I feel a little bitchy about this pub and this may turn out to be an unfair assessment of its qualities. First the good stuff: I have heard that the Fort Saint George is expensive but the Morris Mayhem was reasonable and well tended, for what it is. And it has a gigantic beer garden…in fact, it is mostly beer garden.
But, the things that should be its greatest assets–it is right on the River Cam across from a bunch of rowing club houses AND on the Midsummer Common–tend to draw its biggest detractions: it is full of tourists or worse than that: the sort of locals that behave as if they were tourists every time they go to a pub. And the young (read: incompetent, bless ‘em) staff find it difficult to deal with the crowds which actually don’t even fill all the seats in the beer garden.
Like I said, something must have crawled up my ass and died. If that isn’t bitchy enough, though, here’s the thing that pissed me off the most…my second pint was in A PLASTIC CUP! What the bleedin’ fuck? It’s like some snap command judgement came down from the head bartender that I was a retard that might hurt himself on something solid or which had the potential to become sharp and…uh…okay, fair enough.
Look, if you want a place to sit outside on the green, watch the cows graze or the rowing clubs glide by, this is really not that bad. Just don’t go expecting more than that (and, to be fair, shouldn’t all that be enough?).
