The Barton's Arms

[Clampy]

And their mugs are massive.

[Chap]

And their mugs are massive.

Tall staff then?😜😜

[VillaTim]

Sports Direct always smells of BO, like they forbid their staff from wearing any deordorant whatsoever.

Yesterday. I had to brave the Sports Direct shopping "experience" to get something for school.  My feeling is always that the staff must have failed every other job interview they've attended before Mike Ashley welcomed them with open arms.  Either uncommunicative or programmed to bark at customers, no detailed grasp of the store inventory let alone specific product knowledge and conspicuous by their absence when there's a Saturday afternoon queue at the tills.

Any rejects from the sports direct interview process end up working the Witton upper concourse bars

[Grande Pablo]

Sports Direct always smells of BO, like they forbid their staff from wearing any deordorant whatsoever.

Yesterday. I had to brave the Sports Direct shopping "experience" to get something for school.  My feeling is always that the staff must have failed every other job interview they've attended before Mike Ashley welcomed them with open arms.  Either uncommunicative or programmed to bark at customers, no detailed grasp of the store inventory let alone specific product knowledge and conspicuous by their absence when there's a Saturday afternoon queue at the tills.

Any rejects from the sports direct interview process end up working the Witton upper concourse bars

Or Harvester in Cheltenham where we had the misfortune to eat today.  Terrible service from start to finish.

[pauliewalnuts]

One expects so much better from a Harvester.

[VillaTim]

Sports Direct always smells of BO, like they forbid their staff from wearing any deordorant whatsoever.

Yesterday. I had to brave the Sports Direct shopping "experience" to get something for school.  My feeling is always that the staff must have failed every other job interview they've attended before Mike Ashley welcomed them with open arms.  Either uncommunicative or programmed to bark at customers, no detailed grasp of the store inventory let alone specific product knowledge and conspicuous by their absence when there's a Saturday afternoon queue at the tills.

Any rejects from the sports direct interview process end up working the Witton upper concourse bars

Or Harvester in Cheltenham where we had the misfortune to eat today.  Terrible service from start to finish.

was the food any good

[Grande Pablo]

Sports Direct always smells of BO, like they forbid their staff from wearing any deordorant whatsoever.

Yesterday. I had to brave the Sports Direct shopping "experience" to get something for school.  My feeling is always that the staff must have failed every other job interview they've attended before Mike Ashley welcomed them with open arms.  Either uncommunicative or programmed to bark at customers, no detailed grasp of the store inventory let alone specific product knowledge and conspicuous by their absence when there's a Saturday afternoon queue at the tills.

Any rejects from the sports direct interview process end up working the Witton upper concourse bars

Or Harvester in Cheltenham where we had the misfortune to eat today.  Terrible service from start to finish.

was the food any good

The parts they got right was OK.  Can't tell you about the missing food they blamed on forgetfulness in a 1/4 full restaurant.

[Brazilian Villain]

One expects so much better from a Harvester.

[Rory]

I'd happily pay an extra £50 not to eat at a Harvester, purely because of their salad bar.

Seeing the gammon scavs racing over to make multiple visits, loading up on bowls of potato and pasta salad, croutons etc. Then you go up and see the detritus the barbarians have left behind - coleslaw in the lettuce, bits of boiled egg in the cucumber, a discarded hankey next to the tomatoes.

And you walk away, feeling nauseous, seeing these people washing their five rounds of 'salad' down with a John Smith's.

No, no.

[Hillbilly]

Anybody remember the Griffin and the Paddock in the Newton Shopping centre opposite?

Yes, they looked like they should have been in Glasgow if I remember correctly

So they were beautiful then? https://thegriffinglasgow.co.uk/

[ChicagoLion]

I'd happily pay an extra £50 not to eat at a Harvester, purely because of their salad bar.

Seeing the gammon scavs racing over to make multiple visits, loading up on bowls of potato and pasta salad, croutons etc. Then you go up and see the detritus the barbarians have left behind - coleslaw in the lettuce, bits of boiled egg in the cucumber, a discarded hankey next to the tomatoes.

And you walk away, feeling nauseous, seeing these people washing their five rounds of 'salad' down with a John Smith's.

No, no.

The words I hope never to hear again, “ have you ever been to a Harvester before”

[Bernie]

Anybody remember the Griffin and the Paddock in the Newton Shopping centre opposite?

Blimey  I haven't thought about those places in over 40 years, used to go in them when I worked in the shopping centre through the mid 70s. Used to occasionally go in the Bartons too

[Chap]

Anybody remember the Griffin and the Paddock in the Newton Shopping centre opposite?

Blimey  I haven't thought about those places in over 40 years, used to go in them when I worked in the shopping centre through the mid 70s. Used to occasionally go in the Bartons too

I was too young to go in them, went swimming in the baths just up the road from school.

[Simon Page]

Anybody remember the Griffin and the Paddock in the Newton Shopping centre opposite?

Yes, they looked like they should have been in Glasgow if I remember correctly

So they were beautiful then? https://thegriffinglasgow.co.uk/

Although the pics are taken from its best angle, that is a fine pub. Good food too, and no all-you-can-gobble self-swerve Rory.