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Quinno _ left this review about Victory
Back again due to staying at the hotel. This one has had a makeover and is a bit less foreboding and brighter than previous. The island bar serves up the usual fizzpops and the place basically functions as a deep-fried eatery. Faintly chaotic service. It might technically tick the box for the question of "is it a pub?" but it's pretty tenuous.
September 2017
A walk through the weirdly dystopian business park-cum-residential area is this odd place which appears to service a hotel complex staffed almost exclusively by South Africans. Long open interior with a half height divider running the length. Achingly trendy, with brick floor, grey walls, thudding dance music and muted Wimbledon – the kind of place you’d expect in oligarch areas of London. No ale so had a Blue Point Toasted Lager which set me back £2.65. Full of the sort of people I'd usually try and avoid, so I sat outside. Weirdly, this place kind of sums up redeveloped Farnborough. One leftfield plus is that staff wear cool black and purple uniforms. A memorable visit, if nothing else. Rated 3
On 26th November 2023
- rating: 3
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Steve C left this review about Victory Pub and Kitchen
Located on the edge of Farnborough’s Inspirational Quarter is the large Village Hotel that incorporates a Starbucks, Verve Grill and the Victory Pub and Kitchen. The Victory is essentially the hotel’s bar, but non residents are more than welcome and the local office workers are normally found taking advantage of this bar as it is the only one within a reasonable walking distance. Outside this modern hotel are lots of picnic and café tables and the Victory has its own entrance, although the toilets are located in the main hotel. The bar area is quite large and I spotted three plasma screens, two of which were showing muted world cup cricket on Sky Sports whilst some background music was playing softly in the background. The bar is stocked with standard draught products alongside Peroni, Pilsner Urquell and a cask offering of Bombardier. Being a hotel bar on a site surrounded by highly paid office workers this place is not cheap (£1.90 for half a Guinness) and I wonder whether any inhabitants from the area would choose this place for a night out. That said there is live music every Friday night from 20:00 until late so maybe this is a draw.
This place is a little bit sterile and expensive for my liking and I do not plan to return.
On 28th March 2011
- rating: 6
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