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The crisp R&B blats at your eardrums through the icy wastes of this barn. What's not to like?
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This is a restaurant with a bar. As others have said there is little atmosphere in here even on the weekend. Foods not bad, expensive though.
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If it was properly a pub it would have more than just London Pride on, surely? Really a restaurant and one full of kids for that.
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Yawn
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Please...this is a restaurant not a pub. Even the picture says bar, cafe, restaurant ???
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Huge barn of a pub with little atmosphere. Great if you just want a chan'n'laugh evening with friends.
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went in the other night and fell asleep listening to all the locals talking about how much their houses were worth.
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Went in last night. I didn't order any food because the new menu is so expensive. �10.75 for a burger and chips? This is crazy, there is no justification for such prices. I won't be going in here again.
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This has a airport departure lounge / railway waiting room feel to it. Staff are willing, food and drinks are ok but it isn't quite there.
Comfortable enough with faded Victorian grandeur.
As others have said it is safe but dull.
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I agree the toilets are not great. God knows what the gents loos are like if the ladies are this bad
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The comment about taking your grandparents here is so true. It is safe, comfortable & ok when it is full but a bit boring. Vast swathes of empty tables most of the time.
Safe, corporate, dull.
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This place is nice and comfy. Good spot for a few glasses of plonk.
There is a comedy waitress who is so so rude and miserable it's unbelievable.
The bar area toilets are a disgrace. They are too small and too smelly. The staff do not clean/go near them during opening hours.
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When it is good it is very good - when it is empty the grand cavernous hall is a bit soul less.
The food in the restaurant is not bad & a perfectly safe place to take either a client or your grandparents for a civilkised lunch.
I recommend going in the bar only when it is busy.
A few office types wander in after work.
Used to be good but more of a hotel than a bar restaurant these days - management seem disinterested in "just" bar or restaurant trade.
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i would like to say that the food in the hotel is very outstandig, and the staff are freindly,
i would deffenitally come back to the hotel
anonymous - 11 Oct 2007 17:38 |
i would like to sa that this restarant is off a high class standard thats aimed at the kitchen staff the bar staff and the house keepers especially teresa one who is very helpfull and very stunning.
anonymous - 11 Oct 2007 17:34 |
Visited again after a long absence and enjoyed it again, very much.
TheGP - 22 Jun 2007 13:28 |
Having read the comments on this web site, I was worried about our already booked night at the hotel the weekend of the International 7s at Twickenham. It was pouring with rain and my wife and I decided to "risk" eating in-house. We needn't have worried. The service was excellent, friendly and efficient. The food, while not outstanding gourmet cuisine, was perfectly good for the prices.
If you're looking for a pub, then go to a pub. As a hotel, this is very good.
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Went along to The Park for what was intended to be a civilised and relaxed Sunday lunch with friends. However, lurking behind the overly-ambitious menu was a truely mediocre selection of poorly conceived and even more poorly executed dishes. Over cooked, bland and apparently thrown together by someone with very little understanding of cooking, the food was a sorry mess - and we felt sorry for ourselves as we tried to eat it. Having given up on the offerings, the waitress walked past our table a number of times without thinking to clear the remains - forcing us to move tables instead.
Despite having run up a sizble tab at the bar (at c. �10 each, these "meals" weren't cheap), the barman still managed to take 15mins to bring two beers out, despite the place was deserted (and for good reason).
Add to this regretable performace the instantly forgettable decor of any pseudo-trendy pub/bar in the country and the result is somewhere I certainly won't be rushing back to of my own free will.
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Visited the Restaurant a few months ago and apart from the vaguely unattentive waiting staff, was pleasantly surprised by the food and wine quality and the elegance of the room itself.
For this reason, when friends from out of the area visited this Sunday I recommended that we lunch at the attached bar.
Embarassingly rude and unattentive bar staff (when they were in evidence at all!), bland, tasteless and quite expensive food (especially the '�10.50 for one' large overcooked prawn) from the bar menu (and half an hour after deciding not to finish our meals we had to move to another table to get away from the congealing food still left sitting in front of us. This was on a very quiet Sunday afternoon, so one has to wonder what it would have been like at a more busy time.
Take my advice, walk 5 mins in almost any direction and you shall find much better fare and service.
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It is like drinking in the foyer of a hotel. Loud, impersonal and the service is terrible - apart from that ok.
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Perhaps I'm flying in the face of public opinion here, but I like it. The bar area is a little small for the large seating area, and the service was a little sluggish, but it wasn't worth complaining about.
The decor and atmosphere are pleasant. Yes, it's not a typical "local's pub" but it's not trying to be. I have tried the restaurant and found it quite good. Would definitely return.
Lighten up, I say. It's not that bad, The Park, not that bad at all.
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Food not bad and impressive space but let down by hopeless service. Visited 3 times recently, service was slow and on each occasion they managed to muck up, bringing either the wrong dish or, once, nothing at all. Friends have had similar experience. Restaurant always empty when we went.I wonder why?
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Well well, if this pub were a well known figure, wouldn't it be Gordon Ramsay?
Subtle colour greets one mixed with nouvelle arthouse decor, blended by the rich fabric of client domination. Ordinary-ness conveyed by brashness. Agression parred with tranquility.
Oh, it's an odd mix is this old drinking haunt. Recommended if you like peace, recommended if you like noiseness. It's that kind of place.
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I was here on a Wednesday, but I'd hardly call what I heard "Jazz". At first I thought it was Karaoke as the singer was incredibly ordinary.
Nothing stands out about this place. Obligatory wooden floor. Sparse decor. Nothing you haven't seen in an All Bar One really.
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just undergone some radical changes and the improvenments are already noticable. Food vastly improved, jazz on a wednesday is brilliant, and new manager has already created a fine atmosphere! Get there, do it!
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Not the best bar in Teddington, lacks atmosphere, to big!
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If your a rich bunch of bankers - come here!
Its not my idea of a pub... or even a trendy bar for that matter. Its big and open, normally pretty empty, theres nothing in particular to keep you occupied here unless you wana get a meal. Got a late licence though, however Im normally wanting to leave within half an hour of entering the place.
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Think this place is lovely... service sometimes not always the speedist.. but polite none the less. Worth a visit for sure.
Chloe - 22 Nov 2005 18:33 |
smart, lively bar, good mix of people. we need places like this instead of the dingy, 'lads' pubs all over town, although we need them I suppose to keep the riff-raff and pikies out (see 'Kingraama' below). Haven't tried the restaurant yet but looks ok.
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Read the review from James (2 down) to trully understand why this is one of the worst places to drink in Teddington. Good Rioja.....Dear Lord
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Highly over-priced mediocre food, ok beer. Give it a miss, there are loads of better places to go in Teddington.
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why can't there be more places like this? stylish, loads of atmosphere, relaxing, non smokey. It puts other 'locals' to shame. Genuine service, good food (if a little fussey), good Rioja!
James
anonymous - 24 Apr 2005 17:41 |
The service was a bit random at times but it was friendly, and I found the food very good.
This place is basically like an All Bar One, but with half divided into a restaurant - Quite a good idea considering some of the good pubs nearby, if you require grub then it is an option, and it was very busy when I went in on a Thursday night.
If you want a night out drinking, I would suggest somewhere else nearby though
TheGP - 18 Feb 2005 09:43 |
Went there for some food and a drink, wrong main course bought. When the bill it was wrong and took an age to get it corrected, then was stood at the bar trying to pay and the chef walked past and said in a loud voice "I'm sick of these customers f***ing me around. Not the sort of thing you want on a nice night out with your girlfriend!
Roger - 16 Nov 2004 20:42 |
I ordered a bottle of champagne as soon as i arrived and didn't see this until i requested another one twenty minutes later. Then when we finally recieved our starters they were cold.
Main course was minimal and i was not offered any sides. As the dish i had ordered was not a reasonable size i would have expected to be told this and advised about sides. Then when i asked if i could expand my meal they proclaimed that the kitchen was shut...... Very good service.......(not). It seemed that there was a passel of people working but none of which were capable of doing the job properly.
Now for the room........ No towels, well one if that'ts anything to go by. The bathroom door didn't shut and the bed sheets had noticeable cigarette burns. When i rang reception in the morning the porter explained that they have a handy man and if i'd called last night the would have sent him up to fix the door. Now correct me if i'm wrong but you wouldn't want somebody fixing your door on your stay. When you have paid to relax and not worry about thing 's you expect it to be that way...
I would give this hole 2 out of 10 if that....
Theparkadviser - 6 Feb 2004 11:30 |
The restaurant is staffed by clueless teenagers (the only ones who would appreciate the music palyed). The manager served our main course and couldn't recognise what was on the plates, let alone who they were for. His excuse: "It's a new menu".
Our deserts came and were nearly placed on the table on top of the menus and used napkins which hadn't been cleared away, not to mention the full ashtray which hadn't been replaced from the beginning of the meal.
We felt as though the food was ferried across to us in between the 6 members of staff chatting to each other.
When we left no one said anything or even looked in our direction, they were to busy busy chatting to each other.
Plus the minor things: All our desert spoons were palced on the wrong side, the glasses were for red wine not white. My soup came with a desert spoon.
I've had better service in a motorway caff.
The food! Bland (microwaved) and relatively expensive.
On the continent, the reaction to all this would have been reminiscient of a H.E. Bateman cartoon.
The owners have obviously spent a lot of money on the premises and skimped on the staff and the traing. A fundamental mistake.
robert - 25 Nov 2003 14:41 |
I have always found the staff very helpful and efficient. Food always good. Service fine. The decor is modern and stylish so if you dont like that go to the dingy pub -theres plenty of them about!. Whats wrong with suits?
susan henderson - 12 Nov 2003 11:24 |
Noisy, full of suits, staff not particularly friendly, bouncers unnecessary. Not great beer either, but then it's a bar, not a pub. Sorry.
richardaustin - 13 Oct 2003 15:22 |
Yeah, very suity. Bit lacking in atmosphere and pricey to boot. Kind of handy by being right next to the station, though.
Trowa - 16 Sep 2003 10:03 |
Serves a purpose I suppose. Service often awful. Modern, supposedly trendy, bar. Not really a pub at all. No proper beer. Pricey and overrun by plastic people.
Nick - 18 Aug 2003 15:04 |
Not great. Found the service very rude and very slow. Beer not great. Disappointing overall.
Charlie - 8 Aug 2003 14:44 |
Great bar food for dealing with a hangover on a Sunday - restaurant food is a tad OTT and pricey. Fair range of beers. Pleasant decor and atmosphere. Seems to be 'the' place to sit outside of when sunny.
Rob Gordon - 13 May 2003 22:10 |
Used to be called the Clarence and was a complete hole. But is now a very pleasant place to eat and drink with lots of comfortable leather sofas. The food is very nice, the beer is OK, decent music and a generally nice atmosphere on most nights.
Angus - 14 Apr 2003 13:39 |
