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White Horse, Headington, Oxford
Headington
Oxford
OX3 7SP
Reviews of White Horse (Average Rating: 1½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Tris C left this review about White Horse
Undoubtedly nothing has changed since the previous review, this unfortunately still being a Greedy Kerching outlet, but worse in that it’s part – almost literally – of their Hungry Horse stable, displaying on approach, a huge colour montage of the microwave fare served within, by way of an introduction to a large, soulless concrete beer patio-cum-car park.
Yup, it’s a bit like a downmarket Wetherspoon’s, but with more sport than Dickie Davies could shake a stick at, pool, sticky and/or uncleared tables with plastic pictorial menus, a folded crisp packet jammed between the two tables where I was sat, the myriad unpleasantries augmented by fairground-style pay-and-grab machines, where if lucky, the player is rewarded with a cuddly toy or some such along with what looked like a jelly bean dispenser, joy further enhanced by a children’s’ birthday party in full swing, all in attendance wearing silly paper hats and all blowing bloody annoying party horns. Furniture and flooring are a mix of styles and zoned, décor amounting to prints of Oxford from yesteryear. Customers are still loud, a bit chavvy, but otherwise Brookes’ students, the pub sandwiched between its two main campuses; drag cabaret is advertised.
Alongside a charming bar mounted slushy churner and Malibu advertised as served in hollowed out coconuts, ales amounted to the usual unappealing GK suspects, me opting for a half of Guinness, price forgotten, but still served by one of the couldn’t-give-a-toss teenage barmaids, mine sporting hideous two-inch acid yellow fingernail extensions, looking for all the world like a bird of prey’s talons.
Along with the Old Black Horse (bottom of the hill) and Bullingdon, this place vies for the title of Oxford’s Worst Pub, a different marking system seemingly giving a higher rating than the previous reviewer, this being a superficial discrepancy, this too being the worst pub I've visited this year.
On 22nd June 2022
- rating: 2
[User has posted 2208 recommendations about 2165 pubs]
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Quinno _ left this review about White Horse
An utter disaster zone. Large and dull interior. Full (and I mean full) of shouty blokes, it was like being ringside at a title fight. Useless unmanaged teenage staff with barely a brain cell between them. A grab-and-go job then; picked a murky GK IPA which was grudgingly swapped for a Ruddles which tasted like a tramp's sleeping bag. At that point I gave up and walked out. Worst pub I've been in this year. Quite how it had so many customers is a mystery.
On 26th September 2021
- rating: 1
[User has posted 5552 recommendations about 5533 pubs]
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Car Park : Yes last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 22 June 2022 by Tris C
- Function Room : No last updated 22 June 2022 by Tris C
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 22 June 2022 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 22 June 2022 by Tris C
- Live Music : Yes last updated 22 June 2022 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : Yes - Sky Sports/BT Sport. - last updated 22 June 2022 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : Yes last updated 22 June 2022 by Tris C
- Quiz Night : No last updated 22 June 2022 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : No - although the ale isn't far off - last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Wheelchair Access : Yes - Disabled WC. - last updated 22 June 2022 by Tris C
- WiFi : Yes last updated 26 September 2021 by Quinno _
