BITE user comments - Neil_floor
Comments by Neil_floor
This used to be The White Hart, but "The White Powder" would have been far more appropriate. Following its refurbishment into some sort of faux-nightclub, it is an overpriced den full of rude staff and morons thinking that they're the centre of the universe... so pretty much all they've done is paint it black and stick bouncers on the door. AVOID!
7 Oct 2009 21:21
Pretty much your typical Wetherspoons. Not much in the way of atmosphere, but a decent cheap pub nonetheless. The Guinness is good, there's a great selection of ales and the food is generally edible. The bar staff are friendly until 11pm when suddenly there's nothing worse to them than drinking slowly. A good place for you to start the night in before going elsewhere.
7 Oct 2009 21:16
Overpriced, overcrowded and understaffed. Everytime I've visited for a couple of quiet drinks I've been hugely dissatified by this establishment. Unless you're looking to pull orange birds in the local nightclubs, just keep on walking past.
7 Oct 2009 21:14
Its a Wetherspoons so you know what to expect price and drinkwise. The Guinness is decent but that's where the fun stops. An atrocity of a pub. Unless you're moving through quickly without making eye contact with the clientele (hard to tell which are men and which are women - both are equally dangerous in different ways), then I couldn't recommend this pub less.
7 Oct 2009 21:11
The drinks in here are incredibly cheap, but there's a good reason for that. Unless you're willing to be surrounded by local idiots and lager louts in a stale setting (despite the decent refurbishment works) then this pub is not for you.
7 Oct 2009 21:08
The Three Jolly Wheelers, Woodford Green
What with the travelodge next door, this pub is aimed at people stopping by the village and aims to feed them rather than give them a night out. The food is great and the service moderate to OK. Good at what it does, but you'd be better off drinking at the Crown and Crooked Billet round the corner.
7 Oct 2009 21:06
The Crown and Crooked Billet, Woodford Green
Now THIS is a pub! Warm and welcoming, it has a large beer garden with a smoking shelter and decking on the front for summer days. The food is great, the drinks are fairly priced and a wide choice of ales and lagers are on offer. Pool table, dartboard, quiz machine, fruit machine, a good choice of music - this pub has everything. Finished off with friendly bar staff and a good mixture of people, the Crown and Crooked Billet is definitely the best pub in the area.
7 Oct 2009 21:03
The Railway Tavern, Woodford Green
If tracksuit bottoms and heroin abuse are your cup of tea, then this is the pub for you. Appalling atmosphere, unfriendly and unwelcoming bar staff and filled with people who would rather crack each other over the head with a bottle than drink from it. Every time I have visited this pub, the lager has been either warm or flat and the drinks rather expensive despite its obviously benefit-scamming clientele.
7 Oct 2009 20:57
This pub used to be a Harvester restaurant but has been turned into a trendy wine bar for Chigwell's up and coming footballers wives. If visiting on a friday/saturday night, I suggest taking sunglasses to combat the orange glow of fake tan which hits you as you walk through the door. Somewhat over-priced and can get incredibly packed, especially on weekends and during the hot weather, but a large smoking area certainly helps with the claustrophobia. Probably not the best idea to visit this pub for a swift pint - as I once waited (Saturday afternoon) 30 minutes for service before giving up and moving on.
7 Oct 2009 20:53
This pub is geared mainly towards food, and often seems more like a restaurant than a local pub. Despite seeming cosy yet spacious from the outside, the modern decor leaves little to the imagination. As a result, the atmosphere, if existant, is tepid at best. The morons that have recently started to flock to this establishment to do little but glare at everyone they don't know remove the last remaining flakes of decency from what used to be good pub. Avoid at will.
7 Oct 2009 20:43
The George, South Woodford
The faults brought by an incredibly awkward design is merely heightened by the barstaff simply refusing to work at any other pace than 'slow'. People gather in the narrow part of the pub, leaving either end strangely empty. The beer is cheap, but not brilliant, but as a result of the poor design you may end up spilling most it on some poor soul's lap and thus getting your head kicked in. Yet for some reason the locals love it, and as a result the atmosphere, if you're willing to delve into the furthest reaches of your mind for some form of idiocy, can be great.
7 Oct 2009 21:34