The Rising Sun, Reading

The Rising Sun page at the Brakspear site - www.brakspear.co.uk

The Rising Sun page at the Brakspear site - www.brakspear.co.uk

I popped in to the Rising Sun on Saturday evening a couple of weeks ago when the pub was pretty quiet. In fact there were more people sitting out the back smoking than there were in the pub. The bar is found on the right hand wall where standard draught products alongside San Miguel and Amstel can be purchased. There are six hand pumps, but four of these were unused leaving Brakspear Bitter and Hobgoblin as the ale options. Various drinks promotions are advertised on chalkboards that line the front of the pub and there is a weekly Karaoke on Thursday evenings. Opposite the bar is some open plan seating and a pool table. At the rear is raised area with two dartboards but these were out of action as a high table with a group sitting at it stretched across the oche of both boards. The rainbows on the front of the pub denote this place as being gay friendly, but I didn’t notice any difference from a ‘non gay friendly’ pub (for want of a better expression). I certainly didn’t catch any drag queens in the act of stapling posters to the wall that advertise an upcoming cabaret night. There are better pubs in the area so I doubt that I will revisit here when next in Reading.

Had some decent wine here. Interior is pretty bland, pub has a pool table. No tv showing, claims to do poker and comedy nights.