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It is a Beefeater. That's all you need to know. Only the desperate or the deranged go in there to drink but if carbonised meat and yellow fizzy 'beer' is your thing they can rustle some up for you in minutes.
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Not really a pub but a great restaurant. Nice food and good service. They have about 6-8 different ales they change around, tend to have at least 3 on at the same time. The Tribute is my favourite. Staff is much better than they have been in the past.
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Awful! Absolutley awful. Met up with some friends from Uni, wanted to go for a drink somewhere, looked alright from the outside but as soon as we got in there, our night was immediatley ruined. The lazy bar staff were too interested in talking behind a wall for hours on end then serving the 3 other customers at the bar, Not much to drink from. Noisy, rude, crude crowd by the front. The food is ok there but not much.
In other words.....
Avoid it like the plague!
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Uggh! Says it all really. Went in with a mate after a train was delayed. I knew I'd regret it and I did. That said my niece and her family like the restaurant side of things, so we often go in for meals, and what they do on that side of the business they do in a very creditable way. But as a pub.........
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The Beefeater is a good pub, but would probably go there with family rather than on a bender as it's not really that type of pub.
The staff are a lot happier than the miserable sod who used to work there, and when I eat there, the waitresses are as great as they have always been.
Sometimes you have to wait a while at the bar to get served, but this is not due to the fact the staff are bad at their job, it's either they are short staffed or poorly managed.
It's handy of you are waiting for the train or for a cheap dinner when you can't be bothered to cook. Much prefered to some of the poncy town pubs anyway!
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First time I've been for a long time howerever, great to see the miserable bar staff have gone, and the manager that had sideways teeth. A much more relaxed atmosphere now.
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i am sick of the miserable female staff on the bar in the evenings.
need to learn how to respect their co workers and not look like
they do
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I have noticed the real ales changing between 5 or 6 different ales over the last couple of weeks, all the beers taste lovely! staff do their best, but all seem to struggle with the 'locals' telling them how to do their job! all in all a nice place to eat and have a lovely pint of Tribute ale.
highly recomend for a lunch time call.
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shocking service moody staff apart from the large chested girl,same old miserable faces and an awful geordie gentleman who picks hes nose and eats it everytime ive been in there
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Always see the same bar staff.... Same waitresses just floating around would rather chat near the bar then serve customers, constant calling of the phone but nobody picks up even if 5 seconds away from it phone. Same music almost all the time, need more bar staff, and managers who care about their staff and wants to be there. I witnessed a queue of customers waiting for services at the bar, and one of the managers (who always seems to wear a pink shirt??) walks through the bar seeing the long queue - pulls himself a pint and walks off. I don't know if that is allowed but that sure is ignorant.
When going in for a meal at the restrant prepare yourselfs for 20 minutes at least of waiting time to be noticed.
The bar staff are there to pull pints for people not to wait upon people who wish to eat in the restrant as waitresses hang around the corner and can't see who's standing at the stand.
Poor waitressing, all though the bar staff out of all of them which have served me I say out of all of them only 3 of them are worth something and and are the most politess people and are great for sticking this job out, and taking the crap from the customers and the managers.
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Bar staff look over worked. Managers just seem to hover, never help. Same faces at the bar.
Can wait for 10 minutes or more to be seated in the restaurant while 3 members of staff walk straight past!
Will rate this low as bar staff are really pushed.
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On a plus note...
I'm glad to see that the "Terrible Turk" and his missus have gone, jeez I hope they don't go and ruin another place somewhere else. Oh.. and I haven't seen many rats in there lately either - seriously!
There is also a new place to eat - NOT THERE! A new cafe has opened about a 15 second walk to your left as you leave the "pub", or to the right as you dodge the place from the outside, they do a rather nice s-d-b in there (sitty-down-breakfast).
On a sorrier note...
It is - with much regret - I have to inform you - that the same lazy pair of wretched, idle, work-shy cretins are still running away, pretending to be busy, as they see people aproaching the bar. It is obviously in their training, their boss is woefully inadequate. He even turned away people that were actually staying at the attached Premier Inn. Absolutely clueless.
On an optimistic note...
When I win the lottery, I'm going to buy this place and I shall level it. After all the carp has been cleared away and burned, I will build Horsham it's first international gentleman's club.
Watch this space.
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Painfully slow service
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decent enuff pint of spitfire and very handy if waiting for a train(literally opp station)nothing special though 6/10
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I stronly agree with fishfeet.
If a premier league football club was run like this place, it would need more than a new billionaire owner to sort out this mess of a pub.
The place is an absolute shambles, run by incredibly incompetent and rude management who employ totally useless lazy bar staff.
This is the place to come only if you are fond of badly microwaved food and you don't mind waiting at least twenty minutes at the bar (during quiet times) to be served a pint.
An unanswered phone constantly ringing may suit the hard of hearing and a television that hangs on a side wall at the far end of the bar caters for the blind.
The funny smell by the seats near the window opposite the bar is now a resident feature..... answers on a postcard please.
This place sucks.
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still dreadful
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have to agree with fishyboy you can grow a beard while waiting to get served,id rather play twister with naked sumo wrestlers than drink in this pub
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This place gets worse, no bitters all but one of the bar staff are from across the pond so you need a degree in 6 languages to order a pint. if you have ten minuites to wait for a train stay on the platform as it will take you all of that to get served. the toilets stink too, one to avoid...
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Recently refurbished but still a Beefeater with the usual lack of a decent drop of ale.I wouldn't go here just for a drink, let's leave it at that shall we?
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As energy draining as a church bazaar.
anonymous - 22 Sep 2007 17:37 |
Still a dreadful place, this summer has often had no ale on at all, not a pub at all (any more) just a waiting room for the Beefeater.
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Would have started the pub crawl at The Bedford but it didn't open until 11.30 so came here. Typical chain pub, all drinks are categorised so that Spitfire apparently is not a bitter!!! but the foamy soap drink known as Tetleys is a bitter!!!! Food not served until 13:00 so left early .
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more a restaurant, it is a Beef Eater after all, than a pub this would be my local except that I'd rather go almost anywhere else. Popped in for a quick pint with the missus two weeks ago to discover they had no bitter on and only one type of lager!
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A large establishment just across the road opposite the main, west entrance to the railway station; it consists of a two-storey Beefeater pub attached to a three-storey Premier Travel inn, the exterior of the whole premises painted a creamy light yellow. Inside, there is a non-smoking restaurant to the left and split-level bar to the right, the bottom half of which is also non-smoking. All was around a year ago very pleasingly redecorated in Mediterranean hues of red, maroon, earth and ochre. The bar also has modern paintings of similar tones on the walls, along with gaming machines and extra seating in comfy sofas in both caramel and dark green. The new colour scheme matches well the older features such as the brown and cream beamed ceiling. Reproduced on a large and framed cream canvas hanging in the bar is a photo taken around a century ago of the, then, partially ivy-clad hotel. The Station sells two real ales from Interbrew: a pleasant offering of Draught Bass, and Flowers Original, brewed under licence by Hall and Woodhouse and without a doubt the best drop of this that I have every tasted, with a definite hint of vanilla to the fore. A Cask Marque certificate valid until March 31st 2006 is on display, as is a sign that states �Over 21�s only in bar�. Good, modern pop music � Coldplay, Crowded House - emerges at an unobtrusive volume from a CD behind the bar. Everything about this place is spot on. While the surroundings are smart they are also very conducive to relaxation, and it would have been easy to stay there for hours, quaffing the excellent Flowers and enjoying the early spring sunshine flooding though the windows and highlighting the cheerful colours of the interior.
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Once was a great pub.
Now a hurried, get out your seat, we gotta more people to see too.
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Awful beer, poor bar staff and expensive. A beef eater resturant. Only use it if problems waiting for a train as the Train Station is opposite.
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