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**NOW CALLED TOWN ARMS**
Needs a new entry under that pub name.
After a refurb and new management this has become one of the pub-lovers best options in Wallingford, although it was still fairly quiet on my weekend visit - needs some word-of-mouth and a proper entry on BITE.
This free house pub is a 17th Century Grade-2 listed building. It has two rooms, with cobbled floors/dark wood/chairs and sofas in the front, and three hand-pumps selling good regional beers - West Berks, Loddon and White Horse brewery on my visit. The W Berks Mr Chubb's Lunchtime bitter at £2.90 a pint was very good indeed.
A wide-screen tv was showing Wimbledon in the corner, though the sound was off (a good thing), and there was piped music in the back room but not enough to be a nuisance.
It's located on the High Street, virtually next door to the awful Boathouse - let's hoope some shell-shocked survivors that have been unwittingly sucked into that awful place manage to escape and find their way here. At last, a proper civilised real-ale pub in Wallingford. Recommended.
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Under new management. Now renamed the town arms.
Have visited a number of times recently.
Ale now back and on 3 pumps with more to come I'm told. Kept to an excellent standard.
White Horse brewery village idiot seems the house pint.
Needs a bit lower lighting and garden refurb for summer but much improved from recent decline.
Worthy of supporting for some good local-ish ale.
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Pint of London Pride last Friday had a distinct vinegary taste, I'm afraid. No one else was drinking it.
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NICE DROP OF LONDON PRIDE.NEWLY REFURBISHED PLENTY OF FOOD AVAILABLE
JACKET POTS AND CARROT CAKE A SPECIALITY !
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NICE DROP OF LONDON PRIDE.NEWLY REFURBISHED PLENTY OF FOOD AVAILABLE
JACKET POTS AND CARROT CAKE A SPECIALITY !
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Now renamed 'Gatehouse'.Re opened 14 Nov.Nice atmosphere,friendly bar staff
definately worth another visit.
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There is only one good thing about this pub, it is, that it is right opposite the Wallingford Tandoori, which is undoubtably the best Indian Resturant in South Oxfordshire, I work in Reading and we make the trip every other week to this fabulous place, the Duck Shaslik is a dream......... don't take my word for it, try it yourselves........
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This pub is not on my favourites list ..... i do not know how it still survives, but..it has a pool table and on my last visit there were only 3 people in the pub and the pool table was empty. Brizzle and i had a game of pool and were challenged by the locals (3 of them)..we thrashed them and decided we had to make a quick getaway. Dead pub, but great pool table ..beer = tolerable.
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Lease For Sale outside at the moment. There is hope.
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What an awful place! It's handily close to the river (me and a friend were walking the Thames Path), and that's what lured us in. Psychotic looking bar staff were hanging out with their mates and serving us beer with deep scowls. Looks like a tip too, with its dated rock murals all over the walls.
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If you think the Boathouse is bad try here....
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