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An awful place...beers were expensive and not well kept....the tinny taste indicating the pipes aren't cleaned regularly enough. Probably because it attracts the trendy sort who drink fancy lager. Sort of place where blind dates go...dreadful.
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Currently selling Wychwood's January'SAle, a 2.8% bitter. Very nice, and perfect for a workday lunchtime drink! Pleasant staff, comfy seating and newspapers available. Nice.
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Gorgeous place definately 10 out of 10 from me, just a shame its in wallingford of all places!!!
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Compared with the George or ...........umm -------- this is the business if you want more than a pub - for that go the excellent Coachmakers.
Decent food nice decor and well kept beers Food is above average.
All round a devent effort only blight the one bad penny in the staff who is an @rse but the others are so good its best to ignore
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Slightly strange combination but it (sort of) works - large restaurant area at back, what can be a bustling modern bar at the front, and comfortable alcoves where one can just sit and chat (toilets upstairs). Carries 2-3 real ales that were of reasonable to good quality, and the staff were pretty helpful despite my last visit being on a very busy night after a meal elsewhere. The frontage still looks like the Post Office it was, but on balance I'd say this was worth visiting, though purists might want to walk out of the twon centre to the Coachmakers or the Cross Keys
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To their credit (any after a bit of badgering from some punters) they have now added a couple more bitters - last visit it was Jack O'Legs from Tring, and something from Vale I think. Well kept - prices, as elsewhere are on the up of course.
Bar area can get very busy esp. Friday & Saturday nights.
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Now do a decent pint of Loddon - usually Ferryman's Gold @ �3.
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Made the mistake of going to this place on a Sunday when it was absolutely dead. Might be ok on other nights, is nicely decked out if a bit soulless, but then that might be the lack of people in there when we went along.
To there credit they had a nice ale on which you wouldn't always expect in a trendy bar. Staff very helpful too.
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Have now had the pleasure of revisiting this pub since the refit. Nice job done on the interior, decent beer at the pump, good wine list and some comfy chairs to sit in...music could have been better (some awful chart compilation CD when I visited), but you can't have everything. Not eaten there yet but seems to have been steady everytime I pass...
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Was there this week, really nicely done out. It's called The Old Post Office, and yes, it's run by the same folks who ran FornoVivo, the pizza place that was here before La Vina. Draught beer was v. good, open fire and big comfy chairs.
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My missus went here this week and gave it the thumbs up. She says it is better than we we went in the autumn and we thought it was okay then..I'll see if she can treat me to a visit and report back..ciao
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and laurel didnt start up fornovivo it was a restaurant started up in tring which was very succesful they then opened one in wallingford 4 years later which was just as successful so succesful laurel wanted to buy it so they sold it to laurel and laurel ran it into the ground now the former owners have bought it back and it wasnt pretend italian the pizza is proper neapolitan pizza everything freshly made all ingredients from naples do you have no idea of what a proper pizza is its sad your cynicism not everything is owned by big chains have some faith
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actually another pub chain dont have it its the people who used to have the pizza place called fornovivo they have another pub in Tring called The Akeman which is in the final of pub of the year so its not a big chain they only have one other place
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Now closed for refurbishment by another pub chain. Will have to see if they decide to inject some character into the interior. Watch this space.
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Laurel got hold of the old post office in order to install a Slug and Lettuce, much to the dismay of the towns grown-ups, who quite rightly thing that one binge-drinking establishment in the town, the Boathouse, is one too many. Serious opposition meant Laural had to install a Forno Vivo - pretend Italian pizza restaurant, which didn't get them very far. So recently it's been reincarnated into a La Vina, a pretend Spanish restaurant and bar, with more emphasis on the bar side of things.
Spanish it is not. True you could parachute it into somewhere on the Costas and no-one would turn a hair, but you could do the same with a Wetherspoon or Kentucky Fried Chicken. Parachute it into a provincial Spanish town and it would be a fish out of water.
My guess is that they'll keep it up for eighteen months or so then convert it into the Slug and Lettuce they always wanted saying they've had a bar there all along and it caused no trouble, what's the problem?
We shall see.
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