Ship Ashore, Milton Keynesback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Mediocre food; six ales on, from Wainwright and a pale ale from Black Sheep brewed for Ember Inns to Jaipur (Thornbridge). Prices ranged from £3.60-£4.10.
Would return for a beer but despite the food being cheap, wouldn't bother again.
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Friendly but below par food and not very well kept ale - I was delighted to see Woodforde's Norfolk on tap but the result did not meet expectation. The music quiz was also byzantine in its complexity in what is basically just a theme pub - in a town full of them.
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Spent the week staying nearby so had the opportunity of visiting a few nights. Got to say I quite like the place, ale was decent enough, food was good - prices were high, I put this down to a Buckinghamshire thing. Quiz night was a good laugh, although the 'quiz master' was a bit arrogant. Staff are friendly and attentive, so overall I would say a decent pub.
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This is a new(ish), purpose built pub in a somewhat uninspiring location next to a Chinese takeaway and a mini-supermarket, so expectations are not too high. Once inside though, it’s clean and up together and perhaps recently refurbished, although it does follow the somewhat formulaic approach favoured by many other chain pubs and consequently has little in the way of individuality or character. It was however quite busy even at 6:00pm on a mid-week evening with a mix of after work drinkers and diners who were perhaps taking advantage of the Thursday “Grill Night” deal.
It’s a good sized pub, split in to several different areas, but all flowing from one to another. Although food is clearly quite a major focus here, drinkers are not overlooked and there are areas that looked to be more intended for drinking than dining including an unusual high bench seat next to the bar counter. Flooring is the usual mixture of sanded boards, tiling and carpet whilst the paintwork was predominantly either cream, or burnt orange. A number of fire places were a prominent feature being free standing in the centre of the room and thus gave heat off in two directions. Some had large copper metalwork attached and they appeared to use real logs which is something of a rarity in such establishments. A smaller room off to one side had something of a conservatory feel to it with venetian blinds on the floor to ceiling windows and a couple of bookshelves in the corner.
Food wise, the menu offered an extensive choice and there should be something to suit most tastes with the prices for the main courses somewhere around the £8 - £10 mark, although many are also available as a “2 courses for £9.95” deal. My Fish Pie was a decent and tasty dish with a selection of different fish and a cheesy mash topping. The “buttered mixed green vegetables” that came with it though were abysmal – no discernable butter and the vegetables consisted of some soggy cabbage, six small and shrivelled green beans and a handful of peas. This really let the meal down and is something that should be so simple to get right.
Beer choice was extensive as tends to be the case with Ember Inns and tasting notes were provided on the tables. On this occasion the range consisted of Greene King IPA, Hop Back Winter Lightning, Ubu Purity, Adnams Explorer, Kirkstall Dissolution IPA, Saddle Black and Red Squirrel’s Scottish Ale. Ciders were somewhat disappointing after such a good range of beers with just Strongbow and Aspall’s Suffolk. Why a pub that seems to take it’s beer so seriously should just offer a couple of cloyingly sweet, bland artificial ciders is somewhat beyond me.
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good selection of ales, but shockingly ripped off buying a pimms, six quid. drank up and left. someone was taking the piss!!!! wont go back.
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More of a restuarant than a pub (think Toby Carvery or Harvester) but quite nicely done. Staff were friendly and my fish and chips were lovely. Decent selection of ales - the TT Landlord was tip-top.
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visited before , selection of ale very good, as was food, but my last visit sent me crashing down to earth with a bump. short staffed, hence long wait for food, when it turned up was cold so sent it back, chef then gave it a quick blast in the microwave, returned it to table, but was unsatisfactory. wont eat in there again, although ale is bloody good, if you dont mind the wait.
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Meh! This pub is adequate. Service is spasmodic, sometimes terrible other times right on the money. Range of beers is OK. Food is standard Ember Inns fayre. Sometimes it is a little over-cooked, I cite the burgers which are often made from leather.
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Service remains slow - they don't seem to have enough staff. The range of ales and lagers is good, but waiting ten minutes to get a pint spoils it. Foos is ok. That's the best you can say about it.
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My wife and I eat in the Ship Ashore regularly and have never found fault with the food or the real ales served there. The staff are always polite and friendly and the range of food is both wide and consistently good.
I'm afraid I can't comment on the chicken curry because I would never eat Indian cuisine in a pub - it's just pointless when they are so many good Indian restaurants.
One thing I especially like is their firm rule about not allowing minors in the pub, which greatly enhances the atmosphere.
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The decor is nice and the staff are friendly, they have a good verity of booze, but the meal was below standard. I have eaten in many pubs and have never had bad food till now. I ordered the chicken curry, but it was poorly reheated. It looked like somebody's left-overs. The rice was also old and there were hard "blocks" of rice in the re-heated rice. A ASDA or Tesco chicken curry wins hands down.
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I disagree with Sarahs coment dated 24 Oct 2003 as I found the prices reasonable.. Lets not foget that this is part of the Ember brand and they do not want to attract the un-disirables. I have been drinking real ales for some years now and as true as I am sitting here, I have never had such a good pint of I.P.A ever as the one i had in there. Just a shame I was driving.
Mr Nice guy - 12 Jun 2004 15:40 |
Has a reputation for being very expensive and has very little atmosphere but is the meeting place for the MK Inter-Varsity club. So if you're in MK and you're looking to make some freinds then this is the place to be.
Sarah - 24 Oct 2003 21:39 |
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