BITE user comments - siancollins
Comments by siancollins
Fab pies! I cannot tell you how much this please is great! Enough said!
6 Feb 2008 09:14
Takes a long time to get served, a very long time, but its cheap so dont expect too much.
6 Feb 2008 09:10
Dogma Bar and Kitchen, Reading
Nice place to go on a friday lunch, �6 for a baguette, chips, salad and a glass of wine. After work they also so a bottle of wine for �7.50.
The service is a little slow but even slower if you order a coctail. Nice place though, i go every week.
6 Feb 2008 09:06
A bit over priced but the food, service and drink are always fab.
You get what you pay for!
4 Sep 2007 13:35
DO NOT EAT THE FOOD!
I ordered pasta in tomato sauce, simple but tastey you would think. Well a little to simple it was heated up in a microwave and all the pasta was rock solid!!
Burger was a little pink inside too. So avoid for food
28 Mar 2007 12:33
Agree with the top comment.
Budweiser is rubbish larger to have 4 pumps of and when i asked for a pint of the stuff the barmaid poured it but, from 3 dirrerent pumps as she cant pull a pint!!!!
Would not reccomend!
28 Mar 2007 12:29
Brilliant little pub. Bar staff are always friendly and helpfull. The quiz is good too on a sunday, but god do you have to be brainy!
7 Feb 2007 18:02
I loved this place, yes maybe it is a little over priced but I went there for an enjoyable meal with my partner and I got one. I would highly recommend the slow cooked lamb melted in my mouth and was the best I have ever tasted.
I wouldn�t pop in for a quick pint but I would definitely come back again for a meal.
Brilliant!! 10 out of 10
7 Feb 2007 17:55
Cr*p, queued for 30 mins only to find out its over 21's so half my mates couldnt go in anyway!
11 Aug 2006 14:50
Think this has closed now, THANK GOD!!
As they say 'Another one bites the dust' lets see what new infested hole will take its place.
6 Jul 2006 12:43
Very true!! They are always like that.
Well got thrown our for ''throwing bottles at Yates''???? Was about a year of so ago, i was there with my boyfriend and his mates happily dancing on the dance floor. The next minute we got grabbed by the back and pulled down stairs (forcefull i might add, im quite a small girl compared to them) and thrown out. We didnt know why this happened so we asked. They said people from Yates has identified us for throwing bottles at them? We had no drinks on us. Ive never been back.
22 Jun 2006 16:49
Queued here for 20 mins the thought buggar this im leaving. Was stood in the cold for ages.
Would like to go in when maybe it is a little quieter so that i can make my own mind but i dont fancy drinking at 10am!!
16 May 2006 12:57
Well this is laughable!! I went there after work for my mates leaving do. Dress down Friday with a couple of quid in my pocket for a drink. They would not serve me as i had no ID?!? I am 20 and do look older than i am. So i sent my boyfriend up to get a round, they then proceeded to tell him that he couldn�t buy me a drink as he was breaking the law for buying an under age girl a drink and that he would get arrested?!?!? uuuum ok.
Went there again for another leaving party (must get them to start changing the venue) I was in a suit as it was a Thursday night. As i was driving I ordered a J20. The bar staff again asked me for ID? I said i was buying a non alcoholic drink and why did it matter, she told me i looked under 18? Then she asked will i be having alcohol? I said i might do i haven�t decided yet. So she then asked me for ID before even giving me a juice? How Petty!?!?! So in the end i showed her my ID for getting J20. I know they have to ask for ID but all my work colleagues are 28+ and i am shortly 21. Plus I used to go in there last summer as the seating outside wasn�t too bad so its not as if I haven�t been there before.
The prices are extremely high, the bar staff are rude, the glasses are dirty, the floor is sticky and the food is cr*p. What good is there? the exit door only.
5 May 2006 09:00
I juggle a day job and a bar too ill have you know and i still mange to serve people within 5 mins and in the correct order. Its not rocket science you know.
4 May 2006 16:22
Yes but that was 1 day!! A lick of paint cant change a sh*t hole now can it?
It wont take long to go back to the way it was (Who wears a ball gown on a night on the town?!?!?)I still stand by my last comment.
4 May 2006 16:19
Very nice pub, will agree with the others, very smokey after a while.
17 Jan 2006 12:33
Nice pub to start a night, friendly staff, nice beer, not many pubs sell '1664' love it, good music and a bloody huge TV screen. Please let this remain an undiscovered pub as otherwise the chavs will come a flocking!!
All round a good pub
17 Jan 2006 12:19
Nice pub with good locals.
Looking for an old mate who drinks here, Sharon Freemantle. If anyone has seen of heard about her please contact me as i am desperate to get in contact again. This is known as her local.
16 Jan 2006 13:22
Its now become Varsity its far more better. Bouncers arent too bad either. Asked them what had changed (as i was a little unsure if i would live if i went in) and they simply said ' we just dont let any of the c**ts in!!
Overall I had a good night here was much better than the others that it has replaced. OK priced drinks but buy a V Card and you save 25%!! so ever cheeper.
10 Jan 2006 11:13
If you fancy good cocktails go to Bar Iguana!! Amazing, if i can remember rightly, i stayed in there for ages and had way to many.
Anyway Sahara, nice place but a little to expensive.
5 Jan 2006 15:43
The comedy upstairs is amazing!! Went there at xmas.
But way to expensive!!
5 Jan 2006 15:29
The Oakford Social Club, Reading
Not too, go there if im at the station
Cheep on thursdays
5 Jan 2006 15:27
Now closed
Thank God!
Its now become Varsity which is far more better. Bouncers arent too bad either. Asked them what had changed (as i was a little unsure if i would live if i went in) and they simply said ' we just dont let any of the c**ts in!!
5 Jan 2006 15:23
This place is awful!!
And well said to the previous quote - we need something better!!
5 Jan 2006 15:20
Well this place is a hole. There are no words to describe this chav fest. Avoid like it like the plague or youll catch it!! The bouncers are aggressive, the floor is full of old mutton, 13 year old girls with belts on or showing a mid riff which god no should be put away and pervy old men!! The floor is soooooo sticky you cant actually move (i thinks thats how they keep people in)
Been twice, which is twice to offen, would rather be in prison - oh no thats like Brannigans too!
5 Jan 2006 13:49
The food is beyond words and the service is impeckable. Keep up the good work!!
5 Jan 2006 13:34
Very boring, over priced and the beer goes flat just after the first sip. Food passable. The older barman has a very B.A.D attitude problem!! Wouldnt reccomend!!
5 Jan 2006 13:32
The Red Lion, Mortimer West End
I agree with he comment below. Niceness cost nothing!! Please, Thankyou etc.........
Ordered food, just warm enough to eat. I Had Steak and Chips, the steak, lovely cooked just how i wanted it, chips, what chips?? the poor excuses for chips were little fried things that looked like left overs and no bigger than a 10p you couldnt even put yout fork in them as they would snap not what you would expect!! Very over priced for a little pub and not a nice place to go.
Wouldnt reccomend it to anyone - well unless i didnt like them.
5 Jan 2006 09:21
Very nice pub and the food was superb!! However the service was rubbish. We got sat down and ordered drinks then that was it for about 1/2 hour, finished a bottle of wine before our dinner order was taken then had to wait a further 3/4's of an hour for dinner.
We were seated at 7 and didnt leave till just before 10. Not impressed.
But the food was good and so was the wine so that made it a lot more better, may go again but a little hesitant as if this proceeds then wont go again.
5 Jan 2006 09:12
Love the place, havent been in a while so decided to go back one night. Hasnt changed a bit still one of the best in reading!!
4 Jan 2006 15:45
The best Wetherspoons in Reading. Plus the whole pub is no smoking. Heaven. Who cares about the oldies, they have life too you know. Good food, good atmosphere!!!!!
4 Jan 2006 15:35
Veri nice place with a good number of pool tables plus a juke box!!!!!!! BRILL
Staff however, think you need to find more polite ones
4 Jan 2006 15:23
Service is rubbish they are so slow and quite thick. But the beer is good and is a laught o go to. Cheep too
4 Jan 2006 15:02
Good food, lovely atmosphere, and nice big beer garden for the summer
4 Jan 2006 12:52
Nice place, but expensice but the food was nice!! Very hot curry!!
3 Jan 2006 15:26
The Pineapple, Brimpton Common
The food is the best ive had in a long time, even better than some restaurants!! Nice selction of drinks too. Will def go back
3 Jan 2006 15:24
The dog is on the roof because of the flat upstairs. Good pub, but way too much smoke and quite stuffy. Nice beer and good food!!
3 Jan 2006 14:02
Tuesday quiz night not for the dumb!! Nice local, good range of beers. Nice choice!
3 Jan 2006 13:59
This pub maybe out of the way but is worth the trip. The BBQ table - brill idea (big BBQ set in the middle of the table) Overall would rate this pub a 10!!
3 Jan 2006 13:55
Sweeney and Todd, Reading
Fab pies! I cannot tell you how much this place is great! Enough said!
6 Feb 2008 09:14