BITE user comments - dragostea83
Comments by dragostea83
Another pub which has avoided a review for over a year.
This used to be decent place, albeit with incredibly slow and inefficient service.
However, over the past few weeks a number of people I know have encountered problems in getting served, yes and they're c.24-28 years old. Pathetic.
If you're enacting a 'Challenge 25' rule and are in fact challenging customers well above the age of 25 when you are yourself probably under 25 then you are limiting your clientele by a considerable degree and insulting them at the same time. Surely, most people who go to pubs are in the 18-30 bracket so why take such a gamble and be so over-zealous about this?
Essentially this place thinks they can get away with it because they rely on 30-somethings with their 9 children and 4 dogs who don't care where they are as long as they can spread out.
I urge you not to bother, there are a few other decent, well-run and common-sensical pubs in the area so please go there and not here.
Oh and the food is dire.
30 Jun 2011 13:23
It might help if bar staff didn't post on here. It's quite blatant!!
Still it's a decent enough place with a very large beer garden and well-kept ales which change regularly.
Bring back Young's Kew Gold though...
17 Sep 2010 16:20
Horrendously overpriced.
The food before beer rule is madness and would only work if the food was any good.
If you want a proper 'Biergarten' then go to Germany.
It's only good for parents of a certain age who like to park their buggies in between tables.
17 Sep 2010 16:12
No hand pulled ale.
Red Stripe in a can for �3.
Grim inside, dirty and unkempt.
Owners having loud private conversations with no interest in running a pub with children running around.
Potential but way off where it should be.
17 Sep 2010 16:04
The Good Samaritan, Whitechapel
I've only got bad things to say about this one.
I too work locally to here and have been twice - twice too many.
They clearly don't have a first clue how to run a pub, for which here are my reasons:
1) Music too loud and doesn't fit the intended ambience of the place.
2) Beer pressure all over the shop. Ordered two pints of Kronenbourg (thought I would be safe since previous visit featured god-awful ales that were undrinkable), one was flat the other over-carbonated. My girlfriend (incredibly politely) asked for another since flat lager is about as palatable as a wet sock. This request was flatly refused and the barman proceeded to pour her pint into another empty glass claiming that it helps to create fizz - it doesn't.
Pathetic excuse. Embarassing to call yourself a barman. Don't be so patronising (my girlfriend worked in a pub for two years).
3) No attempt whatsoever to appease our dismay and simply ignored the fact that I ceremoniously placed the almost full pint back at the bar.
4) They might as well be done with it and turn it into an Australian themed pub - at least we'd know what to expect.
Dire.
17 Sep 2010 15:55
The Roebuck, Richmond Hill
This is a cracking pub.
Always does a good smallish selection of real ales which change regularly and obviously benefits from the view across the road. Inside is nice and relaxed though and the staff always very friendly. Quite easily the best pub in Richmond.
30 Jun 2011 13:31