![]() ![]() Dark grey/blue walls, shelves full of old jacketless hardback books and ‘distressed’ furniture that looks like the contents of a house clearance van that’s just left someone’s late grandparents’ bungalow. You know where it is.ĭecor: Almost exactly what you’d expect. It’s where The Prince of Wales used to be. Just before the Peppard Road that takes you into Caversham Park Village, Emmer Green and Oxfordshire. Location: In Caversham, at the top of Prospect Street. Mind you, I don’t really like stout, so WHOSE FAULT WAS THAT, EH?! There’s a half-decent top shelf, as well as all the wines, cocktails and soft drinks you’d expect. Plus there’s a Dodo stout, a couple of ciders and few other things. The ale selection isn’t great, but there are quite a few different lagers/pilsners (‘Dodo lager’, Staropramen) and IPAs (Neck Oil, Siren Craft Soundwave). You’ll get wrinkles if you carry on like that, Magoo.ĭrink Selection: Think more craft beer place than regular pub. Here’s what we made of it… Before we start, though – put your reading glasses on, eh? You’re squinting. Which, depending on how kind you’re feeling, either sounds like a wanky Hoxton cafe or Mary Berry’s final TV series, presented from a hospice. Their fifth venture, the old Prince of Wales, is called – rather shamefully – ‘The Last Crumb’. The pub chain is Dodo Pub Co., a smallish Oxford mob who have four other boozers of a similar style. It was a modern pub springing off the subs bench, unzipping its tracksuit top and swigging from a large blue Lucozade bottle full of Sierra Nevada. It was the blue/grey walls, the vegan burgers and the £5.80 2/3 pints of mac n’ cheese-flavoured sour Minnesotan IPA. When The Prince of Wales in Caversham shut its doors for the final time a few months back, we knew what was coming. So the sooner we get our collective bonce around that fact, the better. Instead, it’ll be a ‘craft beer house’, or flats, or a gastropub. When a nice traditional old pub closes down, a nice traditional old pub isn’t going to open up in its place. Opening hours: Sunday to Thursday: 9am – 11pm, Friday & Saturday: 9am – Midnight.Īll ‘information’ in this review is ‘accurate’ as of November 2019. The Last Crumb, 76 Prospect St, Reading, RG4 8JN. ![]()
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