Pub will be keeping it real with a pizza more action (From The Oxford Times)
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Pub will be keeping it real with a pizza more action
2:00pm Saturday 6th October 2012 in News
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General managers Lisa and Christopher Hoad
A KIDLINGTON pub has been given a new lease of life thanks to a £250,000 investment.
The Red Lion in Oxford Road re-opened for business this week having been shut for a month due to a major refurbishment.
The result is that it has been transformed from a predominantly “wet” pub serving mainly drinks to an operation offering a wide variety of food and drink with pizza a speciality.
The transformation has been overseen by general managers Lisa and Christopher Hoad who have been running the pub owned by The Orchid Group, which also owns the Dew Drop Inn in Summertown.
Mr Hoad said: “The people are so friendly here and we are hoping to attract more from Oxford.”
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King Joke
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10:28am Mon 8 Oct 12
paul from Kennington
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4:36pm Mon 8 Oct 12
Myron Blatz
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4:49pm Mon 8 Oct 12
King Joke
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4:52pm Mon 8 Oct 12
On my manor, the Berkshire House, Duke of Monmouth and the Punter on Osney are still great pubs despite doing food.
I do wish someone would explain the meaning of an apostrophe to the manager though.
paul from Kennington
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3:39pm Tue 9 Oct 12
King Joke wrote:Not so much a problem, but due to the smoking ban, and the cost of beer in pubs, the traditional "wet customer" has nearly been eradicated, and as you say to survive they must change into restaurants with a bar. But I was commenting on the demise of the traditional pub, which in only my 40 years of drinking in them has changed beyond recognition.
Paul, what is the problem here? It will still operate as a pub, with drinks served. The market for wet-led pubs is shrinking, and the alternative to a joint wet- and food-based pub is for it to be turned into flats.
On my manor, the Berkshire House, Duke of Monmouth and the Punter on Osney are still great pubs despite doing food.
I do wish someone would explain the meaning of an apostrophe to the manager though.
King Joke
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3:55pm Tue 9 Oct 12
Yes something might have been lost in the demise of the traditional pub, but some are things we can afford to lose, like a choking cig smoke, an intimidating atmosphere for women customers, and the rush to get a load of beer down your neck before a strict closing time.
The move to decent food has got to be good as well. You can't survive on crisps! THe most revolting thing I have ever attempted to eat - I gave up after one bite - is a 'beef batch' in a very traditional pub in Coventry in 1995 . It was no more than a lump of fatty boiled beef in a roll. No sauce, no butter, no mayo, no spice no seasoning. If this is what traditional pub food was like, most of us will be glad it's gone!
Myron Blatz says...
7:51pm Sun 7 Oct 12