The Clifton Arms, Caversham

Having recently moved near to Caversham from Kent the pubs here are a breath of fresh air. Lovely little pub here . Met up with my daughter and son. Served by friendly landlady , even offered to make us lunch even though it has just gone past the 2pm finishing time. Excellent wine selection and my son said the Brakspear ale was in fine condition. Top marks , we will most certainly will make this our new local.
Ms king and family.

9 Dec 2013 12:41

Alto Lounge, Reading

Waited for no less than ten minutes at the bar. Three staff saw us walk in but chose to ignore us leaving us waiting while a young chap with dirty ripped clothes was on the phone. It should have been obvious to the other 3 girls that he could not serve us but they decided to ignore us , carrying on with their chat . So after patiently waiting and examining the menu we still had nobody to serve us (despite instructions telling us to order at bar) so we just walked out , stared at by the 3 girls who just simply did not care. We found a lovely little cafe instead a few doors down on the corner and had a lovely lunch and coffees there instead. And that's where we shall go from now on.

9 Dec 2013 12:37

The Black Lion, Longfield

I like this pub. I often pop in with my sister and our husbands.
Good selection of red wine.
Only gripes no toilet paper in the ladies and my sisters husband and two different ales, both stank and one had lots of little flies in the top.
Was changed to a perfectly drinkable bottle of Holsten pills and he sticks with that now when they have not run out.
Comfy furniture and nice and warm :-)

ELLA

5 Nov 2012 21:43