BITE user comments - building.regs.boy
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Quite simply, the worst pub I've ever been to in my life, and I've been to a few. Absolutely bloody awful.
4 Oct 2005 01:03
Call me cynical, but a stranger to Chester just happens-by this pub, has a nice meal, leaves, and is prompted to write such a glowing reference of their experience - remembering, in exact detail, every nook and cranny of the place, the architectural details, the smells, details of the sound system, AND that it was a finalist in some competition in 2003! Do me a favour.
As it goes, the place is alright, the food's quite good, the atmosphere's friendly enough, even the doormen aren't too bad, but the beer's nothing special and a bit overpriced. Well worth a visit with a group of friends, but take a robust credit card!
4 Oct 2005 00:59
Pretentious in the extreme. It's the place the students go to play at being arty, faux-cultured adults, and old has-been men (you know the ones - ponytails and leatherette waistcoats) go to desperately feel young again. Oh, and then there's the college lecturers, who prowl around, preying on the younglings they've spent the last semester grooming, before their names appear on a public register.
It's hideously crowded, with awful music played at painful volumes. A toilet-to-patron ratio of 1:9000 (exceeded only by the barstaff-to-patron ratio) makes having more than one pint a logistical nightmare, not that one could possibly get served more than once in any 24 hour period without the aid of stout sharpened stick with which to dispach the other 3000 parched saps waiting for the barmaid-diva to take pity on them. You really do have to be beautiful/trendy/arty to get served in this place, or weep pathetically (as I do), hoping for a sympathy pint. My advice? JUST DRINK OUT OF THE ADJACENT CANAL (it'll make you ill, but you may retain more of your dignity).
4 Oct 2005 00:43
Well, everything that sammoooney says is true, and succinctly describes why NOT to visit this hell-hole. It IS a repository for delinquent, hyperactive, unsupervised, ill-mannered children, the parents of whom seem to use the place as a convenient creche, where, for the price a half of lager, the demonic brats can get slightly more attention and stimulation than they apparently get at home, and seem to be exempt from the conditions of their ASBOs. Last time I was there, as I opened the door to enter, a small ferral-child ran out and puked on my shoes. Nice.
As a seperate matter, the pub has the most useless, rude, inneffective, slow, elusive bar staff I have ever had the mispleasure of being tended by. They really are utterly charmless, and openly ignore you waiting at the bar, in favour of their mates who gather around the bar with the sole purpose of intimidating genuine patrons. My advice? THE FOOD'S QUITE GOOD, BUT WAIT UNTIL ALL CHILDREN HAVE RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES/CELLS/DETENTION CENTRES, AND DON@T EXPECT ANYTHING APPROACHING SERVICE.
4 Oct 2005 00:18
Now I quite like this place, but I can't agree with the commendations of the bar staff - they're surly, ineffective and slow, but I guess the other comments are less than objective. Don't even get me on the ridiculous smoking policy - you can smoke in the carpeted area, but not on the wooden floor. You can smoke on the edge of the carpet, with your fag hanging over the wooden floor and blowing your smoke into the no-smoke area, but don't you DARE smoke on the wooden floor with your fag held in the carpeted area. My advice? YOU MUST GO TO THIS PUB, BUT PREPARE WELL IN ADVANCE FOR THE INEVITABLE HANGOVER.
4 Oct 2005 00:02
Situated in a narrow alleyway off St Werburgh Street, which has become a handy al-fresco urinal for the city's vagrant community and visiting neanderthals from the nearby Welsh hill villages. The place had more charm when it was a health food shop of the same name. My advice? WALK THROUGH PISS ALLEY TO THE END, TURN RIGHT, AND GO INTO THE BOOT INN INSTEAD.
3 Oct 2005 23:50
Go in there and your life expectancy halves. However, if you like the place that much, then, for the progress of humanity, this is a very welcome side-effect. It's where the (self-deluding) "beautiful people" go to vogue the night away in their inimitable vacuous way, and where neanderthal men (usually from the nearby Welsh hill-villages) go to give their court-couture its weekly airing, and stare at the "beautiful people", invariably resulting in a fist fight and a spell in the Countess of Chester A&E dept. I just prey for the day that these people (and the door staff, for that matter) discover fire, language and the endless possibilities of an opposable thumb. My advice? EMMIGRATE TO RWANDA RATHER THAN SPEND A NIGHT IN THIS HELL-HOLE.
3 Oct 2005 23:36
Simply charming. I'm just about the most critical and difficult-to-please punters, but it was faultless - smiling staff who know who is next in line at the bar, great range of cask beers and European lagers, clean toilets, wooden floors, candles, leather sofas, fantastic food and friendly ambience. When I was a spotty teenager, the place was a bit of a drug-den, 18 years on (oh! Where do the years go?) and it couldn't be more different. My advice? GO THERE NOW!
3 Oct 2005 23:20
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Sorry "Anonymous/Andy", perhaps I was too cynical. I did agree with you though, that it IS a great place, and architecturally stunning, although that "back room" is not what some men might expect!
22 Oct 2005 18:03