Anchor Inn, Ugboroughback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
The previous review is just so true to what we found when we visited the Anchor.
From the outside the place looks like a cosy traditional village pub, but however once inside and in the small and very strange bar area the place just feels soulless.
Ugborough already has a dining pub in the ship , what this village needs is a locals boozer sadly that is now never gonna happen.
4/10
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I'm delighted to see the Anchor open again after a number of years, not least as I've never been convinced by The Ship - that The Ship was my mum's favourite kind of says it all.
Three parts to the operation:
1. B&B that need not trouble us here.
2. Restaurant: been once. My experience was a good one, of well cooked food, at decent prices, in gastro-pub vein. Very nice room and really quite enjoyed it.
3. Pub: been three or four times. Ah...
The Anchor is now owned by the people who have the very chi-chi South Sands boutique hotel near Salcombe. South Sands is frighteningly upmarket, and - having been privileged enough to stay there a few of times - quite lovely if you can stretch to it.
And the Anchor bar has been South Sanded to within a very inch of its life: great in a boutique hotel, far from it in a village inn.
Every vestige of character has been removed and/ or covered in Fired Earth paint and it is essentially an anodyne waiting room for the restaurant.
I so want to like it yet, although the beer is OK, just can't warm to it.
It needs scuffing up, wearing down, scattering with agricultural or nautical knick-knacks and many more tables, seats and stools installed (the centre of the room is an aching void in which - if you can't sit or lean on the bar - you are forced to mill around in aimlessly).
So: marvellous to see it open, good restaurant - and just hoping that the bar evolves into something a little less contemporary and something a bit warmer.
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Great little pub, well kept ale and fantastic value carvery.cant wait to visit again.
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nice little pub but don`t go there if you want to have a chat, the landlord is to busy reading his paper and the big screen is a put off in such a small bar!!
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What a fantastic little country pub. The food, value for money, the faultless friendly staff and service is second to none. We had a brilliant sunday lunchtime carvery and will be no dought regular visitors. This pub is a must.
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Enjoyed our evening. Cheap quality food and the carvery is fantastic. Owners and staff are very nice.
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New owners since dec 08. Great people enjoyed the meals and carvery is fab. Try them out you will love it.
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closed c., 3-6pm
country-village pub with good food
dan - 8 Sep 2004 12:22 |
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