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It has been suggested that there should be some recognition of the quality that venues maintain in the provision of food for their teams. I'm not sure how to go about it but I certainly support the sentiment. The problem is that not everybody eats at every venue and some venues might be under-represented on this website. Nevertheless, our members are all we have to go by so we could at least start with some suggestions on this thread, leading to a poll on suggested venues.

I would like to start by proposing The Folly, where new managers Steve and Julie provide a variety of home cooked meals which to my knowledge have included lamb and chicken curries and shepherd's pie. I was privileged to have sampled the lamb curry a few weeks ago and can honestly report that it was sensational. Self-served directly from the pot, with proper plates and cutlery and plenty for everyone. I know that anyone who has eaten there recently will have this venue very high on their list. Its certainly top of mine right now.

Anyone for any more...?

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i have to agree with you, the folly has got to be the best. One of the nicest tasting home cooked shepherds pie, enough for 3 helpings EACH. How can you beat that.

can i also propose the worst food in the league award, and put forward the Flying Machine.

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Not sure any venue is worthy. It's pre-packed rubbish at best. Jamie Oliver urgently required.

If I recall, the Surrey Cricketers used to serve up a pretty mean curry.

Worse food venue remains the The Harp in West Croydon. One night in 2004 for a league cup match they put out what can only be described as a tray of half cooked bones (probably some dead dog). The 'bones' were decorated and presented with some raw white onions. Was an awful experience.

BTW, I have only ever witnessed Dave 'Truey' Truan in 15 years of playing pool in the Croydon league divulge once in the ''food'' at a pool match. He once devoured one chip and took one bite of chicken leg. Both items were consumed funny enough at the Folly. For being able to tempt him into eating pool match grub - the Folly will get my vote on that achievement alone!

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Yeah the cricketers did do a great curry.

But folly's new food is defiantly not pre-packed rubbish any more. home made, fresh from the oven dinners. unless we just went there on a good week?!

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I think I've honestly pised myself Reading that LOL pure quality.

On a side note power don't give me that rubbish about pre packed rubbish, on the race night wasn't it you who ate the octopus co.ck in the Chinese LOL

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on further Reading to the powers post that is hilarious I burst out in laughter on a bus got some funny looks bit was funny has to be Post of The Year quality

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I think the View would be in contention for this

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Well how about the food served out of the Warbank and of course Rileys / Suzi Cues, Always top draw:clap:

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Rileys is like a wild kill 60 people running to the table like they have been fed before plus fighting Gary Swettenham to fill his large gut is not a pretty site on a different tangent shouldn't there be food provided on KO cup games not every venue does this. Beechtree have an awful table but the curry was awesome. I think chad should have the final word as he is like a Hoover and tries the food everywhere he could be a royal faster of sorts LOL

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I 'm not sure that Steve and Julie read the website so on their behalf thanks very much for the great comments. I have printed them out and will pass them on tonight. It seems a long time ago (it was actually only the beginning of this season) when I had to apologise to the Seamen for the quality of the food but since Steve and Julie have arrived there has been a sensational turnaround in quality. As Dogger says - no pre-packed rubbish is being served at The Folly - it is all great quality home cooking. Thanks to Steve and Julie from all the Folly team and naturally, you get my vote :clap:

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Time for a new poll me thinks...

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Ok, so far we have:
The Folly
The View
The Warbank
Rileys Purley Way
The Beechtree

I'm sure there are a few more. Perhaps when we get to 10 we can start a poll.

It would also help if we could have a description of the offerings of each venue for those of us unlucky - or lucky - enough not to get to eat there. Feel free to go all Ainsley on us and tell us what you like about your favourite food venue. :gossip

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any reason why the farley has been ignored? not a great eater of pool food myself but the farley always has a good spread and wide variety. Always lots of people with small sausages hanging out of their mouths so it must be tasty...

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Why has the Farley been ignored? Other than the obvious that it's like eating out of a dog bowl? The only pub in the league that manages to fk up an orange juice and lemonade.

The tables down Suzys are cleaner than the plates in that place.

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They give you napkins... There aren't any plates :P

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you shouldnt eat it straight out of the bowl, your supposed to take the food away and eat it...

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Cue_Ball... Dont know what your problem is with The Farley but, i tell you this...Make another comment like that and, you better have a good solicitor... and, I AINT FECKING JOKING...

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The saboteurs of croydon strike again! KMT!!!

Which part of 'Best food venue in the league' is not clear? If you like the food tell us about it. If not, POST SOMEWHERE ELSE!

Show a little love people...

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exactly....yet another,after midnight,well constructive post....can see why the sites so quiet...:wrong:

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i have to say the veiw has pukka grub... plus the william put some fancy food on ... even if it is lonely in the bottom division of 5 :lol:

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I forgot about the William... Their food was lovely when we went down there!

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Well I will run the risk of having to hire a solicitor in order to post on this incredible site.
I have been really impressed with the food down The Gun of late. Last home game there was a massive vat of chilli with cheesey pasta and french bread and lots of grated cheese with enough for two helpings each and still some left over.
For the record, the Farley grub was pretty poor last time I was there (merely stating an opinion).

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The Folly - Curries; Shepherd's Pie
The View - Fish and Chips
The Warbank - ??? Barbecue Chicken?
Rileys Purley Way - Sausages, Chips, BLT
The Beechtree - ???
The William - ???
The Farley - ??? Small Sausages?
The Gun - Cheesy Pasta, Chilli, French Bread

Can anyone help fill in the blanks?

Any more venues?

Suggestions for a prize for the winner?

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lol

hanging out of peoples mouths?

sounds dodgy to me...

I am not at liberty to discuss this anymore without first consulting my law firm.

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I remember a Beech Tree sausage hanging out of a certain part of ex CueMaster Gary Irvine's anatomy, not his mouth. I haven't eaten there since.

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fran since u started this thread ... and love your food i think it is only right that u turn up at match venues to sample the food :lol: and for thr record wickham wanderers do fish and chip ... the veia do all i can say its like harvester but better :D:

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1 pack per team,97p per pack...thats Farley Value....

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Is it worth turning up at the Hurricanes? What do you guys have?

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The Folly - Curries; Shepherd's Pie
RBL Wickham - Fish & Chips
The View - ??? Better than Harvester? Rack of Ribs? Lamb Shank?
The Warbank - ??? Barbecue Chicken?
Rileys Purley Way - Sausages, Chips, BLT
The Beechtree - Curries; Pie, Chips & Gravy
The William - ???
The Farley - ??? Small Sausages?
The Gun - Cheesy Pasta, Chilli, French Bread

Can anyone help fill in the blanks?

Any more venues?

Suggestions for a prize for the winner?

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RasFas - suppose ours would be the Curry mentioned earlier in the thread or Pie, Chips and Gravy

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Sorry, that was well hidden in Faz's post. Sounds like a contender! :thumb:

List updated...

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As Andy mentioned, the food was crap when we went to the Folly, but that was before the new landlords....we must be the only team in the division NOT to get decent grub at the Folly.....

My vote would be for the Beechtree....top Vindaloo when we went there....

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Ha - Statto you were the last team to get the old style fare. :sick: Unlucky mate!

Another cracking spread from Julie last night

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Any notable grub on offer last night?

What do they do at The William?

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you really have food on the brain dont u fran :D:

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Rasfas, following my post from the league cup, can I add Rileys in Lewisham. Massive portion of chips with a choice of baguette (bacon, sausage, tuna) & salad. Quality stuff

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Rail view Must be in the running(view to B Killed)
chicken wings,chicken stippers.chicken kebabs,pork ribs,
breaded mushrooms,chips, onion rings.
All in one sitting, no one go's without at the View.
(Good spread)

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The same names coming up again...

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Unfortunately, Alan (and Sophie) from the William have had to move on and are no longer making the food.

I've eaten there (on pool night) twice. On the last occasion, Alan did a home baked Lasagna, which was absolutely spot on, with proper chips. The time before he produced a Jalfrezi with rice AND a meaty pie with crisp shortcrust pastry, both of which were absolutely stunning.

I've not eaten there since he left, but a decent chef like that will take some replacing!

I also understand that the team has folded with their departure, so anyone looking for a decent home cooked dinner, will probably have to get into the same league as the Folly!

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The Folly - Curries; Shepherd's Pie
RBL Wickham - Fish & Chips
The View - Chicken wings, chicken dippers, chicken kebabs, pork ribs, breaded mushrooms, chips, onion rings.
Rileys Purley Way - Sausages, chips, BLT
The Beechtree - Curries; Pie, Chips & Gravy
Rileys Lewisham - Chips, selection of baguettes, salad
The Gun - Cheesy Pasta, Chilli, French Bread


Shall we go with these or are there any more?

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Anybody know what the food is like at the Earl of Eldon? I know they have two St. Lucian chefs there now, and a new menu, but I don't know what they do on pool nights.

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By all accounts and according to what I have just read I think we should be taking a trip to a very lovely pub tucked away in the middle of nowhwere and serving up some mouth watering Gourmet. And if that's not enough, they do desert aswell.
Yes you've guessed it, The Flying Machine.
Suppose after watching some great pool and having contempment in our bellies, we could always go off plane spotting before heading back to reality.

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Poll created
Places available for 2 more venues

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Rileys Ladywell/Lewisham. Waiter service at the start of the match nights (Le Shark) to take your order of baguette of choice and own bowl of chips. Worth the journey...

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Last night we had :-
A wide selection of chicken peices, cooked with loving care on the premises and delicately spiced to an authentic carribean jerk style.
Battered king prawns ( tails on ) gently placed in an aquatic array and rested upon a shineing bright silver platter.
Golden crispy mini spring rolls, cooked to perfection and again rested peacefully apon a silver platter.
Potatoe wedges (skins on ) golden brown and briefly dusted with a sea salt & cracked black pepper dressing.
Perfectly cooked to a crisp & golden constituency, rings of onion in it's perfect jacket.

A selection of the finest bread available cut into an assorment of shapes and sizes ( crust off of course ) enveloping a selection of grated cheeses and delicately rested upon a carefully chosen selection of seasonal mixed leaves.
A selection of dipping enhancers was available for those of the more distinguished palets.
A selection of multi-coloured after dinner desert cakes carefully cut to precision and and relaxingly layered upon a platter in a building block array.
If this was'nt enough for the most famished, our resident chiefs were on hand to take and further orders from a huge and varied menu.

I wonder why our pool tables were left abandoned !

This is'nt just food,
This was The Better Halfs food.

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Rileys in Lewisham had a good idea yesterday, Slates came round with a list of baguettes, you picked the one you wanted and you got it with a bowl of chips each, very nice it was too. :)

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Swetts was there last week - he ordered one of each.

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He was at Rileys PW last night and I think he saw the food come out and thought it was all his.
Katie has rustled up enough grub to feed an army and apparently there was a good spread but we didn't see any of it and had to order extra once the lions had finished off the main kill.

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Disappointed to see The Gun is missing from the poll, they have made some truly incredible food for us this season and it would be nice if they got the recognition for it. There are some venues in the poll who serve some real crap in comparison. No offence to the Farley, it's all relative... :D

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Site team, please add The Gun and Two Halfs to the poll. Also I don't see the point having an 'Other' option without being able to specify who.

I took the Farley off my final list as no one actually recommended them and I didn't think they were interested, but I see they have two votes! Who's voting? Simon Cowell???

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I may be being incredibly dim here but who/where are RBL Wickham?

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Royal British Legion West Wickham - venue for Wickham Wonderers

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Oh yeah. Told you I was dim (but you knew that anyway)
:roll:

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Nice to see people complimenting the food at their away venues. This is what its all about!

A bit surprised there have only been 21 votes in almost 2 weeks but perhaps people are waiting to sample more venues before they vote.

Remember, you have to log in to vote, and the poll is on the left side of the home page.

Happy munching...

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Yeah I agree, think this poll would have been better utilised nearer the end of the season...

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Shame, I got you to add the Gun but i'd already voted for "other" so now i cant vote again!

I would normally vote for someone else's venue but I've been really impressed with them this season. Consider this post a plus one in thier column ;)

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must say jazzafis menu or what ever there called put on a nice spread last night of sandwiches chicken sausages fries! was a very enjoyable spread

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We got sandwiches and pizza when we went there...

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The View has won this poll with 35% of the votes, the closest venue to it was Rileys Ladywell with 4 votes

Would be good to propose a trophy for the best overall venue in the league at the next meeting

Factors to be included could be
1) Standard of food
2) Venue atmosphere
3) Standard of table(s)
4) Service from staff

This would be a way of the venues becoming more involved in the league as they would have their own trophy

Trophies could be voted on at divisional level, or for the entire league

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Wow, that poll didn't last long! The last one was there for years!

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It should be brought back near the end of the season once everyone has had a chance to taste most of the runners in the list...

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agree this pole being done at the end of the season. :drunk:

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Yep it will be brought back then :saxton:

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Sorry to be dumb as a new forum user here -- but where exactly is the full interim result shown?

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The food poll has been brought back for a little while, you will see it on the left

At present voting for the who will win premier division thread of CSL V stands at

Paul Wildman 39%
Hughie Telford 17%
Kyle Pickett 13%

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Errrr, nope? I'm still feeling stoooopid! LOL.

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Poll is now back, had to modify database directly to reinstate

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Ask any of the teams who played here!

The Eagle
HotShots
Lord Napier
Etc, etc.

-- and can't quite figure out how this poll malarkey works still cos our name is not even listed -- despite one of those visiting teams telling us we were lying third in the poll??

If your gonna include venues serving deep fried pre-packaged tosh and omit some servers of freshly prepared, then how is this a representative poll?

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Not only that, but the poll says I've already voted when you've changed the venues listed on it. I would have voted for the Gun had it been listed at the time, but I was forced to vote for "other". This was months ago but instead of doing a new poll, you've resurrected the old dead one! WHY?
:blink:

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The poll was created 2 months after I started this thread so there was plenty of time for everyone to recommend venues. No one mentioned the Earl of Eldon (except me) and, to date, we still don't know what they serve. I'm happy for them to be included in the poll if someone recommends them. Short of listing the entire venue list I don't know how else we could have done this.

I don't think we should start again but if it were possible to vote once a week we might get a more accurate reflection of whats going down well over the course of the season, ...Paul??

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Still only 30 votes? Is everyone waiting until end of season?

Is this on the AGM agenda yet?

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The issue for me is that you added the venue i wanted to vote for 2 months after I voted. I voted for "other" because my favourite venue wasn't there, but now that the venue is on the list I can't actually vote for it because I've "already voted."

I think it's a pretty pointless poll anyway because it's so subjective. Half the people in the league don't like proper food anyway, the venues who work hard to make good homemade food get outdone by those who buy in takeaway junk.

nuff said - respek to any venue who makes thier own hot FRESH food.

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Couldn't agree more! Home made all the way!:clap: