Hoops Inn, Horns Crossback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
I found the food disappointing and very expensive considering the size of the servings. We also had to wait quite a while for the food.
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Beautiful pub with its thatched roof and interesting warren of an interior. Spoiled, however, by snooty staff, snooty clientele, overrated food and expensive, average beer.
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An attractive and extensive thatched pub, this has a number of different bars as well as an attractive courtyard garden at the rear.
The main bar area has a very dark, almost black, parquet wood floor, plenty of beams on the low ceiling and canary yellow paintwork on the plastered walls, as well as some exposed stone walls. There are old brick fire-places at either end with wood burning stoves, and there were plenty of jugs, horse brasses and pictures dotted about. A small cubicle off of this bar housed just one four-seater table and this had a curtain on it to screen it off from the rest of the pub for some privacy!
Beyond this and up a couple of steps was a slightly more formal room, perhaps more geared up for dining with carpeting and several shelves full of books. At the rear was another cosy and smaller bar with wood panelling on the walls, wooden pews, a tiled floor and it�s own small bar counter. This was completely full of dogs on a recent visit � three extremely large ones, and it�s not a very big room!
There were extensive menus, both bar and restaurant versions with the mains being around the �9 - �13 mark if you dined from the bar option, or �15+ otherwise. We had the Thai Green Chicken Curry and found this to be a pleasant and enjoyable dish, and reasonable enough value at �10.95. There were also �2 for �10� early bird options available, although this was a very limited menu.
Beers on tap were all their own and appeared to be keg rather than cask � Hoops Best, Hoops Bitter and Hoops Light. The solitary cider was Thatcher�s Gold. The staff were friendly and helpful, and all in all I felt this was a decent enough pub although it is perhaps somewhat more geared towards food than drinking.
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This place could be so much better. First off, the comment below about the vegetarian options is still correct - a very limited choice. But could be worse - my partner and my daughter had the added please of a free hair in the meal. When this was mentioned to the waiting staff the disappeared, and then came back and said "sorry about that" and cleared the plates. We weren't expecting a freevie or anything like that but a proper apology would have been nice. Not good enough.
When we arrived, I asked for a high chair - the response, from the manageress, was "they're down the corridor at the end".
There are much better places to eat and drink around here - try the Bell and Parkham, the Farmers Arms at Woolsery, the Bush at Morwenstow or anywhere else you can think of. Beer's very average too.
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When you drive by it's natural to say 'ooh!'
A wonderful atmospheric pub, by the bar.
The food prices are expensive to what you actually get on the plate.
The vegetarians are virtually ignored here. Shame as many people are these days.
The place is frequented by the landed gentry, posh voices welcome.
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Lovely oldy type pub. Restuarant lovely at this tiem of year with open fire. Food was of good value and quality. Prices were ok a meal for 3 with drinks �93. Good selection of real ales. Worth a visit.
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A pretty thatched country pub, very good food and beers served by friendly staff. I don't agree with previous comments, we found the staff pleasant and helpful and the prices were pretty average really, some dishes may have been around the �15 mark but I had a fine bangers & mash for �6. The back bar is the place to sit if you can, it still retains the feel of an old village pub. Worth a try.
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Is this an Inn, or do they just keep the moniker for 'market' value?
The Hoops is an overpriced, snobby, deserate restaraunt wanabee. The staff are obnoxious and snooty, tables crammed togther to get as many 'diners' in as possible, with little space to sit or stand at the bar. Every time been there, no one-especially that rare breed, A Local-has been drinking. Are they aloud to? Instead full of po faced cliental 'enjoying' their �15 a head mains, and po faced staff (girls especially) milling about looking very irrate when spoken to.
Don't go here to drink or get a decent value meal. (Just because a steak costs over a tenner doesnt mean its 'cuisine') Don't go here to chat, especially in anything more than a whisper. Don't expect conversation with the staff either. But at least there are some good beers on gravity. You'd have to expect that with a pub though, I guess.
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You never know what you're going to get with roadside pub with, with large car park, on a main road. However, this a pub well worth stopping at. Good selection of ales, interesting food, a low ceilings, stones, fire places, cozy spots for 2, 4, 6 etc.
anonymous - 13 Dec 2006 11:59 |
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