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I like the Metropolitan generally, but unless you get there early, avoid on a Friday and Saturday night, it's far too packed and it takes a while to get served but i guess that's the price for popularity.
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If you love pubs, you probably won't love the Metropolitan. It's a giant newly renovated expensive impersonal chain pub for groups of young singles. They seem to drive from miles around to stand around gawping at each other (and you when you go in). Prices are worthy of London.
If you love pubs you're better off with the Railway over the road
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I am at a loss to understand how this place gets awards. The building is impressive, and they have an open family policy, which is always popular, but the food is truly dreadful and overpriced, and it is very impersonal, with staff who seem to think they are far too important to be working there.
The worst thing about it is that the food is so awful. I have been there more often than I want to (with work people) and I can't think of one time over the last five years or so when I had a meal there that wasn't either cold, tasteless, overcooked, or just plain inedible.
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Hmmm...dissappointing to say the least. Overpriced and with little to no atmosphere. I found this sadly pretentious and it is not the kind of place you would go if you are interested in getting a decent, reasonably priced pint and a bag of crisps that don't cost near to £1 a bag!
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Got home on Saturday night to find my pregnant partner craving orange juice. With the local tesco being closed already I opted to go to the Met to see if they would be so kind to sympathise with my situation. They offered me one carton at a price of £2.40!...
I know its a business but that took the biscuit.
Get your act together Met!...have a heart!
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This is the exact opposite of what a pub should be. No atmosphere, pricey beer, no jukebox, no pool table, no regulars, no character. Go over the road to the Railway instead, or if you insist on posing go to a bar!
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Timothy Taylor is excellent but both the beer and food prices and quite high.
Save your money and go to the Lime Tree Restaurant round the corner!
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a nice pub!
very expensive booze and the menus have recently gone too pretentious.
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The Met is very popular and has a good reputation for food and drink. However, too expensive (£2.70 for any of the 3 ales usually on offer) and beer served at lager temperature, but good when warmed a little. Price prevents us from coming here more often.
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A 9.5 rating! (before I added mine). OK not bad, but not that great. *Very* expensive boozer. Decent range of ales but a somewaht sterile young execs vibe to the place.
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Have a few pints of Joey Holts across the road at the Railway,before venturing in & watching the 2 blue notes in your hand reappear as 3 pints of lager!...Not the cheapest place,but it appears to keep the riffraff out(apart from myself as I`m intrigued by the blue note trick)...handy for a post meal pint after the foodie delights of lapwing lane & Burton Rd...Not a place to come on your own at night as animated groups abound.....Good pub
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This is an excellent pub, good selection of beer including Timothy Taylor and Pedigree. The seating outside is good with heaters and it has a non smoking room. Its quite pricey but worth it.
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Really good at catering for our large group (14 people) best food i have ever had in fact! Lovely atmosphere. Quite pricey but highly recommended.
Laura - 4 Oct 2004 15:24 |
Great selection of beer from Tim Taylor to Pedigree and Staropramen. Many wines by the glass and food to very high standards, reasonably priced
barry lavin - 4 Aug 2004 16:22 |
nice decor, but really, £3 for a pint of stella!?!? Where are we, Venice?
alan - 24 Jun 2004 16:19 |
Cosmopolitan atmosphere. Good food menu, with some interesting veggie options. Non smoking room. Nice out door space & outside bar in summer. Good Parking (not that anyone drinking should be using it!)
anonymous - 15 Mar 2004 14:25 |
Large victorian building, big rooms, big tables, open fires. Guest Cask Ales include: Pedigree, Tim Taylor Landlord, Deuchars and Black Sheep. Staropramen, Stella and Carlsberg Lagers plus the usual Guinness and Strongbow. Good selection of bottle beers and wines by the glass. Good food throughout the bar incl the Met Burger(a must)and a pretty decent restaurant to boot. Outside bar in the summer with loads of space to to soak up the 'rays'.
barry lavin - 23 Feb 2004 12:20 |
