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Went on a Saturday Night and they had runout of all draft beers - the bottled magners was warm and they had run out of ice .......... got out before the chavs with their Nicky Minja girlfriends arrived
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Hole!! Appauling!!! Since the smoking ban the place stinks of B.O.
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I think this place has lost it's attraction, it always seem quiet in here and i'm sure the smokers hate it as they probably feel like they are being punished everytime they go for a smoke! Other than that, good beer, average prices and better than some pubs in sutton!
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Paid a visit to O'neills on a monday night as it was on route to our final destination. On entering we soon realised we were the only people in there, this was about 9:00-9:30pm. We were quite supprised this was the case as this place is packed at the weekend. The barman was very friendly and I think he was happy too see us (I can imagine he was bored out of his mind untill we arrived). I'll happily say he was a credit to M&B who own O'neills. I enjoyed a nice pint of Guinness followed by the new Pear Magners which was very tasty. At about 10:30 the barman asked if we would like anything else before he closed the bar which I thought was very proffesional. A good visit which was enjoyed by all, Ill definatly visit again on a monday.
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It�s a town centre O�Neills based in the shopping centre that has a need to employ bouncers on the doors, so you could probably guess what lies within. If you guessed a large cavernous underground hell-hole full of drunken kids you�d be spot on.
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And the doorstaff are really cool
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had a really good time there on THursday night. 10 days late were wicked....
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O�Neil�s hasn�t changed much in the last eight or so years apart from a slight revamp. I have drank in this place on and off since the dying days of the conservatory through the Pat O�Connell�s days (the first mock Irish incarnation), before the new and not really improved O�Neill�s. There are severally alarmingly wrong things about the place, which I didn�t mind as much when I was 18 or 19 at 28 I won�t really tolerate it as much.
1. The service is terrible and it takes an eternity to get a drink and the bar staff on the whole are rude.
2. The toilets are worse than ones at a festival.
3. The place stinks worse now than it did before the smoking ban.
4. People you haven�t seen from school (for a good reason) always seem to be in there.
5. It�s got a strange combination of Chav�s and people of an age who should really know better ( I would suggest beyond the age of 35 screaming the words out to Chesney Hawkes is a mite sad).
6. The smoking ban means having to go outside which makes things a nightmare for the bouncers.
7. The same songs I heard when I was an 18 year old drinking Caffery�s still ring out now and I am 28.
8. I have and know of people who have had their drinks spiked in there.
9. Bouncers are incredibly slow sorting out trouble sometimes and other times very over zealous.
10. They always seem to shut the top bar even though the place is rammed.
On getting a drink, if you have never been to this place on the weekend, well it should be an Olympic event. When you do finally get served getting away from the bar is an even bigger trauma as people position themselves to claim your spot at the bar, you then have to negotiate the dance floor area full of drunk sawing jumping and generally have no control of their bodies. Therefore it is an art and a skill to getting to where you are standing or sitting with full drinks.
But even with all these fundamental issues bizarrely for a bit of reminiscing its actually good fun in there, it�s a pub which hasn�t really moved on from the late 90s and the days of Blur, Oasis and TGI Fridays, which is nice in a way as you can kinda remember how you felt when you were that age as it really hasn�t changed, but not somewhere I would go more than once every 6 months, mainly due to the fact I don�t want to now fall into the category of someone who should know better around all the kids in there!
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I got to say this place is slowly growing on me. It used to be a real dive but since they had a small refurb a while back its really turned around.
As said before you have to go down some stairs to get in becuase its under ground, which means during the day its not the best place to go to if you want sit in the sunlight. And to be honest this place is pretty empty during the day. At night though it gets really busy not so much during the week but the weekend you could be queing up outside for a good 30mins. The service is slow in my opinion even when its quiet. And the staff don't have any real drive in them but being a barman myself I can undertsand why. The beer is pretty good it has to be said, the guinness is really good I've had several guinness reds in here and never had a bad pint. Prices are ok for Sutton can't really complain there, one thing, at the weekend its over 21 only but the doorman are pretty relaxed with it.
So if you want a good night out give this place a go, if you want to go for a quite few with who ever go during the week.
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Decent town centre pub with the usual 'O Neills' fake irish atmosphere, that said its clean and spacious. One word of warning its 21 stairs to the the basement bar so not suitable for the disabled
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On busy nights they close 1 of the 2 bars!? There is a coating of urine all over the gents at all times, never any soap or bog roll in the toilets either. On the up side though there is a good atmos and it's a laugh.
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Hasn't had a lick of paint in years. About as Irish as Genghis Khan....and sucks
Dan - 4 Nov 2004 23:09 |
decent birds and good quality craic. needs a revamp tho. same people in there each week which has its disadvantages.
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When it's busy in the night time it's a great, lively pub, but it can get a bit smoky and the drinks are the most expensive in Sutton
gogirl - 23 Jun 2003 01:23 |
Lively, friendly atmosphere, with an obvious touch o' the irish!
Anna - 25 Feb 2003 09:30 |
