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Breakfast at Royal Anchor - AF (4th Oct 2020 - 20:39:31) Just to let people know that the Anchor do a great full english breakfast had it today with no problem. Could have done with another member of staff due to the extra precautions due to the Covid 19 nonsense. Only one person front of house. With the curfew we need to support these local restaurants.

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - John (5th Oct 2020 - 01:00:56) A local business that has 280 hungry horse locations and under a group that has 3200 pubs in the UK, a local business that has consistently delivered sub par fair and who’s only benefits have been occasional yet debatable value and decent local employment. Why are you giving it the big one on the word local for a monster like green king with is effectively no different than mc Donald’s and Sainburys? If you are going to use the word “local” and then “business” please select a truely local business and not some massive company with head offices in London etc... The only thing the people In head office cares about with regards to Liphook is how many pounds it takes and can be fed back into head office. If you want to support something, and to rally to anything it’s not that, by all means be a Patron but if you want a breakfast go elsewhere for its breakfasts are putting at least 3 other local places under pressure

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - GS (5th Oct 2020 - 08:35:25) Shankleys do a fantastic brekkie. Reasonable price and all cooked to order. And truly LOCAL. Why go to the anchor when it’s So Hopelessly Immensely Terrible.

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - d (5th Oct 2020 - 11:08:11) You will not beat Shankley,s for quality or value.

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - Ian (5th Oct 2020 - 15:32:53) Shanks for me as well, would rather go vegan than eat at The Dirty Horse

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - Thomas (6th Oct 2020 - 12:10:09) AF - What do you mean "Covid 19 Nonsense" ?

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - Eleanor (6th Oct 2020 - 19:29:21) Strikes me that you can’t even say you had an enjoyable breakfast these days....

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - AF (7th Oct 2020 - 08:39:49) I agree that Shankleys do a good breakfast and i do go there on occasion. But we need to support local business and i know that greene king are a big company but if we don't use the Anchor we will lose it, now i know a number of people will say great, but in the current climate who will take over a large listed building like the anchor. The only option i see is a conversion into Flats and lots of building in the grounds.

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - A.R (7th Oct 2020 - 11:52:40) Would have to agree with OP, you get a really good breakfast at the Anchor and a great price before 12.00. The poor staff try their hardest, which has been difficult during this time. Yes we know it is not Michelin standard but there are too many snobs around, possibly trying to make trouble. The Anchor building has been the heart of Liphook for an eternity.

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - Ian (7th Oct 2020 - 12:40:00) only someone of limited intellect would refer to Covid 19 as nonsense. 42445 deaths, - shame on you OP

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - SR (7th Oct 2020 - 13:59:37) With any luck it will be one of the pubs that Greene King are looking to shut

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - AF (8th Oct 2020 - 10:13:50) SR Lets assume The Royal Anchor is one of the pubs Greene King closes. What should happen with the building in the centre of Liphook. Lets face it no pub/restaurant company will take it over in the current climate. We could let it decay until it has to be demolished on the grounds of public safety.

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - er (8th Oct 2020 - 11:25:20) And a man came on Liphook talkback to say he had a great breakfast in a long standing local pub and we should support local businesses and people told him no he didn't and he should eat his breakfast elsewhere and the ancient pub in the middle of the Square isn't local they hope the pub shuts down! I'm sure this says more about people than the breakfast!

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - DT (8th Oct 2020 - 15:01:22) I'm not sure anyone is debating whether the building is local? I mean, it's there, it exists. But the company that run it are owned by an entity that are soon to be owned by a Hong Kong based company that route all revenue through the Cayman Islands to avoid paying UK tax..... They take more money out of the local economy than they put in... by definition.... otherwise they wouldn't have a pub in that location. I know where I would rather spend my money!!

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - Julie (10th Oct 2020 - 20:17:51) Myself and my partner had breakfast at the Anchor this morning and very nice it was too.

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - John (11th Oct 2020 - 01:29:55) DT answers your questions, the building is local, the money you pour into isn’t Don’t use the word “local” when all the cash goes somewhere else. All the bell - e standing in that place thinking they are supporting the local economy are actually sending the money to anywhere but local

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - Scott (11th Oct 2020 - 08:54:47) I cooked a lovely 'full english' at home yesterday for my family. Great value Great company And really good service Just saying......

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - Chris (11th Oct 2020 - 11:17:31) Scott, sorry you forgot to put your address !!

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - AF (11th Oct 2020 - 22:13:34) The whole issue of local seems to have got a lot of comments. The fact is the building is in Liphook and therefore is local, where any money spent there goes is irrelevant. And remember there re a number of staff that work there that are from Liphook and so the business is supporting the local economy. Not everyone in Liphook can afford to go to one of the expensive pubs round Liphook Deers Hut, the Links etc. It's a cheap and cheerful family restaurant which is needed. We also need to remember that if Greene King do close down The anchor what happens to it and its grounds. It may be listed but the insides can be ripped out and made into flats and the grounds are big enough for a number of houses, i would estimate over 100. So those snobs who want it to close be careful what you wish for.

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - Ian (12th Oct 2020 - 08:20:00) AF, lovely bit of scaremongering mate, 100 houses in the grounds of The Anchor? Clearly you’re not aware of the conservation area, planning processes and density limits for development! Shame as part of your argument about the pub is valid but you’ve lost any credibility with most of us with your ill informed scare stories.

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - er (12th Oct 2020 - 12:26:43) Ian, I don't think he meant there would be 100 houses, just that there could be. Even though it is a conservation area it could still be built on, if the Anchor shuts as a pub it's unlikely to reopen as a pub in this post covid climate, so what else other than flats could take so large a space? Then what about all those pointless green bits at the back as the pro build lobby see them, would some canny developer be able to convince some useless fat counsellors (over a slap up dinner at the savoy no doubt with hints of party contributions to come) that 100 'eco' affordable homes would be a great addition to Liphook, made out of recycled shipping containers with fake wooden beams from recycled bottles and hay for insulation, heating from horse manure and a windmill in the car park (don't mention the concrete foundations or flooring though), lovely, a real continuum of the squares great historical architecture, a modern nod to the past, plus meeting so many of Britain's needs! After all, Liphook is crying out for more housing developments! Personally I prefer it to be what it is, a great no stuffiness pub where you can go in jeans and t shirt to get a pint and a burger and chips and let the kids run around laughing in the huge garden, sad that many grumpy diners hate that as kids laughing apparently ruins the constitution, but then they have a dozen places to go and spend £70 in a stuffy shirt for a posh beef pate sandwich and frites avec home made ketchup de tomato!

Re: Breakfast at Royal Anchor - geoff (12th Oct 2020 - 12:31:16) They could always turn the Anchor site into a cinema. Oh, hang on.......

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