BITE user comments - realaleman
Comments by realaleman
The Flight Tavern, Lowfield Heath
Visited this pub the other day. The pub was excellent with really good food and the prices were not bad either. The service was pleasent and polite. The toilets were also some of the cleanest that I have ever seen.
4 Apr 2007 22:26
See my comments for the Harrow. It is owned by the same company is is very expensive.
3 Dec 2006 02:16
The old crowd of trouble makers are still in here, and every week you can guarantee a serious fight. Not somewhere I would take my wife for a quiet drink. If you like the film "Roadhouse" you will be quite at home here. All entrants to the pub are frisked by big surly bouncers. I would expect this in London not Hornchurch. Nowhere else does it. Is the Hogshead so bad?
3 Dec 2006 02:12
A really expensive place to drink. If they had proper ale available all the time and at a reasonable price, then this could be a nice little pub. The chav element needs to be ejected first.
3 Dec 2006 02:09
I have heard that Lloyds is going to become a Mosque. Is this true does anyone know? I heard this from a chap in the Fatlin and Firkin
3 Dec 2006 02:08
Terrible little hole and not one I would frequent on a regular basis. Toilets are terrible and small and the customers are surly and give you the customary stare as you walk in through the door. I walked in and then straight back out again.
3 Dec 2006 02:07
It is almost a year since I reviewed this pub. I drink in here probably about 3 times a week, and I still think that this is the best place for a pint. The place sells real cider, loads of different real ale that changes every week and the bar staff are great and I never have problems with them. There are about 6 Managers in the pub, so help is never far away, and I have always found them to be polite and helpful. I would suggest to Baz1664 that if he has a problem, he should make a complaint to the manager rather than whinge on here. The overall manager (who I believe is the rather tall chap) certainly does have a no nonsense approach to dealing with any sort of trouble. I once saw him eject and barr someone for life for f'ing and blinding at a poor member of bar staff who was new. Good on him I say. Would you want to go to work and be sworn at like that. It is good to see an employer actually looking out for their staff. Personally I wish my boss was like that, and I think this sort of management keeps out the scallies. The pub is always packed so it can't be that bad.
3 Dec 2006 02:05
What a terrible excuse for a "pub". Considering this place has only been open a couple of years, it looks like it was last decorated 50 years ago. This is a good example of Wetherspoons saving money? The policy may be "Over 21s", but I can assure you that nothing has changed. The people coming out of the toilets sniffing and having running noses are just the older population of Hornchurch. The Door Staff are also rather brutal in their behaviour, and the staff are so slow, I could have brewed the beer quicker. The Manager looks like a weak fragile thing. I feel sorry for him being stuck in a hell hole like this.
4 Apr 2006 10:44
Not a bad pub, but not a great one either. FeeFee, the bar staff who works at the pub states that they all have customer service NVQs. I am shocked that I pay my money to send staff to learn good manners, and basic bar work at college. Should good manners not come naturally?
The beer was not bad, and I agree that the decor is a little past its sell by date. The staff are not bad, but again not great. As for disagreeing with what customers who have ventured into this pub have to say, did they not teach you on your NVQ that the customer is always right?
31 Jan 2006 20:19
Not really worth putting pen to paper about this place. Terrible, full of young kids and gangster wannabes with bad attitudes. It resembles the bar from Roadhouse.
29 Sep 2005 17:31
A charming tavern that caters for chavs, slappers and under age kids. To be honest I have seen older looking kids at infant school. It is a typical Romford establishment, a bit like a whorehouse, where the empahsis appears to be get em drunk as possible, and when they start fighting, send them to the nightclub across the road.
29 Sep 2005 17:30
What a terrible place this is. Dark and dingy with plenty of nooks and crannies for the local yobs and drug dealers to hang out. If you want to stop buying cigarettes, then just step in here, and experience passive smoking at its best. I ended up with a lovely sore throat the next morning.
29 Sep 2005 17:26
First of all I would like to say that I use this pub probably about four times per week, because of the range of real ales that they do. I am also not frightened to place my name on this web site when writing comments, so that anyone can respond to my comments. The previous two people have decided to withhold their user Ids and the reason, only they know. I felt compelled to comment as I have seen Gareth in action, and God only knows how he got a job here, let alone a Management position. I have seen him ask a family to leave the pub half way through their dinner as they were 5 mins over the childrens license time limit of 6pm. The man asked to finish his dinner and then he would go. Gareth then said that if they did not go the Police would be called. This was a family with two young children aged about 8 years old!!!! I have also seen Gareth forcibly bring an old man of about 60 to the ground, and then drag him out of the pub by his ankles (Gareth is a big powerfully built chap about 22 years old and the old guy was only small and wirey). I do believe the Police were called by a customer about this incident. Last night I had cause to complain about no toilet paper in the toilets. Gareth spoke to me very rudely, and then ignored me and carried on watching his friend play fruit machines All in all the pub is a great pub, with a large selection of real ales. The staff are friendly, and the other managers enjoy a laugh with all the customers, (the lady manager is very very polite and very helpful) but when Gareth is on duty the staff appear to be unhappy, on tenderhooks and there is an atmosphere about the place. Polite, helpful and friendly was the term one �anonymous� poster said. I would hate to see this persons idea of aggression.
5 Sep 2005 23:50
I love this pub. Plenty of real ale and real cider, no trouble and no Chavs in sight. The ages of customers in this pub vary from around 25 upwards. All the scumbags in Hornchurch, chavs, and gangster wannabees drink in Lloyds at the other end of the High Street, so this is a nice safe environment to be in.
The food they do is also good and excellent value for money. We often frequent the pub during their Curry and Steak nights.
24 May 2005 19:54
J J Moons, Hornchurch
Well my little group happened to be in Hornchurch for our pub crawl that we usually do every few months and I was really surprised to find that the whole layout of the pub has changed. Wetherspoons has added some more high tables, and got some more stools to sit on, and there is also now a sofa seating area at the front. The smoking area is down the back where the kids used to sit, and the rest of the pub is now non smoking, which is great as we don't smoke. You also don't have to breathe in second hand smoke when you walk in through the door. Can't wait for the ban to come in. I asked the manager what was happening with the smokers when the smoking ban comes in, and it appears that Wetherspoons have bought the car park at the back and are going to turn it into a big beer garden. As for the "chubby asian looking fella" if you knew this guy you would know that he knows his ales, knows his lagers and knows his wines, and he is one of the most helpful bar managers I have known (ask staff in the Hogshead what real is and see the reaction you get!). I believe that he is actually Scottish!!! The pub is looking tired and does need a lick of paint to bring it up to standard with the rest of the pubs in the area, and up to date, but then this is JD Wetherspoons.
28 May 2007 17:39