BITE user comments - Oliver_Reeds_tash
Comments by Oliver_Reeds_tash
Aren't people allowed opinions anymore then, or do they all have to be positive?
Some people have good experiences, some people have bad. I thought the whole point of this forum was to give a view of a pub, both good and bad, so therefore the landlord/owner/whatever can have a look and act on it?
Get over it
12 Mar 2009 18:09
The tup is the best in the area, but that's not saying too much, lets be honest. Shall we consider the other pubs in the immediate area?
Venus - Looks like a bath showroom
Kiss Me Hardy - More mutants in there than the X-Men's annual dinner and dance
Royal Standard - Looks like the only people that drink in there are already dead
GJs - Probably the next best pub, but still about as charasmatic as a fart in a lift.
Baobab/whatever it turns out to be - Never stays open more than about 4 days
I used to love the Tup, great atmosphere and brilliant laugh, then it went downhill rapidly. Christ knows why, maybe it reached its pinnacle and no one cared anymore. I've been to all the Oompah nights so far and the last one had a fraction of the amount of people there than usual - maybe something to do with whacking the pints up to �4 a pop (its Colliers bloody Wood, not Mayfair).
I still go down there from time to time and it's still ok, just nothing like it was a few years ago.
7 Jan 2009 14:28
The Marquis of Granby, Fitzrovia
Not a bad boozer for the Summer months to stand outside and quaff beer, quite a friendly place too. However, judging by the state of the blokes toilets, I can only assume two things about whoever runs this place
1) They are a male hating harpy who assumes men love to roll around in their own piss and is trying to kill off men by keeping the toilets in the most obscene state imaginable
2) They assume the current state of the bogs - which is something akin to a biological disaster - is an acceptable state of hygeine, therefore they must look like that bloke in Peanuts who is always covered in dirt.
Seriously, I have boozed in here quite frequently for over a year, not once has there been any soap in there, it stinks worse than Gary Glitter's grounds for appeal, and if you are wearing any sort of trousers where the bottoms touch the ground, expect to have them soaked up to the knee in piss after your first trip there
SORT IT OUT
2 Oct 2008 17:31
So at about 6pm on a drive back from Cornwall on Sunday, really fancied popping into a good old village boozer for some decent grub rather than any roadside Little Thief malarky. Was desperately searching for something a few hours into the drive, when we noticed signs down the A303 for this pub. Half a mile it beckoned, take this exit on the roundabout it teased. So we followed the signs to sample the sumptuous delights that this quaint, traditional looking public house could offer...
....only to find it pissing well closes at half 4 on a Sunday. What the hell is that about?
30 Sep 2008 14:17
The Royal George, Charing Cross Road
Have you ever dreamed of having the superpower of invisibility? Sneaking into the cinema for free, having a good old gawp in the ladies' changing rooms, scaring the bejesus out of people by pretending to be a ghost? Well, dream no more, you can have the best emulation of invisibility superpowers ever by standing at the bar of the Royal George and trying to get served.
I really like this place, quirky, great music, attractive clientelle. Maybe they had a 'special' day of guest bar staff or something when I went in there the other day, because the staff in there then were as effective as lepers in wind tunnels. Highlights included a bar maid who kisses her teeth at you if you have the temerity to tell her she just brought over the complete wrong order, and some little idiot who only seems to be able to serve whoever is standing directly in front of him at the time, rather than scanning the bar to see who's next. Even told him that's we'd been waiting there for yonks, said he'd come over next, then just served a girl who plonked herself directly in front of him about a nanosecond before.
I'll give it another go, maybe when the Summer holidays are over though and the barstaff have gone back to school.
22 Aug 2008 11:39
I've only been here once, that is probably enough. I must admit, I didn't spend too long in here so can't really comment on the staff etc, but some of the people in there just made me think that it's a shame guns are illegal.
Turned up, mixed group of us, no queue, but the bouncer made us wait outside. We believed it was a one-in-one-out job, but in the time we waited, not a single person left, then he decided we could come in - I suppose he was seeing if we were p!ssed enough to soil ourselves. During the one drink I had in there, saw a Russian bloke at the bar (which was packed and with no music - odd) shouting about what c*nts English people are, then saw a bloke with a broken arm sitting on his own stand up to get something out of his pocket, the minute he did some skanky little goth girl jumped in his seat, called her mates over then refused to move, saying he had got up so the seat was hers now.
So I went home and watched some nonsense with Steven Segal in, even that was better. Bah!!!
8 Apr 2008 12:39
I was last in here a while ago (think it was the old owners)
Top, top boozer
Myself and the missus took shelter in here during the day as a mahoosive hailstorm broke out. While in there, barstaff and locals were dead friendly (despite that we're from London :-) )had a couple of drinks then headed off. Later on, left a restaurant and bumped into the barman who served us earlier, he invited us back to the pub for a lock-in. The owner and his family came down too and made us feel very welcome, then sat with us until the small hours with a couple of locals, boozing away and swapping stories. He even offered to sell me the pub at a discount price. I made do with buying a couple of flagons of cider
Definitely one of the most welcoming places I have ever been in
4 Mar 2008 13:53
The Crooked Billet, Wimbledon Common
Top boozer this. Great in the winter as it has good ale, proper fires and a real nice feel, even better in summer as you can sit outside on the common. Was in there the other day and Finchy from The Office was in there. The temptation to shout 'One up the bum, no arm done' was overwhelming, but he had his wife and kids with him, so thought I'd better not.
Anyway, top boozer, will always go back
25 Jan 2008 17:13
This pub has decent bar staff, a good jukebox and a good selection of booze. They is about the only good things I can say about it.
The pub is like being in a tomb, really gloomy with hardly any natural light. What's also worth noting is the function room facilites. The room at the back can be reserved, and it has it's own bar and set of bogs. Great. You would think that if you'd booked for a function - therefore a captive group of customers that are going to splash money there all night, possibly for a very special occasion - the venue would at least make sure the bogs had basics in there like toilet paper and soap, and the floor didn't look like every member of a Saga holiday group had passed through there without their colostromy bags attached.
23 Jan 2008 14:46
I really wish I could pop a positive review on this place - well, any review - but chances of that were scuppered by a doorman who clearly had some personal problems and decided to take it out on the customers.
A group of about 9 of us - balanced, 4 girls, 5 guys - decided to go along there after a work drink, so got there about half 12, all happy, no one drunk. We waited outside despite there being no queue, whilst the bouncer looked us all over, then proclaimed that we could all come in barring one guy. Seems a bit odd, so we dared to question why was that, when he started doing that usual I-will-never-be-more-than-a-bouncer-but-I-have-the-power-now shite and gave it the old 'I don't have to f*cking explain myself to you, he ain't coming in'. After gentle persuasion he eventually came up with the mind-blowing reason 'I don't think he can handle the stairs'. I can assure you now that the member of our group in question is not a Dalek
Sad fact is, that's none of us ever trying to go back there, and if anyone aks us if we can recommend a good venue, that will never be it, all down to one doorman who has given us the impression the place ain't worth going to
Sad
26 Nov 2007 12:41
I think that if you have an IQ over 74 and a sense of shame, you are not welcome here. Last time I was there, witnessed a toothless, gold-dripping old crone have a dust-up with her morbidly obese daughter - at about 4 in the afternoon. Made for good entertainment though.
Bar staff and drinks are fine, well priced, grub is decent, shame about the people who think they have the right to make you feel uneasy though.
15 Oct 2007 13:45
Not a bad place, lively and quite a bit of eye candy, however, much better to be a woman in here as you get served within a nanosecond if you are. Guys have to wait whilst the 16 bar staff (of which only about 2 will be doing anything) show off for the girls doing stunts with bottles like some piss-poor Tom Cruise wannabes rather than actually doing their jobs by serving customers. Not bad though, not bad
13 Sep 2007 12:12
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O'Neills, Bromley
Went here for the first time the other week on a Saturday night. Not bad, damn big place. Full of dancing young strumpets to keep you entertained. Had one of those bloody bog trolls though, but at least this one had some humour, with such lines as
No splash, no gash
No Armani, no poonani
No water, no daughter
Great. So we settled in, racked up the drinks, had a few shots to get the night going, then stared at each other in amazement when the lights came on 11pm
What??? You've got a mazzive pub packed to the rafters, AND YOU CLOSE AT 11 ON A SATURDAY NIGHT????????
I thought it was against the law for an O'Neills to close any earlier than 1am?
Humbug!
19 Mar 2009 14:16