Anyone know any pubs in Reading that show 3pm kick offs?

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

Do you like to finish off your meal with a wa*k along the Thames afterwards my friend :driving:

[Luis Anaconda]

Just have a couple of hours to kill

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Pure coincidence. Amazing, really.

There was a big shopping centre in the town, outside which was a rather decent little Italian restaurant which served an acceptable burrata, as I recall.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I don't have a drink problem you see.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It must be your age.

Burrata, goo. For all love!

[Luis Anaconda]

Many happy returns for tomorrow btw

[Luis Anaconda]

I've just survived a week with family on Cornwall - surely I deserve a drink

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

ty la.

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Given your proximity to London I am surprised you're not at the Woodbine / game.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's nascent cheese, not goo.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Not legally anyway.

Stealing I believe is the term you use.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

into a dumbed-down bog-dwelling son of Erin before our very eyes? Why, he's truning into the kind of fellow who would sneer at the creative use of, for example, star anise.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Personally I wouldn't be seen dead in the kind of establishment with a television on display, but that's a different matter.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I left, immediately, quaking at the knees. The customers were actually sub-human.

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Snin]

**** hole

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Yes.

[Snin]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

More than once I would stop there in the evening on my way home from an honest days work for a ploughmans and end up being asked to leave at closing time.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

to prioritise solid food. They appeared to me, at fleeting glance, to be desperate alcoholics.

[Snin]

,,its full of em and they dont seem to mind breaking the laws of this land imo http://www.readingirishcentre.co.uk/photos.html

they never went home after building the m4 in the 70's

[Berni]

Nascent cheese, indeed!

[Ashberto]

And have been known to enjoy ham egg and chips in a 'spoonies on occasion. And they do breakfasts too. In fact I had a full anglais in one in Denmark Hill the other saturday.

[Berni]

Well, once. Possibly twice.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Will they do me, say, half a dozen natives and a bottle of Veuve Cliquot if I fancy a light lunch?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

On many occasions in the early 90s I would take afternoon drinks in the the Old Suffolk Punch on Green Lanes, pints of Theakstons Old Peculiar.

Sometimes we would stay out all day.

[Berni]

[Berni]

Wetherspoons achieve this very efficiently.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It does rather illustrate my point, doesn't it?

Happy days, though.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Lamb chop?

[Berni]

I've no idea.

[Classic Jorge]

Hat tip to Sir C's viscious posts there

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

First one opened in Blackrock about 1-2 years now, does very well by all accounts. It is a pub and by virtue of selling alcohol people are under no illusions when they enter.

Caused quite a stir at first as their cut price model did not sit well with Diageo who of course have such a stranglehold over pubs. In a way which is only to be admired Wetherspoons told Diageo to f**k off and stocked alternate stout/porter options.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Mixed grill 1466 cal

Gammon, pork loin, rump steak, lamb, sausage, egg, Irish white and black pudding.

Needs mushrooms and onion rings really.

I hope you notice the lack of potato options, not even 1, never mind chips and mash.

[Berni]

[Berni]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2089124/Heart-atta ck-plate-Guide-eat-big-chains.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2089124/Heart-attack-plate-Guide-eat-big-chains.html)

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

A deliberate ploy I believe, the suburbs being where perhaps a real “local” may be developed.

They had made a few unsuccessful efforts at city centre property purchases, Capel Street for one.

Let’s be honest here, a Spoons in the centre of town is a recipe for disaster over here.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Normally a breakfast staple.

Fusion food perhaps, breakfast/lunch/dinner all in one. Visionary really.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

I would sacrifice onion rings for white pudding quite happily.

[eastgermanautos]

course, the arse were playing, so it was incredibly tense. but also multi-generational, which is weird. don't like competing for the tatas of the barmaid with some grandad. which I absolutely would have been. of course, in LA we have the opposite problem. you see some chick who's maybe 37 or 38. grandmother. wtf! messicans all get knocked up at age 16.

[Brexit = Keine Pumpernickel]

But the one that used to show 3pm footy on some Albanian channel has changed hands but the real ale & grub are good :-)

[Snin]

as nice by river, new pedsetrian footbridge over to park then The Crown on the bridge is decent beer, pub, and tv , pool etc ..they will know of anywhere Prince of wales used to have them all and itsbit of a Reading FCpub.

Alto lounge is your place for best breakfast :)

oxford rd is **** hole as is over by irish centre..so up to you

Any of the vagrants who drink at the pub at reading station will probably know where stil shows games too.if youbuy them a half