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Place is really given over to food with with most tables laid up with cutlery and wine glasses. Small not particularly comfortable area for non eaters. There is extensive seating outside if the weather is nice although near a very busy road
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I am not too sure if this is a pub anymore or a restaurant.
It has one small bar area for wet sales and the rest of the extended building is given over to food. Indeed it advertises itself as 'Mezze' at the Ship & Castle. Mezze is apparently a chain of restaurants operating out of Bristol. It seemed a bit of a soul less place on my visit having long lost many of what would have been interesting features for such an old building.
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Nice beer garden, plush soft furnishings, scented tealights, and that's where the good stuff ends.
3 customers in when I entered, none when I left. Seems dedicated to posing and little more. �3.40 for a pint of fizzy Stowford Press cider when the next pub up sells a beautiful draught Thatchers cider for �1.30 less is an indication of why the latter pub was much busier!
And for all the fancy flourishes, the Gents toilet was skanky.
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Very pretentious but unfortunately this pub doesn't deliver on quality.
We went for a family get-together on a Saturday lunchtime.
Food was expensive and quite poor. I had a rarebit, which was actually 3 pieces of untoasted french bread with a cheese sauce. I expected something decent for �8! I agree with other reviewers that you would expect a good chef at these prices.
I'm not just a moaner - I don't mind paying the price for good food - but this wasn't!
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Stayed here for one night and was really disappointed. Bar area looks great but is way overpriced for what it is. �16-17 for a main course in a pub is absurd. Had a coq au vin which tasted like mango chutney. Was absolutely vile and had to scrape the sauce off the chicken. Wine very expensive, seemed a bit ridiculous to be paying London prices at a pub in a pretty average area. Breakfast in the morning even worse. Particularly didn't enjoy being wolfwhistled whilst I ate my dinner but their own chef.
Would rather sleep in my car than stay here again.
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BEER THE FIRST ONE IN THIS AREA TO REACH �4 YES FOUR POUNDS , OR AT LEAST THATS WHAT 2 HALVES OF ABBOT ALE COST ME THE OTHER NIGHT . I SUPPOSE A PINT MIGHT HAVE COST �3.98 .
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Pitched as a gastropub but sadly this appears to be way out of their league. At these prices I'd like to see an innovative, experienced and professionally trained chef to lead the way with the food. Each of our dishes were disappointing and some were downright stingey. Why bother offering side dishes if you only serve 8 chips. Also in desperate need of friendly, knowledgeable waiters and bar staff. When I asked for some beer recommendations for our overseas guest, the mature barman replied: "I don't know. I don't drink beer". They would do better to concentrate on the gastropub essentials rather than quirky touches such as: water jug loaded with 10 slices of fruit; bill served in a old fashioned gold purse. Get a life!
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Visited recently having not been for a few years. I think that this pubs conversion to the dark side (a restaurant with a bar, rather than a pub serving drinks) is now complete. Hence the pretty expensive bar list. Have not tried the food so cannot comment but what was coming out of the kitchen seemed well received. The biggest selling point has to be the large garden which is fantastic for a sunny Sunday afternoon.
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Popped in for a quick drink and, looksy.Have to say well overpriced food. I would like to see a classic trained chef at these prices..Obviously done out alright, Need to canvass the area and get the marketing right????
Better to sell 20 steak ale pies at �10 rather than very few at �14.This old selling addage is Food for Thought
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Agree with stage1, they certainly seem to have increased the prices since my previous visit, with all the mains now being around the �14 - �16 mark. It's a shame, at the previous tenner it was pitched about right, now it's trying to compete with decent restaurants and that's not what it is.
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As previously stated, been redecorated to a very high standard ans is now very much a gastropub. whilst the place looks great i found that the staff were very young and inexperienced (not knowing what half of the stuff on the menu was) and pretty sloppy. The food was very expensive (�14 for a beef and ale pie!) and whilst tasty and home-cooked, not worth the sort of money charged for it. beer selection was OK, looks like a GK tied house perhaps. Worth a visit for a drink, but doubt i will eat there again due to pricing.
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This has recently been done out, and well worth a visit. To be honest it had gone down hill in recent years and was a bit of a dump, but now it looks totally different. OK, so it's a bit gastropubby with the obligatory pine wood, etc, etc, and it is obviously food led, but there's still a bar area to enjoy a quiet pint.
The menu wasn't at all bad, with most of the mains being around the �10 mark. More than basic pub grub, but could be a lot worse. The (very) young staff were polite and helpful, and the landlord/manager seemed genuinely interested in what we thought (we unknowingly visisted on the first Saturday after reopening) and spent a few minutes chatting with us.
They could do with a better choice of beers having just the usual Greene King selection of IPA, Old Speckled Hen, etc. And why bring a cider in from Hereford when Thatcher's are two miles up the road and brew far superior products?
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