BITE user comments - gtwibell
Comments by gtwibell
Uncompromisingly a proper pub with four or five real ales and one cider, a warm welcome and friendly staff. The landlady was even good enough to rustle us up some cheese sandwiches even though food is not on offer here. Dogs welcome too. A million miles from the identikit norm. and what a difference to the screaming kids and droning extractor fans in the garden of the nearby King Alfred.
14 Sep 2009 12:32
Now appears to be reborn as The Cheerful Soul in the hands of the winning couple from last year's Restaurant series and overseen by Raymond Blanc.
28 Jul 2009 19:33
The Cricketers Arms, Warborough
Passed by the Cricketers today and it looked a bit sorry for itself. Closed and festooned with 'For Sale' boards, with an extra bit adding 'Price Reduced'. Guess it'll be a private house before too long :-(
GeoffT.
28 Jul 2009 19:29
This used to be our favourite pub in Goring whether it was stopping in on the way home from the station, or walking the 4 miles from home and back just to be there. But latterly we've found it unfriendly and we've been asked to leave our seats several times for diners, having no option but to move outdoors. The last straw was sitting down with two beers on a Saturday lunch time, only to have a member of staff ten minutes later plonk a 'reserved' sign down in front of us with no explanation whatever - just a frosty stare. Not been back since....
5 May 2009 17:04
The Coachmakers Arms, Wallingford
Great welcome for two drinkers and dog, the best Braksepear's Bitter for miles and an excellent bowl of home made tomato soup. Ronnie (formerly of the Cross Keys) has transformed this place and it will now be one of my regulars.
7 Feb 2009 16:59
Thought this place was reasonable with half decent beer and quality, not too expensive food. They made two dirty-booted walkers (and an equally dirty dog) welcome, albeit at an outside table. Service was attentive and we were even offered water for the dog, which he declined in favour of one of the two excellent guest real ales on offer.
Thames Path walkers are well advised to skip the much-hyped Barley Mow in the same village trudge the extra few hundred yards here instead.
21 Oct 2007 21:49
The Perch and Pike, South Stoke
Saddened to learn on Saturday that after six years of serving some of the best Brakspears in South Oxfordshire, tenant Neil Dorsett is moving on to pastures new.
8 Apr 2013 07:09