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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 booths on the far left, small tables in the middle and the bar to the right. Heading directly for the bar I happened upon a nasty flaw- it took 2 and a half hours to get served. Okay perhaps I am exaggerating but in a busy pub of this calibre more than two barmen can be a good selling point. Ale in hand i notice entrances front and back and despite easy access it is not rammed with students which is good.
Overall I found the place to be clean and comfortable and not overcrowded. Had the bar persons been more plentiful this Wetherspoons would have been considerably better but it still slips away with a generous 5/10.
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1 Tom R // Sep 16, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Mate, why go to the effort of reviewing pubs if you have such a poor technique? I stumbled upon here by chance, and won’t bother coming back. Unless I want a laugh. Your reviews are pointless- everyone knows what to expect from the chain pubs you list, and yet you grade them according to the experiences you had in them, as if it matters. It’s a totally irrational and haphazard technique. Review some pubs that people haven’t heard of, and do it in a way that captures something of the venue, rather than what happened to you in the venue. Then you can build an impression of the town. You’ve clearly put some effort in; try directing it so that you build a useful picture. And try to edit your writing, and check the spelling and punctuation. I based this on your review of reading pubs.
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