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[Bollo]

Got it now. Ridden past it a few times but its close enough to home not to bother. How d'ya think he'd react if I pulled up, used his toilet facilities and then ficked off without purchasing a pork scratching.

I'll do it for a bet.

 

[dudi]

Got it now. Ridden past it a few times but its close enough to home not to bother. How d'ya think he'd react if I pulled up, used his toilet facilities and then ficked off without purchasing a pork scratching.

I'll do it for a bet.

Dunno about this guy, but the cute bargirl at one of the pubs I often pass is very happy to let me come in and use their facilities... pleasent young thing... worth the journey.

 

[sheddy]

I read somewhere (real ale mag?) this year about a UK pub surrounded by takeaways. The Publican not only invited customers in to eat on his premises, but provided cutlery and plates and cleared up after

 

[Maizie]

When I got married, we had our venue for the entire afternoon, until about 6pm-ish. After that, we wandered down to a neaby pub with a large garden, a well-known chain that said on the door it was family friendly.
"The children have to leave by 8pm" we were told, not long after we'd got there but after the first round had been bought. This was the company rule for the chain, not a licensing condition (my husband enquired, using the right terminology, as he works in that industry!) There were 20+ of us, on a Monday night, pretty much the only people in the place, but the children have to be gone by 8pm...

So we moved to the pub just down the road a bit. A proper drinker's pub, an old-fashioned boozer. We asked the landlord if he minded having a big group of us turn up, including children, taking over pretty much his entire beer garden. He was delighted. A while later, when my little bro got hungry, we asked if it was OK if we went round to the chippy and got some chips for the children to eat in the garden (the pub didn't do food) - the poor landlord looked at us like we were mad, really 'why would I mind, it keeps a big group of people in my pub on a Monday night!' It was great because they were happy to have us and we were delighted to give them the custom - and it was almost even better that it was probably the last pub in town you would normally have considered walking in to!

 

[dellzeqq]

when did all this start? When I was young (we're talking geological time, here) you could take sandwiches into a pub. Nobody questioned it.

 

[papercorn2000]

You could just go back and burn the place down and cut off the landlord's legs...

 

[Arch]

To cap it all wife stood behind the bar glaring at us, we drank up in double quick time and shipped out sharpish.

Would have annoyed them more if you'd really taken you time over your single coffees and taken up space.

That said, it wouldn't occur to me to eat my own food in a pub. His reaction was obviously OTT, but perhaps if you'd asked nicely before hand and claimed the guy had a special dietary requirement, it might have been alright.

 

[Nicensleazy]

Well, you won't be going back there again. Also, when someone Googles the pub, hopefully your thread should come up!

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Would have annoyed them more if you'd really taken you time over your single coffees and taken up space.

That said, it wouldn't occur to me to eat my own food in a pub. His reaction was obviously OTT, but perhaps if you'd asked nicely before hand and claimed the guy had a special dietary requirement, it might have been alright.

I have considered that in the past, if I should ever get caught eating my own (not purchased) on the premises flapjack, but on this occasion we were all so taken aback, it wouldn't have been prudent, the guy and his wife Barry and Julie Lane (I googled the pub ) which is apparently 'cyclist friendly' providing you don't eat your energy bar in view of Barry and Julie (I had to chuckle) weren't in the mood for that sort of reposte. Luckily he hadn't seen my flapjack which I managed to hide under my helmet.

Also on another review site from last year people who had visited the pub complained about the inflated prices of his beer.

As one of the guys pointed out once we were safely outside, and he is self employed, has his own print and design company, quite often customers come in and say " I've designed this will you print it?" well as he put it "I'm hardly going to say to the customer, no your'e doing me out of my designing money, so fcuk off! Am I ?!"

We all had a laugh about it on the way home.

 

[Speck]

Mrs Speck and I stopped there for lunch a few years ago, we had been to a flyfishing demo in Stockbridge. The prices for the cold pies etc didn't include salad or veg etc, silly money! Lovely place, spoilt by greed. Not been back

 

[Over The Hill]

Greedy git spoilt by having too many people flock to the pub in the summer. I have been there a couple of times (not my choice) and it is overblown, overpriced and too busy.

I will avoid it from now on!

 

[Mortiroloboy]

the menu board was full of overpriced food - £9.50 for a Chicken Madras and rice, twice what I would expect to pay in my local curry house for something as basic as a madras.

The location is probably what keeps it going.

 

[Bollo]

the menu board was full of overpriced food - £9.50 for a Chicken Madras and rice, twice what I would expect to pay in my local curry house for something as basic as a madras.

The location is probably what keeps it going.

From the Mayfly . The location is very pleasant but the pub itself looks nowt special based on the times I've ridden past it. Plenty of others in the area.

 

[trj977]

I guess it is the pub in this link from the reviews.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/15/15320/Mayfly/Chilbolton

I suggest you add your own review as they were so rude. But it looks like it is normal behavior in that particular establishment.

 

[Fnaar]

I guess it is the pub in this link from the reviews.
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/15/15320/Mayfly/Chilbolton

I suggest you add your own review as they were so rude. But it looks like it is normal behavior in that particular establishment.

From the reviews:

Fantastic location but the food is overpriced in the extreme and dished out by the most sourfaced, miserable woman it has ever been my misfortune to come across in the service industry.

If this pub was anywhere other than by the River Test, it would have gone belly up years ago.