Globe Inn, Newton St. Loeback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Part of the Vintage Inns chain, and very much focused on dining as previously described. However, it can also act as a much needed watering hole on a long trip, as I discovered. Although only stopping for a quick drink, we weren’t made to feel out of place at all. There is an area close to the bar (and by the real fire) which isn’t set out for dining, and we were served promptly and efficiently. There were three ales available, but one was the dreaded Doom Bar, so I had the Butcombe.
6/10 – there are far worse and less friendly dining orientated establishments than this.
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Have been using the Globe for many years, and in that time it has evolved from a genuine pub with restaurant attached to what is effectively a restaurant with bar attached. No local trade anymore - passing trade is everything, and with a huge car park and convenient location it's very well suited to mop up that passing trade. In its favour, the beer has always been good and they normally stock three real ales - Butcombe, Tribute and a guest beer - though annoyingly Tribute seems to have run out quite regularly. Food is pretty good whenever I've tried it, but they often seem understaffed so that drinkers have to wait to be served at the bar while complicated food orders are dealt with. One minor concession to people who purely want a drink was introduced a year or two ago in that a few tables close to the bar have been relieved of their complement of cutlery and menus so that you can avoid the feeling you're just blocking the diners. Overall this pub is designed for rapid turnover of customers and large volumes of trade - it's OK for a drink but more welcoming establishments are easy to find.
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Beer in the evening - Great! Food in the evening - also Great! But noisy children running loose - Definitely NO!! Let me know when you have an over 18 evening and I will return.
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The place was plastered with signs stating "Pate de Foie Gras has been removed at the request of our customers."
I'm pleased to know this but do I need to be told at the top of the steps from the car park, at the door, and even in the gents!
Service was slow but friendly. For a destination pub, which it is because it wouldn't survive on local trade, the managers need to work out how to cope and how to keep people coming back.
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Closest pub to the Newton Mill Camp site, so paid a visit. How disappointing, ordered a Wickwar beer that I had had the day before and got served some Greene King tripe, that flavour gets to you straight away. We were there for food though, it seemed to be a Grannies haven which is never a great sign and the food was absolutely awful, don't whatever you do, be tempted to order the Toad in the Hole. this is amongst the worst of commercial mass catering pubs that I have ever been to. Terrible.
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Beautiful pub, Vintage inns run, as with all of there pubs drinks are pricey and food is exciting sounding, but unfortunatley out of packets by the feel of things. Bar staff superb chaps when i visited, and waitresses freindly. The interior is lovely, very big place too. If only they would keep the atmosphere and change the food and cheaper drinks!
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