Black Horse and Hoodens, Borough Greenback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
A sole real ale, Doom Bar alone.
Looked closed but on arrival, there were three men at the bar end, listening to 70s 80s rock music on the jukebox. Silence, not seen since those two backpackers entered the slaughtered lamb in american werewolf in london. Even the tracks changed on the jukebox.
Doom Bar was not the best.
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The Black Horse is back to being just the Black Horse again (no Hoodens), and back to being a fairly normal local. Good for a summer day pint while the kids play outside (bouncy castle was up most of summer 2016), there's an occasional pub quiz and they also sell pizzas from the village pizza place, and have a pie&mash van outside sometimes. Pool table is usually available, and there's sport on the screen for those who want to watch it. Beer is OK, wine is from miniature bottles like you get on a plane, so I don't think they get many wine drinkers in!
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Alison Pilkington no longer runs this pub, leaving in April 2013 when a new management took over. The unusual range of beers do not seem to be available.
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Awful establishment. Full of youngsters bang out of their minds on drugs. I am surprised the toilet door doesn't fall off of it's hinges.
The toilet is busy as a bee's nest.
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Alison has done wonders for this place. It used to be the sort of establishment I'd decidedly have thought twice about before entering; now it's a really top-notch village local, by far the best place to drink in a village which not so long ago had at least 6 pubs and now (I think) has only 2.
Very pleasantly decorated, there's plenty of space but a warm cosy atmosphere. The beer has always been in fine nick whenever I've been in, with Old Dairy Red Top as the regular house beer, and varying guests. No food now, I believe - but that can be an attraction for some, if the opposite for others.
Highly recommended.
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Pleasant looking pub, bit too quiet on a Sunday night for comfort, but the localish house beer was pretty good.
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Blimey, what a superb ale selection ! the landlady is a real charmer, if she really used to be a "madam" she can walk over me in high heels anytime she likes !
The beer was as bright as a penny, I loved the Old dairy and the pub was spotless ! Simple fare but good value for money and very well cooked and presented. Just what a pub should be.
Pleasing also to see that lager drinkers can behave themselves when the threat of being whipped is forever a latent one.
Loved it !
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I could have sworn wrote a brief review of this pub earlier this year but it seems to have gone missing.
Anyway, I noticed the addition in the GBG and I'm glad to read here that it's doing well, I've not been out to Borough Green for a while so I'll have to make the effort to visit again, a very nice pub as I recall.
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May I be the first to congratulate the landlady of this pub for a well deserved entry into the Good Beer Guide 2012. Beer wise you'll have a choice of four, two of which are local and regular house beers, always spot on, never a disappointment.
As for the pub itself I've never seen one so clean and well kept. Good food, a very nice atmosphere and a joyful absence of irritating TV's and fruit machines. A couple of years ago I wouldn't have set foot in this pub, it really was rather awful but now it is truly revived and thriving, a good thing to see when so many others are neglected or closing down.
I wouldn't usually go to the effort to produce reviews but in this case I understand the landlady has had some horrendous difficulties to deal with over and above pulling this pub together which makes the fact of its transformation particularly remarkable and worthy of credit. If you haven't visited yet then I can thoroughly recommend you give it a try.
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