We really recommend you read the review here first > http://www.getreading.co.uk/entertainment/food_and_drink/s/2118824_restaurant_review_the_old_devil_inn
Oh
for heavens sake Caroline yes it takes a little while to find a good
pub/restaurant, it is like saying 'it gets dark at night' – we all
know it. Also, how on earth it took you an hour to drive around the
outskirts of Reading we just don't know – we can do it in 20
minutes / half an hour tops – we shouldn't really criticise, we
don't know what you drive like, although really we'd only expect to
see evidence of your journey if say, you were going somewhere off the
beaten track or to a brand new 'pop-up' and your taxi driver hadn't
heard of it and not some pub on the main A4 between Reading and
Slough.
As
you were drinking, we take it you had a 'designated driver' although
you don't say ... we so hope.
The
baked Camembert sounds like an interesting 80's resurrection for a
pub – which Camembert was it? Where did it come from? Who produced
it? Asda perhaps?
We
would have expected the chorizo
to have a stronger taste than Salami as the smoked
pimentón in chorizo can come across with quite a heat – depending
upon where the chorizo was cured and by whom. Presumably the pub
didn't bake it's own breads but you don't tell us – perhaps you'll
let us know.
Oh
we give up – unless this pub has something special to offer (your
descriptions don't hint at this) then it really is just another pub
serving part bought / part “home made” food and isn't worth
reviewing … goodness sake you'll be reviewing the “puka pies”
over at the Three Tuns on the Wokingham Road next. What we're saying
is – please review somewhere out of the ordinary, somewhere
special, somewhere momentous, memorable. Try the Crooked Billet over
at Stoke Row (actually we preferred it when it was a pub) we had some
'interesting' 90's style Green Lipped Mussels there about 15 years
ago. Or the Pineapple, or the Cherry Tree. The Crooked Billet has
been reviewed more times than even they know so you can't go far
wrong (and the chef will stay in the kitchen and not come around the
table 'punter-bothering' and fishing for compliments.. And a tip from
us – free – gratis – if a restaurant or pub serves you chunky
'jenga-style' chips – get up and walk out, don't review it, just
keep walking, don't turn around – you'd get a better constructed
meal at the Knowl Hill café down the road.
Your
photo isn't even of the food you ate – now how daft is that? Oh
Caroline not a stock photo surely?
Maybe
soon there will be two sections in Get Reading for reviews – one for “pubs what
do grub innit” and another for “Restaurants of note”
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