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Address: Barkham Road, Barkham, RG41 4TL.
Telephone: 0118 9762816
Website: http://www.bullatbarkham.com/
Date of visit: 29 November 2011
Costs: Most main courses around £10-£15
Wines and beer: Basic pub wine list at Pub prices. One or two reasonable Chilean, Several beers (cask marked) on tap (cask mark) with Courage Best )(£3.50 a pint), Gales HSB (£3.60 a pint).
Likes and dislikes: Basic pub food, decent beer but tables could do with a proper clean
Cuisine: Basic Pub food. Seems to major on steaks with different cuts
Summary:
This is one of the few pubs in Berkshire that I have never been in despite living in the area for decades.
Despite the fact that it was late November, the Pub was fully decorated for Xmas except for the tree. There was a roaring fire on the go.
The menu was very simple – both the lunch and dinner. Other than sandwiches (lunch time), it was mainly grills with a shepherd’s pie tossed in. The top wine was Con Sur (drinkable).
The beers were a different matter with 5 different bitters on tap. I spotted Courage Best and Gales HSB. Both breweries are now defunct with Courage being taken over by Newcastle and Gales by Fullers. I had a pint of each and they were pretty good.
I ordered gammon egg and chips (£7.95) and as I was settling in, a large party of office staff arrived. In order to avoid the noise, I moved round the corner. The Pub is L shaped with a large dining area round the corner from the bar. This was a big mistake as I ended up sitting next to a salesman (who looked like a younger version of Michael Winner) and a head hunter. The salesman had one of those voices that you can hear 50 meters away. Anyway, he talked nonstop (35 minutes plus) on how good he is(was) without taking a breath; his time with BT and Microsoft, how he contributed etc. Is he is that damn good, why is he not the Sales Director? Why were they doing the interview in a Pub?
My food finally arrived. The chips and peas were very good. The gammon ok but it was not a good cut. The eggs were over cooked and the yolk solid. It was all right but nothing special.
The beer was excellent.
One other point, the tables were not sticky but they showed wipe marks – not good enough.
Has beer price gone up recently? Nearly everything is at least £3.50 a pint!
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