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They need more staff 20 mins waiting is just not on.
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cheap, BUT you can wait 20-30 mins to get served by lazy useless bar staff. all the good ones leave......if you think im exagerating try it......
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brill pub, one of the cheapest places in town for a drink, its a good meeting up place, gets busy but still a top pub
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I have been coming to The Playhouse for 5years and its the BEST!!!Cheap drinks, friendly bar staff, fairly good atmosphere but that`s because no music. I recomended this pub to all my mates and they love it too.
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Quite an eerie pub, not music and large open spaces, but I love this place! The food is, well, alright, but drinks are cheap, lots of seating (booths, tables, stools), huge bar (though when busy, still takes ages to get served). It is a student hot spot where you are likely to run into everyone you know. Not the greatest range of beers and ales, but enough to please most.
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Popped in the other Sunday. Lots of staff sickness. 20 minutes to get served. Try Fox & Fiddler.
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Old theatre turned pub.
No music, cheap microwave food, lots of students. However, one of the better bets for a drink in Colchester.
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Great lookin spoons well worth a visit if in the area, great beer quality,friendly service and wot a building! 9/10
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As an American looking for a traditional English pub, I was very dissapointed. It felt like I was in some kind of Las Vegas theme pub. The atmosphere was odd because people were whispering and keeping very quiet and to themselves. It creeped me out and I could not wait to get out of there. Staff was all business, no personality. The only redeming quality was the fine selection of cask beers.
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My favourite pub in Colchester. The service is slightly slow, but the bar tenders are friendly, with a good selection of cider, and some good house spirits. Not to mention the fun of the hand dryers after drinking a few too many
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Occasionally you stumble on a decent ale, but you'll be lucky if it is served well. The food is generally poor and sometimes undercooked - my wife had to send her fish back to the kitchen as it was raw on the inside. It may be cheap, but surely it is worth paying a bit more for a decent pint in decent surrondings.
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Huge, cheap and crowded. Expect to see all sorts in here, and seeing as their keg reliability isn't great, expect to drink all sorts too. I once had to ask for four different ales because they had run out of the previous three. The beer is cheap but the service is slow - so order lots at a time. And don't expect to find anywhere to sit (or stand).
Food is really exceptionally cheap in the day.
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Food is good, I'm sure its the cheapest booze in town, is ok to find a seat if you dont smoke, pretty good atmosphere, bouncers are very on the ball, toilets a bit manky but not too bad, only complaint would be that there never seems to be enough bar staff on a friday night. Fantastic location to start your friday night pub crawl, and being 'a lady' :-), excellent for free drink from drunk squaddies!!
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Cheap ales (e.g. Theakston's Best Bitter - £1.45). That's the major up-side to this pub.
BUT
Slow service, and often very few available seats. Sticky bar. Dirty Glasses.
I can't talk about the food, but my friends seem to think it's passable if you've already been drinking.
SO
Alright for a pint or two in the early evening when it's not too busy, but I wouldn't want to spend a night out there.
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Shabby, cheap Wetherspoons. Ale not bad and cheap. Food is difficult to get hold of, as it is a speciality of the house that they have usually ran out of anything that you try to order. Needs redecorating.
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Positives- Cheap
Negatives- Chavs, slags (actually, that might be a positive), chavs, underage drinkers, chavs, rubbish food, chavs, inept bar staff, chavs, no music, chavs and worst of all... chavs!
Have some self respect, stop being so tight, go somewhere else!
Garth - 25 May 2005 17:09 |
phenominal
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Ahh the Playhouse. As much a part of Colchester as the Castle in my eyes! OK, its hardly the Ritz but then anybody who has ever stepped foot in a Weatherspoons before knows what they are going to get.
A great place to start off the evening (or the afternoon!), PH has a higher than average proporation of chavs, slappers and pissed up old men, decor that would embaress a caveman and food that tastes like carpet...BUT ITS CHEAP!
Would rather drink here than get ripped off in Edwards anyday.
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Cheap weatherspoon tack. Rubbish food and rubbish service. Friday and saturday night it's full of chavs and you will not be able to get a drink. During the week tho it's ok for something to do.
AC - 18 Oct 2004 17:38 |
Get in early and out early to avoid the "loud mouthed can't carry the drink brigade" who unfortunately frequent this pub along with the resident barflys. When will they get rid of the former and the latter? Typical Wetherspoon's establishment good quality beer at cheap prices. Breakfasts are good value but watch out for the missing sausage on the traditional breakfast.
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Classic spoons.I once met a girl in here who was so tight she had brought her own vodka mix in an old ribeana bottle! thats this place down to a tee, Cheap.
Mark - 3 Sep 2004 10:11 |
Understaffed, full of Chav, sticky tables... but cheap drinks! and at least you can hold a conversation if thats your thing.Start here, but don't stay to long
Bambi McFly - 12 Aug 2004 12:57 |
Used to be "the pub" in Colchester and aint too bad I suppose. Always bump into people in here plus is cheap and big - doesn't mean you'll get a seat on a saturday night though. In true W'spoons style - many old men plus underage drinkers.
Luke - 22 Jul 2004 14:58 |
This is a great meeting place with free drinks, people moan about no music but this is the place just to start and chat then u can move on to places with the music! fair enough it does have alot of students but they r all harmless
Barry - 22 Jul 2004 12:54 |
A great pub, it does have a lot of under age drinkers but they dont cause any bother, we were all under age once too! A great atmosphere as its cool not to have load music all night long. And REALLY cheap drinks!!!!
rosey - 10 Mar 2004 20:31 |
Not 'special' but it's OK. Students?? Of course -- there's a uni here where my son is 'studying'!
I'm just visiting (from Uxbridge, with loads of pubs) and have no complaints about the Playhouse.
However, I'm a 'Wetherspoon regular' .....
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Awful! Full of 16-17 year olds, tables really dirty, no music, no atmosphere, too bright - really foul! However, bar staff polite!
anonymous - 17 Feb 2004 13:09 |
so full of underage drinkers it's unbelievable!! but good for a cheap meal/drink if you don't mind the lack of atmosphere - old theatre theme is a novelty!
james r - 10 Feb 2004 02:23 |
its a relly cool place and the food is gd gr8 place
anonymos - 15 Jan 2004 20:05 |
This place is full of the most badly dressed people I have ever seen?? Do they not sell full length mirrors in colchester??
Lots of pervy old men aswell.
Carrie - 16 Oct 2003 17:08 |
bit on the quiet side, no life and full of students but its cheap and so you can get lagered up before you go elsewhere!
michael carpenter - 26 Jul 2003 17:12 |
No music and no life, but has good food and cheap drinks. In daytime it is sometimes hard to get a seat due to the lonely old men sitting alone at a table for four mulling over a 3 hour old pint of bitter, especially on pension day.
anonymous - 23 Jun 2003 22:55 |
I don't really like this place. It's cheap for drinks but there is no music. Annoying ugly men!!!
Carly Lucas - 19 Jun 2003 17:33 |
this pub is the heart and soul of colchester sixth form students and returning uni students. although no music, theres always an atmosphere for a fight. good cheap drinks, and always a place to stand!
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Good beer, kept well. No arguments from the staff when you suggest the beer is off or ask for a top-up.
Unfortunately, the pricing policy encourages the student population to get lagged and roudy most weekends.
Jen - 6 Apr 2003 10:27 |
