please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Good selection of beers and comfortable set-up. I didn''t get a chance to play on it but there looked to be a decent darts area. Traditional style pub with some modern additions. Solid 8/10.
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Dire Pub. Gloomy, decor stale and foul landlord. Avoid. Even in St Leonards there are better places
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Lovely little pub - tucked out of the way. Friendly welcome and four real ales on tap - all in good condition. Will definitely be back there next time I go to St Leonards
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My wife and I visited this pub about 6pm om a Monday eve and were very pleased we had. Great welcome from landlord, barmaid and it has to be said most of the customers as well. I tried both Harveys Bitter and Adnams Broadside both of which were very good. Will definately go back
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Very good pub. Very civilised. Great bitter. The clientèle is a bit of a clique with a frighteningly high average age. Landlord is eccentric to put it nicely.
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Ale kept and served very well. Odd landlord!! Most locals were trying to read the adverts in the Times or Telegraph.
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Beer well kept in this locals' local.
Eccentric yes,
in that it is a traditional pub with regulars from a wide range of backgrounds.
The landlord is an acquired delight.
You're not behind a matrix of coffee orders.
Do talk to the locals and enjoy the beers. The wine board discloses some interesting glugs.
Food is rolls so try the excellent, contiguous St Clements restaurant.
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Typical St Leonards boozer. Adnams was fine and the atmosphere OK. Liked it
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Went in here purely on it's 2010 GBG entry - what a mistake! (Biased voting for one's local by CAMRA members for the GBG? Surely not! pahhh!!!)
Beer quality was very poor and the atmosphere akin to a funeral parlour being run by Leonard Cohen. In fact if "Like a bird on a wire" had been playing it may have even cheered the place up! Far better pubs close by such as FILO for one.
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More like doom and gloom to me. Too dark and depressing with no atsmoshphere!!
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This is not the best in the area, but not far off the worst. Nearly as dreadful as The Fox on North St. Far and away better is the Nags Head on Gensing St, around the corner.
Neither The Fox, or Nags Heads have been entered on this site, or any of the other 6 that I suggested, back in December. Maybe the powers that run the site had a bad memory from a holiday in the 1960's and refuse to put them on
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This is my local and by far the best pub in St Leonards and most of Hastings for that matter.
A proper old school, unreconstructed boozer with a superbly kept cellar and friendly; often eccentric and knowledgeable regulars.
The Guvna, known as 'Rigsby', keeps a patrician, unpredictable and (as a result) often hilarious lid on proceedings.
More a club than a pub in some ways and one of a rapidly dying breed... The restaurant next door is well worth a detour too.
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Went back on Saturday last for a couple of pints of Adnams and found it a pleasant venue if quiet for a Saturday night.Excellent bitter with the aforementioned Adnams, Harveys Best and an RAF memorial bitter called "Finest Hour" a portion of the sales from this were to the RAF fund. Good venue for a decent ale.
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A real local, but could not have been friendlier to us and our children. Harveys very good, and a classic unchanging pub interior. No food, but the Havana cafe a few yards down the main street does super kebabs and soups.
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Found this by mistake, but its a lovely little venue to settle with a paper and one of several good bitters. ESB on draught which was very nice. Not especially friendly, but good enough for few pints with friends.
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The landlord has nothing to do with the freemasons, but there is a lodge down the road. All the nice people come here for the real ales. Fullers ESB goes like wildfire. We talk rugby union, some cricket & football. Being a free house makes all the difference especially the price of a pint. All the top professionals drink here and dispense free advice.
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As Gruntfuttock rightly says, this is definitely one of St Leonards better pubs. It serves a selection of cask ales and is comfortable in an old-fashioned way which only English pubs can achieve.
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Definately the best pub in St Leonards (though that isn't saying much), and almost the best in the Borough of Hastings and St Leonards (which is). Harvey's bitter is un-failingly good. The landlord and staff are friendly enough, and it's a real "local" with negligible passing trade. The restaurant next door (St Clements), owned by the pub, is very good indeed and there's an interconnecting door between them.
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Barred myself from this pub when "rigsby" - (the landlord) accused me of smoking a very suggestive tobacco in my pipe. I think it was an aromatic pipe tobacco I bought in Cambridge. Landlord is quite weel known in the local Freemasons and thinks he can do anything
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The beer may be good but don't expect to get a welcome from staff or customers. Strange breed of people drink here.
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This is the oldest pub is St Leonards on sea built 1829 and is listed in CAMRA, you can enjoy real ales such as Harvey's Best, Adnam's Broadside, Greene King IPA as well as guest ales. The pub has a horseshoe shaped bar, and is open all day.
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