The Foundry Bell, Frog Hall, Wokingham

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Re-opens Dec 2nd - https://www.getreading.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/pub-replacing-loch-fyne-wokingham-25543207?IYA-mail=2f77deb2-3e63-42bb-ba5f-dbc8343b3bba

November 2015
More pub than restaurant these days but you can still just drink here in the right hand bar and to be fair a few people were. Has been refurbed and is now pine wood heavy, looked a bit done on the cheap to me. Rugby on the TV and fairly hopeless bob-a-job staff, with loads of empties strewn around like a heavy metal groups roadies had just departed after some hell-raising. Two ale pumps, jus GK IPA on (and pretty weak it was too). The grubby gents really put a seal on things, what sort of supposedly mid-market food chain has toilets that look like something out of a train station? The entire place lacks focus. Bring back the Plough, says I. Rated 2

26 March 2007 (as Plough)
Yet more Greene King on the Wokingham outskirts, a boringly sad monopoly. However, unlike the Three Frogs and Poplars, this is an enjoyable place to sink a couple of pints; IPA, Abbot and Speckled Hen on offer today (and the Abbot was particularly good). Pub follows the usual GK out-of-town bar restaurant feel, however this one is a tad more upmarket and the outside seating provides a good place for a lazy beer on a summers afternoon, even if it is by the main road. Perhaps a bit too cavernous inside to generate a particularly cosy feel, this is still a notch above a number of other offerings nearby. Rated 7

On 20^th November 2022 - rating: 2
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