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The Windsor, Birmingham
Birmingham
B2 5EE
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Oak Tree (Mitchells & Butlers)Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
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Soup Dragon left this review about The Windsor
A terraced town centre M&B Samuel Cooper pub/eatery with red and white frontage.
The interior is an open plan room that actually encompasses the servince bar completely. The decor is, like the outside, red and white, but with some wood panel and the odd wall with red patterned wallpaper, oh! and a white ceiling. It is very Spoons like - budget drinks and menu, with silent TVs (BBC News channel) and it had quiet general background music. There were pictures of old Brum on the walls. The service was fine and the clientele was a mixed as a Spoons.
Beer; tap stuff, with Pedigree, Deuchars IPA and Marston's EPA on handpull. The Pedigree, often like a Spoons, was flat and lifeless.
Happy to have gone it, as it was the first time since the 1980s - Le Pub usued to be opposite in the days of mullet hair for lads, ra-ra skirts for girls and shoulder pads for both! likely another 25 years before i go back.
On 13th September 2010
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Andy Ven left this review about The Windsor
This place has upped its game recently. It is now one of five sites being used by M&B to trial its new Samuel Cooper Freehouse brand.
You can be forgiven for thinking, when you first walk in, that you have entered a Wetherspoon’s but that is the section of the market they are pitching themselves at.
The music was at a low level to allow conversation without having to raise my voice and several flat screen TVs dotted around the single room pub showed BBC News 24 with the sound muted but with subtitles. Clientele was mixed and the place was busy enough for a lunchtime but not full – maybe the word hasn’t yet got around that this place is cheap.
I didn’t eat but we noticed that food is cheap: £3.49 for a roast dinner; steak sandwich was £2-something. Sunday roasts were advertised at £5.99. Costa Coffee was also on offer. I understand it opens for breakfasts at 10.00am.
Aside from the usual tap stuff (but no MILD) there were 5 handpulls offering Timothy Taylor Landlord, Marston’s Pedigree and EPA, Brakspear Oxford Gold and Deuchars IPA, ranging in price from £1.89 to £2.49 per pint – all similar styles but decent value. In addition, if you order a soft drink of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Max or R Whites Lemonade you will be charged £1.79 and given an empty glass but then invited to fill it up as many times as you like from the self-service taps at the side of the bar which is a bargain if you’ve brought the kids or you’re driving.
I had the Deuchars and the chap who served it to me (in a handled glass) said he though that it could be coming to the end of the barrel and to just ask if I wanted it changing. It settled after a minute so I drank it but he asked me again when he came around collecting empties if it was OK. Brownie points for that.
It was comfortable in there and we’ll definitely go back again (as long as it doesn’t get packed, humbug that I am)
On 3rd June 2010
- rating: 7
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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Windsor
Nice enough City centre pub, modern interior but seems smart and comfortable. 3 real ales helping with the forever improving choice in central Birmingham
On 5th May 2010
- rating: 6
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