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This can be a busy place so always worth booking for food. Fortunately even without a booking they managed to accomodate us with a bit of shuffling about. Nice place which is mainly for food although there is a smallish bar area with a few tables too so you can come here for a drink only. We found the food to be very good, there is a range of Brakespears ales which also was in good condition.
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Top Beer. Top Food. Top Service. At a price. Recommended for special occasions.
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Lovely pint in a super RESTAURANT.
I wouldn't recommend this place unless you want top-notch scran and a really super pint. It's not a pub.
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Not really a pub, more of a restaurant. Three Brakspears ales in average condition. Difficult to feel at ease here if you're not eating.
Not my bag.
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Delicious food made with great quality ingredients served in nice surroundings. But expect a fairly hefty bill at the end. We'll be back.
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A pricey upmarket restaurant that used to be a local pub. Food is fantastic, but boy do you pay for it! I had the excellent steak baguette with wedge fries and it set me back more than a tenner, but eating it in the small garden area in blazing sun - well worth the cost.
Beer is ok - not the best kept in the area (try Bottle and Glass up the road for that!). Unfortunately they've grabbed so much of the bar space for dining tables that the drinking area is reduced to nothing more than a holding point for people waiting to be seated. There are no locals or barflies here - you cant really sit at the bar.
Another small gripe - they ruined one of the best gardens in the area when they built the accomodation wing. Now they have a small gravel patio area where people eat outside, rather than a sprawling lawn and pond.
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Good food, but like others have said, expensive. It is more of a restaurant really and not somewhere you would just go for a drink.
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This pub is absolutely fabulous! Some friends and I had Sunday lunch here yesterday. The food was the best I have ever had in a pub. The service was fantastic - just attentive enough without being overbearing.
Heartily recommended.
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For a special night out, this ticks all the boxes. Yes it's expensive, but the quality of the food is top notch. Great service, lovely atmosphere, and a lovely location. We will be going there again.
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I loved this place, yes maybe it is a little over priced but I went there for an enjoyable meal with my partner and I got one. I would highly recommend the slow cooked lamb melted in my mouth and was the best I have ever tasted.
I wouldn�t pop in for a quick pint but I would definitely come back again for a meal.
Brilliant!! 10 out of 10
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This pub is not really a pub and not somewhere I would recommend going for a drink.
In my opinion they did there upmost to get rid of the drinking trade. The beer was very poor, tried both the Brakspear Special and the Bitter, and was also very expensive. I am not a huge fan of Brakspears beers but these were exceptionally bad. Seating was uncomfortable and I felt I was sitting in a corridor between 2 parts of the restaurant, effectively because I was. The staff were friendly enough.
In my opinion the garden has lost all it's character since building the bedroom annex and until the hedge matures it will feel like you are sitting in the carpark.
Food looked good but we didn't eat, I had a look at the menu and it seem very expensive. Nearly �12 for a beefburger.
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I highly recommend the food - I went for my brother's birthday and it was very very good indeed. 3 Brakspear's beers were on offer as well
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Visited this Pub yesterday. Have been here several times before when visiting my Brother in nearby Caversham. Excellent food and ale. The unfortunate thing is that they are building an accomodation/B&B section next to the Pub for weary travellers. This in turn, it seems, is taking away a big part of the lovely garden....shame.
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A little overpriced but good bar menu that changes each time we visit. Traditional old english food offered as well as some nouveau dishes so you can satisfy whichever hunger pangs need addressing!
Excellent wine list.
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Pleasant "Country Pub" with large garden, good food and excellent Brakspears Ale (albeit a little overpriced). I visited on a gloriously sunny bank holiday Monday afternoon when they took the rather perverse decision to shut up shop at 3pm. In this day and age I think a pub of this size and reputation ought to be finding the resources to cater for all day eating & drinking, especially on weekends / holidays.
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too may rural pubs at the moment are becoming too exclusive, too upmarket. what we want is a nice pub to stop and have a bit of lunch or a drink at after a grueling 12 mile hike on a sunday.
the crown at playhatch can offer this. the drinks are a little pricey but where isn't at the moment??!! the staff are always warm and welcoming.
the crown also offers a comfortable place to eat out in the evening. the food is expensive yet tastey and the chefs are very accomodating (non of this running out of things on the menu all the time) a good, warm comfortable place to eat, drink and relax.
thai beef salad is especially nice.
not wonderful for vegitarians.
F Sandpark - 1 Nov 2004 18:01 |
