Bacardi Tent Bar

Quite a small tent as far as festivals go, the Bacardi tent at Reading festival 2005 attempted to exclusively sell bacardi at its bar, but with an event sponsored by Carling, beer was also available in large plastic cups. The actual bar sat in the top left corner of the tent where the […]

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Reading University Student’s Union

Pumping dance floor in liquid lighting from the second you enter and are faced with a  rounded bar with clubbers and sweeping disco lights. Then suddenly through a door into a misplaced corridor with no music but chatting students enjoying normal lighting. here there is a cafe with a bar off to […]

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The Back of Beyond(Wetherspoons)
This large Wetherspoons provides an array of doors as a front entrance to open out onto the less-than-clean streets of reading at night but in the winter provides safe shelter and warm couches by the window with a hearty ale. The layout of the venue is set into 3 basic columns of […]

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O Neil’s

This pub is tucked beside all the other reading establishments in a row of brand-name bars and drunken louts scouring the streets for innocent females as prey. This particular place is at the end of that row and eager to attract the young yet only pulling the old. Its overcrowded on one floor with […]

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Yates

Yates is a large venue mounted upon a few small steps on entry past the rugged burly, but friendly bouncers into a hall-like room with large stairs up one side leading to an upstairs of wide birth balconies. Downstairs there are a few couches and chairs dotted about but the focus is on the main […]

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The Monks Retreat

Apparently a monk climbing up a bit of rope makes a pub good, I think not! The centre piece for this overcrowded, under-belly of the lower class Wetherspoons is host to some of the most grotty persons in the town of Reading. I can now see what the monk is scrambling away from; […]

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The Outlook

Most of the bars in Reading are poor melancholy replicas of dirty chain-bars and Wetherspoons but the Outlook prides the wood among the surrounding flaccid taverns. An a very wooden pub it is, with a nice view of the river flowing literally outside the back windows. Entering the bar you see the bar to […]

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The Upin Arms (a scream bar)

A pub-like venue from the outside and not very representative of a chain bar either inside, the Upin Arms is a lot smaller inside than it looks form the roads passing either side of it outside. It is popular with Sports fans and students with weekly games, quizzes and prizes […]

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Crown on the Bridge

Yet another haven for festival goers. Attached to the side of the Caversham bridge overlooking the thams the Crown on the Bridge would be so much better if indeed you go a look at those views, unfortunately the windows give you nothing to enjoy in this prime location. This little pub is […]

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The Clifton Arms

I tell you what-they do a great breakfast and have some seating outside for those summer hot days and mornings. Inside its very small- a traditional family pub and I think they do a lot of charity work at this one. This toilets aren’t great and the drink is quite pricey although they […]

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