BITE user comments - Jim_G
Comments by Jim_G
Enjoyed my first visit to the Old Silk Mill. The choice and quality of the beer was excellent. Friendly service and locals made it a very pleasant visit all round.
11 Oct 2009 08:36
I visited for the first time yesterday. The beer was very good but the food was disappointing. I had sausage, onions and 'creamy' mash. Perhaps there was some cream in there but the raw onions and large unmashed lumps of spud disguised it!
11 Oct 2009 08:17
Congratulations to the Green Dragon for its inclusion in "The Good Beer Guide". OK, there's more to life than that but it is testimony to the fact that this serves the best beer in Hucknall at the moment.
3 Dec 2007 18:26
Outstanding pub with some of the best beer you'll find anywhere - EPA is superb. A very friendly place and worth going a little out of your way to get there. As David's written, "Fantastic"!
23 Sep 2006 14:26
Great to see that this place has been saved from being converted into offices. They serve a good pint of Bateman's XB here and offer very reasonably priced meals. A warm, welcoming atmosphere and a really nice place to wait for your train home - trouble is, it's easy to miss it!
26 Aug 2006 09:43
The Greyhound, Mansfield Woodhouse
Lovely place. Excellent beer and friendly locals. Met a couple of Germans there last year from Mansfield's twin town, Heiligenhaus. One of them had been coming to Mansfield for 20 years and thought this was the best place around. I did wonder what two Germans were doing in a pub in Woodhouse on a very wet September Saturday afternoon. They loved it and I didn't disagree!
26 Aug 2006 09:40
Really sad that this place has closed. Went there once with friends to be met by a slightly befuddled bloke who insisted on buying everyone a drink, as it was his birthday. We asked for the Sam Smith's but got suspicious-looking Guinness - it was actually Guinness, blackcurrent and Pernod! One of the lads actually drank three of them, which didn't help improve the temper of his then girlfriend! Always an adventure emerging back into the daylight after a good session! Sadly missed. I think I meant 'missed'.
26 Aug 2006 09:34
Had a very nice meal here recently, cooked as I'd asked and the service was really excellent. It was a shame that the hand-pull beer was off on that occasion but I've had a decent pint here in the past.
26 Aug 2006 09:29
Interesting that two people who by their own admission haven't been to the place for years commenting upon the Mallard! C'mon people, this a great place! I'd not been for some months myself until yesterday but was welcomed back very warmly. "It may hold three beer festivals" - it does, the next one being 28th/29th October. I'll be there! And I've always found the staff to be very helpful, always serve a full pint and take care how they keep it.
20 Aug 2006 10:43
Lovely pub, excellent beer (I'm a big fan of the 'Brush Bitter') and first class Thai food. Introduced friends from across Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire to the place and all have enjoyed their visit.
10 Jun 2006 13:46
The Lincolnshire Poacher, Nottingham
I couldn't disagree more with the previous reviewer and question when their last visit was - the toilets had been completely and expensively refurbished by the time of their post. As for expensive beer, the ever-excellent 'Harvest Pale' is �2/pint. Yes, it was a lot cheaper to drink when the summers were always golden, when you could trust your local bobby on the beat and when John Noakes climbed up Nelson's Column for the first time but try finding anything else for that price in the area - and of the same quality.
An excellent pub with a very diverse and ever-entertaining and pleasant clientelle. The bar staff offish? Not in my experience.
10 Jun 2006 13:40
A really good, traditional pub with well-kept beer and good pub grub. Concerning the latter, please note that the portions are generous! Very friendly bar staff and a welcoming atmosphere. Highly recommended!
4 Jun 2006 11:12
Very good pub. Excellent beer and first class food. Don't know about it being "not student friendly" but, let's be honest, that's a good point in its favour! Gives you a reason to walk up that hill!
4 Jun 2006 11:03
Now pour my beer without being asked. A place that is indeed very welcoming with very good food and spot-on beer. See you soon.
4 Jun 2006 10:52
Once went with a visting darts team. They decided to lose. Nuff said.
4 Jun 2006 10:45
Beat its personal best with one smashed window boarded up and two near-misses - just badly cracked. A truly passable pub - keep walking on by.
4 Jun 2006 10:42
Once saw David Attenborough filming as yet unknown to science life-forms in the gents. I think that accounts for the smell.
4 Jun 2006 10:38
The decor is pure 1970s but the Nottingham Ale is spot on. No quibbles about serving a proper measure and a generally warm, friendly atmosphere. A local vicar is a regular!
4 Jun 2006 10:36
I think Brad Pitt filmed "Fight Club" in here. I could be mistaken but it might be as a result of seeing that nice CCTV footage of the machete-wielding folk spilling out of the place!
4 Jun 2006 10:34
Getting a decent pint in Hucknall is not easy - you're far more likely to get one at 'Bargain Booze' than in a pub! However, the Dragon does serve a very good pint. No, it isn't cheap but you have to ask yourself whether paying anything for what comes out of most other places in the town can count as good value.
4 Jun 2006 10:33
The beer is universally cold & tasteless and much the same could be said about the food. For some bizarre reason my family insist on going there for birthdays, etc., highlighting a previously unknown masochistic streak in the genes.
4 Jun 2006 10:29
howiebeat77 - you obviously haven't been there for years! It is a superb pub, serving excellent ale, holding three bear festivals each year! A true community pub, worthy of anyone's time.
26 Sep 2005 20:32
The Three Nuns, Loughborough
Visited for the first time in years but found the beer still to be in excellent condition. Good service, comfortable surroundings and well worth a visit.
11 Oct 2009 19:39