BITE user comments - DaveHarley
Comments by DaveHarley
Site is sadly being abused by the likes of "Smif", the review of 24/9/07 should be ignored. Bat & Ball is an ordinary, pub enjoyed by straight, gay, black, white, young and old alike, and may it stay that way!
11 Oct 2007 09:29
I found staff ok but pub has turned a little cliquey. A word of warning, be very careful about leaving your bike outside the pub. The problem lies with the area, not the pub, but my cycle was knocked over during an attempt to pinch someone else's.
Also, ice is handled into drinks sometimes, but the beer (London Pride) remains good.
26 May 2005 16:49
Is this really the Cornubia that people have been in recently? Can't believe it - I went in there at the beginnin of last year and could recommend it with a 10/10 - Sadly I didn't know about this site then, and haven't been in Bristol for a while now. There IS (and I know there is!) another good pub nearby called the Bridge Inn (or Bridge Tavern?) a small pub which is more welcoming when you go in. I shall have to try this pub out again as I simply can't believe it's met up with such a disaster :-(
16 Feb 2004 18:28
lovely pub - worth a visit, well kept beer & v. friendly staffs, food lunchtimes, nice locals, what more could you ask for?
16 Feb 2004 17:47
An amazing pub. So close to the station as well. GREAT beers and the atmosphere is so good people think i'm makin it up. GO THERE**
I'm givin it a 10/10 I challenge anyone to give it less!
16 Feb 2004 17:46
I went to this pub one evening last week durin the Chelsea-Portsmouth match. Although not mentioned in Lee's comments here, the pub has a reputation for bein a bit unfriendly, and used to attract a racist element from the estate nearby. I heard a woman (about 60, sitting at the bar) talk to a coloured guy who walked in for a pint in a very condescending manner, but didn't think it was in my interests to intervene.
There is London Pride here, but I didn't even get round to askin for it as it ran out when someone else asked for a pint.
The pub is in a traditional building, but falls short of bein overtly welcoming to newcomers. I was treated courteously, but its quite clear who everyone's "friends" are.
Someone in the pub said the management has changed recently and it is slowly becoming more friendly - I'll probably review it in a few months.
Lee should pop in again. It's not quite like the other pubs he recommends
16 Feb 2004 17:37
GREAT place! Only slite gripe is the beers are kept at 14 degrees instead of 12 which just takes the edge off them a little,otherweise its amongst Londons top pubs.
13 Dec 2003 18:50
Pub was nailbombed in 1999, but was proudly rebuilt and is an integral part of the Soho circuit.
13 Dec 2003 18:26
Great place very friendly staff pub has won Camera award for pub of the season in Winter 2003
13 Dec 2003 18:22
A lovely pub, welworth visitin this pub is quite set back in the back streets of the Borough,and has all the harveys beers in great condition.
13 Dec 2003 18:19
The Royal Oak, Borough
A pub worth its weight in gold. Top beer, clientele mainly professionals and white collar employees. Food good, beware the booby trap boiled egg in the fish pie though!
11 Oct 2007 17:44