please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
shut down
|
This is currently on its 5th or 6th reinvention since the days of the Blue Mondays bar, and is presently a Turkish restaurant.
Pointless me giving a recommendation as it's no longer a bar, although it's just a matter of time until it comes full circle and reopens as some plastic, V.I.P, Bling, R'n'B, free entry for ladies, brrraapppp, Cristal, sunbed, Jack Tweed frequented (pre-sentencing) sort of a place that Essex needs more of.
I'm taking the piss here, obviously...
|
Nice interior and pleasant enough during a quite summer afternoon. Three Colts is quite nice.
However as a local I would agree with rodgerthedodger, this pub is inhabited by men with fancy cars but humble education. The pub itself is quite alright, it just feels as though you are constantly being scrutinised by gumless Cheryl-Cole clones; the kind you would watch scream in your maths teacher's face and then see sweeping your hairdresses floor six months later. Other interesting stereotypes to be spotted of include: the 18- year old wideboy with a coat, and the 35-year old thug with an attention seeking laugh.
If you mixed a sandwich bar with a copy of Heat magazine and then gave the owner a license to serve alcohol then this is the place he'd find himself lumbered with. A perfect example of how celebrity has altered Buckhurst Hill's perspective of reality.
anonymous - 30 Nov 2008 13:49 |
What a horrible place. Chav City No ale just strong fighting beers and surprise surprise today I read that Jade Goody goes there and geuess what? According to all the papers she had a punch up in there! Says it all really? Or was this a cynical ploy for publicity? Judge for yourself
|
Now known as the Player's Lounge. No real ale, but they did have Hoegaarden (�3/pint). Friendly and helpful service (a bit of a surprise, that, given the appearance of the place).
|
Went there when it was Blue Mondays (was that the colour of the pill for that day?) Still the same. Full of people you see on Chav TV programmes and Big Brother and try to avoid generally in life. Owners of expensive cars on HP or Lease Hire. Wannabees of no substance. At least it keeps these orange coloured idiots in one place and not nice pubs, a few of which still exist. One girls said 'Jade Goody comes in ere'. Well that is one good reason not to go there!
|
a proper dump. my mate's son goes there with his pals, and he's 16. Nuff said!
|
It's full of scum. I'd rather pour Tabasco in my eyes and chuck my love spuds in a blender than have a drink in this embarrassment of an establishment. Hopefully now the trendy-scum/lemmings have found somewhere else it'll die an overdue death.
anonymous - 14 Oct 2006 15:39 |
Rocky's it is. Upbeat, bright and fairly empty on a Friday night at 9pm. Seems the Fashionista hordes have moved on..
|
Now called Rockys
|
Although the reviews didn't seem great I was pleasantly surprised. Cafe bars don't usually do it for me but the beer was good and the barmaid was very pleasant. I tried this pub at lunchtime but can imagine it being full of youngsters in the evening trying to impress in the imitable 'Essex' style!!
|
If you can imagine the show "Essex Wives" and the type of pub that would come to, then this is it. And I believe this bar made it into the series. Boys from Chigwell with rich daddies parking their MGs, after cruising down Queen's Road a number of times, arm in arm with Bling Orange coloured "Footballers Wife" stereotype. Throw in a bit of house music, overpriced beer, and even (I kid you not) Bernard Manning making the odd live appearance.
drbee - 23 Dec 2005 11:57 |
