please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Alas, this pub has been run by an ever worsening series of landlords since Neil and Tats left more than a decade ago.
A local gang associated with the Sadler family began using the pub as their base leading to no end of trouble in the village. Over recent years, there have been numerous incidents originating from pub patrons ranging from destroying the village Christmas tree, to stealing the main telephone cable for scrap metal, to regular vandalism of cars and drug dealing. There has been targeted verbal abuse of villagers from the pub garden and smoking area to the point that several families have sold up and moved from the village to avoid it. The landlord seems at best unwilling to deal with the behaviour and at worst complicit.
Given the lack of custom, there is much speculation regarding the actual business model of the pub. There is not much in the way of real ale beyond Greene King bilge, The food is very variable and the family that runs the pub is notorious for being abusive to respectable customers. It is a great shame as not only could it be a lovely pub but it has also been the source of a great deal of unhappiness for villagers. Best avoided, as is the Plume of Feathers up the road.
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Glad you survived fugglehops. Can be a bit Jeremy Kyle Show on account of the regulars. Visited for the first time in ages at the weekend for a swift couple and not bad at all. Rear garden has been opened up. Alas, the chavs referred to below are back.
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What happened with my last review? Thought I had double vision trying to read it.
The three guest beers this time were; New River's Five-inch drop, Mad Squirrel APA from Red Squirrel brewery and GK's Golden Breeze.
They were in good condition but not top condition.
The mushroom pizza left a bit of a runny tummy the next morning.
I was not very pleased with the number of dogs roaming around our table whilst trying to eat.
Dog owners and pub staff need to be more responsible.
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A Greene King pub serving more real ales than they normally do.
Four regular beers, Abbott, IPA, IPA Gold and London Glory.
Three rotating beers are normally availableA Greene King pub serving more real ales than they normally do.
Four regular beers, Abbott, IPA, IPA Gold and London Glory.
Three rotating beers are normally availiable. Past ones include: Heresfoot White label and Wild boy. Tring Ridgeway, and GK St Edmonds.
Pizzas served troughout the day.
The female staff seemed more approachable than their male counter-parts.
. Past ones include: Heresfoot White label and Wild boy. Tring Ridgeway, and GK St Edmonds.
Pizzas served troughout the day.
The female staff seemed more approachable than their male counter-parts.
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Strange place. Once was enough but persuaded to try again by work colleagues and just the same. Empty except for some creepy types hanging around the smoking area. There are some nice pubs within easy distance of here like The Horns and Grandison.
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One word really...Dead :(
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Good News! The chavs who were bringing this place down have been barred for life and the atmosphere is now a lot better for staff and customers. Food is excellent my recommendation: beef wellington. When was the last time you saw that on a pub menu. Think I'll have that tonight.
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a bit grim - but seems to be open later than the plume. staff attitude stinks - beer ok but pricey!
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I concur with both previous reviews concerning this establishment. Some of the regulars wouldn't be out of place in a Hammer Horror film centred in 18th century Bedlam. Please don't bar them - we don't want them coming up the Plume.
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I visited this pub last week during the evening and have found the food to be excellent -I had the home made chicken kiev precisely because I hadn't seen that dish on a menu for a long time. Once you try this you'll never buy frozen again! Big portions -but without sacrificing quality for quantity- so make sure you have a healthy appetite. BTW the Sunday roast is really good quality and excellent value.
The staff were friendly and attentive and I got the feeling that they are really doing all that they can to make the visitors feel welcome and satisfied.
I know what Silverangel means in the previous post; one or two of the regulars could do with being barred for uncouth behaviour. My advice, go through the front entrance to the pub straight into the restaurant section. Bon appetit.
pssst - 18 Aug 2011 16:15 |
I have recently visited to have a meal, it was brilliant! Good sized portions with tender meat & perfectly cooked side veg, served with a lovely smile. I cannot recommend the food highly enough since the pub changed management, the menu has been completely overhauled with everything on the menu lovingly homecooked, and it shows!
There is an atmosphere of change & friendliness in the pub & restaurant these days, however there is still a minority of quite unpleasant people who still persist in visiting this otherwise beautiful pub, the management should bear this in mind & bar them as this would encourage a lot of locals back & probably some new ones too.
Useful tip: avoid the smoking area! Otherwise it's great.
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Attractive enough vilage pub, I understand that landlords keep changing (it is owned by Greene King so unsurprising-rent probably too high).
Beer was Ok if unmemorable and not over expensive at �2-90.
Busy with eaters on a Saturday night, landlady very welcoming to single diner.
Food though (a throw back Chicken kiev which reminded me of the 70s) was very average. Chips poor, over cooked and tired, tasted as though they had been through too many fries. Piles (too much) of salad. Piling on the salad is not a substitute for getting core quality right.
Worth trying again though.
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Beerintheevening used to be the talk of the pub with various incendiary posts being printed out and brandished on the premises, much to everyone's amusement. I have resisted posting but having just had my feet mopped, which pretty much sums up the attitude to customers, I am going to join everyone else by taking my custom elsewhere.
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Not good for drinking! All pints very short - grudgingly topped up.
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The carvery is a great change from the microwave readymeals you seem to get in most pubs nowadays. We had a fantastic bit of lamb here and went for a walk to burn it all off after. There is a track that goes off right by the pub and leads into a wooded path and then you can walk up to a sports field with a little children's playground.
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Great Sunday lunch! Will come again.
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I was only here for a quick pint but everything seems in order. It's a lovely location and nice to sit outside with my pint and watch the world go by. GK Abbot and IPA available. The Abbot was totally spot on 10/10, temp OK, tasted great and looked perfect.
Staff seemed friendly and the pub was very busy with people eating which is always a good sign. From what I ear wigged from people coming out was 'that was lovely food I'm stuffed'.
Will definitely re-visit.
NeilA - 14 Mar 2010 20:18 |
I visited the Rose & Crown last Sunday, just travelling through.
The pub was really crowded, so they must be doing something right. It was full of walkers (and unbelievably some dogs) and a crowded Sunday Lunch restaurant area.
The staff seemed to have rather limited English language, but to be fair there were plenty of them. This place seemed much more like a Harvester than a village pub, but it was Sunday.
Having "not booked" one seemed about as welcome as rattle snake in a lucky dip. I felt the service was a little of the Basil Fawlty school. I had a couple of beers and left.
Incidentally this is a GK Pub (as are most hereabouts). The beer was O/K but at �3.05 for an Abbott we are in new territory for a village. I ended up in a Wetherspoon with the Ruddles at 99p.
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Not sure I can give a true view of what this pub is like as there was only one other punter in when we visited on this freezing cold late January afternoon. So couldn�t fault the service as it was virtually personal and obviously there wasn�t much atmosphere.
But this should be a decent village pub as it has all the right ingredients. It�s a kind of two room set up with spacious drinking areas either side of the central bar serving area. Both has large fireplaces and although the right hand area had a gas wood effect fire, the large brick fireplace in the left bar supported a roaring open fire, which was very welcome on this bitterly cold afternoon. There is a dining room at the back of the left hand area. We didn�t eat but the menu looked reasonable. And a large garden out the back for woarmer days than this one.
It�s a GK house and had IPA and Abbot on pump. So not the most inspiring choice, but my pint of IPA was OK.
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Just read the review by suelovell. The Rose & Crown she has reviewed is not the one in Tewin - sounds more like the one in nearby Old Welwyn. She might like to correct this.
The Tewin pub does not have plastic tables, gnomes or a wishing well and it certainly does not have a 1975 vibe. The benches outside are all solid wood. It has also been doing food for hundreds of years. The menu is pretty good and, the service excellent.
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Poor old Rose & Crown! It used to be packed to the gunwales with local people and visitors from Welwyn Garden City when it was an old fashioned pub where you went for a pint on a weekend evening. Now it's trying to do food and has found itself somehow lost in about 1975...plastic tables in the yard, plastic table cloths, gnomes and a fake wishing well with plastic squirrels on? What's all that about?! The food is dull and uninspired, the staff are friendly and seem genuinely to be trying their best but they are struggling against enormous odds. This pub needs either to decide to stay firmly in the 19th century or enter the 21st. The current 1975 vibe is just so unattractive. Get some wooden furniture in the back yard and dump the plastic table cloths!
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Stopped for a sandwich and bowl of chips. Very clean and friendly place.
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Well kept real ale and very friendly service. One of the last traditional village pubs in the area.
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Friendly Pub, well kept beer, excellent food.Much the same music playing over but recomend for business lunch.
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The Rose and Crown is one of the weirdest pubs I've ever been to. There is hardly ever anybody in there and the music is turned down so low that you feel the need to whisper throughout conversation. The music is also circa 1970's and it never changes.
Without fail every time I go, there is always the same conversation taking place by the same group of people.
The service is very good, the staff know what they're doing and pay attention to the details. The food is well presented and tasty, if overpriced. The ale is really good too - so I am lead to believe.
Its a bit of a Groundhog day type of place.
My recommendation to you would be to go inside, grab a couple of beers at the bar and head for the farthest table outside.
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As a Saturday, and weekend cycling visitor to the pub, I can say: I think that the service is most diligent and friendly, and the cask ale is kept quite well. The pub is a very historic one (C17, with many original beams, and with chequered-brick outside)with very tasteful modern extensions, and also there are good gardens. Before you enter Tewin on most of it's roads, there is a sign asking you to "Please drive carefully." I think that a silhouette of Lewis Hamilton's McLaren rcing car, underneath the message, would be highly appropriate for Tewin. Unfortueately, some drivers would just shove their foot through the floor!
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Pay no heed to the brooding malcontents, this is a friendly village pub. Well cellared beer. Only good reports of the food. But food and beer are yet surpassed by the enchantresses behind the bar.
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Worth a visit at the weekend if only to view the curious ape-like creature.
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The 5 stages of grieving
1. Denial : "Not a bad village pub - could be worse!"
2. Anger : "The management is rubbish, the service stinks!"
3. Bargaining : "It's just temporary, things will improve."
4. Depression : "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"
5. Acceptance : "This ain't gonna improve. I'm going to The Plough."
I've tried to support the village pub for a couple of years. Now, I have had enough. The atmosphere is glum - at the weekends, it is positively malevolent (largely due to a small group with serious behavioural problems). The publican is never there when he needs to be. This pub could make a reasonable business if the culprits were barred and the service jazzed up a bit - but I just don't think it is going to happen.
I am taking my cash elsewhere.
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Those damn inbreds are a pustulent carbuncle. Big round of applause from Charlie and the rest of Tewin if they were lanced.
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I visited this lovely village several weekends ago to see some old friends.
After a nice walk around the village which was very beautiful in spite of the weather!!! Does it always rain like this in england? we went to this pub.
The staff were very helpful and friendly and so were the other customers. The atmosphere was a bit spoilt by 3 people who were shouting obscene abuse at just about every one in the bar. I cant repeat the words here but they were really foul and banging on the table. I thought they were going to attack somebody!! it went on all evening and one of the local people said that it is always like this at the weekend. No wonder it was so empty!Are all English pubs like this? These must be the famous british hooligans! I wish I had taken a picture to show my friends back in US.
Nice apart from the hooligans and I hope to come back later this year.
Pearl
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We visited this public house a few weeks back on a Tuesday night, and despite being dead, it seemed like a good place when we first walked in - but first impressions can be misleading! Before 'time' - the barman committed the cardinal sin of pubs - the bell was rung early! (4 minutes to be precise!) - despite this establishment being licenced to serve until midnight on weekdays! (The staff then performed the sadly typical 'we've had your money, now please get lost' rituals of removing ashtrays and beermats, and turning off the lights in the toilets, despite the fact we were still drinking - and 1hr 15 minutes within the hours legally allowed! Also, there was snot rubbed on the wall over one of the urinals, which had not been cleaned off - Charming! Another night we tried 'The Plume of Feathers' up the road, which is a horrid gastro-pub - so nothing doing in Tewin! Try the Plough in Datchworth, or The Bell' in Watton - at Stone, for a convivial (if crowded) night!
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Visited this pub on a Saturday evening. The beer, though limited, was in excellent condition, the bar satff friendly and effecient and the food superb.
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We have not been to the Rose and Crown for some time. We have recently been there as a new landlord arrived at the beginning of December, 2006. May I say what a vast improvement there has been. Obviously being so near Christmas it must have been difficult to establish a new regime in the wake of the previous tenants. It is very noticeable the difference. Neil and Tass are courteous and very pleasant. The new menu is very good and the quality of food excellent. Will definitely be visiting again.
metal - 10 Jan 2007 14:44 |
Bravely called in after Christmas. Polite staff, good service. Beer not too bad. Have to see what the food is like.
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This has become a very low quality establishment after the landlord Richard left. Several locals have been sworn at, and barred simply for complaining about the standard of service. I witnessed one customer being physically prevented from leaving the premises, pushed around and shouted and sworn at by the manager for complaining about the rudeness of the service. Staff have walked out, the kitchen is closed, and the pub is pretty much empty of an evening. The behaviour of the current manager, if I may call her that, is the talk of the village - almost unbelievable, and I won't list it here. I thought maybe the pub chain was going to close it down, but apparently a new couple are coming on 4th December.
I recommend giving this place a miss before then, and probably after because this chain has become pretty poor quality over the years.
I've given it a score of zero because it has no redeeming features - terrible service, bad atmosphere, no food, being sworn at by staff - you can't get worse than this.
spode - 18 Nov 2006 15:37 |
The Rose & Crown has new tenants as of 2006 and has greatly improved. Friendly and relaxed, it's like the village pub it used to be. The food is good, the beer well kept. The only thing that needs changing is the landlord's selection of Hawaiian shirts.
spode - 21 Jul 2006 12:11 |
Friendly warning to groups of walkers or cyclists. Although this pub offers very good real ale and a wide selection of good food, if you are in a large group be aware that the Rose and Crown will add a 10% service charge to your bill. I recently took a group of ramblers here and being a youth group, most were under 18. The pub was very accomodating and we were invited to sit in the garden and one of the staff would come out for our order. We spent over �130 on food and drink and were then told a 10% service charge was being added as we were a large group. This was never mentioned at any time to us, previous to settling the bill. We left feeling somewhat "ripped off". So I've added this to the web site as a warning to others. Check first! We will certainly be checking out the Plume Of Feathers in Tewin for future rambles.
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