The Travellers Friend, Woodford Green

I have only been using the pub for about a year and must say that both of the staff seem to have got more sour every time I have used the place. The Mum seems to model herself on an infamous German dictator and has even had her hair done like him now flicking it all over the place, whilst the daughter resembles an older version of Wednesday Addams with an equally worrying stare that could melt a deep frozen horse burger in seconds. It does not matter how hard you try to be friendly with them, they just do not want to know and are so rude that you sometimes feel like giving them a piece of your mind properly so that they do not forget. I went in one day before Christmas and was told that I had to go by 10pm (it was 9.30pm on a Saturday night!) as she had ordered a takeaway and was closing early as it wasn't busy enough to justify keeping the heating on. I left as soon as an Asian kid turned up on a motorbike and went down the Rose Pub. I was puzzled as the heating was on in the summer! People only want a decent pint and I should say the lager aint the best i've had locally.
If you get in there with Ragen and the pub is empty she bores you to tears with all kinds of rubbish usually about herself, seems anti English as she says she is welsh but has a weird whining tongue more cockney/essex than from Wales. people are pleased to see others come in to escape so if I get in there and see her first i turn around and run somewhere else. This is a shame as it could be a nice pub. There are others nearby where they are far more glad to receive your money and custom.

28 Feb 2013 14:40