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Eating and Drinking in Reading, Berkshire*

Reading, Berkshire Pubs, Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants

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Food

  • One thing Reading is good at. lots of variety. Ben's Thai and a couple of the chinese places are v. good. Plus plenty of chain places for those with no imagination. for take away go to the little shed thing oppersite Pavlov's. Top food for pissed people plus you usually meet someone interesting in the queue.
  • Chicken f**kin lickin everwhere - how do they all make money? who cares?
  • The chips in 'Santa Fe' (Oracle, Riverside) have to be tasted to be appreciated. They are served sprinkled with some exotic spice that is also blended into the accompanying mayonaise dip - one plate is *never* enough.
  • the vegie place just outside the broad street mall is the only place that sells vegan food
  • Pavlov's Dog - Good cheap food
  • Southern Fried Chicken, stays open till 4am. Near the Hope Tap Pub and what used to be the Hooden in the hat??
  • the veggie one next to that murder-burger place, outside butts centre by the flower market
  • L'Otolan in Shinfield is supposed to be one of the best restaurants in the country. I can't confirm this as I haven't been able to afford it yet (costs well over £100 per head) and I have nothing to compare it with. For a posh meal at a slightly more affordable price, try The Castle in Hurst, the Riverside Restaurant or No. 5 in Caversham. For Sunday lunch, I like either the Crown at Playhatch (http://www.thecrown.co.uk) or one of the Chef and Brewer pubs (Griffin at Caversham or the George at Loddon Bridge). Tilney Hall in Rotherwick is also quite swanky. Curry is good at the Standard, the Sardar Palace and the Bina.
  • The kebab van that's outside the union rocks! Generous proportions and friendly guys. A little unhygienic at times I suspect but as long as you drink loads of booze before hand, any germs should be killed. Besides, that's tomorrow mornings problem.
  • ok, my only comment. Nobody mentioned the Saffron yet, the best, absolutely best Indian restaurant I've ever been in. Food is consistently good every single time AND they'll home deliver. Bliss on a Friday night.
  • Cafe Bar does really nice food but is a tad expensive. Try it if youre feeling flush.
  • expensive. Yebabam Ye - open from 4pm to 4am
  • Beijing Noodle House in West Street. Not only for the great food but for the really rude waitress. Please don't learn any manners it wouldn't be as much fun going there otherwise!!
  • Caversham Tandoori takeaway. Worth a scorched ringpiece.
  • Anyone mentioned Sweeny + Todd? Why the f*** not? If there's one place that's an institution in this town then it's this Pie restaurant. Where else can you get Pigeon and Peach pies, and what other restaurant refuses to sell chips?
  • Fat women say all.
  • Pizza Express, Iguana, Topo Gigio is excellent if you like Italian & have a spare quid or fifty
  • Lots of decent restauarants and take aways on Prospect St in Caversham. The Hong Kong Noodle House is good for cheap chinese meals. Ye Babam Ye by Cemetry Junction used to be the best Kebab house in town but has gone downhill in recent years. Sweeney Todds Pie shop on Castle St is brilliant.
  • Near rileys pool hall is a nice (very Greek) kebab shop that does a good doner for £2:80 or summat.
  • Burger King at Reading Station. Great!!!
  • Kathmandu kitchen on Whitley Street is great - mega all you can eat buffet on Monday nights, friendly staff.
  • Doctor BEAKS!!!! Does the greatest chicken burger possible and also Marmara Kebab on Caversham Road, say hello to Chip Chip Man who works in there
  • Shabab in Southampton Street. Excellent kebabs, etc.
  • Shababs, Southampton Street do a great kebab-like thing called Chicken Shabab - naan bread instead of pitta.
  • Dolce Vito's and Topo Gigios. Two superb Italian restaurants upstairs in Kings Walks shopping arcade.
  • The Garden of Gulab - the pinnacle in eating experiences
  • Chronicles in Blagrave Street. Cellar wine bar / Bistro type place with candles in wine bottles, dim light and dark wood. Big portions of food, not too expensive, great service. Occasional foxy waitress if you like long curly hair and a smile. A touch on the 30-something side but a good place to go if you want to get away from the lime green shirt / 'alternative' crowd. (Does that make Chronicles an alternative venue?) Good for impressing a chick. Shows you've got sophistication.
  • Bella Napoli on Kings Road opposite Blackwells book shop. Simple Italian restaurant with nice, relaxed atmosphere. Plainly decorated. You'll be greeted by a Manuel type character with a dodgy moustache. If there's two or more blokes in your party then he'll call the biggest (fattest) one "big-a brother". Straightforward menu- never changes but what they do they do well. Fairly cheap and a good place to go mid-week if you fancy eating out but don't want to spend shedloads. Chronicles in Blagrave Street. It's a cellar bar / bistro. Very thirty-something with candles in wine bottles and not much light. It's got a small bar section and a good restaurant. They serve generous portions and you'll pay about £9-£12 for a main course. The waitresses all wear black t-shirts, very polite and friendly and you'll get the occasional honey that works there.Packed at weekends. Not obvious to spot from the outside. Very chinos and polo t-shirts.
  • Curries: The Kukhuri on Gunn Street. Great all you can eat buffet on Sundays. Memories of Nepal. Surprise drinks at the management's discretion which means if you spend enough they'll give you big bottles of nepalese ale which is really nice, worth paying for in fact.
  • Hi, just to say that if you go to the new Chinese/Thai restaurant above what used to be the Great Expectations bar, eat a good meal. It was cold, at 7pm, the menu was good, but the rice portions were unbelievable! and I don't mean over the top, they were absolutely miniscule. The Yeoung Chow Fried rice for £4.90 was hardly enough for me, and I am a small eater. The meat dishes were OK, but having been to the Peking Palace, Caversham, the portions are smaller, though about £1.00 less. I prefer to pay for something decent!!! If Shanpan, you participate in this service, I do hope you take heed. You will be out of business very soon. Hong Hong, West St, also run by the people who run Peking Place, have no worries over you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Ben's bar & Thai Restaurant. On kennet canal opposite Prudential Colley's Supper Rooms -- Abolsolutely Fantastic.
  • pierre victoire restaurant, 10 st mary's butts fine fresh french fodder at superb value prices
  • Subway comes to Reading. Located in Friar Street almost oppersite McDonalds. Basicly healthy fast food, but tastes good.
  • No night is complete without a visit to the ubiquious Perfect Fry. Over the road from the station, does sumptious and bargainous chicken burgers which will satisfy anyone's post-pub cravings.(just go past the crap keabab shop and it's just round the corner)
  • posh new restaurant called 'ASK' opened in the Butts, doesn't look TOO expensive but only appropriate for a special night out [ plus I wouldn't be suprised if the BUtts turned into a bit of a blood bath what with the competition from the neighbouring pizza exress] HOWEVER prize for the tastiest morcels after a heavy night out really have to go the indian in cemetry junction and the Perfect fry just opposite the station
  • "The George" does the best Sunday lunch
  • Sweenie Todds is a must (Castle Street). Sadar Indian Restaurant along the Kings Road (Cemetry Junction). Ben's Thai Restaurant; very cheap and really good, food it great - need to book (along the Kennet Canal side, opposite the Prudential).
  • Pretty much all the pubs in the town centre serve reasonable food. Old Society a tad expensive. Rat and Parrot to be avoided. Yates's and the Weatherspoons pubs can be relied on for decent grub at a reasonable price.
  • Cafe Iguana does the best veggie food in town, although the Purple Turtle have also caught on and now have a good offering. For a more expensive culanary treat visit Colleys Supper Rooms on the London Road. Usually 7 courses for approx £25 (depending on time of year)
  • The Gulshan is a great-food curry house. I recommend the Dahl Soup ('though its not called that on the menu).
  • A relatively new and very welcome Chinese restaurant for Reading. The food is excellent with a wide menu featuring some unusual dishes. The decor is a little strange what with the green 1970's "bistro" look chairs and checked table clothes but the rest is pretty authentic including waitresses in Cheong sams. By the way, they also do an excellent delivery take away service free on orders over £10 within a four mile radius.
  • Little China, King's Road (at the Prudential building end).
  • The only place for late night drinking (though watch the triads from the Sargeant York over the road).
  • Turtle (aka purple squirter)
  • The Gorge Cafe by the Holiday Inn for some top greasy fry action.
  • McDonalds, Burger King, various dodgy cafes and kebab vans
  • Cafe Iguana, St. Marys Butts. Strange, but good.
  • Bens Thai restaurant beside the canal
  • Brets Hamburger Shop now sadly gone (sniff). Replaced by a balti & burger takeaway called the Spicy Kitchen, which should re-open in early November.
  • Pizza Express, St. Mary Butts: The only *good* pizza chain, excellent pizzas.
  • The Sirdar Palace (I think - something Palace anyhow) Cemetery Junction (a mile or so out of town) Next door to a pub called the Jack of Both Sides. Good all round curry house.
  • Standard Tandoori, Caversham Road. About 10 minutes walk out from centre, and often busy, but with good reason, the food is excellent.
  • Sweeny Todd's, in St. Mary Butts, town centre. Famous for its homemade pies, excellent beer, very nice old place.

Pubs

  • The Fruit Bat on Erleigh Road is a great pub. Say hi to Sat and Andy, the managers of the place. over 10 (cheap) beers on tap, last count, great chill-out place, not brewery owned. Pool table, free curry monday night, and friendly staff. GREAT!
  • The Hop Leaf Southampton St. (5 minutes walk from the chainpubs in the town centre) A Hop Back Brewery Pub which serves the finest Real Ales in Reading. Their own "Best" is very tasty too. No food, top quality, reasonably priced, beer only.
  • Chain Pub hell!! Brannigans is the worst (you're not coming in with those shoes/trousers/haircut/expression - yet it's full of scum!). Bar Med is almost as bad. The Walkabout is good for cradle-snatching. The square's good for hearing damage. The Litten tree's good if you fancy a fight. The best chain pubs are probably Pitcher & Piano and O'Niells (but avoid the club upstairs which is full of Kev's). If you like something a bit more individual try Pavlov's (tho' still a chain!) or the Turtle.
  • Rising sun. Goths, Moshers, Freaks need i say more. friendly crowd and great bar men and ladys.
  • New pub dat is wikked is the Honeypot, featuring readings finest honeyz in all their glory if you don`t mind paying over the odds for beer (whats new?). And see they even got it in the right location at the end of friar street - so all the beer boys can actually say the`ve seen a naked lady. Failing that just go to brannigans (any night) theres usually some "ladies" with less clothes on than the honeypot anyhow..
  • you dont need a pub when you can go to forbury gardens
  • Pavlov's Dog
  • The bull in stanford dingley serves min... has a fresh faced crowd...
  • The Hope Tap (cheap alcohol - by Readings standards). The Purple Turtle open till 2am most nights, no youngens tho (strict bouncers), good atmosphere TIP PLEASE we need the extra money!!. (where i work) rocks... different music coming and going.. Rock, hiphop, dance, drumnbass, chillout. theres a garden for all those that cant hack it and a downstairs for the hardcore fans that like music with bass!
  • Very 'fresh faced' crowds in The Firkin, and practically everywhere else. The Purple Turtle smells funny, and the Rising Sun is populated by Goths and perverts. Take your pick.
  • For daytime sunshine drinking, you can't beat Pipers Island for it's location. Friar Street and the Oracle are full of new pubs that are always packed in the evening. Fuelled by Stella and Smirnoff Ice, this is the place for the single to head and, from the stories I hear, people do alright for themselves in the pulling department. Tends to be quite a young scene but there's enough single 20, 30 and 40 somethings to stop it being a typical small-town demographic in the town's drinking establishments. Pubs I like include the Crown on Caversham Bridge, The back of Beyond, Pipers and the Purple Turtle. I went through a phase of going to Po Na Na but I can't recommend it as it's expensive. Also I was head butted by a complete stranger in there which broke my nose. I'm married now so I tend to like quiz night at my local ;-)
  • Alcohol consumption in Reading is being made a preserve of the (twatish) office working culture. No ben sherman, no smart black shiney shoes, no service. Also: no all male parties, no hats, no polo shirts, no music or only 80's music, no long skirts, no baggy trouser, no blue jeans, no jeans, etc.......
  • The Hop - v. strange landlord and lady which just adds to the charm of the place. Serves people over 18 too!
  • Where are the Irish pubs?? O'Neils so isnt an irish pub and is a perfect example of the hideous chain pubs here.
  • The Rising Sun - possibly the only alternative place left in Reading. Tuesday nigths is jazz, wednesday is rock, thursday is goth, friday and the weekend are generally rock stuff. Don't go in the toilets, though.
  • New-look Roebuck alias the Beethovens Oxford Road Tilehurst. Reading and Tilehurst are invited to join us to launch our new look at the Roebucks Horror Evening on Friday 13th April 2001.
  • Reading pubs are not very good really (Iam the master of the understatement).
  • Theme pubs galore. All of which are unbearable. Purple Turtle used to be good - is now full of gobshites.
  • Too many soulless chain pubs for sad hilfiger wearing twats or tossers from the pru talking very loudly about their day job
  • After 10 years I'm finally bored of the Turtle. Face facts, if you're a discerning drinker, what are you doing in Reading Town centre nowadays?
  • Can I just say that the guy who ran the Bull and Chequers in the early 90s (Mark..) was an absolute git? Someone lamped him once and everyone in the pub was in general agreement that he deserved it. In the 80s they built a conservatory extention to add a bit of class (glass?) to the place. Why do people even bother with such things in Woodley?
  • They might consider in the year 3000 to build a big dome over the whole of Reading town centre - featuring a total "drinking experience"....
  • The Queens Head aka The Nob Girls - This is certainly a place to look for the best in Reading men. This pub is full of fit students, cultured academics and fresh faced wine trade proffessionals. The drinks are great and cheap and the garden has sofa's(although they do smell a bit).
  • Avoid Friar Street like the pox, that is unless you happen to be a Ben Sherman Shirted Wanker. Crash Helmets & Full body armour are advisable between 11pm & midnight
  • Sadly the town Centre is now full of Wanker magnets so avoid most of the pubs on Friar St. There are now about 60 pubs within half a mile of the town hall soyou are spoilt for choice. THe Firkin pubs are reasonably good, if expensicve as is the Hobgoblin on Broad St. The Purple Turtle is OK but not as good as the old one. 3Bs is OK as are the 3 Weatherspoons pubs, The Monks Retreat and Hope Tap on Friar St although they are usually packed and the Back OF Beyond on Kings Rd which is usually deserted.
  • Boars head was good but now its crap as none of my mates get served there.Hope tap is cheap, but a crap atmosphere. go to Victoria wine and go to the park!
  • Allied Arms - a truly old fashioned boozer in these days of theme pubs and naff names. Proper juke box, proper beer, proper people. Next to Pizza Express in St Marys Butts. Much maligned around town but unfairly so. Particulaly popular in summer for the only proper beer garden in town.
  • Lots of pappy souless chains, if this isn't your thing the best bets are the Hobgoblin in town, the Hook & Tackle or the Fez & Firkin.
  • The butler wasn't too bad for a quite pint of cider and a cigar, other than that the pubs in Reading had a tendency to be full of absolute tossers.
  • Back Of Beyond is quiet but cheap, flyer does good karaoke on tuesdays
  • Pubs in Reading are NOT worth the visit, can't wear trainers, absolutely packed, stupidly loud & bad music and generally full of 16-18yr old idiots. I should know lived there all my life. Harvey Floorbangers aint to bad, bit more laid back than all the other places.
  • Bar Excellence is now the Pitcher and Piano. Majority of town centre pubs seem to cater for dressed up teens with music so loud that you can hear the person next to you.
  • Lime green untucked shirts, slicked back hair, emerging paunch, big buckled shoes, top lip rides up your teeth? Think you're a bit tasty and secretly reckon you could take the smallest bouncer? Sound like you? Get yourself down to Yates's, Newt and Cucumber or The Square (spot the difference?) and mutter begrudging acknowledgments at similar types that you stub your fags out with on Sunday mornings before football and carry on making me laugh and despair. Go on mah san! Nice one.
  • Yates. The nicest pub/saloon in Reading in my opinion. You can sit outside and there is a BAR outside, how cool is that. You can have cakes with your mean as well. The Fez. Aother nice pub. A little walk though. If your a Reading Uni Student its not too far to walk though. Quite a nice atmosphere though.
  • The Purple Turtle, always busy after 11:30 but can be quite nice. Open after 11 every day. Pierre Victoire. Open late on Fridays and Saturday nights. Friday is Jam night. Only one draft beer which is Kronenborg 1664 but a good variety of bottles. The BBBs, the place for people who work at the IB to congregate but you also get a lot of students. Cool atmosphere.
  • The Poacher, The Seven Red Roses, The Culpepper Mill -- all in Lower Earley The Jolly Anglers, The Fisherman's Cottage, and The Dove -- On the Kennet Canal
  • Their is an excellent litte oak beamed pub called the Allied Arms, right in the centre of town in the area called the butts, opposite the market. In the summer there is a sun trap beer garden that gets quite busy. All sorts of people go in there, so everyone should go and spend some money in there. Especially seen as my dad owns it !
  • Purple Turtle
  • Modern, new pub "The Squares", very trendy 'clubby' pub with a huge rotating TV screen being the central focus of the pub. Bit of a possers pub I think and at £2.40 a pint you've gotta be rich to get pissed. Go for the drinks on special if you can. Pretty cool, worth a visit.
  • New pub opened up called The Square (near Yates' and the Newt) Not much to shout about except don't go there if you are thirsty...you can see the beer behind the bar, you can see other people drinking the beer that has come from behind the bar but i want to know...when will i ever get served a bloody drink!!! If anyone is looking for a bar job, please apply as they need more staff!!!!!!!!!!
  • The Hop Leaf, Southampton Street. Apparently a brew pub, owned by Hop Back brewery. Bar Billiards and nice Summer Lightning. Oh yes, and Pickled eggs.
  • Lots of bad although the good are arriving swiftly. Be prepared to where your shoes. Thinking of dressing as a tramp with a collar and shoes - they would have to let me in, eh?
  • The Hope Tap is a fairly new Weatherspoons Pub the opposite end of Friar Street to the town hall. The Newt and Cucumber, near the town hall, is increasingly popular, but you need good vision to cope with the neon lights at night. More traditional are The Horn, St. Mary's Butts, diagonally opposite Alleycat's, and the Courage club on Castle Hill, the Brewery Tap (I think). All average prices, worth a visit on a pub crawl night. Should mention the out-of-town Rendezvous, the footy club bar. Could close soon, but worth a visit. Very friendly - on Tilehurst Road.
  • Gay pubs: The Wynford (mostly male), Kings Road, next to Kwik Fit or The Granby (mostly female), Cemetery Juunction
  • The Lyndhurst Arms - Watlington Street. Friendly pub, good selection of beers. Popular with students. Can get a bit smokey
  • Bar Excellence offers cool surroundings, friendly bouncers and isn't packed with kids.
  • I never thought I'd say this but there's a really nice wine bar on Friar St called Bar Excellence. Very courtious door staff as well. Blimey.
  • Edwards. New and grossly decorated (rather nice really!). Cerise is dominant colour with some mad artwork on the wall. Has a bit of a street bistro feel to it. Food limited but good. As it's new, they're still trying. No trainers; smart jeans is kool.
  • I just moved back to Canada from Reading, and I miss it already, what I miss you might ask, well, the people for one. I met a lot of interesting people at the pubs, and I still keep in touch with them. I'm curious as to why you don't list the "Wynford Arms" pub in your list of pubs. The people there have amazing attitudes towards life in general and a great outlook on what's hot and not in Reading. They welcomed me into their world, (amazing for the English to do) and loved me for who I am.
  • Many good pubs 5 minutes walk+ out of the centre.
  • The Three Guineas, Old Railway Station, Station Hill.
    Good food, handy for British Rail (back door opens onto Platform 4), nice to sit outside in summer)
    The Monk's Retreat, Friar Street.
    Good range of beers, large no smoking area
    The Hobgoblin, Broad Street.
    Friendly, with a very good range of real ales (many of which I've never heard of). If they are serving a beer called Reck'Em, cancel your plans for the following morning & start drinking.
    Rat and Parrot
    Operates a dress code during the day & some evenings. Used to be The Coopers in Market Place.
    Scruffy Murphys
    An Irish theme pub, God help us! Used to be the Railway Tavern on Greyfriars Road.
    The Butler
    Good local Fuller's pub.
    Jack of Both Sides (Cemetry Junction)
    Rough. Rougher than rough. Bloody nasty. Don't, whatever you do, go in here if you're a student. Your body will not thank you for it.
    Muswells.
    Favourite drinking spot for the pre-club crowd. Reasonable food.
    The Malthouse.
    Tacky, no atmosphere but it has got a large screen sports TV...
    The Old Society, Friar Street.
    New and usurping Muswells for clubbers. Bouncers can be a bit picky.
    The College Arms.
    Out of town centre and very popular with students. Good range of beers and food is OK.
    JW's.
    Small but friendly with (tiny) club downstairs on weekends.
    Iguana Bar, above Iguana Cafe.
    Relaxed atmosphere with occasional live DJs. 'Alternative' people love this place.
    3Bs.
    The place to be if you're a hip happening student-type. Lots of guest beers.
    Mellows, Caversham.
    Young school/student crowd and live DJS.
    The Boars Head, Friar Street.
    Recently gaudily refurbished. Has a reputation for being a little violent from it's past incarnation but seems OK now.
    The Purple Turtle.
    Opens late to 2am, most days, no entry fee. May I emphasise how good the Purple Turtle is. It stocks beers from all over the world (bloody strong ones too) and has the best juke box in Reading -- I haven't heard of one that can equal its variety in music. Grungy types abound (along with loads of student nurses for some reason).
    Check out the new [6.96], improved Purple Turtle, it's on Gun street, near Alleycats, and now features two bars, open till 4 am!! and boasts more than one toilet!!! The old Turtle will still be open till they knock it down. :(
    Turks Head, on London Road
    Good student hangout.
    New Flyer & Firkin (opposite station in old ICL social club building).
    Huge barn but with atmosphere, reasonable beer, and one real cider (yes, flat so you can
    Rising Sun.
    Re-vamped yet again (Oh for the oak panelled days ). Now sports a Tut & Shive badge and has possibly the most bizarre interior you'll find in a Southern County-town that once held Oscar Wilde in its prison. (Play spot the rhino with your friends)
    The Dove
    Down by the canal, off Orts Road (one of the best)
    Yates' Wine Lodge, Friar Street
    The old Post Office building refurbished in impressive quantities of wood and cast iron, but there the fun ends. A door policy that oscillates from "erratic" to "threatening" in a very short space of time. Assuming you can successfully run the gauntlet of doorstaff (5 this last Saturday), you then have to contend with a roaming pack of "in-house" security (we counted a further 7 - although we didn't stay long enough to carry out an exhaustive survey). Best avoided like the plague, another glowing example of choice, but no choice, as the aim seems to be to ape the Firkin, which apes the Old Society, which apes the Monk's Retreat, only more so.

Cafes and Coffee Shops

  • Coffee Republic is the best place to spend your Saturday afternoons, although you do have to have a drink in your cup at all times otherwise you risk getting chucked out. Me and my friend just spend all day chillin in there talkin and drinkin.
  • O'Briens irish coffee bar-Harris Arcade.
  • the one in debenhams sells yummy smoothies and sandwiches..plus its a cybercafe
  • The Gorge Cafe on Caversham Bridge is supposed to be the second best greasy spoon in the UK greasy spoon league tables and they certainly do a good egg and bacon with trimmings. Not very *real* though as it's often full of rowers and young professional types and the Windows aren't blacked out, like they should be if this cafe had any working class credibility at all. There is also a reasonably cheap B&B here and I would recommend it to festival goers over camping any day!!
  • i've heard that 'Cafe Igwana' is very good 4 mid-day snacks...never been there, but people say "it's vey good".
  • It has got to be...Rafinas and the owner with the amazing memory. Never writes a single order down on paper and always gets it all right. The Burger place near the Hobgoblin is alright foodwise, but is another example of Reading's general strangeness. The guy totals up your bill then knocks about 50p off and gives you a lollypop (even if you're a 50 year old businessman in a suit - not sure what you'd be doing in there if you fitted that description though mind you..)
  • Iguana Bar - Cool Veggie food & very chilled tunes upstairs
  • Not a new entry, as such, but the Iguana cafe is now on-line: find it here : http://freecenter.digiweb.com/food/cafeiguana/ thanks Mike
  • The Fruitbat Cafe, Erleigh Road - popular with students, occassionally has techno/trance DJ's playing.
  • Sweeny Todd's also does great pies.

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