Rose and Crown, Hawridge Commonback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Like the Tring and the drop-dead barmaid!
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great beers on offer, a few from the Tring brewery which is good to see. Nice garden, shame the location makes it hard not to drive. Well worth a look on a sunny afternoon/evening
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Have no idea what the hotel inspector is on about, quite clearly a fan of McDonalds !!!!
This place is great, the food is fantastic, as in its freshly prepared (Especially Sunday Lunch) sourced locally and presented to make one drool in anticipation.
It is a bit of a drive (or walk) but the effort is wothwhile, the ales are kept well and the selection of wine is above average standards. The staff are welcoming and knowledegable and the ambience is in a league of its own.
Well done keep up the good work............
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We visited this pub on a whim. Should have taken note of the empty car park. The service was very poor and the food was definitely not worth the long wait..
My advice - drive on - there is a better pub down the road (in either direction)
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I completely disagree with the below review. I have visited The Rose and Crown on many occasions since the change of hands for food and drinks with my friends and family and I have to say that I will continue to do so.
My experience there is always a pleasurable one and the food is always good quality and homemade. On my most recent visit I had the steak, mushroom and real ale pie and it was delicious, the meat was tender and the pastry was definitely freshly made. In contrast, I did visit before the current owners took over and had a lasagne which was clearly pre-packed and heated in a microwave, which I would expect to find in a Weatherspoons for �1.99.
On another positive note, the service is always exceptional and friendly. One thing I would recommend is that you phone and make a reservation if you are eating (especially on Sunday's) as the word seems to be getting round quickly how nice The Rose and Crown really is.
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We originally went to this pub several times before it changed ownership last year.
We went again shortly afterwards and were not impressed. The food - whilst acceptable - was far short of the standards we had previously experienced there and the service simply abysmal.
What really hasn't improved is the service. Although we were shown to our table (an improvement on last time) we received service with a grimace. The coffees we ordered to follow dessert did not turn up at all - we asked two of the staff, the first insusted they were "on the way", the second claimed she was making them but this seemed unlikely given that she was predisposed with chatting, cleaning tables, and other non-coffee making activities for some 20-odd minutes after the dessert bowls had been cleared. Eventually we cut our losses and went home for coffee.
There are no menus any more, just a single board with the day's meals, placed beside our table so we endured a procession. There used to be table menus which you could peruse online but the current owners have ceased to maintain the (once very good) website and the address is inactive now.
However, thinking they'd now had time to settle in we decided to go again. The food was better than some I've had but the beef was simultaneously rare (almost raw) in the middle and tough as boots on the outside. The desserts were good.
The one saving grace of the staff was that they were just as diligent (i.e. not at all) with the bill and so didn't charge for all the drinks.
All in all there are worse places to eat but there are far better too - just don't be swayed by most of the reviews below as they refer to the pub before it changed hands and they need to do a lot of work to get back to those standards.
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I decided to pop in here with my family for the first time for several years.WHAT A FABULOUS MEAL! cant rate it highly enough, good beer, clean well managed toilets, friendly staff. Highly recommended!.
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When I saw the signage outside this pub, my heart sank as I thought "Oh no, not another country pub sterilised and turned into a supposedly 'gasto eating experience'". Luckily nothing could be further from the truth.
Ok, half of the pub has been turned into a dining area with a fake bare floor, but I was actually glad of that � as it meant I could get a table at Sunday lunch. And what a lunch ... a good, generous portion of beef (if slightly overcooked) and roast potatoes along with warming veg, not least the cheesy one! Followed by the welcome sight of spotted dick and custard. Perfect for a winter's afternoon. I didn't get a chance to try it but the ham, egg and chips looked worth travelling for too.
But, never-mind the food, thankfully this is still a pub at heart and it has a fantastic range of drinks to prove it. There is a range of well kept and interesting local beers on hand pump and, unusually, an equally large selection of ciders and perry. My only regret was I couldn't sample more of them as I was driving!
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Had a really good sunday Lunch here yesterday,tried the three real ales that were on,two from the Tring Brewery and one from Wiltshire and they were all served superbly.The garden was big and kept the young ones happy,there look to be some good walks and cycleways nearby.A small gripe is that the most of the pub was taken up by the restaurant area. Still knocks ten shades of Sh*T out of most pubs though!
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This pub has good food, and excellent beer. It won the CAMRA award for 'Most Improved Pub' last year. They try to source food ingredients and beer locally as far as possible, so there is usually something from the Tring brewery available. The garden is great for warm weather, and there is a footpath leading from the back of it through the woods, so it is a good place to start and finish a walk (If, like me, your doctor has told you to get more exercise).
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Small friendly pub serving real ales. Friendly licensees. Good English food, prepared and cooked entirely on premises.Prices moderate
Geoff Colson - 2 Mar 2006 08:44 |
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