HMS President Ballroom and Bar

From outside the HMS President does not look very much like a trophy ship, the pale colours of the hull are reflected sadly in the murky depths of the Thames with a dark sunshine-yellow funnel sitting drably on the roof. Inside however the boat is quite comfortable, a lounge reception and [...]

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The Quay Bar

A grand warehouse of a Bar, the Quay Bar stands at two stories high with capacity for a good few hundred people and absolutely no shortage of space. The venue has a rather small entrance around the side from which you enter after walking alongside the river, so on the second floor of [...]

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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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