Fleur De Lys, Dorchester on Thamesback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Here last Saturday and about half a dozen locals present.
The 3 hand pulls were for Lodden Hopit & Bozzy Flozy and 1 for Thwaites Wainright which I tried and found to be very nice and cost £3.30.
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Lovely village pub with the bar area to the front and a dining area behind. The bar area is dog-friendly and you can eat there but these tables are not reservable. There is a large beer garden to the rear where Aunt Sally is played and a small carpark if you are brave enough to negotiate a narrow archway although street parking is available close by. Three handpulls serve a regularly-changing selection of ales although only two in use on my visit, Loddon Hoppit and Oakham JHB. However at £3.00 and £3.20 per pint respectively they were excellent value and well looked after. The landlord and landlady are very welcoming which leads to a very pleasant overall experience.
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Nice country pub and the room i stayed in for 1 night was as you would expect in an old building. Sloping floors and low ceilings.
Beers i had were average, Portobello Pale £3.10 and St Austell Tribute £3.30
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OK pub that is an improvement atmosphere wise on the last time I visited when it did seem to be regulars and the rest.
Beer was fine Loddon Hoppit and Loose Cannon Abingdon Bridge. Food was OK had calves liver which was superb but no vegetables and came adorned with some sort of fritter witha sugar coating!
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The Fleur has just re-opened and is excellent. I had a brilliant pint of Tribute there. Dirty old carpet in bar area has gone and replaced by stone floor and general tidy up. A great improvement. Good staff too.
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I stopped here for Sunday lunch last weekend. We were a bit late ordering, but the chef agreed that he could rustle up a couple of meals for us, and to keep it simple we both plumped for the roast pork. Everything was pretty good, and plenty of it. It does seem to be primarily a locals venue, but I like that, unpretentious. A couple of ales on tap, well kept it would seem. Dogs in the bar area, something I always appreciate seeing in rural areas. Overall I enjoyed the atmosphere. A real fire was lit in the afternoon, and as we let our lunch digest I was most reluctant to leave, But that could have been the particularly beautiful company I was in!!
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I stayed in Dorchester for 3 nights and i was welcomed into this pub like a local, the Brakspear Best was in good condition and the food looked very nice, the chap behind the bar was really chatty and on the Sunday night we were still in here until 12.40am! he even brought out some freshly cooked prawn crackers for us, top man! I thought this pub was very good, much better than some in teh area and Dorchester is a lovely place to stop.
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Dont go there if you are a tourist, dinner times are fully booked by the locals, and as for the food served there, you cant order a hot meal to take outside only sandwiches, but hot food you can order to eat inside, but its fully booked inside, But as usual when you do accept after ordering the drinks, you go outside in the beer garden/car park you see others with hot food???? strange! so whats the difference to order hot foot to have outside rather than inside. And then after waiting for half an hour, they then inform you, we are sorry but we have just found out we have run out of avocado. As for the salad and chips, they must have sent someone out to the local macdonalds, they were the same. Definately not going there again. And I live local. Very Poor and then wonder why pubs are shutting.????
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My husband and I were lucky enough to spend a few days in the beautiful village of Dorchester on Thames. We stayed at the Fleur de lys and were really pleasantly suprised. The room was extremely clean and very comfortable. Nothing was too much trouble for the staff and we felt extremely welcomed by the owners, who are slowly making changes to the decor and overall ambience of the pub. The food was excellent, my husband commented on the breakfast being the best full english that he had tasted! What a wonderful break we had. We will definately return.
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Me and my dear wife to be, popped into this pub last friday. We had just had a lovely walk around the Clumps. From outside this pub is nice but please dont bother having any food they charge you �6.50 for 3 wee sausages and 12 chips in a silly little plastic container.Chips werent even that nice. Bloody rip off. We wont be going back and we have also advised our friends not to visit. We were going to complain but I thought whats the point they will just make up a story as to the location, overheads etc. Dorchester is well worth a visit. Just a shame this pub isnt.
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