please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Listed as closed.
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Would not recommend staying here. Were given keys that didn't work so we were locked outside for an hour when we returned from a wedding at midnight. We had no apology and the promised refund has not materialised despite a contacting them a number of times.
Breakfast was decent enough and location is good.
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Reopened towards the end of 2014 with much community fanfare, this off-the-beaten track boozer continues its popularity among locals and walkers and the wet and dry options offered are enticing. Busy on a Saturday afternoon, there's a cosy ambience about the place and I even saw a man who looked a lot like a dreadlocked Marc Riley during my visit.
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December 2011. Still closed, and looking rather derelict. However, was it supported by the villagers?
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On 11 January 2009 The Sunday Mirror reported that the landlord, John Westendorp, had given away all of the pub's furniture and fittings, including the carpets, and then absconded without paying the rent he owed to the brewery. When told the bosses at Vale Brewery were trying to find him he added "good luck to them".
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Friendly and quite quiet on a Wednesday evening, with a choice of four really nice real ales. I was drinking a lovely dark beer the name of which I forget (sorry) and Nethergate Augustian, also v tastey and quite dark.
Really looking forward to the beer festival from 26th - 28th Sep.
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There's always a good range of decent and interesting beer at GE, a rarity these days. The beer garden is a great place for a drink on a sunny evening or weekend afternoon, and there's often a fire roaring inside in winter. The beer festivals are worth looking up - the next is late in September, I recall.
The food is inexpensive and perfectly sound. And John now has grand plans for redeveloping the garden and expanding the car park. Worth a visit if you don't know it - and a pleasant haunt to return to if you do.
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You should organise an outing to the Vale Brewery's piece de resistance in Aylesbury - and I doubt very much if John the Landlord sources his own beer.......
Still, it must have improved at the General under the Vale tutelage - it was a real duffer years ago.
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Excellent real ale pub with a landlord and staff that offer all kinds of 'extras' including camping, aunt sally and friendly conversation - not to mention good grub and regular parties/events.
Although set in the picturesque village of South Hinksey, a wide range of visitors and locals alike frequent the pub. This, together with unusual beers sourced by John the landlord, help to make an evening at the 'GE' one of the most interesting pub experiences in the Oxford area.
Beer festivals are held every quarter.
Dogs welcome.
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Just had a most enjoyable weekend at the beerfest. Beer was all good and well kept. Welcome was really warm and to top it all I was allowed to park my Winnebago in the car park!. I cant wait for the next fest. Thanks John
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Oxford CAMRA pub of the year 2007. Nuf said.
anonymous - 2 Jun 2007 17:58 |
A lovely pub, now owned, I believe, by the Vale brewery. There are always at least three, often more, beers on tap, and regular guest ales, as well as beer festivals every so often. Pub grub is of the simple variety, with main courses often below the �5 mark. One of Oxford's finest.
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