The Stage Door, Victoria

Paid a first visit last night and left without having a drink.
I'd waited the best part of five minutes at the front of the queue to be served (it was pretty busy), only for the barman to first serve someone he appeared to know, who'd just arrived at the bar and who was actually standing behind me!
Despite this being unbelievably rude, I might have done the English thing, put up with bad service and stayed, but then the same barman moved to another section of the bar and served someone else who'd just arrived.
I should have said something, but I was so incensed, I just walked out.
I don't think I'd done anything rude apart from patiently wait to get a drink. And at 6'3" I'm pretty hard to miss.
Slow service in busy pubs is expected, if not always acceptable. This kind of ignorance just isn't. I won't be going back.

8 May 2009 12:46