Both pubs and café at Willen are closing

Posted by marink91@reddit | miltonkeynes | View on Reddit | 11 comments

The Willen Dragon is part of the brewers fayre restructure, but what's going on with the café and the lakeside.

Any chance the premises will be taken over and we'll get new venues?

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BananaHomunculus@reddit

I just think they are the wrong businesses for the lake to be honest.

Foot traffic is crazy but I don't think having a drink profit leading establishment is correct, it needs a family oriented design, because very few people are going there to fuckin drown their sorrows.

It was also fucking grim which probably didn't help.

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NoodleSpecialist@reddit

New to the city. Passed by on several occasions and it gave me the wrong kind of vibe so didn't stop there. I don't even know what could fit there honestly. Takeaway pizzeria with the optional terrace seating?

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BananaHomunculus@reddit

I dunno really. But probably just give it as a space for independent business to sell at their pop ups.

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Ok-Face-8389@reddit

Thanks to the Labour government policies

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jderm1@reddit

I can't believe the cafe wasn't profitable, it's not like there was any competition nearby and there can't have been a shortage of people. I used to regularly go to Willen, but mostly avoid it these days because it's always so busy and commercialised.

Surely someone else will open in it's place, they must have spent a fortune on the new building. I think it's quite a nice building tbf but I did like the old cafe that was there beforehand.

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marink91@reddit (OP)

Yeah, the Greene King Lakeside closed last week I think. Very quick!