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Avoid on a busy sunday as feels a bit like a factory..... Pack you in like a cattle truck. Still a decent pub however.
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Old stone pub in village with beer garden and large car park. Jurassic beer and Old Speckled Hen well kept as was wine in wine shack. Served beer to large group of walkers very efficiently. Two bars. Children allowed in one. Family with children came in. Landlady told them that although there was a notice saying no children in this bar they were welcome to stay there. Why does she think the other customers were in the bar where children were not allowed? The food served for the main course was good but expensive. Our group thought that �5 was excessive for a sweet course that we could get in the supermarket for 50p. One lady in our group complained and the landlady has not spoken to her since.
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Visited once Food and Beer dreadful.
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Over the years this has been one of our favourite pubs in summer because the views over the Purbecks are wonderful and we can take our dogs in the garden, and it's right next door to the delightful Margaret Green Animal Sanctuary. As it was a birthday celebration we went again today. I can't comment on the beer, cos I didn't have any. I enjoyed the calamaries and salad, and Keith's crab salad was also pronounced excellent. It was our desserts that proved disappointing. Keith's custard was watery thin with his lemon pud, and I was amazed to receive my dish of HOT CHERRIES with brandy and ice-cream with the STALKS STILL ON THE CHERRIES!! - these proved very messy to pull out, and smacked of sheer laziness on the part of the kitchen staff. Keith also thought we were over-charged by 60p, but felt it wasn't worth making a fuss about. Our young waiter, just starting his gap year, was delightful though and very helpful. So like the curate's egg - good and bad in parts.
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Visited on a Tuesday lunchtime. Two other couples and some friends of the landlords were the only people in. Service was mediocre - landlord seemed more interested in chatting to his friends - bizarrely they were more welcoming than the landlord.
Food was expensive but very average. Poor choice of beer.
Positives are it is a nicve building in a very pleasant setting - but is that enough to make it worth a trip out of your way?
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Lovely building, beers well kept but expensive, food also very nice. Not a cosy pub but relaxed and very picturesque. Worth a look if you're in the area.
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After drinking at a couple of disappointing pubs in the area (Bankes Arms Inn in Studland are you listening) we found this pub by chance. We stopped on a Saturday lunchtime. They had a beer called Jurrassic on tap but I'm not sure who brews it. The landlord was happy to let me sample it and it was excellent. It seems to mainly be a food pub but they have a great garden with terrific views. We went back in the evening to eat and the food was excellent. as well Full marks to the landlord, a very friendly chap, and to the well looked after pub and excellent beer and food. Would return to this pub if we are back in the area.
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Beautiful pub in gorgeous setting. Ate here on a Tuesday night, so maybe not surprising that the atmosphere was zero, a few middle aged couples eating in silence in the main bar. Some quiet music would have helped to disguise the prevailing sound of cutlery on china. Barmaid was rather brusque - moved us on from a table we'd had the temerity to choose ourselves because she said it was reserved even though there was no sign on it. Found the 'No children in the bar By Law' (or similararly worded) notices on a bar rather unfriendly (I don't have children, nor do I like them in pubs but it set an unweloming tone as the first thing you see when you walk in). Food OK, wouldn't make a special trip to eat there. Glad I checked my bill as I'd been charged �11.30 instead of �1.30 for some drinks ... twice!
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I certainly won't be going to this gastropub ever again - at least if I can help it. Went in here for a beer on the way to Lulworth Castle one lunchtime. The place was empty. The beer tasted as if it had not been pulled through the pipes for the lunchtime session or the cellar was warm. The beer was flat, has an acidity about it and was on its last legs. The same was the case for the other beer I tried. This was poor cellarmanship and not a brewery fault. Why do publicans do this; sell off beer in the hope that that nobody complains. They should get it into their heads that customers who are trying out the pub as a possibility for a return trip won't come back - I certainly won't.
Food was basically "Brake Bros" stuff and overpriced. I'm suspicious about the fish cooked in beer batter - I hope they don't use the stuff they tried to sell me as real ale. I suspect the beer used is that from the slopover trays emptied the previous night.
The landlady was well dressed, but, come on missus, this is a litlle pub in a little village. It's not the venue for the Oscars. Dressing up like Anne Robinson just doesn't fit in. However, thinking about it, this is a pretentious hostelry with a walk-in wine cellar and adjacent "speciality fish restaurant". "speciality fish restaurant"? No way Jose. The Shell Bay - Now that's a "Speciality Fish Restaurant"; the New Inn? - Never.
And as for the landlord - Scotland's version of Basil Falty.
If you want an unpretentious little village pub, with good food & good beer - drive past or stop off earlier. Try The Castle in Corfe, Kings Arms or Duke of Wellington in Wareham .
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Food is usually quite good, garden is lovely, gets booked up very quickly but they will sometimes sneak you in.
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We've been here several times for lunch. The food's usually very good - the fish and chips is massive.Beer's okay.Always a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and good service.A large car park round the back,but the garden gets full quickly.Next door to the Margaret Green Foundation ,so you can always walk off a big lunch with a stroll round pet sanctuary.
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Not great food and the Scottish landlord goes completely overboard on a weird sort of Basil Fawlty sarcasm.
We were tucked away at a table at the back of the pub next to a door and were a bit put off by the slug/snail trails on the walls and carpets! Beer OK and food very average.
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Visited this pub on 24th July 2007. Excellent selection of wine, choosing from cellar a novel idea. Food was average not great and most of it microwaved. The meat in main dishes was very sparse. The staff were very friendly and the service was good.
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Great pub, more of foody place - all very good:) well done
anonymous - 24 Jun 2007 19:07 |
Friendly landlord and staff, good real ales well kept. The food is excellent with a good selection of sea food. Thoroughly recommended
anonymous - 4 Mar 2007 10:54 |
Great fresh seafood, friendly staff and well kept ales. Make sure you book ahead if going in the summer to eat.
I would go again in a heartbeat.
anonymous - 31 Jul 2006 09:31 |
Outstanding pub food served here and well kept ales. Yes it's less of a pub really because of its emphasis on food but it's still worth a visit, if a little off the beaten track.
Don't know if they still do, but used to serve a well-kept pint of Flowers.
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excellent service real friendly pub great grub
anonymous - 30 Jan 2006 14:09 |
This is the 2nd time I have been to this pub, and I am still impressed by the service, which is quick, efficient and always smiling staff. The food is a little more expensive but it is well worth it. They also have a vast range of wines in the cellar that you can choose. My kind of pub!!! Maurice you are a star. Excellent food once again.
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Just come back from a weekend in Purbeck where we stumbled across The New Inn. Although busy we found ALL staff friendly and smiling and did not experience the 'serve locals first' syndrome. The landlord (Maurice) was worthy of singling out as he seemed to say hello to EVERYONE who came through the doors, adult or child, and really seemed pleased to see you. What amazed us was the extent of the wine choices. A list is not good enough, you can stroll around the 'cellar' (a room on the side of the pub) and choose your bottle. Probably 1000 bottles in stock. Also impressed that they could accommodate large parties in the skittle alley. Food was good quality but not great, but the service was fast and accurate. Beer was kept OK and as they had my favourite (Wadworths 6X) and my friends favourite (Old Speckled Hen) we two were as happy as the wine drinkers! I would rate it as 7/10.
Mark Belchamber - 27 Aug 2003 09:19 |
If this looks suspiciously like my entry for the Yew Tree Inn in Odstock that's because it is. Same Old Same Old. Interior of the pub itself is alright but it's one of these places that has become like a restaurant with a licence, you almost feel obliged to order some food. Also, they also suffer from the widespread - but no less annoying for it - habit of making sure that regulars are served first irrespective of how long you have been waiting. At least they look after the beer which is a redeeming factor.
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