BITE user comments - jathomson
Comments by jathomson
Continues to satisfy and gratify but one small comment: a traditional pub of this excellence, with its wide, varied and accomplished menu, should serve a pie. Steak (better still, s&k) or somesuch, but a pie. Please.
10 Dec 2008 08:31
Four.one is right, and for those who believe a riverside location compensates for heavily chilled Landlord bitter (and port from a brandy measure), frightened staff, haughty management, and indifferent overpriced food, this is for them. That should keep them out of well-run establishments,
10 Nov 2008 07:50
Nice pub with strange furniture (round, yellow, plastic tables in a neo-Tudor bar), friendly service, and local beers in good nick. The bar food is standard (burgers, bangers etc) except that both raw materials and cooking are above average. All the prices are too.
14 Sep 2008 11:19
Mr anonymous seems to have gone the way of all flesh: the premises are being refurbished and rebranded again. There is an opportunity here, now the old Ferry Inn across the road has been ruined.
12 Sep 2008 08:30
Good but busy riverside pub, plenty of parking nearby, only Greene King but reasonably good food (if you order steak and ale pie, have a double)and excellent service.
12 Sep 2008 08:19
Good but busy riverside pub, plenty of parking nearby, only Greene King but reasonably good food (if you order steak and ale pie, have a double)and excellent service.
12 Sep 2008 08:19
The Cricketers on the Green, Weston Green
Not a pub: "a great venue to enjoy a meal for every occasion" they say, but not beer in the evening.
5 Sep 2008 09:07
Ye Olde Swan Inn, Thames Ditton
Paul and Sue have decided to go (and good luck go with them) so watch this space. Ye Olde Swan could have a future, given investment and integrity.
5 Sep 2008 08:59
It's gone. Developers bestride the site and the Harrow is no more.
5 Sep 2008 08:53
It does not improve. What a waste of a good location and a great catchment area.
20 Jul 2008 09:29
The Old Boot Inn, Stanford Dingley
Nice pub, nice people, good beer; agreeable conservatory with fine view and satisfactory food. Prices? The thick end of �13 for a couple of sausages, mash and gravy...
20 Jul 2008 09:20
Wrote to owners, suggesting improvement. Went back a fortnight later but there has been no change. Unhappy staff dressed as Avengers, lethargic, inefficient service, scruffy manager striding haughtily about. Cheerless.
29 Jun 2008 17:04
A pub as god intended: unimproved, bags of character, charming staff, West Berkshire brewery beer and excellent, modestly priced food (delicious braised beef, home-made pork pie to make Melton Mowbray weep). To all gastropubs: Go thou and do thou likewise.
24 May 2008 19:10
The Lamb and Star, Weston Green
The lamb was never much of a pub but now it's a gastro-pub without the gastronomy. Pretty staff and a nice slate floor. Space-age lager dispensers and not much beer.
7 Apr 2008 11:47
A genuine pub without pretentions; excellent beers, friendly staff, good, unpretentious food, an amiable dog and a log fire. I could live here.
7 Apr 2008 11:42
The George and Dragon, Thames Ditton
Cliquish with scant welcome but at least it's not Greene King like everything round about(it's Shepherd Neame). Nice enough pub, busy with Thames Ditton hearties (cricket, residents' assoc, knitting circle). Not much management soul but at least it's not bow-tied antipodeans.
1 Apr 2008 19:15
Ye Olde Swan Inn, Thames Ditton
This is an old building repeatedly wrecked by development over the years - a teardown structure on a riverside site. Formula food and shifty service - why do I always feel I have been ripped off when I wander in? Does a pint of Abbott really cost �3.90? Is it really lejit to show a customer one bottle of wine and then try to serve another? Charmless.
1 Apr 2008 19:05
Splendid building immaculately and recently restored in Regency ale house style, it has Badger brewery's Tanglefoot and friendly staff. Dreadful parking, thronged with tourists during summer lunchtimes and offside flankers when there's rugby at Twickenham, but still worth it. Food unresearched.
16 Mar 2008 17:41
Poor food, excessive prices, depressingly gastropub decor and service like a funeral parlour. Great location -wasted.
12 Mar 2008 11:12
Refurbed, and still a pub. Amiable, especially if you live for footie.
12 Mar 2008 11:03
Pub's gone - refurbed as a gastropub without the gastro. Okay if your brain is footie-focus and your god is tv. Beer is London Pride or trash.
12 Mar 2008 10:59
Nice pub, very ordinary food and the temerity to impose a surcharge for serving food on their own terrace. They lose two ways: no tip and no second visit.
12 Mar 2008 10:49
A simple, undemanding and uncomplicated locals' gossip pub run, on the beautiful Upper Deeside road, by one of the nicest men in the area.
22 May 2007 12:57
A decent undemanding family grub-pub with a decent undemanding ciabatta-and-chips style menu (and a kid's menu to bring Irish publicity-seeker Jamie O'Liver harumphing out of the woodwork): satisfying food at satisfactory prices, and a decent pint.
22 May 2007 12:27
The Albany proves that location (which is splendid) is not everything. Indifferent food priced as if it were good food, poor staffing and no apparent management controls have repeatedly made the Albany a disappointing experience for us. No more.
21 May 2007 18:40
The Bull, Streatley
Nice old pub but a poor selection of beers and a sub-mediocre meal leave me wondering what they do care about. Maybe the cook or the cellarman was having a day off.
10 Dec 2008 08:40