The Uxbridge — Restaurant in London

WHITE BRITISH ONLY? I visited with two friends, we got a round of drinks, and sat down at an empty table. Less than 15 minutes later, well before I had finished a large glass of wine, a woman who worked there told us that if we're not ordering another round of drinks we can't take up table space. The absurd thing was that the place wasn't busy so there was no one wanting our table; we had only just arrived so my glass was half full; and we were actually going to order another round of drinks before we were talked down to very rudely. Worse than that, there were two guys at the table next to us who had arrived before us, and they didn't have to deal with this hostility. We had actually made acquaintance with them because they asked us to watch their bags whilst they smoked, and they were as shocked as we were at our treatment. The only difference between us and them is that they were white. Having seen other reviews of this place from people mentioning this rude woman, and hostility if they are not British (we are), it seems like this pub has an unofficial "white British only" rule. I never write online reviews, but this experience was astounding. Never going again.

Edit: To respond to the response from Uxbridge Arms, I don't want to visit again after this experience so I won't be contacting you. There are plenty of places that deserve my custom. If you really want to improve, look at all of your 1 star reviews which seem consistent in mentioning the rude woman working there and hostility to foreigners, and...

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I am a woman and was the victim of verbal abuse in this pub WOMEN - stay away from this pub.

I went into this pub for a quiet drink on my own on New Year's Day. I ordered a drink at the bar and then sat down in a side room on my own. After about 10 minutes a white male, grey hair approx age 60 asked two other people if they wanted 'chocolate'. He then turned in my direction and shouted over if I wanted 'chocolate'. I didn't really know what he meant so I politely said that no, I was fine thanks. He came over to me shouting if I wanted chocolate. Then started shouting asking if I was stupid. He kept approaching me and was finally a couple of feet away from me stood over me shouting. The bar staff did not come out from behind the bar to stop him. They just nervously laughed and lamely asked him to leave it. Same with the other two customers. I felt extremely threatened. I didn't know whether he was going to get even closer and make physical contact. Eventually he returned to the bar. A really upsetting experience - both the abuse from this man but also the fact that none of the bar staff moved from their position to move the man away from me.

Reported to the Met Police.

WOMEN - stay away...