{"id":15989,"date":"2025-04-13T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/15989\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:12:09","slug":"birmingham-pub-which-feels-like-a-family-responds-to-low-class-trash-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/15989\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham pub &#8216;which feels like a family&#8217; responds to &#8216;low class trash&#8217; remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reviewing CCTV footage, the manager at the Selly Oak pub disputed any claims of a &#8216;fight&#8217;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_Screenshot-2025-04-11-093333.jpg\" alt=\"Management at the Bear &amp; Staff pub defended itself against claims the place was 'low class trash'\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Management at the Bear &amp; Staff pub defended itself against claims the place was &#8216;low class trash'(Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A &#8216;friendly&#8217; Birmingham pub &#8216;which feels like one big family&#8217; was slammed by one reviewer for being &#8216;low class trash&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The controversial comment received a response from management who defended the pub and disputed claims a &#8216;fight&#8217; was about to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The reviewer shared their thoughts about the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/selly-oak\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Selly Oak<\/a> pub on Tripadvisor last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read More:<\/strong> <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/woman-disgusted-after-being-kicked-31385523\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Woman &#8216;disgusted&#8217; after being kicked out of bottomless brunch in Birmingham<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Located on the Bristol Road, the Bear &amp; Staff has a 4.5 score out of five stars on Tripadvisor, based on over 90 independent reviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A customer identified as Andrew said: &#8220;Great place for a drink and a game of pool. Will be returning again and again, really friendly place, the staff are amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Eloise added: &#8220;Came in with my family, was welcomed by locals and bar staff. Brilliant atmosphere, would definitely recommend and bar staff was great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">And Jessica posted: &#8220;Great atmosphere, plenty of drink offers and a great DJ. Really friendly customers and staff, feels like one big family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The opinion was not shared by one reviewer who made claims of &#8216;a full blown fight&#8217; and slammed the pub for being a &#8216;low class trash place&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The reviewer said: &#8220;Rough pub don&#8217;t go here, it used to be okay I guess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Went on Saturday night and it was about to kick off in a full blown fight, they warned us to stay out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Very unfriendly and well just rough. Low class trash place basically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">This prompted a response from Bear &amp; Staff management who reviewed CCTV footage and didn&#8217;t find any evidence of the claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Bear &amp; Staff management responded: &#8220;I&#8217;m very sorry you had a bad experience here, I can assure you our clientele are not &#8216;low class trash&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Regarding last Saturday night, I&#8217;m pretty sure there were no bad vibes or any kind of confrontations with anyone, in fact our reggae night was really well received by everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I wonder who warned you to stay out? After reviewing our CCTV of the evening, I can&#8217;t see anything that looks even remotely like a fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Feel free to contact me directly to discuss this matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After reviewing CCTV footage, the manager at the Selly Oak pub disputed any claims of a &#8216;fight&#8217;Management at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10845,748,393,4884,10846,10844,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-15989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-pubs-and-bars","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-pubs-in-birmingham","14":"tag-selly-oak","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114329652095848853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}