BITE user comments - nikkihs
Comments by nikkihs
Forced in by my better half to meet a couple of friends on Sunday - low and behold, Swan bar shut!
Ignored by staff in the other bar, but rescued after 5 mins by mine host. He works hard, but he's got a long way to go before I will voluntarily cross his threshold.
25 Nov 2008 17:41
Good pub struggling to get going again - good ale at reasonable prices. Reasonable food at sensible prices. Much work required on the physical side - garden expecially. But it's getting there; Susannah working hard to get it right. Now favoured by those Swan Bar regulars of many years standing who like decent beer, the lack of juke-box, TV etc.
22 Sep 2008 16:11
Having found the Swan bar shut on bank holiday Monday - rumour has it that the only barperson capable of running the bar was on a paint-balling gig - the camel's back is finally broken. The final insult on top of the silly prices and bad service
After more than 30 years of using this pub, I am moving on to another that provides good beer and resonable food at sensible prices.
28 Aug 2008 19:17
Please don't forget - it's the Kevs and Traceys that turn up every night that in the long run enable the pub to keep going. They put more money over the bar than either you or I.
3 Feb 2006 18:54
At last, after many years in the doldrums, turning into a pub with good beers,smashing food and a manager who is always around. Good friendly service, room for kids to play. Good on ya!
10 Jul 2005 14:15
The Greyhound, Carshalton
Despite Gary's endorsement of the Greyhound and the way it operates, having been forced in there last Saturday I find it no different to what it was 6 moths ago - extortionately expensive - over �17 for two glasses of wine and a light and bitter. Courage light served with the Ordinary Bitter instead of Youngs, barmaid absent from the Swan for long periods and acted as if you had disturbed her from doing something else of much greater importance than serving customers beer. Seems incapable of smiling. Definitely needs to do better!
12 Jul 2009 16:53