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very pleasant, very clean..... nice dog (and I don't like dogs!)
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This establishment seems to get better and better with every visit.
We stayed again and the biker night was fantastic,
Great and very efficient staff.
Well worth a visit
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Summer is with us now and our Monday night bike night is ready to explode!! 20% off the main menu for bikers and we have Ogri and the cafe racers live here on 31st May from 7pm!!
We have installed a fantastic garden pool table and extra machines to entertain all of our customers. We will be showing the World cup matches live in the bar area. There are 4 Fresh real ales are available with a lovely new summer menu. Dont forget that we do a great home made Sunday carvery from 12-3pm. from 3-8 the main menu is available.
Cheers
Mick and Ali
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Oops should have read "stormdancer" Sorry ive had one too many perfect pints at the Avon causeway....roll on the weekend!!!!!
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I must say that i am astounded at the inaccuracy of the comment by so called "stormbringer". It is obviously a desperate attack by a person who i suspect is involved with a local rival business?? Am i wrong? Thought so,Just a faceless idiot i bet. The Avon Causeway has been my local for many a year and whereas it may have had managers in the past who shall we say "fell short of the mark" we now have the confidence in the new management to spend our money there more than twice a week. I can honestly say that the food and beer quality are always exceptional. Yes as it a large building it can lack atmosphere at times. Still we know where we will be this weekend and every weekend after.....The Avon Causeway....Good luck stormbringer.......ha ha ha
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Dreadful place now with the exception of the wine. We were fairly regular visitors until current management came in, stopped the daily carvery and changed the menu. However, decided to give it another go now they have had the chance to settle in and really wish we had not.
Where has the atmosphere gone? Where are the happy staff? and, more importantly, what has happened to the food?
Our order arrived truly looking as though it had literally been thrown on the plate. No presentation, a distinct lack of flavour and terrible quality. I know we all have to cut costs these days but quality should be reflective of the pricing and, in this establishment, it simply is not.
Ruination of a good pub.
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Last week, I visited the Avon Causeway for the first time in about 7 or 8 years, mainly because I had forgotten what it was like!
Very pleasantly surprised. The food on the 'normal' menu is of a high standard and reasonably priced. (I would recommend the Thai Fish cakes - they are suberb!).
The Sunday Carvery is good, but I think 8.95 is on the high side.
Staff are friendly and efficient - coping well with the huge family groups that turn up on a Sunday lunchtime.
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If the new managers have such a distinguished history, they have their work set out for them. Firstly, get rid of the Hall & Woodhouse rubbish make-over of baskets of logs, aphorisms, false beams & levels & standardised company menu (unless of course they have to continue to present it as a rural McDonalds). Most importantly, stop saying H&W seasonal ales are "guests", so worth more than �3 a pint. Perhaps their hands are tied! Anyway, good luck to them!
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Give it a few weeks and the area manager will probably decide he's ballsed up again, get rid of the carvery, sack the managers and put someone else in!
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It has changed hands yet again!
Be warned - the new managers intend it to be more of an eating pub!
Very expensive drinks, and why are they ending the Tuesday Quiz when all the other pubs are introducing them???
Re the previous comment "where would it be without the re-furbishment" well it would be the unique place it used to be - Joe Palmer cetainly was a miserable old bugger but he did run a real (and different) pub!
Satisfied
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What has happened to this place? I visited last December it was a happy, buzzy place with good food. The latest visit comprised of over priced special board, miserable staff and a very rude deputy manageress! I go there for the carvery and I got told that was finishing at the end of the month, It shows that the rescission is hitting this place, its a shame to see such a sinking ship!
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Great carvery - traditional english roasts with five fresh veg AND real gravy, not that bisto rubbish! Think this place is a well kept secret as food and service was above the norm!
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Not sure where the other 2 comments are coming from? By memory I think the place was refurbished around 4 years ago, just proves that the old Avon wasn't the best because they haven't visited in years. Just think people don't change, it still has 6 real ales and excellent food and is family run, just think without the refurb would it still be here??..............
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Have to agree with Jasper and Dog here, the place is a pale shadow of its previous self, a place where you could get Merry Monk, Bishops Tipple, Old Peculiar and the famed Owd Rodger on draft. Sure the landlord of the time used to ration you to one Owd Rodger (more for himself I guess) and he wasnt exactly of the sunniest disposition, but at least it had character, something that is sadly lacking now
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Must agree with Runningdog. Compared to years ago when Joe and Nellie owned the place, it is now just a bland, characterless eaterie that 'also' sells drinks. Have got happy memories of this pub in the 70s when you could thump the old railway seats and see a cloud of dust billow up. People used to come hear just to be insulted by Joe and woe betide you if you told him his beer was off! He'd belittle you in front of the whole pub! He wasn't too keen on people asking for ice if their bottle came off the cold tray. 'Ice costs money to make you know. Bloody people - they go in these fancy town pubs and get ice whether they want it or not!' Also, he sold Marstons Owd Rodger-1080 gravity-brain damage!
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Big pub with good sized car park which stands on the line of an old railway, still has a section of platform out front. Once, it was a lunatic real ale pub, a haunt of bikers, dog walkers and 'CAMRA' types befor CAMRA was invented.
Nowadays it is a sanitised, pasteurised and homogenized ghost of it's former self. Aimed mainly at those eating it still has plenty of room for drinkers, serving the usual wines, lagers, ciders, spirits etc. Had four Wadworths real ales on when I visited recently.
I can say little of the food as I didn't eat. The menu looks reasonable if somewhat ordinary, but there were several diners who all looked happy enough.
The place is roomy, clean, well-staffed and friendly in an off hand, professional manner.
My rating? 6. The 'Causway' does what it claims to do, nothing more, nothing less.
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What a turnaround!! visited pub on 7th October for Sunday carvery and the service was awful, thought I would give it another go this Sunday 2nd Dec and what a difference, the lanlady (Jill I think her name is?) couldn't have done more all her team were superb and the food was excellent!! Real ales a treat well worth a visit, a little out of the way but only just outside Bournemouth, give it a try.
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Sunday carvery yesterday was fab- nice rare beef, lots of veg etc- good to see some good reviews at last- will be back!
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Totally agree with last comment, we also had a meal here this week and the food and service was excellent so all those that have been disappointed go try again !! What a hidden gem
anonymous - 2 Dec 2007 23:38 |
Had a meal here tonight and apparently they have a new head chef- and it shows- food was excellent, all freshly cooked, and we all enjoyed it, will be back- worth giving this place another go.
anonymous - 1 Dec 2007 23:37 |
Food was good and is now awful.
We have been going here for a good few years and witnessed a good pub 'corporatised'.
Beer is good though.
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Not been there for a while so when some friends asked us out for a bite to eat suggested The Causeway as its half way between us.
We arrived 7.50 Bank Holiday Saturday got some drinks and went out into the garden for a yap.At 8.20 ish refreshed our drinks and collected menus.As we were deciding on what to have a young waitress casually informed us that food was no longer being served as they had a function on and the kitchen couldnt cope with both.
There were no signs and nobody mentioned this fact as we collected both our drinks and menu's.
It was half eight on Saturday night for gods sake too late to find another pub for dinner so we settled for an Indian and very nice it was although they didnt serve real ale ho hum.
Dont think we shall try The Causeway again just in case their to busy to cook four meals on top of the crowded railway coach of "Special" customers.
Pity really as the food looked ok+the selection of ales seemed well kept.
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I like this pub, particularly during the summer months. There are Humming Bird Moths buzzing around the magnificent hanging baskets on most evenings during July/August.
I think the recent refit is good, and the variety of strong ales is great.
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This used to be a gem; why must they ruin every decent boozer?
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Early evening service behind the bar can be tad spartan as it tends to be neglected by the staff who seem to involve themselves elsewhere with tasks that are of undoubted importance. Take 'Harry Potter' with you - you will cover a fair percentage of it before you get your pint.
anonymous - 7 Mar 2004 12:02 |
I agree about the Avon Causeway being altered. It was created from a old railway station, and sadly the line is no more. The inside still has a lot of railway stuff,but the atmosphere is no more. The ales are OK, and there is a very good carvery, but it is too "foody" to be considered a proper ale house. Last night they ran out of Tom's Tipple which is Wadworth ale but from a micro brewry in the New Forest. This was pretty bad, and it indicated poor management. Anyway the inside is large, and there are a lot of comfortable armchairs. Pity about the blandness though.
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This was once a splendid free house full of railway memorabilia from when the long gone railway used to pass nearby. The real ales were superb and the seating appeared to have been taken from old railway carriages. (The dust was authentic in any case) It was then taken over by Wadworths who, criminally were allowed to completely gut the place and the result is that it's now just another bland roadside pub. There was also a spell in the 80's when a railway carriage 'parked' outside was converted into an Indian restaurant. Ah, the good old days. The only positive thing about this place is that you can still get a decent pint.
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