BITE user comments - Danny1955
Comments by Danny1955
The Travellers Friend, Woodford Green
Popped in there on a Friday, like a madhouse now. The two misery guts have gone and under new management. Quite lively and varied selection of ales to choose from. Only thing is they let children in now and young ones at that which is a shame as the pub is a bit too small to have them running around especially when the place is packed. Lots of banter, shouting and fun. Big fat bloke perched on a tiny stool still there. His cheeks hanging over the sides like saddle bags. He looks like a miserable guts. Moaning because I took a stool that belonged to someone else. Don't know why people like him go to pubs to depress everyone else, sitting there moaning about everything in life. Maybe he should go work out at the gym and lift some weights. Good fun pub now apart from few negatives like porky.
4 Apr 2014 06:28
Went in one evening and was the only person in the bar! This seems to be a lot less busier than before. Spoke to couple blokes who arrived after me who said that the Landlord has driven everyone away or barred many. Shame as this could be a nice place with the right management. Barmaid was a glamorous buxom mature woman with a face of thunder.looked like she did not want to be there, face like a smacked backside. Do not understand why staff are like this when there are so many other places competing. Bitter was ok, only serve their own beer which is a shame.
4 Apr 2014 06:17
Probably the best of the crop around here apart from The North Star round the corner. The area is full of odd balls wherever you drink around here so you may as well get the benefit of cheap beer and an edible value for money meal, the beer just over £2 which is third cheaper at least compared to the competition in the area. You do have to put up with the usual terrible Wetherspoon service and the lunatics these places attract and Incan say you have a fair share of them in here especially weekends.
2 Apr 2014 02:13
Irish themed pub which does food, not particularly a good feel to it and having just moved locally will not be returning in a hurry, in the middle of Leytonstone, traffic hurtling passed all day.
2 Apr 2014 02:09
The Duke of Edinburgh, Wanstead
Gloomy and horrible, looks like they are trying to create a distressed feel to the place like 'Islington chic' old books and rubbish furnishings but seems like that is what it is and the punters were scary unless that is part of the set up also. Expensive beer also.
2 Apr 2014 02:05
Pub had a makeover since I last come in. Seems bigger, maybe shortened the bar or something and a younger crowd. New Thai food menu which is being cooked by the fat governor' s Thai import. Couple of unsavoury load mouths in there dominating the bar , one great big dopey looking bloke well over six feet digging everyone out sounds like he is missing many brain cells, shouting and bossy. Nice drop of varied ales, well worth a visit.
1 Apr 2014 01:42
The Travellers Friend, Woodford Green
My mate told me today he was in last week, poor bloke is only little, got to the bar and reached up for a Marie Piper and saw Jabba the Hutt still there glaring from the other side.
1 Dec 2013 11:43
The Travellers Friend, Woodford Green
I think people are missing the point here,people don't want free food just nice drinks and service and a clean pub? No flies in your eyes just a basic acceptable standard, bog roll and soap? No rude manners by the staff, not to much interfering and most community pubs run themselves as the customers run the show within reason with event nights and trips out maybe? It doesnt matter a hoot if the new owners are millionaires so what? If the are millionaires get the cleaning company in and scrub up the place and show you mean business before serving up any food? Do you think people who live round here have got no money? some may be more rich than you but dont have to give it large and flash it about and insulting punter is not the way to impress as it only winds them up by thinking they are paying hard earned dosh for crap service and a dodgy pint?. People around here are quite happy to pay a 4 or 5 quid a pint or a fiver for a clean decent sandwich but dont want to eat or drink in a filthy hole and be spoken to disrespectful or given dirty looks like my misses was once when we came in with friends as it was really out of order.Offer nice beer and wine products and bit food and people will pay dont worry as most are not in there after cheap.
28 Nov 2013 11:02
The Travellers Friend, Woodford Green
So excited when I heard that the pub had been taken over but could not believe my eyes and ears seeing that the new proprietors have kept the same old dragons in there continuing to ruin the place! Are the new owners unaware that these two have systematically destroyed the pub over the years? Can't they not find some publican with a bit of 'people skills' who will treat the customers as they should be and who know the words 'welcome', 'thank you' 'hello' for example? The are a spent force and it is so sad that the opportunity has been missed to bring new energy and vibrancy into this tired old place. My Dad told me that you cannot polish a turd to make it shine and I think that is what the staff in there are, two turds. They have had their chance and blown it in my honest opinion.Let them go and ruin somewhere else.This should just be a good old local but they are just so off putting I am not alome in saying that I am put off in going in there. Many of my neighbours go in the Horse and wells or the Rose and Crown which although not brilliant have staff who actually appreciate you going in.
25 Nov 2013 15:57
Sorry, last entry meant to be on Travellers Post pub up the road.
6 Sep 2011 13:52
Good value beer but full of obviously underage drinkers and I am surprised the Police have not been in as this is a nice area and location. take the kids out and it would be a great pub. better than the others going east
6 Sep 2011 13:51
The Travellers Friend, Woodford Green
Having moved away from the area and just moved back gave this a go again last week. The place is as exactly how I remembered it. still quite unfriendly and hard to get to the bar and once I got there I was met by an awful girl who said nothing just raised her eyes and had a face like thunder slammed my change down and I did not even dare ask for a top up in case she went mad. Why they employed her is a mystery as she obviously does not want to be there. Beer was quite nice, Adnams Broadside at west end prices though. probably the best pub around the area despite the service.
6 Sep 2011 13:48
Having moved away from the area and just moved back gave this a go again last week. The place is as exactly how I remembered it. still quite unfriendly and hard to get to the bar and once I got there I was met by an awful girl who said nothing just raised her eyes and had a face like thunder slammed my change down and I did not even dare ask for a top up in case she went mad. Why they employed her is a mystery as she obviously does not want to be there. Beer was quite nice, Adnams Broadside at west end prices though. probably the best pub around the area despite the service.
6 Sep 2011 13:46
The Rose and Crown, Woodford Green
Looks like it has been done up a bit but not my sort of place sadly. Beer was awful to drink and could just about manage a pint. Having moved back to the area after many years most of the pubs have gone down hill.
6 Sep 2011 13:39
Had not been in for ages until last week. Same old faces in there though, quite friendly .Pub has become a souless place sadly, I was told. The new Gov is a bit of a control freak who took down all the photographs going back years and put them in a skip and has been banning lots of people. I have not met him but was told he is a bit vertically challenged and likes to throw his weight around. There wasnt much going on in there except football. Beer was alright if you like McMullans as there was nothing else on offer.
6 Sep 2011 13:37
The Rose and Crown, Woodford Green
Nice and friendly pub with lots of people. Nice beer. Few weirdos plotted around like most pubs in this area.
Very busy Saturday nights. Have not tried the food but looks like Brakes Brothers specials.
4 Apr 2014 06:33