please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
A year ago (today), a major fire occurred in this pub - which has since been demolished.
Currently the site is padlocked shut - and has been sold for development.
The purchasing company is part owned by the local authority - and residential accommodation is likely for the site.
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Is their currently work being carried out on this pub?
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Now offering 3 real ales, seems to off changed in the last 18months refurblished and new mangers in place, now owned by Hill Top Leisure. Large beer garden
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Called in for a drink and met the new owner who was strutting around looking like a pox doctors clerk. I thought he was in the wrong town. People in this area work for a living and all he did was make me feel like I was paying off his BMW. I moved on to where I can get a beer without someone making me feel grateful for what they are doing for me. After all, I paid for my drink and it was my time.
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Now re-reopened after a huge refurbishment, just one real ale on offer - courage best. Worth a vist, got three hand pumps avaiable, when more real ale drinkers pop and sample the decent best on offer other real ales will go on to keep up with demand. A large pub with a pool table, dart board, food avaiable and large screen tv's.
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I heard it will be re-open around the 4th??
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The current landlord is leaving next Sunday. Should be reopening within a week or so under a relief manager.
Should breathe a breath of freshair into the place!
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Went in here the other afternoon. No real ale on. Very much a "you get what you see" type of place. Bare floorboards,pool table at one end, sport on TV the other and a dartboard somewhere in between.
The staff were friendly and the fresh roll was tasty.
Definately felt a locals pub. Also although there were around 20 people in the place only 2 were female and one of those was behind the bar.
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Although I'm not a regular here, yes ... I'd agree that if you're looking for a bit of culture and up-market 'action' this pub probably wouldn't be your first choice! But, having said that, there's always a handshake from the landlord, a really pleasant family garden area for the warmer days and banter from the 'three-eyed locals' throughout the year. If that's not your bag, there's plenty of other pubs where you can take an uninterrupted view of all four walls of the bar I'd suggest.
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A lot of flannel posted here. Firstly, if you walk into a half empty pub (on probably a week day evening as it is busy at weekends) you are going to get stared at. That applies to every pub from here to Dundee.
This is a Surrey Pub. No chavs around here and that statement actualyl conflicts with the builders statement.
Which is it then? Can't be both can it?
Like most pubs, it actually has several characters dependent on the time of day, the time of year and the day of the week..
Weekday lunchtime, its full of posties after they knock off. The PO delivery depot being a few hundred yards down the road. Early evening weekdays, workers, mostly builder types but people like me too (I'm an IT consultant) pop in for a pint or a two on the way home. Weekday evenings are dead unless there is an activity. Monday nothing. Tuesday darts. Wednesday nothing. Thursday Pool and Poker league. The friday early evening session gets longer because its, well poets day.
Saturdays and Sundays during the winter are driven by the sport. If there is somethign on, then its busy. If there is not, its not. During the summer, the garden is literally packed with families all enjoying the excellent garden facilities and barbecues. There's even a tuck shot in a shed in the garden.
I absolutely agree that on a hot weekend afternoon it is very difficult to get served. A sign of a successful pub, not a violent haven for chavs. In my 40 years (ie, 22 drinking in the local pubs) of living in and around the woking area, this pub has never had a reputation as a violent or rough pub. If you want a fight, all you have to do is walk the drag between the kebab house in woking and the Rat and Parrot and or visit any of them on a weekend evening. In the ten years or so (on and off) that I have drunk as a regular in the RH, I have never seen anythign that was not a minor handbags at dawn scuffle betweeen two people - quickly out in the carpark and over usually with one or both barred. The sort of thing that goes on in just about every single pub in the land.
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This is one of those places which is a bit like a lot of people. Looks nice on the outside, but once you get in - oh dear, not good, not good at all. Not good in the kind of way that the handful of customers gawp round for a gander as you walk in � are you local? We only like locals here, this is a pub for locals not for you city folks with yer fancy ways and fancy women. We drank up and shot off quickish not to return unless they pay me to be nice. One ale on tap � Courage best which is always a bit of an ale cop out but better than fizzy chrome tapped ice splodge.
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this pub isnt as bad as the reviews make out try it for yourselves
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Chavtastic place!
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It should be re-named the "Fighting Cocks" it's full of chavs! Totally crap never going back
anonymous - 18 Aug 2006 17:34 |
Full of little idiots who want to fight the world, i would rather drink in Bagdad than have a pint there.
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Busy chavs pub overpriced and over rated, why would anyone want to drink here?
anonymous - 11 Jul 2006 16:39 |
Not the best. But busy with builder types so doesnt have to be everybodies 'cuooftea' to be succesfull.
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busy builders pub where you have to queue to be served by very disinterested bored looking bar staff wont be repeating my visit in a hurry
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As per last comment, as soon as i walked in i knew i was in chavsville, rough as avoid at all costs!!
anonymous - 22 Jan 2006 11:33 |
seems a little rough, one of those where u walk in and everyone stops and stares! very uncomfortable...
anonymous - 30 Aug 2005 22:20 |
