New Inn, Blagdonback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Had a nice pint of Swordfish and 6x. seemed to be doing plenty of meals. had a good banter with friendly staff. And it was very warm and inviting, with both fires on the go. Quite full when I left just after 1300hrs.
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Friendly service , nice beer and great view. Sunday lunch (Roast Beef) was below average in my view. Arrived lukewarm with overcooked thin slices of Beef 'Catering Style' and virtually no roasters at all. Extra roast potato provided in a friendly manner on request. If you like your Beef on a hot plate , recently sliced and pinkish then this is not for you. However veg and Yorkshire were of good quality but sadly lukewarm.
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Visited the New Inn after a Sunday walk round the lake. Just what was needed, a tidy garden with great view. Pleasant pint, good food served promptly and very friendly service. I'm often wary of going to a country pub on Sunday weekend because of crowds, queues and slow unfriendly service, but there was none of this on my visit. Very enjoyable.
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I had a meal on a weekend visit. I found the staff helpful and friendly. The atmosphere pleasing and still retaining character it had in the 60's. I recommend it as the Ale is good too.
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Decidedly average is all one can say. Fantastic view from rear garden in summer so by all means stop on a hot day.
Attractive building and position just does not live up to the picture it presents.
Queen Adelaide now much better than this, with better beer and more friendly landlord
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A return visit back to the New Inn, and just as good as all the other visits I have made in the past. I still reel a bit about the prior comments, so maybe Blackthorns right. Just a one off sour grapes comment.
The only place in Blagdon for me anyway
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I was disappointed to read some of the negative comments below, as I have been coming to this pub off and on for almost 25 years now, and it�s always been one of my favourites. That�s not to say I come here regularly, it�s a bit out the way for me and I like trying plenty of different places, but it�s always been, from my experience, a very decent pub.
I notice that one of the rants below has been posted by someone who has not bothered to leave any other reviews for any other pubs, ever, so I don�t think we should give too much weight to his opinions, in the same way that we wouldn�t to a one-poster who gave a very positive rant about a pub. But that still leaves one unhappy customer.
Most of the negative comments seem to be about the food. We didn�t eat on this occasion, but the pub was packed and most people were eating, so it�s not as if it�s not popular, and some of the diners were obviously locals. As other�s have said, it�s a great setting with fantastic views over the lakes. The pub itself it a typical country pub with a couple of fire places, beams, and plenty of brass ornaments around the place.
I would agree with some of the other comments about the landlord ignoring people at the bar. This was all too evident on our visit. In fact I�m not sure I saw him serve anyone apart from one of the locals that he clearly knew and was chatting to. When we arrived he was busy adding up a bill and completely ignored us. Just some sort of acknowledgement would have been good, even if he didn�t actually stop what he was doing. Similarly later on when he was talking to the aforementioned local, he completely ignored another couple waiting at the bar. On the other hand, the young barmaid (slim, long dark hair) was a credit to the place � friendly and chatty, apologising for keeping us waiting and generally running all over the place serving food as well as behind the bar.
Only Wadworth�s beers on tap � Henry�s IPA, 6X and JCB, plus Thatcher�s Gold and Stowford Press ciders.
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Having read the comments below ha prompted me to write again since my August offering. All i can say is that i have since been twice to this pub since then, My meal of local lake trout was very good indeed,and latterly ith partner in tow we tried the beef and ale which was also very good and plentiful.But at the end of the day people can only speak as they find and, if there findings are such as those written here,there is a problem with the pub, as consistency of good quality and service should be the watch word.
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I've been living in Blagdon for some time now and after reading some of the reviews about the New Inn I can only sympathise with those that have had such bad experiences at this pub and I am astonished that there appears to be a couple of positive reviews that have been posted.
This pub has not changed in five years, I took my father in there when I first moved to Blagdon for lunch thinking that we would be getting good quality food I was mistaken. I ordered a Ploughmans ( not exactly a difficult thing to prepare) it came out with a stodgy bap the sort hotdogs come with. I was expecting a chunky piece of wholemeal country bread! The salad consisted of a couple bits of old lettuce and a tomato sliced ( no celery) All very poorly presented with absolutely no effort put in to it and not exactly cheap. Not exactly the wholesome country food you expect from a pub in this area. On that day while in the garden we also witnessed a group of customers coming out of the pub who were extremely angry and were talking loudly for the benefit of the rest of customers sitting in the garden, from what we could hear was that the landlord seemed to ignore them at the bar which then ended with him being rude to them and telling them to leave the pub. These customers were well dressed and in their 40s-50s!
The only thing going for this pub is the view from the garden in the summer with drinks only, unfortunately living in Blagdon you tend to notice when a Brake Brothers lorry turns up to supply the pubs with their ready boil in the bag meals. I personally have given up eating in Blagdon pubs as you know that none of them have got any idea on what good freshly prepared food that is locally sourced is. Luckily ten minutes down the road in Rickford you have 'The Plume of Feathers' where you will not see a Brake Brothers lorry doing its weekly delivery, all food here is freshly made by the landlady. They also don't mind lighting their log fire in the winter!
New Inn 2/10 ( just for the view)
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Most weekends I go to restaurants or have pub dinners. Even when the food isn�t quite up together I never complain. Typically the pubs and restaurants round my area are fine.
This particular weekend I visited The New Inn Blagdon with my girlfriend, Walking into the pub it was half full with people, nice lighting and fairly warm welcome when greeted.
I was sat down next the fire place which wasn�t lit, (even though it was rather cold that evening) I felt cold and I wasn�t the only people saying the same thing.
They had a small main meal choice, with 5 or 7 specials which is understandable for a small pub. My girlfriend ordered steak, and I had the chicken, bacon and leek pie. The pie had a leather rubbery top, it wasn�t in a separate dish, just a measly small slice. The veg was over cooked and colourless leaving it with no taste. The pastry wasn�t prepared properly and it was soggy. Chicken�.well I found two bits and I triangle shaped bit of bacon. I wasn�t impressed and just simply picked at it. My girlfriend�s food was a Fatty lumpy steak that needed a chain saw to get through. She ordered it Medium which when served was a bit bloody for her taste. So I asked kindly for it to go back on the grill a little more, which they happily did for us. While we waited she looked at the stilton source she ordered, it was not fresh and gloopy. When the steak came back it was simply flashed on the grill, burned on the out side and still the same on the inside. She was hungry but she left it, (not the norm with her at all) I then took another look at my food and decided to leave it.
I then asked the waitress to take our food away as I was not impressed with it and no longer wanted to eat it. I said this very quietly to not raise any other customer�s eye brows within the pub. When I came to pay, the chief came out and said �what we have decided to do is charge you for your starter, drinks, and your pie, and we will deduct the steak� I said �I�m not happy with that� and said �I�m happy to pay for the starter and drinks as they were fine�. She laughed at me, and then argued with me saying that her food was fine and I just wasted it. She told my girlfriend she should have at least eaten her chips! How rude! My patients then dropped and I said I�m not paying for the meals as they were not expectable. She perused not to refund me my main meal and told me that her food was fine. She was rude, obnoxious, vulgar and loud, making an embarrassment to her self. My main meal was 8.50, in the end she charged me for our starter, drinks and charged me 5.75 because I ate my chicken from my pie! I gave up by this point as I could see that she thought her food was god�s gift. I felt robbed and left the pub with my girlfriend upset and hungry.
Before I did leave I left her with a question� �what is the first thing I�m going to talk about when I go back to my local pub? And �what�s the first thing I�m going to talk about with my friends and family� she said �your more that welcome� if only she dealt with the situation better I probably would not be writing this.
Want a good meal? Good service? Warm eating area?
DON�T GO TO THE NEW INN BLAGDON!
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I visited this pub on a sun with my wife 10 month old daughter and 4 of my friends and was very disappointed with the service and food of this place, To start we got there at about 1.15pm it all started to go wrong with the young lad and landlord behind the bar when we're trying to get drinks they could only look ahead and failed to serve anyone else that wasn't stood directly inn front of them!! (
So we sat outside to look at menu's and decided on what we wanted, by the time we got to the bar to place our order it was about 5 to 2, 2 o'clock being the time they stop serving food so the land lord wasn't very happy about that,
So me and my brother ordered 1 one of the specials and 4 other meals which were taken without query and went back to the garden and waited and waited and waited!! then a waitress came over and informed us that they didn't even have the specials left and would it be ok to have an alternative which we did, then the clouds came over and it got very cold to which we went into the pub which was now very quiet only to be told that they don't allow children under 10 in the "family pub" so back out we went and waited and waited until eventually the waitress turned up only to serve up what i believe to be the worst food ever, It was only when 1 of the party asked for mayonnaise and was told that they didn't have any that it got about as disastrous as it could of possibly got!!
AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COST......
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Another little gem of a pub, excellent couple of pints of wadsworth 6x great meal of locally caught trout from Blagdon lake,Add to this an excellent reception and service by staff and beuatiful old world interior,with a car park and beer gardens overlooking the blagdon lake itself.Yet another wonderful find well done..
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Great little country local picked out from the good beer guide. Not sure if it's owned by Wadworth but they have a good selection of their ales. I opted 4 an extremely quaffable wadworth "stronginthearm",DO VISIT!!!
p.s. its actually located in "Church Street" 8/10
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Dear Beer in the Evening,
I am afraid I would not recommend this pub. Myself and fiance visited the pub on an afternoon in June (2006) and were greeted with a very unpleasant bar man who we believed to be the owner. We're simply asked for a cup of tea, but this in itself seemed to be too much trouble, especially for one person and as we were not eating. We thought we'd order a few other drinks and come back to the tea issue. We explained we were looking for a pub to come the day after our wedding and he still wouldn't make a cup of tea! 'Not putting it on just for you!' was the comment back. Unbelievable - so we left! Apparently the pub has a good local reputation for its food, but the customer service is appalling and the owner very rude as we left. It ruined a nice day.
anonymous - 25 Jun 2006 13:11 |
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