Green Dragon, London Colneyback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Three years have past so a revisit was due. Something didn't seem right.
The three beers are still the same. Doom Bar, London Pride and GK Abbot.
I'm not sure if this is a freehouse but surely you wouldn't have these three ghastly ales on more than a week - yet alone three years!
Their website seems to suggest that this is the case.
I will not be returning for a third time. Shame really because the pub isn't too bad.
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Visited Saturday lunchtime.
I'm often criticised for reviewing pub food and not sticking to reviewing just the beer.
Well, the food here does need mentioning.
The menu has plenty of choice and good choices at that, all reasonably priced.
Served very hot, good size portions and very tasty.
Now for the beer. Sod's law - the three regular beers are the three I try to avoid.
Doom Bar, Pride and Abbot. Today's guest was Tribute.
The two girl staff were very pleasant and helpful.
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Average pub that sells itself as a riverside pub, that's an ambitious idea. The river is actually across a busy main road, and the pub instead overlooks a grassy area near a very small culvert and tiny almost waterless pond!
Very few spaces to park, only worth going if you can walk there.
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Has improved quite a lot. All the ales are now Cask Marque and the London Pride was one of the best I've had outside of a fuller's pub. Sunday Lunch was very good.
big_g - 16 Jan 2011 22:26 |
Went there on Friday to see local band "The Push", who were, as usual, excellent. Pub was rammed with a mixture of friendly locals and a few who had travelled from further afield to see the band. Decent beer and very hard working staff, but boy was it hot in there.
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Bills itself as a waterside restaurant and that�s really what it is rather then a pub. The restaurant is to the right hand side of the property with what is supposed to be the pub on the left. However on my visit on a weekday lunchtime the restaurant was closed off and meals were being taken in the bar. I felt a little uncomfortable as the sole drinker. Abbot, Pride and Adnams were available, �3.10 a pint, the Abbott was in decent condition and the sole barman did a good job of keeping everyone happy. There is an outside seating area although the picturesque views are somewhat spoiled by all the parked cars. The quiz machine here was particularly generous to me but that�s not going to get it any more than a 6/10.
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This is an annoying pub. The location is excellent, the building lovely and well maintained and the interior clean and inviting, even the staff are pleasant. Trouble is, once again they wern't doing food when I was there (a Wednesady, apparently they were "short staffed" but, frankly that's just unprofessional and the lack of any apology didn't help). Only ale choice was Adnams or Pride, tried an Adnams and it was in very poor condition and tasted watery.
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The young lad behind the bar couldn't have been more pleasant, the pub seems clean and the location is very nice by the waterside. Open all day &
we got there at around 5pm looking for food, but we were told when we asked, that they don't do any food on a Monday! Would have been helpful if they had that written on the huge blackboard outside.
Very little space outside the pub for parking so it's best to park in the free car park on the other side of the bridge and walk over, however after we'd been there about 15 minutes the place was suddenly filled up by workmen who'd finished for the day, and people with children who let them run around unchecked. They parked their cars 2 and 3 abreast blocking people in so it was like whacky races with people attempting to get out!
Didn't drink the beer so can't give a critique on it, but overall, the pub was clean, comfortable, the barman was very pleasant & polite, we'd recommend it for a drink if you're passing, but anything more, then the Colney Fox is a better bet!
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