BITE user comments - Worgeorge
Comments by Worgeorge
Now turned into a restaurant. They make it clear they don't want people who just want a beer. I was even told I could only sit down in a little cubby hole in the corner. Won't be back. Oh, and the beer's not kept well and the bar staff don't know what they're doing. Bye bye!
15 Mar 2018 13:42
Great place, all a pub should be. Original old interior, friendly staff, full of regulars who are 'characters', great beers all kept well, and a good jukebox too. Full marks.
25 Sep 2013 18:01
Spent a nice afternoon there watching the canal boats drift past. Inside it feels like a hotel lounge, completely characterless, but very friendly staff and good beer, Ringwoods and Hobgoblin both kept well. Food a bit pricey but isn't every pub? very friendly female staff, the one man on couldn't raise a smile to savce his life. Nice time there though, I'll be back.
25 Sep 2013 17:21
Booked for lunch but waited 2 and a half hours for it to come because 'we're very busy with people who've come to sit in the garden'. In other words, no point in booking. The table next to us was told they'd ran out oif meat! Beer OK but no better than anywhere else. Would have walked out had it not been an important family occasion. Won't be back, keep your 'idyliic location'!
25 Sep 2013 17:17
Beer (Doombar) and food OK but everything overpriced. They think of themselves as a restaurant with a bar area now. Only reason for going would be to let the kids play in the garden.
7 Jul 2013 11:32
The White Hart, Great Wakering
I find this place OK at lunchtimes when it's quiet, but a bit overpowering in the evenings when the regulars sit all along the bar without moving for anyone trying to get served, and effing and blinding at high volume. Shame, because the beer and the food is good, but I think every pub in Wakering is the same; I would'nt recommend any of them a s a place to take the wife and kids.
7 Jul 2013 11:26
Went there in April 2013. Big old barn of a place. Good beers and pleasant staff, locals also very friendly. Worth a visit.
10 May 2013 15:43
Visited in April 2013 and can only echo other reviews. Great selection of ales well kept, friendly staff and a lovely old building. Noot very big so can get very crowded but well worth a visit
10 May 2013 15:41
Called in here at 3:30 pm on a Wednesday. One other person in there but I stood at the bar for over 10 minutes while the barmaid - a lid who looked about 12 - fiddled with wine bottles and chatted to her mate from the kitchen. I timed it and after 12 minutes she asked what I wanted. Exactly the same performance when I went for a refill so I drank up and went elsewhere. Went into the Olde Trout up the road which was absolutely rammed but had 4 people behind their tiny bar, no wait whatsoever.
Goodbye Alex - I won't be back. Ever wondered why your place is deserted just before Christmas ?
16 Dec 2012 10:06
The Halfway House, Southend on Sea
Not a great experience....beer is Greene King IPA or John Smiths, neither kept very well. Very overpriced in my opinion: little change from �10 for 1 pint of beer and 2 glasses of coke. I've never known such awful service - there seem to be lots of staff wandering about, looking after the restaurant or just in and out from the back, who will walk past you while you wait at the bar for the one person serving to decide they can't find anything else to do first.
Carvery also poor, food is luke warm and vegetables either mushy or hard,
The management here need training in customer service; their expertise at the moment seems to lie in ripping you off. I recommend you avoid it and try one of the pubs in town.
27 Aug 2012 12:54
Best pub in Southend. Friendly, good cheap food, good atmosphere. Usually full of students playing pool.
25 Aug 2012 15:15
Visited while I stayed in the cottage next door. Great pint of Reverend James. Didn't eat but a good looking menu, including quorn sausage and onion baguette, great for veggies. Very friendly landlady and the one local in there was chatty too. Be great for children with its large garden with bench tables right on the river. Recommend it.
25 Aug 2012 15:12
A wonderful place. Beautiful big old building, welcoming landlord and great Wye Valley bitter. Great to look around; everywhere you look there's something interesting. Next time I visit the are I'll try to stay here. Worth going out of your way to visit.
25 Aug 2012 15:09
Disappointed. Closed at 12 noon on a Thursday, but open when I walked past again at 20 past. No ales on - lager or cider. One couple there, locals deep in deep conversation with the landlady, a foreign lady I had trouble understanding. Had planned to eat but the welcome was lukewarm to say the least so bolted a pint of Carling lager and left. Can't see them being open much longer from what I saw. Shame, lovely old building and nice location.
25 Aug 2012 15:07
Strange place. A small pub with Chinese restaurant you go through the bar to get to. Good beers, well kept. Full of regulars, workmen who keep themselves to themselves to themselves. Likewise the landlord. Chinese restaurant is like any other apart from some quorn dishes for vegetarians, which is a good idea. Got the feeling they like tourists in the restaurant, not so in the pub. Nothing wrong with the place, they could just work a bit harder at making strangers welcome.
25 Aug 2012 14:29
Looks huge but in fact is narrow and quite small inside. Only beer is Marstons Pedigree, otherwise lagers and cider. Average pub food.Service friendly enough. In this ideal location they could do better, I think
25 Aug 2012 14:25
The Sutton Arms, Southend on Sea
Now refurbished and renamed the Cow and Telescope. They've done a good job, nice decor without being over the top and decent beer on sale. Still get the odd 'characters' drinking from morning till night but generally nicer people than when it was the old Sutton Arms. Worth going to watch the bands too. Well worth a visit.
15 Mar 2018 14:00