please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
This has now re-opened as the Surrey arms. All I can say is WOW!! SUPERB food considering the price, well dressed professional and courteous staff, VERY nicely and tastefully appointed with solid oak lightwood tables, great use of space. Gog range of ales, but only three lagers on tap - Peroni (£4:25/pt), Estrella (£3:65/pt) and a Czech brew that I didn't try. Estrella is the best option. Pleasant seating area with four tables under a veranda on the highstreet itself.
The Wetherspoons adjacent attracts the lower quality clientelle, making this place an unexpected gem in Camberley. Hope they do a better job at keeping the riff-raff out than Yates' before it!
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Yates's Wine Lodge, Camberley, burned down on 26/05/2012. Fire in first floor spread to roof, which caved in. Stonegate Pub Co cannot yet say whether the site will re-open or not. News sites give photos.
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Cheap but not cheerful
Sticky floor, one way to keep you in....
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�1.99 Scampi & Chips
�1.59 Bombardier
�3.58 = Good Times Thanx Again Yates's 7/10
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having been in the goose and the claude in the past i thought i would try yates for a change.this place is not very good the wells bomb was of poor quality and very warm. the place did not seem clean.best to be avoided and will not go in again sticking to the goose/spoons
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This is the only time i have ever been to a Yates pub, I see them in town centres and walk straight past. After entering with friends for a night out, it was confirmed why to aviod a place like this!
The Reasons are as follows;
No Real Ales
Rough People
Sticky Floor, like they dont want you to leave
Hot and Stuff
Poor Food, procced stuff
High Prices
Rude Staff
Crowded
Long queueing
Lagers only - the massed projuiced ones - fosters carling stella that sort of rubbish
18-21 age group who want to get drunk, they drink 2 pints and one shot and then they are hammered, fighting and swearing.
People who work here and drink look so young that they should be at school, and in the evening should be tucked up in bed by 8.30pm, work experince type
Why do girls of 18 yrs old chavy ones, instist on taking their babys with them into this horrible drive of a pub chain?
The only good thing about yates it that, the chavy lager drinks of 18-21, drink here and not in a smart real ale establishment, where people have respect!
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The floor is like a large chewing gum wooden flooring thing! I dont know weather the floor is clean by staff or their have got a poor type of flooring their! its so sticky! the stains of the floor are bad to,
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Ordered food late moring/ealry afternoon, waited absolutely ages. It was missing some stuff off the curry. To be fair, the guy on duty, possibly Duty Manager, was friendly and polite. Not something I've experienced at too many Yates's.
As with all Yates's, be careful not to dislocate anything when your feet get stuck to the floor. Don't stand still for too long, you might lose a shoe.
I always like to call in to Yates's that I find on my travels, just to see if there are any good ones. The search continues.
Graam - 27 Feb 2008 16:36 |
I used to work there: 1970 - 1973.
When it was Doulton and Bournes builders merchants.
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This place is the pits! Horrible punters, useless management and crap selection of beer. Avoid at all costs.
yorts - 17 Feb 2006 14:16 |
horrible - truly, truly horrible. only earns the 1 point in it's rating because it serves alcohol
patsy - 27 Jan 2006 15:46 |
Friday night, 9.30pm:
Upon entering this vile, teenager clad, dance pit you'll notice that you've become firmly attached to the carpet with the ever popular adhesive of last night's tart fuel and lady boy beer. If you manage to prise yourself from the floor, and saunter bar-wards (provided you're not knocked out by the teeming masses of ben sherman boys, keeper ring brigades, and elizabeth dukettes) you'll find a lengthy, labourious wait ahead of you. I would suggest taking something like a PSP or a book with you to keep you occupied, however the former is likely to get stolen and sold for heroin money and the former is likely to get you stabbed for looking the slightest bit intellectual.
In short, I would avoid this pub like the plague. It's a hole, plain and simple.
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On the beer side of things it's pretty much lager or nothing. I once ordered a John Smith's in this establishment and the first half of it came out clear.
This place isn't quite as violent as the Staff (Sandhurst Tup) and the prices are ok....well, the prices are low but the beer is horredous.
Oh, and you can bribe the bouncers to let you in when it gets over populated
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Why is it that some chains (like Wetherspoons) seem to be the same regardless of the town whereas others (such as RSVP and Yates) seem to differ enormously from place to place? This is one of the better Yates's in my opinion. The interior is nicely designed and sells an interesting range of drinks.
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This seems like a good yates. The lavatories seem to consist of the most interesting condom machine ever!
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