Crown Inn, Ibbertonback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
On passing this pub on Sunday, I noticed it is closed and up for sale. Ibberton is a very quiet village, and I imagine the pub just doesn't pay.
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Paid a visit to here yesterday lunchtime. We were the only people in the pub. Three handpulls dispense Palmers beers. Only 2 were on whilst we were there - Best Bitter and Copper Ale. The Dorset Gold pumpclip was turned round. A nice pub in a nice village. But it seamed to be geared more towards diners than drinkers, with every table featuring condiments. I also got the feeling that it had been spoilt a little by modernisation. A leather sofa blocking the now out-of-use front door seemed a shame. Entrance is now through a side door. A beer garden to the side looks as if it would be nice during the summer.
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I have been to this pub under the old managment years ago and it was more like a private living room-very quiet and largely empty.
Now it is under private ownership and has been toatlly revamped and has excellent food and reputation locally. beers are good but i'm not an expert on beer. It is a wonderful setting in a quite Dorset village and i recommend it to people who stay in our cottage nearbyish.
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better than average rural eating pub.
ales are a bit variable though, no longer H&W, so plenty of room for improvement.
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Please don't tell too many people about this wonderful pub because Bev and I want to save the secret for ourselves. The food is to die for!
Mum's the word.
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Until June 2005, I used to live next door to The Crown but hadn't used it for a few years because of the owners, John & Linda. Although now living in Spain, I know that the pub has now changed hands and have had nothing but good reports about The Crown under its new ownership, so, to those people who have been put off by the previous people, don't let it put you off returning.
Regarding the other comment by John, unless things had changed in latter years, it was always a Free House, not a Badger pub.
The state of play until recently, can be described easily by saying that very rarely was the pub used by villagers. John's comment about the landlady being 'talkative'is something of an understatement. It was impossible during her time there to have anything like a private conversation, as she or her husband inevitably butted into the chat, having obviously been listening in to whatever you had been saying. The information gained from such meetings would not necessarily be kept private and could be spread arond the village or the county.
I hope the new owners continue the good work, as I understand that the villagers now use the pub and at last the village has a focal point. Good luck to them!
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Went in there one lunchtime when the foot and mouth crisis was at its height. I was the only person in there. Landlady was friendly and talkative. Unfortunately this is a Hall and Woodhouse pub with their crap Badger beers
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