The Moon and Stars, Penge

For years the vast majority of staff were paid what they were worth,......... correction.... some of them would owe the company money for the food and heating they used......LOL
On the positive side up to when I stopped using the establishment with the exception of just one or two the staff were really good. Although it is annoying when you are waiting that they go and serve someone who just turns up (a good barman/barmaid should know who is next) but the real person to blame is the bloke who has just walked to the bar, 99% of the time he knows he has pushed in!

When I used the pub, (up to about 3 months ago), you could order food at any of the tills, has that changed?

Has the dryer in the toilet been repaired yet?

Also one Saturday afternoon, about a month or so ago there were loads of police and ambulancemen in there..........what happened ?.................did one of the little children fall off the bar, or did one of the teenagers take a drug overdose :-)
I notice that the police then forced the pub to close.
Can anyone update me please

29 Jul 2006 07:23

The Moon and Stars, Penge

A request by posters please.
Over the last week or so there have been about 6 postings removed by the moderator?????
I can only think the reason being for this is that some of the postings have been rather personal (even naming people - eg Capt Ash Tray, who ever he might be:-) and also the language has not really been suitable.
It is important that you continue to post YOUR TRUE FEELINGS about this establishment, but please express yourself in a more dignified way and manner.
By doing that other people can then see what this establishment is really like and hopefully the Head Office and Senior Management will take some action.
Maybe someone should forward this to them :-)

So please good people continue to report on this pub (good and bad)and then lets all keep our fingers crossed.

ps Has the hand dryer in the toilet been fixed yet??

28 Jun 2006 06:14

The Moon and Stars, Penge

In response to XMandyX:-

I agree with your comments 100%; do I know you?
Regarding Big Ang; she drives the 358 bus, she NEVER worked for Weatherspoons, she was a customer who thought she ran the pub:-)

20 Jun 2006 08:03

The Moon and Stars, Penge

This Wetherspoons pub in Penge must be the worst run Wetherspoons outlet.
Furniture falling to pieces!
ALWAYS running out of lager/cider/beers............including bottles, shorts and mixers.
The drinks are usually quite warm (well not as cold as they should be through a cooler), especially the lagers and cider. As for the real ales, I am afraid they are not always looked after, also mostly luke warm.
They have a Monday club (this is the day when some of the beers/lagers are cheaper) but they are usually not on offer as the manager never or forgot to order enough.
Cleaning the pipes when the pub is open and customers are waiting for that drink.
No proper air conditioning...........smell your clothes after spending a night in there!
Young children (under 11's) running round the place and even at the bar (sometimes even SITTING on the bar) whilst they are being served.
Full of late teenagers in the evenings, drug taking in the SMELLY dirty toilet. To my knowledge the hand dryers have not worked properly in the mens toilet for over 3 years. They do not always pump out hot air and one of the machines has the starter button hanging off for three years now.
As for the food, yes it is reasonably priced, but the amount that goes back is unbelievable!..............cold; undercooked etc
When Wetherspoons started up it said it would never allow children in the pub, it would never have TVs in their pubs, it would never have music in their pubs............how things have changed.

Since they installed the TVs (about 6 weeks ago) I have and never will go back in there. The TVs are on all day and are very distracting! Yes I could sit somewhere else but where?........it means sitting up in the restuarant area as ALL the stools around the tables are usually all occupied from time of opening to closing. Rightly so these stools and tables are very popular, as it is away from the TVs, so as they are popular what do they decide to do.................. yes you have guessed it........they have removed some.
My comments are up to 6 weeks ago as I now use other establishments including the Goldsmiths.............so I doubt very much whether anything has changed in the Moon and Stars since my last time and final visit there.

Any case apart from the above everything else is ok and yes the staff are very friendly and on the whole very good, especially the little Polish girl with dark hair; she is worth two of the staff that 'used' to work there.

4 Jun 2006 07:15