BITE user comments - sarabl
Comments by sarabl
bigoted - somebody with strong opinions, especially on politics, religion, or ethnicity, who refuses to accept different views mmmm Well I do have strong opinions about some things but politics, religion or ethnicity are not amongst them. Refuses to accept different views? If you knew me at all you would know that I welcome frank and open discussions on many subjects and often find that I am presented with a side of the argument I had not previously thought �f , I have even been known to agree to disagree - not good form for a bigot! I am sorry that I have so grieviously upset you as to merit such an unplesant attack on this forum I had not realised that I had changed so much in the last 18 months since your last post on my pub. Just as a footnote ..... if I am so hellbent on making war with camra why did I get such a glowing review from Kent camra and manage to win the camra bus to the pub award for the last two years?
5 Nov 2012 16:25
anotherpintplease make yourself known, your sence of humour has earn't you a pint!
25 May 2012 16:16
Went for a meal here last week, I am fairly critical about food but I could not fault the meal that was presented to us. The staff were all friendly and attentive, a thoroughly delightful evening and one I would recommend to anyone.
29 Sep 2011 10:07
fullbelly, I love your sense of humour! I am reluctant to use this site as some people get carried away and it is not well policed so as a rule I respond to these comment on my own site as I did to the first from susie. I must just point out to susie that a public house does not mean we are at her beck and call to supply her with her every need, it means that my home is open to the public to come and purchase the goods I have on offer. I expect good behaviour and good manners. If you go into a shoe shop for a bottle of drink and can't get it you don't get on your high horse because the place is open to the public and therefore should sell what you want, you just try somewhere else next time. (I understand you like the Star susie). There, lets hope that has cleared all this nonsence up!
25 Jun 2011 08:30
I don't understand this last comment, we eat here from time to time and recommend it to people who come to us for food when we have none on offer. We have always enjoyed our meal. A lot of pubs use that well known brand of catering food supplies for cooking ingredients and just because you see a 3663 lorry outside it would be wrong to assume it is delivering ping dinners. I would suggest you try it for yourselves.
1 Jun 2011 16:34
The Partridge, Partridge Green
a successful and well attended opening night! I am sure I am not alone in wishing Rob and Vicky and all at Dark Star good fortune in their new venture!
26 Feb 2011 11:47
nice to hear from mr grumpy again if anyone is interested I have addressed the issues he raised on my soapbox page on the Royal Oak website
9 Feb 2011 11:12
littlecon.......did you come in and ask for a lager, diet coke and a vegetarian meal?
Sorry, only joking........nasty Royal Oak sense of humour again!
23 Aug 2010 09:39
Deservebetter.........umm, an interesting choice of name, if he or she thinks they do deserve better they might like to try the weatherspoons in Horsham! Personally I am a lover of old fashioned stuck in the past beer swilling 'dumps'........indeed i have one of my own. I find the staff friendly and helpful, the food good and the beer always excellent which is why, when I deceide it is convienient for me to take a couple of hours off I always go to Kens. Take no notice of this spiteful unprovoked attack and give the Oaks a try!
4 Aug 2010 19:26
The Rugglestone Inn, Widecombe in the Moor
Just been talking about this pub and hear they do really good cream teas!
I plan to travel 200 miles to try one very soon!
12 Jun 2010 17:13
Hi pubvisitor, I can not totally agree with what you say as when I get confronted with a lager drinker I try hard to find something they might like instead, some will be led and try something else and some will not. The banter from the locals is ment as a bit of fun and not to be taken seriously, my advice to lager drinkers is to goodhumouredly give as good as you get and join in.
The bit I must take issue with is the self-satisfied tree-hugging chumps, for a start I see no need to be so rude about my locals, secondly, tree-hugging implies to me vegetarians, to my knowlage we don't have any of those, we don't cater for eating disorders and frown upon them more than lager drinkers, as for the self-satisfied........well maybe, after all they are in the best pub in the land!
And before YOU get up in arms this is all a bit tounge-in-cheek, don't take me seriously ......... no one else does!
23 May 2010 16:14
beerbiker you only have to ask! We will always let people put their bikes in the back yard if they are worried about them, only this morning one got picked up after three days storage! The only problem with leaving them overnight is that you might get a chicken roosting on the handlebars!
3 May 2010 22:14
anotherpintplease looking at it like that you are absolutly right!
Fullbelly, I like K.P. but I wouldn't want his luck..................
28 Apr 2010 17:12
anotherpintplease, respect is something you earn from other people not something you can assume for yourself, could we please try not to get this too personal
28 Apr 2010 15:05
There is a very good reason for the Oak not selling Harveys as there is also a good reason for the continued sale of the lamentable devon beers. If mr grumpy would like to enquire of the fiesty landlady on his next visit I am sure she would be pleased to explain.
20 Apr 2010 07:23
The Plough & Attic Rooms, Rusper
Regarding fazerblue's comments, I am not so sure that is that expensive. In our pub 2 pints of bitter and 2 bags of crisps would be �7.20. Guiness has always been more expensive than bitter but we don't sell it, so 80 pence is not a lot. The Plough is a bigger pub ( higher rates, running costs etc) and employs a number of staff all of which can expect the minimum wage. We have no staff, a smaller pub and are still slowly going bankrupt so I suspect that if we all want to go on enjoying the Great British institution that is the pub we must either do something about this disasterous goverment or expect to spen a little more of what we have left after tax on our beer. It would be interesting for some bored C.A.M.R.A member to work out how much of your pint goes in tax and how little to the publican, I think you might be suprised!
20 Mar 2010 12:16
Sadly you don't have time for sex if you run a pub! My husband is far too busy earning money in his own profession to change beer, I am afraid all the rubbish beer is down to me! But it is his money that keeps the pub afloat, we would hardly survive on 12 customers after all! We may have a difference of opinion on beer quality but you do seem to have a sence of humour so all may not be lost! If you ever manage to find your way down all these country lanes again do please introduce yourself!
1 Aug 2009 14:15
I was a little upset by the comments from the aptly named mrgrumpy so I thought I would look at his profile and other comments. I am no longer upset, indeed I almost feel some compassion towards him! Under sex there is a ?
Obviously not for some time!
I read through all his comments and get the impression that he doesn't like pubs!
As for the smell, we are lucky enough to live just up the road from a huge rubbish tip and with the weather right we benefit from all those wonderful odours of methane gas!
If he would like to get in touch direct and let me know if he is comming again I will try and get a nice keg beer in for him!
1 Aug 2009 11:46
never paid �2.50 for half of 4.4% bitter from the local brewery before. a nice little pub but I can't afford to go there!
11 Dec 2008 16:42
Read a lot about this pub so as we were down this way we thought we would call in. I am hardly suprised that it has won all the awards it has, 7 cask ales, a good selection and in good order. Really pleasant feel about the place and the welcome was second to none. You may have to look harder now but there are still a few pubs where the people really care about what they do and this is one of them. Keep it up, it's pubs like yours that will survive these hard times!
10 Dec 2008 21:53
It is indeed a comfort to me that we sell so much real ale and thanks to the kind advice of a previous reviewer we no longer sell Budweiser.
12 Sep 2008 10:15
I am the rather rude and off landlady of the Royal Oak and I have to say it is true that I can be offish with people with badly behaved dogs.I also find it tiresome enough when people come into my real ale house and drink budweiser but to want to drink it out of the bottle can sometimes tip me over the edge.Sorry.
10 Sep 2008 17:14
The Royal Oak, Rusper
How was that me? Sadly I am not clever enough to hack into someone elses web site to edit it :(
If I was I would have been more choosey about what I deleated! Any chance we can get back to reviewing pubs now?
13 Mar 2013 07:09