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A decent varied choice of six ales from Milk Street, Bowmans, Weltons and Triple fff kept our large group happy for three hours. The menu doesn't include light lunches such as sandwiches. A portion of chips at £3.85 is a daft price. The pensioners in our group made do with a liquid lunch.
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Popped by on a wet afternoon after lots of recommendations.
6 great beers (I enjoyed 2 of them).
Friendly staff.
A menu I would happily return for and a garden for the summer.
Seems like a great place just of the beaten track.
We'll be back.
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Attended the beer festival on Saturday 9th June. Good festival with good quality ales, one issue I have is the �5 donation (entrance) for charity. Saw at least three people turn away bacause they only wanted a �, Surely it would have been best to serve them, and have a bucket or a raffle for the charity.
Food also of a good quality, and friendly bar staff.
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Visited this pub last night for a pint. The pub itself is very appealling with a good selection of beers. Prices pretty average to be fair. I particularly liked Old Dick (not something you want to say very often). Will definitely be revisiting here again soon.
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Nice looking bar, in pretty local location. Spoilt by high prices e.g. recent trip 1 x Bulmers (naff I know but no decent ciders on) and two kids apple juices (from a cheap looking open carton) ..... �8 (EIGHT POUNDS). Went home and had the second round in the garden .....
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Dropped by recently for a pint or six the other day. Six ales on and all were of good quality. Didn't bother with the food (very rarely do in any pub) so can't comment on this. Staff are friendly and efficient as always. Only problem is running the gauntlet to the gents through the family room and the hundreds of kids blocking the way. Haven't these people heard of childminders if they want to go out? That aside I am looking forward to my next visit. Scores an 8 for beer alone.
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Very good pub that seems to have got complacent of late. Food was always average but other areas including the ale have been inconsistent on recent visits. Hope they re-focus because this has been a landmark pub for quite a while.
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Best pub in Farnham, bar none. Great beer, friendly staff, wonderful atmosphere. Can't fault the place.
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Tired. Breaks brothers type food and no-one very interested in taking an order for it, serving it or cooking it. Great cricket memorabilia but one of my worst experiences for a while. A good pub gone bad.
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Hmmm..the pub is OK but has a few major problems. 1. If you book all the tables you are no longer a pub, you are a restaurant. Passing trade will become just that...passing onto the Sandrock 2. The duty manager (not the landord who is fine!) there can be extremely rude. He managed to hit one of the customers with the kitchen door when the poor chap was trying to sit down when I was there and then berated him for 'standing in the wrong place'!!. One of those types who think the customers are an incovenience! 3) The beer is usually OK but they are very conservative with their choices.
It's depressing to read comments from obvious 'child haters' elsewhere. Only in the UK would you read that sort of stuff. What a depressing attitude...
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Thought Halloween was over, staff looked like they were still in fancy dress (unshaven, scruffy and generally looked like they had just got out of bed), clean pub, but waited 10 mins to be served, should open a creche there instead with the amount of children.
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Not sure why there are negative comments. I think this pub is great. I've usually had good food there and am always tempted by the desserts but I'm usually too full! There is a good choice of beers too. It has more of a traditional pub feel which is good - a rare thing now with so many contemporary gastro pubs around. I like the quirky walking route and there is parking if you choose to drive.
echan - 13 Oct 2009 18:39 |
The Bat'nBall is hard to get to, it is by road found after traversing an unmade private road.By foot it is found on a footpath off Sandrock Hill.Cricket bits'n pieces adorn the walls( no surprise there then). Six beers of no particular distinction grace the bar. The ales were good but without any claim to greatness. This pub is clean and functional but without that vital spark that distinguishes a truly great pub from the merely ordinary.As the lunchtime wore on a few families showed up bustling around searching for high chairs and settling their brood for the epic trials and tribulations of feeding time!A pleasant sunlit walk along the riverside path took me to the Sandrock........
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Tried to sample the beers and food here, but car park was full and it was chucking it down, so the walk down from Shorthheath Rd was out of the question. Will give it another go when the sun is shining.
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THEALMIGHTYALA is right. At weekends the pub does seem to fill up with new parents showing off their kids to each other. Most don't seem to drink, they take up three or more tables and the various prams (or three wheeled buggies as fancied by most) become an obstical course. In the summer the childrens playpen becomes louder than Led Zeppelin. That aside, I like the pub generally. Friendly staff and the beer is good with up to six pumps on the go at any one time. Food is average but the ploughmans settles the stomach rumbles.
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We've been here before, but unfortunately ate here the other night. Over-ambitious menu which looked really good, but was not nice when it arrived on the plate. My vegi saus had a tough skin on them and the venison was aparently tough too.
Beer ok-ish and nice atmosphere. Probably wouldn't bother again as the Sandrock is up the road!
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I'm sure sure all aware who 'Powney' is .....
Locally known as the 'PUB PEST' or even Capellos love child
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cracking pub moody staff. good beer & lager (including draught Becks (see Hare & Hounds Rowledge)) and good food unless you like chips. Ramblingmike below should try Rowledge pubs and then he'd know what flat beer really tastes like.
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3rd pub on our Hogsback day out. Mini-bus dropped us off on main road and we had a very pleasant walk along stream to pub.Again pub spotless and beer good quality. Seemed to be more babies drinking milk than there were adults drinking beer when we visited on a Saturday afternoon. Very family orientated with children's playpen in garden so all in all not a place to visit if you don't like children.
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More limited beer selection than usual. Tried Moondance and TEA - not bad, but a little flat for my taste.
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Great pub, Great Pint, Live Music and Friendly Bar Staff.
If they really have sorted out the access route - I would recommend for a visit.
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Excellent beer and very good food on my Sunday lunch visit. Place was packed.
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Good ale and food sampled on a recent visit.
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Very nice pub. Good example of how to refurb a pub properly. Areas for families and areas for adults only. Great beer choice and quality and exceptional food. The access road how now (largely) been sorted out.
Only minor gripe is the policy of sometimes reserving all the tables in the bar area as well as those in the restaurant area. It would be useful to put a note on them saying what time they are reserved from so the entire internal family area isn't effectively taken out of use for the whole time from opening until the diners turn up!
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Good food and beer, the biggest problem is getting there in one piece as the road is full of pot holes
anonymous - 7 Aug 2005 23:01 |
Excellent pub, friendly staff and very good food. Well worth a visit just to see the landlord's dog bark to be let in and out!
anonymous - 19 May 2005 22:25 |
This pub is great, nice service, great food in fact be careful the starters are a meal in themselves!
Newly refurbished play area, slide etc for kids.
Recommend a member of the BITE team visits well worth it.
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Haven't been there for a few years now but I have good memories of this place, it always had a friendly atmosphere.
Be careful if you're driving - there is a car park behind the pub but it's at the end of a very muddy and bumpy lane (unless things have changed now, of course).
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