Fox and Grapes, Pensnettback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Typical, traditional Bathams Pub - although not done out in the external colouring of their others.
Main bar has a (loud) TV at the far end, dartboard at the other. Plush red leather bench seating.
Typical wares - Bathams Best Bitter and Mild - Massive Cobs.
If you like what they offer, you will love it.
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Pleasantly surprised on my recent visit with five mates on a Friday night. JohnBonser has described the interior well and the quality of the Batham's was excellent. The staff were polite and quite happy to make cups of tea as well as serving good quality ales. Minor struggle negotiating the roomful of bored toddlers crawling and playing in the way of the door to the loos - well past their bedtime! - but they were no problem. Good beers, good atmosphere.
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Purpose built Bathams pub a couple of miles outside Dudley on a main road and close to the absolutely massive Russells Hall Hospital.
It's a single U shaped bar, but with distinct areas. The public bar part is traditionally furnished and, on my recent Sunday lunchtime visit, 2 largish TV's were showing the last England - Australia one day cricket international ( the one that England won !). On the walls are limited edition prints of both West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Clubs, together with a signed photo of Cassius Clay, plus several Elvis pictures. The lounge bar part at the back was quieter, but still traditional and cosy.
There's some seats at the front for watching the busy main road traffic rush by and a grassy outside area at the back with a smokers shelter.
Both the Bathams Best Bitter and the Mild ( � 2.15p and � 1.95p respectively ) were in good nick, as befits a pub that has been GBG listed for several years. GBG stickers are proudly displayed in the front window.
Also worhy of note were the substantial plates of free "nibbles" on the bar - a Sunday lunchtime tradition that sadly seems to be dying out in these current times when pubs are regarded more as "profit centres" than places to sell beer and serve the local community.
This is not a must visit pub, but worth calling in if passing by
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Great beer, near the end of a pub crawl. Friendly pub, shame I had to leave.
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Fantastic pint of Bathams - as good as the Lamp in Dudley. Classic bar and great atmosphere.
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Went past this attractive looking Bathams pub on Friday lunch time, just had to stop for a pint of MILD. The Bathams MILD was perfect. Thought I would sit outside with my young son but the garden had no shade from the scorching sun. Inside, the pub was quiet with a good layout. This is a real boozer, worth another visit.
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