go further a field to find a watering hole you really enjoy. There does not appear to be any pubs in local area that agree with you apart from the Aisla (speaks volumes about you)......BIG UP THE TURKS!
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I'm somewhat bemused by the comment below about taking the' stupid sport' back to the home counties when it already is home in its present location. Didn't think that one through did you. If you don't like rugby, don't drink in Twickenham on match days, doesn't take a genius.
Home of Bearcat comedy club. Nice cold beer, great food, friendly staff, easy to get served and pleasantly tucked away in suburbia. Charming.
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Good pub, pity about the plastic glasses but that's what being so close to Twickenam does for you. Been in their for the last couple of Saturdays pre and post rugby and service was excellent - even when packed.
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This was a great little boozer, in a quiet location, a haven for the regulars. Now with a face lift and make over, still held with affection by many. A place of charm.
Dill - 3 Aug 2004 12:40 |
good place for a 21st B/day in the function room
Nat Wills - 24 Mar 2004 17:10 |
Another great old pub far too modernised now for my liking, however still a good beer selection.
Claim to fame - One of the solo Ringo sections in A Hard Days Night was filmed in here.
PJ - 24 Mar 2004 11:22 |
nice friendly pub food not too great but more relaxed than the maggies
tracey dale - 20 Jan 2004 21:07 |
Much improved now under new management - you no longer have to hunt for a member of staff so that you can get a drink!
Disappointed to see that spirits are still being served in glasses so small that you've finished them by the time you've got to your table though...very annoying...please, please stop and give me a proper size glass!
Flimsy - 28 Nov 2003 12:30 |
Relaxing, laid back and comfortable. A good place to go before the Rugby. Much better than The St Margarets which is always completely packed.
Tetris Steve - 27 Oct 2003 21:07 |
Great pub with good safe atmosphere, fantastic food and beer
Paul - 2 Oct 2003 21:48 |
