BITE user comments - montyperera
Comments by montyperera
I can't see how this pub gets such a low average rating. I agree that it's not a 'drinkers' pub or a ' community' pub but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Most pubs that fit into those boxes are cliquey, unfriendly, shit tips. At least the Ginger Pig is clean, looked after, serves some good spirits that you don't see in any old boozer and the staff seem friendly and literate. They do some good cocktails and there's a decent wine list and the lager doesn't taste like someone's farted into it before selling it to you. It's more a pub for couples, young professionals and quiet types rather than for cocaine addicted, debt ridden plasterers and aggressive roofer types with their children's names tattooed all over their arms.
12 Jan 2012 12:11
Never actually been in for a drink but whenever I've walked past it seems there is always a bunch of old blokes with noses like Alex Ferguson putting the world to rights and singing incoherently.
12 Jan 2012 11:59
Is this place still run by that bloke who looked totally and utterly furious all the time and his plump blonde wife? If so, then I won't be returning. I only popped in for a pint out of curiosity and the landlord treated me like I had murdered one of his children and owed him 100k. How do people like this make a living in the hospitality trade? And why do they even enter it in the first place?
12 Jan 2012 11:45
It's like being in an airport departure lounge pub. It's full of track suited families from Preston estate shouting 'Harrison, d'you want nuggets?' The sort of place chavs take their mum's on Mother's Day. There's normally a few of the estate's middle aged bully boys drinking in there after never finding another local since that shit hole, the Surrey Yeoman was demolished. If you like microwaved dinners in a Gatwick South Terminal/Crossroads Motel setting, with small time drug dealers nearby, then this is your place.
12 Jan 2012 11:25
Full of toffs with attitude, rugger buggers and curly haired wannabe Australians in Billabong gear. If you happen to not be any of the above, expect a middle class builder with flip flops to deliberately stand in your way as you try to get to the bar. Anyone remotely working class is immediately deemed a 'chav' and made to feel unwelcome by the local all surfing, all skiing, all rugger buggering heroes. That's why they have bouncers on the door, just in case someone wants to nut one of these tossers.
10 Jan 2012 18:33
This place takes the biscuit. It's got to be the most unwelcoming pub I've ever been in. The northern guy who I assume is the manager is so rude, it's almost funny until he charges you a tenner for two pints of average lager. He acts like last time you were in there you tried to set light to the place. The owner's wife sits there scowling at the customers, like she's wishing death on them, it's unbelievable. I can't understand where this self importance comes from given that this is a bog standard boozer that needs a lick of paint and bringing into the 21st century. Surely, if not for the huge custom from the nearby Legal & General, this place would've gone by the wayside because I can't understand why anyone would knowingly drink there.
13 Jun 2011 16:10
The Wildebeest Arms, Stoke Holy Cross
Gastro pub serving fancy food. Last time we were there our night was spoilt by a pair of creepy middle aged swingers grabbing their groins and making pervy gestures towards us. Not the pub's fault, I know, I guess it's just Norfolk.
1 Feb 2012 12:38