Sun Inn, Leintwardineback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
As others have said it is a well preserved parlour pub with the front two rooms untouched by time. Extension out the back is nice and light with a beer garden next door. Hobsons on tap plus Titanic Iceberg and Titanic Stout. Food was very reasonably priced and tasty - good old fashioned home cooking - and barmaid/landlady was lovely.
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Wonderfully preserved parlour pub, tastefully extended with a back room and bar. Great guest beers and wonderful local still cider. Excellent.
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Cracking heritage parlour pub and so very different from the nearby Lion. Not for the first time, we sat in the front brick-floored room and the guest Three Tuns Stout was in fine condition.
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Now the only proper pub in the area, as the Lion is just a fancy restaurant. Good beer and a choice of either the old rooms at the front or the new large room at the back (where the bar is). Garden area too. Located just off the main road through Leintwardine - take the lane opposite the Lion, and it will be on your left by the fish & chips outlet (you can order food from there in the pub and eat them in one of the front rooms). Well worth seeking out.
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Wonderful old place with beautifully-preserved parlour staffed by enthusiastic, knowledgeable owner. Gorgeous day so sat in the rear extension (does anyone else agree with me that real doesn't taste the same outdoors?), which feels like it's in a completely different pub but not in a bad way. It's light, airy and conducive both to intimate conversation and group revelry. Driving so, unfortunately, could only stay for one - an excellent pint of Hobson's Mild. Very sad to leave without soaking up more of the beer and ambience. Hope to return without the car.
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Has been on my list to visit for years and we weren't disappointed. The parlour rooms are still there although we sat in the lovely extension at the rear. There was a good choice of small brewery ales on offer and the atmosphere is idyllic with lots of chatting and no piped music. About as an unplastic pub as you could get.
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The comfortable modern airy extension was very pleasant but not quite what I expected. Having never been before, but well aware of the legendary status of the place, I wondered what regular visitors made of it?
More significantly the beer was great. My mate had the Hobsons Best and I went for the Spire, both were on form. Also appreciated the touch of the free pork pie on the bar.
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Very friendly locals and landlord Gary knows his beer.Not a lot of choice but the beers I tried were in good condition...Hobsons best bitter and Hobsons mild and another called twisted spire(I think!!).The pub has its own mayor,a friendly chap very willing to share a yarn or two.The main bar has a couple of long benches and a few chairs with a small log/coal fire,you are welcome to eat fish and chips from next door chip shop.The other bar is more of a front room with an armchair a few chairs and a small sideboard and small log/coal fire.The beer barrels are stored in the kitchen and the bar takings in a tin in a cupboard.This is a TOTALLY UNIQUE PUB(PARLOUR PUB),dont expect the sort of pub you are normally used to,leave your expectations outside and share a beer and chat with people you dont know,make some new temporarory(or permanent)friends.Enjoy.
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Like many places, its postal address is no the same county as its geographical county. The local post town is CRAVEN ARMS - which is, of course, in Shropshire...
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Can we please move the location of this pub to LEINTWARDINE, HEREFORDSHIRE where it actually is? Thanks.
It was featured on this mornings Breakfast TV (11.11.2009)
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Many real ale lovers have an interest in the buildings where their favoured brew is sold on draught, and most of these aficionados have an appreciation of the history and heritage of the nation's public houses. The range is enormous, from the ornate Victorian drinking establishments in our larger cities, the friendly backstreet boozer hidden away from the busy main road, the old coaching inns of our market towns and the remote canal-side tavern right through to the traditional country pub that you see on the postcards. So where does the Sun Inn fit in with all of this?
A wide selection of real ale? No, just the regular Hobsons bitter and perhaps a barrel of something more seasonal from the same brewery.
A good selection of other drinks for those that don't appreciate cask beer? Almost nothing - no lager, no spirits, no coffee (although a glass of lemonade or wine might be found for the desperate).
Fine food? Reasonably-priced food? In fact, any food at all? No, no and no (although you can bring a pork pie from the village butchers or get something from the nearby chippy to eat with your fingers).
Plenty of comfortable seating arranged around the bar? No, just a few old armchairs in what looks like an elderly relative's front room (and several rustic benches and tables in another small room when there are more than a handful of people needing to be squeezed in).
That authentic pub look to beckon in the weary traveller? Not likely; just what looks like a couple of old stone cottages with a faded sign next to the side gate and an inconspicuous 'Open'/'Closed' notice hung on a piece of string inside the small front-door window.
Easy to get to by public transport? Hah! - it's hidden away in a small village near the Welsh border, served by a minimal bus service (or you can try a 3-4 mile hike from the nearest railway station which just has four trains per day).
Opening hours? Slightly erratic, depending on the availability of volunteers who are currently running the place.
Up to now, I have wondered how anybody could consider giving any pub a rating of '10' on BITE. Even if you thought that you had found the 'perfect pub', how would you know whether or not there was a better one down the road a bit, in the next town or somewhere you've never heard of half-way across the country?
However, in quiet Leintwardine, you may - like me - find that this miraculous survivor from a bygone age (sadly now missing Flossie Lane, it's legendary 94-year old landlady who deservedly got an obituary in The Times) changes your mind about that elusive '10'.
Hopefully now saved from threat of closure, it�s truly unique and long may the Sun continue to shine.
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