The Thatchers Arms, Great Warley

This is the perfect spot to put a pub, by the village green on a curve of a beautiful country road.
It is pretty bland, but the beer is ok and it feels a long way from Brentwood High Street and Harold Hill, wven though it isn't.

23 Mar 2005 11:22

The Artichoke, Shenfield Common

Was better before it 'went on fire' and was reinvented as a sort of Happy Eater for people who are too scared to drive on a motorway.

U used to stretch out on the grass outside.
What a shame.

23 Mar 2005 11:20

The Litten Tree, Brentwood

This is the future and it is MURDER.

Every town gets the pubs it deserves and this place tells you all you need to know about Brentwood.

Brentwood's historic and best pubs dating from 200 years ago or more were at the other end of the High Street and are now a Kay Eff Cee and a Caffe Uno.

The clump of chain pubs at the west end of the road have all the charm of... well, Brentwood, or Tipsy McStagger's Good-Time Drinking Emporium, as the town is more properly referred to.

Anyone who wants to defend the Litten Tree, fine, well I'm sorry, but if you have to be told.....

An all this nonsense about it being a Harold Wood lot that spoils the town's reputation, is just denial.

23 Mar 2005 11:17