this shell garage is at the end of the oxford road on the roundabout with norcot road…read more always has petrol one or two pence cheaper than the near by competitors. decent shop too. you can buy newpapers, drinks and snacks in the shop. also this is open twenty four hours a day so midnight shopping is possible. the Shell reward points card which offers one pence back for every two litres of fuel purchased also helps to keep the cost down. I don't want to push the boat out here, but this is definitely my second favorite Shell garage in Reading after the Basingstoke road one.

Always competitively priced (because there is a Tesco around the corner?) and conveniently located…read morefrom West of Reading... plus it has high octane fuel for my Scooby .

This BP service station is the only petrol outlet in the North Woodley/Earley area but fuel prices…read moreare normally competitive. There are about 16 pumps so queues are unusual. The shop has a branch of M&S Simply Food within it with a good range of stock although slightly expensive. There's also a Wild Bean Café with the usual range of coffees and pasties. A full range of national daily newspapers is available as well as local street atlases and road maps. Staff are friendly but a little slow at dealing with customers.

This petrol station is the nearest one to junction 11 of the M4 and yet offers the best prices…read morearound for petrol and diesel. It's usually these places that charge a premium. I prefer filling up here than at, say, Morrissons because although the price is the same, you know what you're putting in your car when you fill up at Shell. I really think that this fuel goes further than supermarket stuff. There's a cashmachine to the side of the shop too.

Clean petrol station shop, massive and newly refurbished forecourt. Helpful staff and some of the…read morelowest prices of fuel in Reading. Avoid Monday's due to there fuel gets restocked then so most of pumps will be empty until the evening

Wow, I've never experienced anything like this new marriage between BP and Marks and Spenser. This…read moreis a convenience store with high end items at supermarket prices and a traditional gas station with all that that implies. The uniformed staff are delightful. They not only anxious to please, but go out of their way to do the extra things such as directions on their on mobiles; how rare! Free ATM, liquor, wine, Lochmuir smoked salmon, magazines galore, flower shop. The U.S. Needs to study this concept of service a bit. They were called "service stations" in days of yore but nomore, nomore.

Rather small Shell petrol station so it can be difficult getting in at busy times as it's on a busy…read moremain road. Prices are very competitive and they are often the cheapest in the area. It has a small shop and a toilet which is usually open but not always terribly clean. It also has a free air pump for tyres and free water.

We were leaving the Bloomsbury area of London, about to get an Uber to dinner when we stumbled upon…read morethis great little spot. It was my Husband's birthday and we wanted something cute, as far as appearances go, this was that. Or so we thought. Upon entering the staff was welcoming and the restaurant was nice and warm, since it was cold out. We were seated immediately since the restaurant was relatively empty. So I was surprised when our server asked if we had reservations?.. No, of course we did not. Our Server was bubbly, outgoing and very nice but not very good. She forgot the utensils, and our drink order but there was a second server that was on top of what she didn't do or bring and he told her what we wanted to drink. Before we ordered our meals, I explained to our server it was my Husband's bday so they could prepare something for dessert for him. We ordered a Guinness and a coke zero - served in the tiny bottle with no cup for ice. I did request a glass with ice and one with 2 ice cubes was brought out to me. We started our meal with a dozen oysters that were brought out to our table so quickly, we didn't have a chance to photograph them - they were delicous. I initially ordered the Ribeye but was told it wasn't available, so I ordered the chargrilled sirloin steak. The steak comes served with fries, salad & peppercorn sauce. I truly wish the restaurant would've had the Ribeye because the sirloin steak I ordered cooked medium, came out well done, full of fat and extremely chewy. I'm not really one to send food back, so I let them know but ate it anyway. We also ordered the Chargrilled ribeye Lobster - which is a Ribeye & half Lobster served on hot stone served with salad. The steak here was also replaced by a thin sirloin steak. When it came time for dessert, they brought out the crème brûlée we chose from the menu and we were pretty surprised how terrible that small desert was. It was sweet and had the consistency of a flan, not a crème brûlée. There was no layer of caramelized sugar on the crème brûlée and it just tasted completely wrong. Ultimately, The Shell is a seafood restaurant not a seafood and steak restaurant. They have no clue how to slice or cook steak. The place is cute and the servers are doing their best but the restaurant leaves much to be desired.

It's always useful to know the location of petrol stations in urban locations, especially as so…read moremany seem to be closing down these days. This one is tucked away in the heart of South Kensington, between South Kensington shopping centre and the tube station and the Earl's Court section of Old Brompton Road. You'd never find it unless you knew it was there, as Old Brompton Road is hardly a major thoroughfare. It's not far from the south end of Gloucester Road, which leads directly to the main A4 (Cromwell Road). The site is what you could politely call compact (ie rather small) and if there's a queue it tends to back up onto Old Brompton Road. It has one of the small Shell 'Select' shops, selling a basic range of newspapers, food and drinks as well as motoring supplies.