[sclug] Which pub for SCLUG

[Steven De Souza-Wilson]

Just to add - I believe that the Oakford shows the football - therefore
wednesday night would be especially busy and loud.

What we are looking for is a quier pub, with a good variety of food and
drink.

of those listed - my opinions are as follows:

Zero Degrees:

very loud, and limited drink selection. inflexible seating will cause
an issue if group size in larger than expected

Oakford:
loud and likely to show the football - food selection is good - drinks
somewhat limited ( very few in any real ales)

Brewdog:

loud, inflexible seating without pre-booking. only real provide craft
beer - limited / no selection for soft drinks, wines, ales. Extremly
limited food offering

Maiden's head:

Good variety of food and drinks ( always at least 2 ales on tap - plus
bottles - craft, lager, wine, soft drinks) very flexible layout and
accomodating staff.

It's not Reading - this may put some people off.




others to considers:

Three Guineas:

amazing location, good drink and food selection, very flexible layout
with the option of the downstairs bar for further segregation if
required.

Outlook:
food selection is fine, drink selection can be limited on ales, but
otherwise good.


On Sun, 2022-02-27 at 10:09 +0000, Mark De Souza-Wilson via Sclug
wrote:
> Is there a reason why Back of Beyond is missing from this poll? 
> Despite the vocal minority taking an issue with Tim Martin, Back of
> Beyond does offer a lot of good points which have mattered to SCLUG
> attendees:
> 
> - Some members have not attended in years so keeping to same
> venue/timings is an advantage.
> - Low prices for food and drink at Back of Beyond make the meetings
> accessible to more people.
> - Back of Beyond has a huge selection of drinks whether you prefer
> ales, lagers or ciders etc.
> - Back of Beyond has no music or sound from TVs, so it's generally
> easy
> to hear each other speak.
> - Back of Beyond is a very large pub with plenty of seating.  This
> has
> allowed us to move tables and chairs to accommodate the group at
> times
> when we've had a larger number of attendees.
> 
> It appears to me that the survey is skewed - guiding people to
> indicate
> a preference for a louder, craft-beer, venue.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Ward via Sclug <sclug at sclug.org.uk>
> Reply-To: stuart.ward at bcs.org
> To: sclug <sclug at sclug.org.uk>
> Cc: Stuart Ward <stuart.ward.uk at gmail.com>
> Subject: [sclug] Which pub for SCLUG
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 23:42:21 +0000
> 
> Chaps
> 
> So quite a good response to the poll. the vote was 60% to go
> somewhere 
> else. so trying to see where to go then. I realise that this survey
> tool 
> is not a true ranking system but this is the best free service I
> could 
> find to do the job.
> 
> https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MGHD66/
> 
> I will leave it open for a few days till we have a reasonable number
> of
> responses. So get your votes in. If other wins we will need another
> round.
> 
> Stuart
>