Went to the Royal Oak tonight. The place is an object lesson on how not to run a pub.
Walked in just over an hour before kick-off. Ordered 4 pints of London Pride. Only to be told "sorry it's run out"
O/K i say, we'll have 4 pints of I.P.A. Only to be told, "the barrels just gone, can you wait"
So we wait. Fully 5 minutes later we receive the IPA. One of which i'm pretty sure was made up from the drip trays, judging by the state of it.
Decide we have time for a second round. Guess what? The IPA is now gone.
Right we'll have three of the bottled Speckled Hen and one Corona! This costs me twelve quid!!!!!
Never again. Back to the Bugle for us.
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Fair play to those behind the bar, service wise they are pretty good, but the beer is ropey.
And you drink bloody Euro Fizz! Must have been really bad.
Had the syrup on the coke gone then? You know you can't get served in there without i.d.....;-)
Back to the Lib Saturday
Hated the place and the people in there drinking (at 4.30), foul mouthed retards.
Then they have the cheek to try and sell you a bottle of Speckled Hen at £3, when you can buy 4 bottles in Tescos for £2.99. I'm sure the brewery would come down on them like a ton of bricks if they knew what they were doing.
It's obvious, that they just can't be bothered with the bitters, when they make a fortune on selling the bottled beers. Last night I was on the Guinness and at least I got a full pint. Fed up with asking them to 'top it up'.
I notice that the landlady hasn't appeared on this forum since the start of the season.
I went there last night had one pint of pants fosters for £3.00 plus and left it to go to Bartrams, the beer in there was far superior!!!
Utter rubbish! Even the guiness seemed watered down and had all black fluff on the head.
The sad thing is, i would like to go there. I would like to drink London Pride.
At a time when pubs are struggling big time, it would be a shame if this pub failed again.
But for crying out loud, how many times can a publican run out of a very popular beer on a matchday. Surely she can see matchdays are the days to make good income to help cover the lower income on most other days.
At least I got 2 x IPA before it ran out though :-D
The Lib Club is rubbish, service terrible, no room, no lifers. Avoid at all costs.
No atmosphere, Gassy Lager, Old Carpets.......
MiserableOldGits moaning..........
Come on MOG, do you know a man who could help with this problem?
Seeing that it basically located at the end of the platform.
Not the cheapest pub around, but they have a good selection of beers.
Got to agrre with the beer in there is shit, had 1 pint of fosters then had to go on the bottles of cider.
Service is good though
Funny you saying that......
dropped acouple of sample books there earlier.......
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Do they serve bottled beer ....?
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Not that I frequent it myself I have to say but you so much want folk to do well (especially in the pub game) in these tough times as very frighteningly so many are going to the wall....come on, get your fingers out there at The Oak and deal with these issues....pronto!
The Lib Club is rubbish, service terrible, no room, no lifers. Avoid at all costs.[/quote]
The draft beer is pretty poor for sure, the service is ok though
On matchdays, you can get served quite quickly as well, despite it being packed.
Decent for them to come on here and apologise I think as well
Still my number one pub for a pre-match Guinness, although watch out about standing on the road with your pint. The old bill go mental