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Under New Management.
Gone are the 1960's style net curtains, and it had a very good refurb. Beer's not too bad either.
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One of three good pubs in a small area...the others are The Tower (30 sec walk) & North Star....all 3 make a good mini pub crawl.
MSE12 - 29 Dec 2015 12:00 |
Great gem of a pub. Good selection of ales and friendly staff & management. If you in this area try the North Star also, 5 min walk away
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Wow didn't relise it was me who suggested this pub, had forgotten, still serving plenty of real ale and choice, great pub and great beer
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Great local and has a great selection of ales, which are superbly kept, meat raffle on a Sunday and a cracking landlady. Well worth visiting.
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My local. It is brilliant. Why? Sometimes as many as 9 different real ales on. The new landlord (I say new, he's been there since January 2010) looks like Butch Dingle but he is nice though. Beers always changing and he has notched up 317 different ones since he has been there. Not bad! Locals are a friendly lot and you feel like you are in your front room having a beer. If you go and don't like it I'll buy you a pint. I'm usually in after work at 5. Bottoms up
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I dropped in on a two day visit from Birmingham and was very happy to find this gem of a pub. I liked it so much I went back the next night rather than bothering to risk anywhere else in St. Leonards. Excellent range of quality real ales - I stuck to the Sharps Doom Bar which was cracking - and fresh flowers on all the tables in the lounge which was a nice touch. Very friendly customers and bar staff. I wish this was my local in Birmingham.
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Changed hands again. Need to visit to see if it's still up to the same standard.
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oh and food is on bar par for course - how good is that! Thanks Robin and Joan for great evening
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New management and gosh what a transformation, was here 2 years ago and popped in last week due to paint job on outside. Barstaff and new landlord and lady very friendly and traditional (take time out to chat and make you feel welcome), ales were fantastic and locals very relaxed. Donald Sutherland the actor was in there! Well worth a look and very worth much more than its 5/10 rating on here, new management doing great job - keep it up, I'll be back!
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Now much improved, dropped in on Sunday to see what the place was like. Bombardier, Deuchars, ESB as the guest ales with a promising list of future ale including Ruddles, Pride of Pendle, Marstons etc. The crowd seemed friendly 'locals' and a good sprinkling of ale drinkers to boot. There was food on the bar, not sure if this was a special occasion or par for the course. Comfy saloon bar, and definitely one to visit if in the vicinity.
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Passed by recently, having moved a lot closer to this pub and have to say things are looking a lot more promising, will probably pop in one lunchtime soon and see what the place is like, but it sounds like its improved.
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Well MankyBadger, it's had it's lick of paint! It must have had it the day before I went, as the smell was a bit off-putting. That apart, the pub seems much as it was in the "old days" - it's over two years since my previous visit. It may or may not be a "rough part of town", but the locals and staff in there on Sunday afternoon were friendly enough. Good selection of ales of which the Moorhouse's Pride of Pendle was in particularly fine fettle.
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Definitely did not feel welcome when I went in there - but that was last summer and I understand that things have improved. I will drop in sometime soon and feedback. As a CAMRA pub I would like to see this one do well, but there are plenty of other places in the area with potential.
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A strange place. With the selection of ales it offers and free pop to the children it really warrants 9/10. But then it's in one of the rougher parts of town, needs a good cleaning & a lick of paint, has a beer "yard" rather than "garden" and (I'm sorry to say) is painfully obviously a "local pub for local people". In all fairness, 6/10 is the best I can stretch to. Which is a shame.
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I hadn't visited the pub for some time, so I went along at 10pm on a Friday and it was closed. I hope that this doesn't mean the end of what has been a fine pub.
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I usually pop into this place a couple of times a week although I wouldn't say it's my local. This pub now has a new landlord and I notice the regulars are drifting back in after being barred by the previous landlord for smoking too much. Beer and service seem ok at the moment, time will tell if the place improves.
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Sought this out as a CAMRA member. Had the temerity to enter with my six-year-old son, intending to go through to the garden. I would have got a friendlier welcome if I'd entered with Osama Bin Laden on one arm and the Iranian president on the other. I was curtly informed that my boy wasn't allowed, and when I politely enquired "not even in the garden?" the woman behind the bar snapped "Only if you're eating". So I scuttled out while the locals stared at me with mildly amused disdain.
The beer might well be fabulous, unfortunately I didn't get a chance to try it.
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A very interesting pub in the side streets of Bohemia, a must for real ale fans serving up to seven different ales at any time including Adnams broadside, Harvey Sussex, youngs and other guest beers. Has its own website too.
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