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Classic Hikers pub - marking the start of the Pennine Way and being in perfect walking country.
Very quiet at Lunch on a Friday but it fills up as the afternoon goes on.
Classic pub of its type but needed a fire. The Hikers Bar was cold and the Black Sheep freezing!
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We stayed at coopers farm...great couple of night..we had a meal at The Nags Head...nothing special if honest...my all day breakfast in a can in the morning was far tasty...but anyway, wr decided to watch the final of the world cup as advertised outside the pub that it would be showing the game, we was really looking forward to the match as my partner had watched nearly every game,there was a good crowd in the pub lots of beer being drunk lots of money spent, germany won then it was the medal ceremony started everyone was getting excited ...then darkness the television was switched off, I couldnt believe it i said to a waitress what has happen she held her hands up and said nothing to do with me...then a blonde haired woman from behond the bar said times up time to go...but there was two men playing pool and three men still drinking beer... I said to her you are unbeieveable...its the world cup....she just mocked me with "yes unbelieveable" why advertise you are showing a game take the rewards of the evening ie customers drinking money, and not show the end of the match, I was so annoyed with her and gutted for my partner I just had to walk away from the situation I am still really annoyed with what went on...i am writing to the brewery about this matter believe me and i will be commenting on as many reviews i can..
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A decent pub with 4 casks available. Worth a visit.
alexw - 23 Mar 2014 18:00 |
Probably the worst pub of my recent jaunt in the Peak. Beers OK, service OK. Used to go in here on my first trips to the area in the late 80s - and was the first place I ever had Old Peculier (a beer that changed my drinking habits to become the real ale drinker that I am now). Now there's just a couple of mediocrely kept beers - one being the watered-down imitation of the great beer that was Old Speckled Hen. Shame, was quite looking forward to returning.
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Reasonable selection of cask ales. Shocking selection of food of questionable quality. Probably best for a ramblers quick pint on the way back to Edale train station.
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We visited this pub on a friday night, whilst staying down the road at the Fieldhead campsite. It was a great atmosphere, good beer and good food. The portions were healthy and it all tasted really good. The best bit was that dogs are welcome - and they have a water bowl as well. Would thoroughly recommend this pub.
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we have just had a week at the campsite oposite this pub and we tried both in the village and i will not spend money at the other one
Lovely pint of lager, excellant bar snacks and meals sat inside and outside excellant 5 stars all round from us and if back in the area we will be back.
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lovely pub and beer garden, great staff, fab food, good prices
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The location of the pub should allow it to be a quaint country pub. The beer was fine, however the food was shocking! The service was poor and it was almost like they were doing us a favour by letting us buy there premium priced micowave reheated food. A couple at the table next to us sent there food back as it was inedible and my salad was the limpest, wettest, soggiest affair I have ever seen. We didn't expect it to be the savoy however how anyone can get salad and fish and chips so wrong is beyond me. I hadn't read the reviews on here but I wish I had before I ate as I would advise against eating there. On the plus side dogs were allowed in if your travelling with your canine friend. To sum up, the pint was fine, the location great, the service shoddy and the food shocking. Eat there at your peril or buy a bag of peanuts!
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We visited today and the staff couldn't have been more welcoming or helpful. I was a bit dubious after reading the comments on here, but my brother has walked in this area many times and always wanted to eat here.
It was very quiet, but the lady on the bar - I meant to get her name - was so welcoming, we all relaxed and enjoyed ourselves. It is a very difficult time for my family as my Mum is very ill, but the barmaid arranged for us to split a meal, as my Mum eats so little. We all enjoyed our food, there was certainly plenty of it.
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Called in Nags Head last night. 3/3/ 11. Pub has recently changed hands. Still great atmosphere and very welcoming. Natallie the manageress is great n very friendly. The real ale was superb and so was the steak pie. Keep up the good work girls. You are on to a winner. Back again soon. Ash xx
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My friends and myself have just completed a superb weekend in Edale with excellant weather and walking only to find that the management of the pub did their best to ruin the after physical excertions. The bar staff asked us to move three times so they could clear up certain areas which we did (before the 11 pm closing time) which was actually 10.55pm because their clock was correct. (WRONG.) The actual bar staff were really good at doing their job but the attitude of the manageress was beyond belief. JUST TAKE THEIR MONEY AND SOD THEM OFF BECAUSE I WANT TO BE HOME AT 11.30. The real ale is great but I would NOT recommend you try it because of their attitude. PS Don't buy the food.
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I feel compeled to put a comment on about this great pub. There i have said it it's great.
Whenever we go walking we always make sure we go to this pub. It accepts my faithful dog and her mucky paws and my mucky boots.
Yes the food is a little on the expensive side for what it is but after a good walk it tastes great and lets face it if you dont have to cook it yourself and your friends it going to taste good.
(if i wanted to eat Gordon Ramsey i would have gone to his place) !!!!!
I have always found the beer to be good and the staff are generaly ok. We all get a little off when we have been run off our feet all day. The lady who made the comment about rude staff needs to breath a little and accept that we all have bad days.
Good fire, freindy people, friendly customers, good beer all makes for a great pub and i am looking forwrad to going there tonight for New Years Eave. I dont normally do anything at this time of year but i cant think of anything better than a good night in the pub then back to my tent to get all snug and warm.
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Visited this pub twice over 1 weekend recently. We found the food ok, if a bit overpriced but on our 2nd visit one member of staff was really rude to other customers and us. She was barking at customers when asking them what they wanted.
My husband asked politely if he could check our food bill before paying. You would have thought by the reaction from the barmaid that he had committed a cardinal sin. The only reason he asked was that someone who we didnt know who was sitting on our table told us that when he ordered for himself, the staff were going to put his order on our tab.
Anyway this pub needs to get its act together. We'd never go back. Its obviously very complacent but needs a kick up the.....
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My partner and I visited this pub on Saturday 30th October 2010 as we were staying at nearby Ramblers Inn, great pub with a good atmosphere, fully recommend!!
Max19 - 31 Oct 2010 20:26 |
Sorry, but if you go camping in Edale, be sure to take plenty of food with you. The Nags Head is OK if you just want a quick pint after a long walk. How such a mess can be made of a 'frozen food' menu, I dont know. The burger was underdone and the chips were reheated (WHY oh WHY do pubs do this?). The salad was half an iceberg lettuce. It appears that both pubs in Edale are owned by the same people (who also live there). The other pub is no better. Shame on them.
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This pub is in an superb position and from the outside looks like a country pub should. However, it has the feel of a "chain pub" when you enter and it is very much putting food first. �11.50 for Cumberland sausage which come with huge portions of chips, salad, onion rings etc. but I suspect all of it was oven ready . The beer was okay, they have their own Nag's Head range of ales. More to recommend than the nearby Rambler, but not much.
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i cant believe what people are saying about this pub, i am 38 years old and from sale and me and my mates have been coming to edale for our camping trips for 16 years now and we always come to this pub, we are not stuck up people we are a bunch of very nice guys who happen to have skin heads and we still get greeted the same as everybody else, this pub is mint, the bar staff are and always have been fantastic, when its cold there has always been a real fire blazing, the food is great, it might be a little bit dear but who cares when it tastes that good,
me and the lads camp at upperbooth farm and walk right across the hills to get to this pub every time which is about 3 mile hike because the pub is so good,
the people, in which i mean hikers, ramblers, barstaff, and just ordinary folk who pop out for a drink are all amazingly friendly, and the beer is great with such a variety of differant ales and lagers and ciders ect ect.
so if anybody wants to know what this place is like, its fantastic and the atmosphear is amazing,
i mean this is a hikers and ramblers pub so if you want a drink and a disco dance like on a friday or sat night then this is the wrong pub but if you want a nice drink and a bit of nice grub with the missus and kids and a nice warm face to say hi to and a nice fire to drink your whisky next to then maybe me and my friends might see you there one day, because we are going on the 4th june, and we will keep going as long as the pub stays where it is, dont listen to these whinging idiots, try it for yourself.
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Where do I start? After extensive research we chose The Nags Head as the ideal location for a mate's stag do and last hurrah before he became victim to the confines of married life. Our party of 8 planned to live it up large in Edale during the day, before letting our hair down in the Old Nag in the evening. We were sorely disappointed. Whereas we had been promised good food, tasty ale, dancing girls and ample cleavage, we actually got frozen burgers, daschund larger and a bunch of miserable barmaids who had faces like pigs and shoulders like Glenn Ross - definately not the tittilation that most of us were looking for.
To make matters worse, the bell rang at 1030pm - which even suprised the kids who were running riot around the place. This place may be a rambler's heaven, but if your not a rambler, it is really sh*t.
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The food is pretty terrible, we ordered the �10 burger and chips and were only able to eat the bun. The burger itself looked like it came from iceland and the chips seemed to all have black dots on them. The only consolation was that the food in the Ramblers was just as bad.
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While soulless and not very pleasant, especially bearing in mind its location, I have always found this to be the better of Edale's two sorry attempts at pubs. I have eaten there and found the food to be Ok and the selectIon of beers is not bad. However, on sunday 2 May we had what was without question the worst meal I have ever eaten in a pub. They managed somehow to burn the fish that we had as part of the fish and chips. The fish also tasted of curry and seemed to be streaked with some unidentifiable yellow mush just under the tasteless, burnt batter. The fish was one step away from being off I think. The chips were overcooked, re-heated and did not yield to anything as light as the prong of a fork. The mushy peas were in fact the only edible part of the meal. The steak and ale pie also ordered by people in the party was inedible. There is also a rather nasty streak to the service. A lady who had to change someone's mushy peas to the garden peas that had been ordered looked very angry about it, and the same lady seemed to think it was our fault that the food was so bad when one member of our party, on being asked about the food, decided to mention how shocking it had been. I have never been entirely at ease with the place, but after this experience I will never go again. Appalling.
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I have read the reviews for this pub and i can't believe what people are saying, after a long walk what do you want silver spoons and napkins this is a nice pub. Everyone that i walk with don't have a bad word to say about it, never had a bad pint yet, we were in there a couple of weeks ago didn't have anything to eat but others were and the food looked good and smelt even better. These people who don't like walking pubs should stick to the wine bars.
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well, my fears about Saturday night were realised! Started at the nag's head and the fire was lit and the place busy and quite tidy. the bogs were a bit scruffy, but there was a rugby match on and quite a few in there. not all pumps were on, but what was on was just ok, but overpriced. some of our group ate and unprompted they rated the food as overpriced and poor quality. a couple of pints then we moved down to the Rambler's. that pub is owned by the same mob as the nag's head (and the campsite and cafe there). snotty, can't be arsed style down at the Rambler's, overpriced beer and last orders called at 10.40 and chucked out at 11.00 Welcome to Derbyshire - not! Lovely village in a beautiful area, let down by the pubs where there is not another for 4 miles. they won't get our money again
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oh dear, just read the reviews for this place and the Rambler's. Shame I am going to Edale for the night. Will call at the Cheshire Cheese in Hope on the way just in case. Will report tomorrow!
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oh dear, just read the reviews for this place and the Nag's Head. Shame I am going to Edale for the night. Will call at the Cheshire Cheese in Hope on the way just in case. Will report tomorrow!
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Visited last summer. Notice on door said it was closed due to a power cut, although the fruit machine was clearly still on....
Do they really want custom?
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Visited shortly before Christmas, having enjoyed a days walking in the snow with my teenage children.
Called in at this atmospheric looking pub expecting a bit of warmth, some nice food and an ale or two.
Very disappointed to find no real fire, not even any heating !! perishingly cold inside, made worse by the door being constantly open due to the number of disappointed people leaving. the very low lighting made the place seem even cold and damper.
The young bar man was very personable and doing his best to keep up with the demand for time consuming hot drinks from the customers, but was entirely on his own. the volume of drinkers possibly due to the fact that the Ramblers was closed. A woman I presumed was the landlady made a brief visit to get herself a cup of coffee, before disappearing again ( maybe to somewhere warmer).
the overstretched bar man made a number of short-lived attempts to light a fire in the impressive fireplace but was unable to pay it the attention it needed and had to return to serving drinks, taking food orders, delivering food to tables etc.
We were too chilled to spend more than minutes in the place, which sadly did reflect the lack of concern for its customers mentioned throughout these posts.
One saving grace was a very nice pint of Beartown Santa's Claws. I would have had another if they'd even turned a radiator on or something !
A dreadful shame.
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Lovely old pub but severly let down by overpriced, overcooked food, poor service from the unwelcoming staff, topped off by miserable landlady who sat at the bar cursing & drinking with her friends! As I was informed by a local, the same company owns both pubs within the village and the landlord from the Old Nags Head runs the Coopers farm cafe!...talk about monopolising! A beautiful village let down by two crappy pubs.
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Took my wife for her birthday a couple of weeks ago and wish we hadn't gone! This pub is shocking! We used to go here a couple of years ago and it's certainly gone downhill since then. The food is barely edible, clearly not home made, the service was diabolical, rude unpleasant staff and the toilets were filthy. Our evening didn't live up to what we expected. Will not be going back and won't be reccomending to friends. If you're wanting what you pay for then there are much better places to go in Castleton. What a waste!!!
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pub shut all day monday and tuesday in winter
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This pub puts its location to shame, recently ate here, well if you can call it that a dried bowl of lettuce with a bit of chicken on isn�t really what I expected for the price. We sat on a small round table in the window and the window ledge obviously wasn�t cleaned covered in dead fly�s and dust wasn�t good enough. My table was cleared by a miserable looking woman who I guess was the manageress as I seen her dictating to staff earlier on in the evening. I hadn�t eaten much and I wasn�t asked what was wrong with the meal. the toilets were foul and by the looks of it hadn�t seen a good clean. To be honest the campsite toilets were cleaner which is not what you expect. Avoid this place if you can.
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Such a shame, a little bit more effort and this pub would be fantastic. The real ale is really well kept but be warned the shorts fall somewhat er, well short - I've never seen such a small bottle of tonic! Food was the deep fried stuff you'd expect to find in a large townie pub. On the plus side the location is fantastic, there is a decent sized outside area for the summer and it is clean.
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This pub is terrible. I braced myself for the worst as I had read the bad reviews, but nothing could prepare me for the over-priced and nasty food! If you can avoid this pub do
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This pub rests on it's laurels and location. I ate there last year at the end of a walk and had a pint there recently. The real ales are OK and reasonably served. The food still looks fairly bog standard pub. Atmosphere is not fantanstic. We went recently towards the end of the afternoon in April so it was getting a bit cold outside depite the longer day. It would have been nice to have the fire on but, obviously trying to save a bit of money, it was not on and so it was a bit nippy inside. I think I'll remember to goto The Ramblers again next time. The Old Nags Head needs a kick up the backside. It could do so much better.
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I read people's reviews before visiting the pub. Since I was staying in Edale for a week, I decided to try both this pub and the Ramblers Arms, despite bad reviews. The pub was OK, the food was OK - nothing spectacularly good or bad, to be honest.
The food (both veggie and meat) is standard pub grub, nothing fancy, slightly overpriced I think but The Old Nags Head has a good location and so it inevitably thrives. Staff were absolutely fine... nothing to make a fuss about either way. The 'Cheshire Cheese' pub in Castleton (we were going to go to Hope but there are several 'Cheshire Cheese' pubs and we got lost!) did nicer food at the same price. Next time we'll try the 'Cheshire Cheese' in Hope! But whilst in Edale, I'd say give the Old Nag's Head a try at least. Certainly for a pint.
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Glad to see a few more positive postings about The Old Nag's Head following a series of rather vitriolic postings in the last 18 months. Yesterday, 19th July 2008 we met our son, daughter and their partners there. We spent five and a half hours after a long and rainy walk enjoying the usual warm hospitality, eating wholesome food in large portions, and testing each of the guest beers. Two of our party are vegetarian and found no problems in selecting a decent meal. Not the first time we've had a good experience there, and it won't be the last.
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Visited this pub 8/6/08.I must admit that I've been surprised at how negative the earlier reviews have been,though admittedly we didn't eat here. My partner is a veggie and she didn't think much to what the menu offered her. Parking is a bit of a problem also.
On the plus side,the pub and toilet facilities were very clean. There were three real ales on. The Celtic Blonde and Grays bitter were on good form. Didn't get round to sampling the beer brewed exclusively for the pub though. The pub itself is beautifully located.
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I recently visited the Nags Head for the first time in some years and it's clear to see the improvement. The place is alot more welcoming and the staff are very friendly and polite. The food doesn't blow your socks off but it is well priced, tasty and homecooked...just what you need after a long walk. Well worth a visit as it is a lovely old pub with lots of character. Will definitely go back soon!!
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I had such a bad experience in this pub and having read the reviews I see it is a common occurance. I don't agree with separate areas for ramblers and locals, but I went along with it, only to be treated like I was a hindrance. How dare i ask for a pint in a pub?! The staff were very young and had no idea how a pub should be run and the landlord was just one of those grumpy men it's best to avoid.
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ive been going to this pub for over 30 years.i would go camping to coopers when i was small.now recently at the grand age of 36 i went back in august.its not changed at all.its still warm and friendly and the perfect place to relax after the long walk over mam tor from castleton or if a trip to kinder scout is on the cards.a first rate pub with the warmth of home.what more could you ask for?
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much improved, a large stride in the right direction - let us see for how long this continues
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ive got to say, me and my friend regularly drive up from doncaster to the old nags head on a sunday evening. we enjoy a nice drink in a friendly warm pub and think the drive is well worth it! yes the parking is a little difficult but a great experience all round if you can get over that!
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We didn't even make it into the pub! Sunday lunchtime in late February when the Peak District was reasonably quiet. We had arranged to meet two other couples coming from different directions, all of us originally from areas surrounding the Peak District. We should have realised what we were in for when as we drove up, we noticed two plaques above the two doors - "Ramblers" and "Locals" we jokingly commented that it was a bit like "League of Gentlemen" - we didn't realise how right we were. There was no space in the front small carpark, but at the rear we found another. At first it seemed there was no space here either, - an impression quickly reinforced by a man leaping out of the kitchen and putting out parking cones right behind someone as they manoevered out of a space along the edge of the area, admittedly not designated, but not inconveniencing anyone. We eventually found two tight,designated parking spaces right at the back of the car park, and another with one picnic bench plonked right in the middle of it, and a whole pile more in a haphazard pile across about 8 more. In the middle of this perfect example of a pub garden - not - there was a rather glum family sitting at one of three remaining benches, surrounded by beer kegs. Rather than moving the single picnic bench, and possibly incurring the wrath of the landlord, we shuffled the cars around, squeezed them up and managed to get the last car in behind one of our cars, tight against the edge of the car park where it blocked no-one else in. Promptly someone flew out of the kitchen and told us we couldn't park there. We explained we were not blocking anyone else in, apart from one of the two cars we were with. the man was adamant - "you can't park there - health and safety". Quite how this infringed health and safety rules beat us. No pedestrian exit from the pub or 'garden' was blocked, no fire access was hindered - and if there was a problem with space, why not move the picnic bench - or more radically still, pile the others up more neatly, allowing more parking and a more attractive outdoor seating area to boot. to allow further parking. We started to ask exactly wht rule we had infringed but realised we were beaten. We have never felt so unwelcome and decided not to go in. Having read a couple of other reviews on the same pub on other sites, it seems we are not alone and probably had a lucky escape. Avoid like the plague - try the Cheshire Cheese in Hope instead! Great mix of locals, ramblers, 'sunday lunchers' and everyone mucked in together. Great atmosphere.
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Dont live far from the nags, and since the refurb not so long ago the pub has a general cleaner and friendlier atmosphere. Good, well priced food and a good selection of staff.
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Having recommeneded this pub to someone not along ago I now have to question why I did so. We have often enjoyed a good pint of beer in this pub after a walk but yesterday we were refused a drink because we asked if we could have a real glass in the beer garden (like most of the people in there) instead of a plastic one.
anonymous - 31 Jul 2006 10:13 |
I have been here a few times when camping in Edale and have never had anything to complain about. The food has always been nice (but then when isn't it after a day of walking?!) and the staff are friendly and polite. There is also a nice beer garden around the back.
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The beer tastes like the lines havn't been cleaned for weeks on end, and the man with the blonde spiked hair behind the bar was far too rude to be facing customers. Through the hour we were there we saw him giving verbal abuse to staff, generally being rude to customers and look at himself in the mirror.
Will not be returning here!!
anonymous - 7 Jul 2006 23:39 |
Went in on a weeday last week, first time for a couple of years. Not impressed. Had to take the first pint back to the bar - it was opaque and had that home brew yeasty taste about it. Landlord didn`t like the criticism his first response was ` no one else has complained about it this evening` i half expected to hear the `whats the matter with it? its real ale` he poured out a sample examined it and told one of the staff to give me a pint from another pump. Overpriced menu, east european bar staff i think (no, i am not a xenophobe) and zero atmosphere - 11 o`clock closing - just in case you may forget the time the staff sweep the floor around your table and the clean the ashtray that you havn`t finished with. Listed as one of THE 100 greatest british pubs - yeah right.
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Visited it begining of May 2006. Beer very good, prices very good and a good atmosphere. A good mix of locals and visitors. Bar staff eastern european. Well worth a visit if in the area.
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I must say I have always enjoyed my beer here - it is good ale in a great looking pub. Food has always been very dissapointing though and a major let down. Service is always good. I understand that it's being refurbished at the moment (Feb 2006) - so no doubt another great English pub to the corporate slaughter!
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much better than the other one :-|
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Not too bad, served quite nice Cornish ale. Nice warm fire, and has a tile floor so it's OK if you've still got yer boots on.
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Marginally better than the 'place down the road' but could be so much better.
You've got your marketing completely wrong! Get it right and your customers will come. Oh and Cornish Scuppered Ale is poor stuff and can be bought for �1.00 bottle in the High Street!
A great place just waiting to happen.
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My boyfriend took me to Edale this year as a birthday treat and also an opportunity to get into the deep countryside for some nice pubs and food. We were so disappointed with the Old Nags Head "self catering" offering. It was extremely overpriced at �60 a night, with decrepid furnishings from the 60's and curtains falling off the curtain rails. We couldn't find a remote control for the TV and the heating was either on zero or like an oven. Unbearable. The welcome was atrocious. This pub has the opportunity to pull in punters for miles because of the stunning scenery in the area. As an irish girl visiting the north of england for the first time, I found London a much more welcoming place...and that's saying something! Sorry.
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What an excellent PUB, great staff and a warm welcome from the manager and his wife.Please bear in mind that all those negative comments you are reading were before this couple took over, yes there is a wait for food but they do tell you how long it's going to be before you order (i belive it's a small kitchen) so you have the choice.The beer is excellent and the accomodation is good....go on give it a try and enjoy yourselves..........Thankyou
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A lovely building in a fantastic position. I went here for a meal earlier this month with two friends. The first meal came out within seconds, (obviously microwaved), the other two arrived a full 20 minutes later!! The beer was also very bland and flavourless. Half of the pub is a 'family room' with cartoon characters everywhere. A very tacky and nasty room with no children in sight!! Such a shame. Could be a lovely pub if some thought and effort was put in.
dtp82 - 26 Jun 2005 22:11 |
Visited the pub for the first time at the summer solstice. Beer was excellent (the guest Cornish Ales products were outstanding). But food was pretty bad. (And there wasn't much on the alleged menu that was actually available.) General ambience was reminiscent of a caravan site hostelry. A shame, as the location is stellar. Worth visiting to quench a hill-going thirst, but stick to the crisps and nuts unless you really are desperate.
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The Nags Head is positioned pefectly for the start of the Pennine way. Having a quaint old charm to the place when you first enter, and of course rambler friendly.
But it all goes down hill from there, the food is very very bland, no imagination whatsoever, I found the staff very abrupt, but they were quite busy.
The choice of beers is ok, but only just.
The two pubs in Edale are very dissapointing to say the least. They have gone down hill rapidly in recent years, it doesn't surprise me at all that they have the same owners.
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The Nags Head was like finding an oasis after climbing Jacobs Ladder and the walk to the 'non existant waterfall', "who turned the stop cock off"
The food was very good and the punters were very entertaining as most were lesbians or not sure if they were Martha or Arthur. We were the only 'straights' in the village!
anonymous - 24 May 2005 11:49 |
Always been disappointed with the food offered. often after a long and sometimes wet walk
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Piers and Mr A - One starts the Pennine Way on the Scottish borders and finishes at Edale.
Any beer and tucker tastes good after THAT long walk.
Agree though that the Old Nags Head could do more to welcome the really tired traveller in the way of food. Friendly fries just don't make a good pub meal
Gari - 10 Sep 2004 14:11 |
Although a quaint Pub in an excellent location I was very dissapointed with the food,it was bland and appeared to be straight out of a microwave, quantity was not a problem but certainly not worth the money.I could not understand why the Lounge was closed on a Saturday night when the Pub was very busy with lots of people having to stand ???. Bar staff were very friendly. Please get the food right it really lets the place down.
Mr A Knowles - 6 Sep 2004 21:12 |
Ok if all you want is beer, tho the local cider (Grays) wasn't anything special. The food was terrible, certainly the worst meal I've ever had in a pub. One person received their meal over half an hour before the rest of us (two of whom had simply ordered chips). A local explained that the pub was now chain-owned and existed simply to fleece tourists (it's well listed as the 'start' of the Pennine Way - a long distance walk). Unfortunately there's little other choice in Edale as the only other pub, The Ramblers, is owned by the same company and is apparently closed outside of the tourist season.
Ian - 7 Jul 2004 20:04 |
The ideal starting point for the fitter drinker, being right at the start of the Pennine Way. Now that really would be a marathon pub crawl! A bit too far between stops for my liking, though.
Piers - 1 Mar 2004 18:57 |
