The Sportsman in Reading

The atmosphere is amazing, friendly staff and locals. We played pool and darts. Children were happy and had a fun time too! Definitely going to visit again soon to try the food so I can rate it then. Thank you for a great evening! Food was delicious and accommodating to a milk allergy! We had build your own burgers and a kids nugget meal. Definitely coming back again!

I had a very good experience at this pub good atmosphere watching the champions league final and had a Dj on at the same time it was AMAZING.

I have never visited a pup so nice and friendly. Every employee greeted me with a smile. The food was AMAZING, I ordered the chick,n,mix. The best meal i had in my entire life.

very good and I love it and its very very good and its delicious the chicken is the best I have ever tasted the people are nice i came with my friend from Nepal and he really liked it and i loved the coke and the black current soda i never had such an Amazing pub!! Really good, Really nice and delicious the workers are so damn nice they got my food ready in just 3 minutes. Love it 10/10

Great atmosphere lovely people great place

No good atoll Someone Stole my stuff from the table 😭

I went for a lovely meal the people were helpful and friendly

Had a wonderful time with my family having food was served by Rita Becky and Sam was made to feel so welcome they was so kind

We had a surprise 18th birthday party and all I can say was it was absolutely great. It was very accommodating warm, welcoming friendly just a great experience. Nothing was too much for Karen and Kieran

They have a pool table. Full English was good and not a bad price.

This afternoon I visited this lovely local pub for lunch. All the staff in the Sportman are always friendly,and very welcoming . I had a 3 course Seniors meal, which was excellent value. Nothing is too much trouble for the lovely friendly staff. The food was absolutely delicious and the service was excellent. A huge thank you to Kieron Rita and all the staff for the excellent friendly service.

This pub is a great local, all the staff are really friendly, and Sam always makes us feel welcome. It is also dog friendly with treats free of charge!

Karen made the most banging katsu curry! Wagamamas eat your heart out 👀 This place never fails to amaze me! Always lit for a good football game

Quiet for a Saturday lunch but decent pub. Good good, Sky sports, plenty of screens. Worth another visit

Attend a 6th birthday party. Staff 5*, nothing was too much trouble, clean facilities, and the bar snacks from the menu were lovely and hot. Would highly recommend hire of the restaurant side for a function.

Rented the restaurant of the sportsman for my son's birthday party, It was a fantastic afternoon! The space was big enough to comfortably host 30 guests, the staff were very accommodating and welcoming! Overall a great experience.

Seniors lunch is fabulous value, £5.42 for two courses. Small choice but good dishes. Excellent service from friendly bar staff. Not too crowded. Really recommend.

Good local pub, good variety on the menu. Showing the football. Beers weren't expensive. All round good place to go for a couple of pints & some lunch.

Good Greene King pub - a friend recommended the BYOB (build your own burger) and other than them not having gherkins in stock and our drinks (2 diet colas, apple juice and pint of beer) taking 20 mins, they were great. Parking was very difficult hence 4 stars

A local Public House that services the community. Offering reasonably priced feed and providing friendly, helpful service.

Had a great time and the staff were lovely and the food was excellent

Great food , value for money . Staff were very friendly and affitant . Great place for a meal out . 👍

The Seniors’ lunch menu at the pub was superb and excellent value for money. It exceeded our expectations: chips of the best we’ve eaten and the apple crumble delicious. The service was efficient and friendly. We will definitely be back!

Great friendly staff, just recently changed from the Victoria cross, which has gone so far downhill since the last manager left!! But back to the Sportsman! 10/10 well kept beer with a clean happy environment.

Great place to hangout and unwind.

Great friendly staff very welcoming good food and amazing service. Will definitely come again when I’m in the area.

Lovely and accommodating staff. We came in a big group without a booking and they went out of their way to make sure we were looked after. I had the Sunday turkey roast which was moist and delicious. Thanks, Claire and your team on the day for being so wonderful.

Brilliant staff brilliant service that was 12 of us so the kitchen did very well to get all of the food out together on time great atmosphere very sporty bar so bear in mind the sports but it adds to the atmosphere!! Claire was fabulous!!

Very accommodating and friendly team. Accepting our group at short notice, and the food was very good.

Great pub for food and drinks. Crispy wings, tasty garlic mushrooms, juicy burgers - and so much more. Nobody in our party had a bad thing to say. The staff - Claire, Steven and Alison in the kitchen were all amazing. Good drinks selection, a variety of draught beers and ciders and a good choice of spirits. Bring your family, the atmosphere is great for it.

Lovely place, lovely food and the team even better! 13 of us turned up Sunday lunch time and the team were a superstar. Stunning service, hot food! Thank you, we definitely recommend!

Really good service and great food and selection of drinks, very impressed. Claire was amazing.

I was very pleasantly surprised to find a relaxed and friendly lunchtime. The Service was good and the food was excellent. I will definitely go again.

Good service, clean and pleasant surroundings. Food was ok though my peas ( fish and chips) were hard and lots of batter not a huge amount of fish

Claire and Emily were amazing! Claire gave me a pen and Emily turned the music down for the quiz, love coming here

Great place to play pool & darts. Clean pub with lovely atmosphere.

Great staff, delicious food, welcoming and friendly atmosphere, good priced drinks! will definitely visit again!

Definitely worth a visit. Staff are so welcoming and the drinks are reasonably priced. People in the pub were friendly and the food looked tasty. Definitely be back

Very rough looking place. Told there was a 45 minute waiting time for a table in an empty restaurant.

Another lovely evening in this pub friendly people and lovely food well recommended

Relaxed, friendly atmosphere and decent outdoor area

Having visited regularly I have always had a great experience with the friendly and welcoming staff. Facilities are perfect with it's pool table and darts boards 🎯🎯

Warm welcome, staff very friendly and knowledgeable about local area. Food looked good for prices, will definitely drop back for dinner soon!

Friendly staff and good ambience

Karen and her team are absolutely amazing. The food is always beautifully cooked 🍳 All the staff are incredibly friendly and kind. Karen and her team should be congratulated on the brilliant friendly atmosphere they have created in this local pub.

An absolute delight of a local dinning experience! Very warm reception, excellent food and a nice clean pub all in all 10/10 highly recommend

Great local with tasty food at reasonable prices

I was contemplating to write this review or not but eventually came to conclusion that I should. Went there today early evening (1800 hrs) for a quick pint with one of my friend(both of us are British Indians). After cold reception we sat on a random 2 seater table with more than half of seating area empty. In 15 minutes we were told that table is reserved and A4 paper-"this table is reserve at 1930" was put on small table of ours. We said, we are leaving. Won't go there again anytime soon. So much for my local pub ...huh..

Hmm not the best really not clean and music too loud for early dining experience

Monday nights..Quiz nite! Enjoyable,chilled out evening. The quiz was a good laugh.. We Will definatly go again!

Good food cheap deals and clean beer. All you want from a local.

Good service helpful attentive. Had some banter with staff Sam and Karen.Naughty but tactful, Good atmosphere and some characters in pub.

Sam was an amazing host! The food was good esp the chips and the wings

Food was great, enjoyed my tikka curry, once u add a bit of salt on rice is nice. It was good price SAM was amazing such a lovely waiter Enjoyed experience nice spot to be with friends

We were served by Sam and she really helped us out. She was really lovely and friendly . The food came out really quick and was very very affordable. I was craving the roast and I’m glad I came here.

What a really nice pub this is, after a very long 5 hour drive from the north, we needed a good meal, we both had the steak and ale pie served with minted peas and chips. And it was very tasty and filling. The staff were super friendly too 5* from me ☺️

Google keeps telling me to rate this place I feel threatened

I went for some food with my mum and sisters, the food was super yummy and we always have a good laugh whenever we go there with staff and other customers

Good food and nice community and service it's a nice homely place to chill with family and have fun 🙂

Dropped in for a pint half way through my walk with my dog, lovely to know they are dog friendly and very accommodating, might just make it my local after previous visit.

Even tho this pub is right on a corner of busy road, inside and outside is very clean and welcoming. Staff is very friendly, seating areas very nice and tidy. Food was delicious too

Order through the app then waited for 15mins. Turned out that they dont monitor the orders online.

Poor service, you need at least 15min to get a pint.

Had a great laugh with the staff and customers we didn't know, was a lovely afternoon, played pool and darts.

Think of 'Sportsman' when you next feel the urge for authentic 'Fish nd Chips'. Excellent quality. The batter used for the crunch on the fish tastes so genuine and yum... and the chips too with the mushy peas. Super serving size. We usually take away and it is packed so well. We love it!!!

Had all day breakfast it was yummy. The pub was warm and welcoming. Very clean and staff helpful. Thanks for a great lunch.

Nice place to have food an drinks. We ordered this 1 kg chicken wings. We enjoyed this so much when we watched the World Cup match today.

We went after badminton and was going to make it our default pub.However there was a stabbing incident the next Friday so this put everyone off

Absolute gem of a pub, been here a few times with family, great food and good selection of drinks

Recently visited this place with my daughter . Welcoming and efficient staff. Nice blend of sport bar and more food related lounge family bar . Truly a rarety now more traditional pub ...no gastro grey painted arty farty bull. Good value and well presented food . The clientel from all walks of life and lovely blend of cultural background ...lovely atmosphere. I'll be back without hesitation

Locals pub, sport on tv, clean toilets. Food ok but can take take a while to get served.

Lovely lunch on Saturday, my Dad loves this pub! Karen & the team are all so friendly.

Not much to say about this place, a typical british style pub, good place to catch up. Customer service was good!

Nice pub, friendly staff, friendly customers, good food! I do recomand it!!

Very nice local pub. Green King pubs usually have a good range of drinks and meals at very reasonable prices. And being a member of the AA, you get 20% discount on your food and drinks! 😃 If you have the appropriate membership. I think. 🤔 Luckily I did. So check your AA app. 🤷‍♂️

Fantastic service by Sam & Colleagues in The Sportsman’s today in extreme weather (heat) conditions there customer service was amazing Food drinks and service Brilliant. Thank you so much ladies. Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

Excellent food, Freddie was great! X

Clean, not too busy and had a good selection of beers and drinks in general. It was only a Monday night outside of uni term time so I imagine it gets a lot busier.

My Mum and I called into the Sportsman for a meal. Personally I found the music being played was too loud. The meal was OK and usual pub classics. We're unlikely to call in again.

A brilliant pub with great food and drinks along with such friendly and welcoming staff. The burgers were delicious. I’ll be back again.

Went there with my wife for lunch several times, enjoyed it.

Had lunch there before and it was really nice this time had to ask where our drinks were after 15 mins wait I had to send my meal back as it wasn’t wot I ordered My sons steak was so tough and not cooked we all left a lot of our meal so disappointed as my family came all the way from London won’t be returning again

Good value food and drink. Clean and tidy

Good pub can be very funny at times 😂

Very tasty vegan food. Friendly staff. Fantastic value

Had a lovely takeaway with my wife from here. Food was great quality and not a long wait. All the team very friendly and Karen the manager was a great host. Will return for sure.

Good chill vibe, nice local since I moved back to the area

We just had a Christmas dinner and it was great. The staff were so inviting and couldn't do enough for us. Really good atmosphere and unhurried. If you haven't been there before then you have missed out, especially on Christmas Dinner.

Fabulous family pub! I go regularly with my dad for lunch and also joined yesterday for the Christmas Party put on for the children. What can say, you all out did yourselves. The staff are so caring, friendly and consistent - Always the same faces and you can build a lovely rapour with the staff. This is truly the best pub around this area!

Awesome pub and the staff are brilliant as a a regular pub goer I have seen and experienced good and bad service the experiences at the sportsman are always and always a greattime Great malt whisky, sports and a friendly atmosphere well worth a visit and worth five star's

We've coming coming here as a family for as long as I can remember. Always sit in the big window bay. Friendly staff always

Very nice evening, me and my Mrs came in for an evening dinner. I had a katsu burger which was very delightful cooked by curtis, for which I had to get his name as I was so fulfilled with my meal! 100% will be returning! The staff was so delightful and welcoming!!

I like this pub, good bar service, and fun atmosphere, kids, pets, local people. Not tasted the food yet but never heard anyone. Complain ING about it.

Staff very friendly and knowledgeable! Great atmosphere! Highly recommend! Great for watching sports!

Brilliant pub to come too, lovely beer garden and amazing staff!

Amazing food and brilliant service. Elisha made our experience at the pub very memorable and will be more than happy to come back again.

Lovely family meal booked last minute. Plenty of choice with menu. Reasonable price and tasty. Claire was so attentive and friendly . Excellent service! Would highly recommend

Nothing fancy just a good old-fashiined pub. Games, pool table etc. Spacious. Good food reasonably priced. Friendly staff. Clean.

I went to the Sportman to watch the cricket. A tanned very bubbly young lady could see I was on my way to the bar but was engrossed in the match! She offered to get my pint for me so I didn't have to miss anythingI don't usually write reviews however that was 5* service!

Nice Curry. Breakfast OK but bacon Rock hard