The Old George, Stony Stratford - pub details
Address: 41 High Street, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK11 1AA [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 28728) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Wolverton (2 miles), Milton Keynes Central (3.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Real ale
- Outside seating, Accommodation available
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> Current user rating: 4.5/10 (rated by 13 users)
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| A pleasant traditional, old high street pub in the middle of village. It’s an L-shaped main bar furnished with green carpet and has an unusual conical brick-built chimney over the fireplace as well as a brick built bar. There is also an old bread oven built in to the wall as well as a selection of tables and chairs, fruit and quiz machines, an old cart wheel on the ceiling, a couple of large mirrors and a few pencilled drawings. It’s clearly a very old building, and there is a definite tilt and unevenness to some of the flooring upstairs as you go to the loos. At the rear is a small room that looks to be more geared up for dining, and there is also a courtyard out the back. Food offering was a small selection of pub grub, with most of the main courses being around the £8 mark. There was also a specials board, although with this listing dishes such as a couple of curries, Chilli con carne and Gammon, Egg & Chips, I would suggest that the dishes on the regular menu were in fact more special. Landlady seemed friendly enough. Beers on tap were Jennings Laughing Gravy, Ringwood Best and Wychwood Hobgoblin. The solitary cider was Strongbow, unfortunately. Blackthorn - 17 Oct 2011 21:58 |
| Pleasant enough pub - no sign of the landlord (unless he's changed since the last reviews?) decent pint of brainstorm. One of 3 real ales on handpump. Splodge68 - 8 Sep 2011 00:03 |
| well what can you say about The George its an experience the roof looks like its about to cave in, the landlord looks like his about to fall over and theres a stuffed fox in the fire place, shame there's not a fire in the fire place as its bloody freezing in there but well going in for one drink and catching the entertainment provided by the landlord who seems to be always drunk and after about 7pm talks complete jibberish, there also seems to be a fight for the bar stools between the regulars and the landlord (pricless) w00ble - 8 Jan 2010 16:29 |
| Visiting from St Albans, went into this pub with my brother, had 2 very decent pints of Guiness & a very nice meal (lunch time). The staff were all over us & couldn't have been more helpful. It's all about opinions i suppose. Albanian - 26 Sep 2009 17:06 |
| We had the displeasure of meeting possibly the least helpful and unfriendly barmaid i have ever met yesterday. I had the distinct impression that we were not welcome, even though we were a group of 7, and there were only 2 other people in the pub. When we arrived 5 of my friends were already tucked away in a corner, and the barmaid was already shooting them looks for laughing. (they were not being rowdy at all can i add). You could sense a bit of an atmosphere. SO i smiled at her, and she just stared back at me and said "yes ?" I then asked her for "a large red wine, and a white wine spritzer please", to which she replied "a what ?", thinking she had misheard i politely said a spitzer please, "WHAT?" she said raising her eyebrows to the two men at the bar so i asked for a "half a white wine and soda please, as i am driving", "you cant have half a glass of white wine" "ok could i just have half a glass now, and half a glass with my next drink ?" "no ! only small or large" "is it a dry white" "its white, do you want small or large" "er ok, i will have a small, but can i have it in a long glass filled up with soda please" this caused her much irritation, but she then wemt to the wine bottle, and then poured it by eye anyway, so could have easily let me retain the otehr half glass for a 2nd drink. It was very hot in the pub, so 2 friends (one who was pregnant) asked whether they could have a glass of tap water, as well as their paid for drinks. This really annoyed her. "if you want tap water i will have to go to the kitchen" the pub was not too busy for her to leave the bar as it was virtually only us in there. Then i went to the bar and waited for quite a while, but there was no barmaid. A man at teh abr said to me, did you want a drink as she is outside smoking. He yeeled at her that she had customers, and she came in huffing and puffing to herself. "YES" she said to me. i ordered my drinks and then one of my friends shouted across for me to get her a glass of water aswell. Well this really sent her pulse racing. "NO, the tap water isnt really okay to drink", i turned to my friend and apssed ehr the message, but my friend who were drinking the water said, "no its fine, we both have a glass" "no, its not very good" my friend tried their water and said it was fine, so could she have a glass anyway. This clearly wound the barmaid up, she slammed the glass in front of me,and then stormed over to our table, on the pretence of collecting glasses. "I am not being funny, but i just told you the water is not drinkable, when you come in here you may not drink tap water" ! So someone on my table said, "oh, erm okay yer" and she tunred round and said "Yer, Well ??" Then she stamped back behind the bar We will not be going back there again ! we were made to feel very unwelcome. We bought quite a few rounds, but we did have tap water with our drinks. We were not being very noisy, or drunk...., we were talking and laughing, and probably sounded easy to hear as we were the only people in the pub, and there was no other noise. I also noted on their website that "whatever the occasion, a warm welcome awaits you at the george". I think not ! mrs_b_77 - 2 Apr 2009 13:38 |
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