The Piston Club, Redhill near Stratford

[Alex Z]

This looks interesting, on the opposite side of Stratford to C&M, with a slightly more upmarket feel but definitely going to attract some of the same audience.

https://thepistonclub.co.uk/

I’ll be giving it a go I think

[Alex Z]

Yep, just a week or so. Going to take a trip over soon and check it out. The car park looks smaller than C&M but there’s room to expand.

[Alex Z]

We were heading past earlier on today so called in for a beer in the sun.

The interior of the pub and restaurant area look really very well done, with plenty of motorsport memorabilia on display. The seating area outside is nice with a kids playground across the way, and immaculately kept lawns.

I think it should do well, but it’s not a direct competitor to C&M with a lot less car parking and more upmarket food on the menu.

[Alex Z]

They are doing a Sunday morning bike meet, starting this weekend.

[Alex Z]

Alex Z said:

They are doing a Sunday morning bike meet, starting this weekend.

It was very good. Plenty of variety there, and lovely weather. Food not the cheapest but not stupidly priced. Queue for hot drinks was quite long but they admit they got three times as many people as expected.

[Alex Z]

They’ve been very lucky with the later warm weather, but so far this seems to be a successful launch.

The Sunday bike meets are popular, and they are getting plenty of car groups either holding events there or calling in on the way through.