BITE user comments - BigAlBlue
Comments by BigAlBlue
The Royal Oak Inn, Saundersfoot
This is a pub/restaurant serving good quality food at fairly reasonable prices for such a location. Service is efficient but not paticularly welcoming. Decent selection of real ales.
8 Jul 2012 15:21
As someone who usually spends a week of the summer in nearby Seaton, I'm very disappointed to hear Jeff's news. The Harbour, over the last couple of years, has comfortably been the best pub in the area for a meal and having visited the Wheelwright, I know exactly what he means.
12 Apr 2011 16:32
Called in at lunchtime before a visit to Wolverhampton Races. Very cheap and quite cheerful. Chap sitting near me had bangers and mash which cost him the princely sum of �1.50. Proper Black Country working man's pub very convenient for Metro.
12 Apr 2011 16:17
If you want to hold a conversation, don't go on a Monday evening because you'll have to shout above the ridiculously high volume of the PA system used for the quiz.
12 Apr 2011 16:07
I have been visiting this pub on various occasions since I lived in Harborne in the 1970s. Since I retired from teaching some three years ago, I have regularly popped in for a lunchtime pint.
The srevice has never been great but at least there was usually a minimum of two people serving behind the bar. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case at lunchtime and service has deteriorated significantly, seemingly since the new manager took over about three months ago. Now there is only one person serving and considerable queues build up, especially when someone requests coffee and the barperson toddles off to the machine to make it. Indeed, on my penultimate visit, an elderly, partially sighted gentleman became so frustrated at the wait that he walked out in disgust.
On today's visit I was asked to remove my flat cap by the young lad serving behind the bar, something that has never happened before. I can well understand this to be company policy, if a ridiculous one. However, when after a while I pointed out that a gentleman across the room eating a meal was wearing a hat, the barman was not interested, explaining that he had not seen him.
I won't be rushing back to this place in any hurry.
7 Dec 2009 18:10
The Old Chemist Inn, Saundersfoot
This is very much a pub/restaurant set in a beautiful location. Ate here twice during a week's stay in Saundersfoot. Food is good at fairly reasonable prices, as is the service, though not overly friendly. Sunday roast is recommended with a choice of larger or smaller portions. Decent pint of Double Dragon.
8 Jul 2012 15:29