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we went to Woodstock yesterday and had a great meal, gerat service by Dave who is a duty manager,he was very helpful, we will go back for it's great location and good atmospfer,good beer and nice people, thanks,Dave!
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Just finished cooking bacon butties because this pub is so badly run - ordered two sunday roasts and after waiting for around an hour an a quarter there was still no sign of food. We'd been warned there was a wait of around 40 mins, but after seeing people who'd ordered long after us getting server was starting to get annoyed. When I went to the bar to complain, it was to hear the person next to me complaining that they'd been waiting two hours for their food. When we gave up and tried to pay for our drinks it turned out they'd managed to note this down wrong too. Beer here is fine, but don't order food if you're actually hungry as it's anyone's guess when or if you'll get it.
richm - 27 Mar 2011 17:25 |
A large selection of drinks with strong ciders and continental beers well represented though if you come back from the bar with a Westons cider and a bottle of chimay then expect your bar bill to be suitably expensive. The service, I think has improved but can be hit and miss if you find yourself behind someone ordering a latte and a pimms and lemonade and paying with a credit card! I like this pub though - probably because of the superb grand building that houses it.
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I was a fan until today. We had a roast and the chicken was raw. I sent it back and it came out 5 mins later slightly less anaemic but still bloody. The potatoes had been microwaved. To say i was disappointed is an understatement. How hard can it be just to not serve chicken that could actually poison someone? Wont be going back.
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It wants to be like The Metropolitan, albeit a bit cheaper and not as good. It's not a particularly bad pub, i just wouldn't go out of your way to go to it.
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Good for beers only, and even then don't expect to be waiting anything less than 10 minutes on a quiet day. Beer garden is the only redeeming feature really, which is a shame as has so much potential.
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I'm ashamed to admit that this pub is my local. Overall I still prefer it to the barleycorn or the metropolitan but it's just badly run and managed. There is a huge upstairs seating area with a bar that is usually closed off by a few bar stools (presumably because staff can't be bothered taking food orders up some stairs). If you do manage to visit on a day when the upstairs seating area is open you'll have to walk all the way downstairs again to get served as they only seem to open the upstairs bar on a Saturday night (if they have been nagged by enough punters!)
So having trecked downstairs to get a round in, expect to be stood waiting at the bar for a LONG time. No matter what time of day or night the staff make poor service an art form. Draught lager is regularly off, the wait for food is always 45 minutes even if you are their only customer, and you never get served in the order that you arrived at the bar.
So you have been served (eventually) and you have your seats upstairs. You're chatting away quite happily and then a crowd of people come and sit at the table 5 yeards away from you. Neither group of people feels particularly comfiortable to talk because of the uncomfortable seating, the layout of the seats, and the lack of music. So you make a dash for the one and only comfy private seat... a sofa on the landing. You settle down and order some food... a rare steak. It arrives frozen in the middle and the guy on the bar presents you with your receipt and says 'we won't refund you because you did ask for it rare'. Then you get out to your car and discover that the cctv cameras are fakes and your rear windscreeen has been smashed. I kid you not... all this in the life of a week of the woodstock. But as I'm a grumpy old man that likes beer, I think I might just carry on going there :)
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I have used this pub on a few occasions in the past but not anymore after I received a �60 fine for parking my car in the car park. After complaining to the manager she refused to do anything about it. If you do decide to use this pub and take your car, make sure that you get a receipt and can prove that you really are a patron. Personally I would recommend you go to the Metropolitan on Burton Rd which is a much better pub anyway.
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Since the refurb and re-branding things have really gone downhill here. The staff have very little interest in serving people at the bar and certainly not in the order in which they arrived. There are invariably at least two beers off and occassional inexplicable shortages of staples like crisps. There used to be a packed quiz night ran by an enthusiastic and entertaining bloke which seems to have been replaced by a member of the pub staff reading questions in an almost comically dull and uninterested monotone to a few die hards on a Sunday evening. The beer garden kept us going in the Summer despite constant frustrations with the service...I suspect over Winter the new manager will really notice a drop in takings.
Jon Noble - 7 Oct 2004 15:08 |
i used to adore this pub but since the refurbishment it has been ruined. the staff who worked there and some still do although i have heard the last of the team of 'old woodstock' are in fact also leaving. what a shame, that was the only thing keeping this pub alive. anyway a brand new bunch of staff have started and they are useless. i think i will be drinking wherever the 2003-august2004 staff have gone!!!!!!!!! good luck jacks-jess-cath-hayley-pete-james-sam-ben-louise-anna-cat and where is keith?
Izzy - 22 Aug 2004 20:12 |
woodstock food is great .... prices, well for the food you get is worth it ! and the drinks , they have a nice out door seating area if you wish not to stay inside and friendly staff . BEST place to be ... TOP 10/10
sweet - 22 Apr 2004 20:36 |
woodstock ......... very nice indeed only been there twice, STAFF ARE VERY POLITE...HARD WORKERS SO is the MANAGEMENT mr k jackson , the new woodstock is very nice inside for the warm feeling and is a nice chilling place to be .... well done ...
yvonne - 22 Apr 2004 01:34 |
Tried to go here 2 weekends ago, it looked to be closed for refurbishments.
Nige - 1 Apr 2004 11:30 |
There are a lot of cheaper, nicer pubs in the area. This pub is too expensive - go over the road and have a cheaper, nicer pint in the Barleycorn!
Nige - 19 Jan 2004 23:40 |
used to work here when I was 18, but I was rubbish, so I got the sack, although I once ran down the stairs with 40 empties in two stacks on either arm, and got a spontaneous round of applause, so not all bad memories
Dan - 15 Jul 2003 10:21 |
Under new 'management' this once excellent Bass pub has taken a NOZEDIVE - constantly running out of cask ale; limited food menu, bland Boddies @ �2.30 !!, furniture deteriorating - I believe that all the previously excellent staff left. Recently advertised for a chef: "experience not essential" - which company owns this place now ?, if I knew I would complain as this was once my local...
Andy - 10 Apr 2003 11:41 |
Cracking pub, over 2 floors. Fairly large with lots of seating. Decent beer garden in which you play petanque in Summer. Frequented by wealthy students, young professionals, blue collar workers and families. A right mix.
madmulbus - 20 Nov 2002 01:53 |
