The Talbot, Kingsland

This is a Nazi pub - the kind that loves those Ra Ras that make small glass of dry white last all night and despises those regulars who spend lots of money on beer. Example... last night (which has enraged me so much I feel compeled to register and post). After a hard week's work me and 2 mates felt we deserved a beer. So one became 6 and rather embarassingly I made the ulltimate faux pah of nodding off in the arm chair (it'd been a hard week!). Having bleeded us dry the manageress clearly decided that we were lowering the property value and kicked us out. No "wakey wakey mate sorry you can't sleep there" just "Get out!". When we asked why she promtly barred us. Her reason was that we were rude (??). At no point were we obnoxious. We weren't even that drunk. I was tired. Simple as that. We left without fuss in the hope that she'd realise just how out of order she'd actually been.

My friends and I have been regulars at the Talbot for over 2 years. We've brought very good business to the place and eaten their ridiculaously over-priced food on many occasions. Unfortunately the staff turnaround is so high that they don't even know who their regulars are and so therefore feel it necessary to treat people like shit by default.

If anyone knows a good honest local pub, that values its customers (or at least knows who they are) please let me know.

Cheers

28 May 2005 12:46