Ye Olde Windsor Castle, Bookham - pub details
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Address: 25 Little Bookham Street, Bookham, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT23 3AA [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 2363)
Bookham (0.7 miles), Effingham Junction (1.8 miles), Horsley (2.2 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served
- Outside seating, Smoking area
Pub suggested by Matthew on 20 Apr 2003
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> Current user rating: 4.8/10 (rated by 39 users)
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other pubs nearby:
Royal Oak, Bookham (0.6 miles), Crown, Bookham (0.6 miles), Sir Douglas Haig, Effingham (0.8 miles), Plough, Effingham (0.8 miles), Anchor, Bookham (1.0 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of Ye Olde Windsor Castle, Bookham
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| Maybe the General Manager *did* hand in his notice. Maybe it was that or be sacked. I don't know who you are ColinManuel with your one comment on BITE, but presumably not from Spirit, or you wouldn't be offering information that Spirit Pub Co head office refuse to give. Or are you one of the new (all male) managers who advertised for 'waitresses' and went against the sex discrimination act for reasons of your own? On the Thursday the old crew were all there, on the Friday they were gone, and it's not 'silly village gossip', it's what the ex-members of staff told me happened. They wouldn't all leave weeks before term started for no reason at all. Gzornenplat - 26 Oct 2011 16:02 |
| oh dear, soggy batter on the prawns... can't have used Moosehead in the beer batter mix. Moosehead makes everything OK...really slickwilly247 - 7 Oct 2011 21:45 |
FACT- The General Manager handed in his resignation and was not "sacked". The staff were 90% University staff who have returned to university. Any other comments are just silly village gossip. ColinManuel - 6 Oct 2011 20:42 |
| Update: 3 or 4 weeks ago it all changed. From what I understand, there was a problem with the stock-take. The landlord said it wasn't him, they accused the staff. The staff said it wasn't them, and Spirit sacked the manager, and all but one of the staff resigned. It's not a happy place now. The beer's OK, but the staff are (with the odd exception) pretty jobsworth. The food has gone back to how it used to be. Went there with my father, aunt, and uncle (despite trying to persuade them to go somewhere else). I had the Surf and Turf. Soggy batter on the prawns, and my medium rare ('please tell the chef I really do mean medium-rare') steak was blackened on the outside and well-done in the centre. All us (now ex-) locals go elsewhere. Tried to get an explanation from the Spirit Pub co they replied 'Due to data protection, we are not able to disclose details of our employees but I can confirm that the General Manager and some Team Players have left the business for reasons outside of our control.' Still worth going for a pint as the beer's not bad, but forget it for food or a friendly welcome, and the interior decoration is, in places, literally falling off the walls. Gzornenplat - 26 Sep 2011 15:41 |
| I certainly wouldn't go back to this pub, despite the beer's being kept fairly well. A group of six of us went for dinner on a Saturday evening. Six of us ordered starters, and the six of us ordered main meals with two ordering side dishes with the mains. After a long, long wait five starters appeared - they'd forgotten to prepare the sixth! Following another long wait five mains arrived - yet again they'd forgotten to do one of the orders and also had forgotten the two side dishes. As the forgotten sixth meal had to be prepared from scratch the five "lucky" ones had to go ahead whilst our sixth guest had to wait another long time for her meal. Absolute incompetence! Yesterday evening we went to the Plough at Effingham, not far away. What a contrast! Delightful meals, great beer, and absolutely professional, friendly service! fellwalker - 17 Sep 2011 09:27 |
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