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Great pub - 6 beers on when I was there, rising to 13 on a weekend and 15 at beer festivals.
Food also very good, try the beef and ale pie or boar burger.
Highly recommended!
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A real buzz in here the other Sunday evening. Busy, friendly and very good range of real ales. Had a great evening with good food and chatty neighbours - all of us just passing through.
Went round the back to the other bar to see the handpumps and beer choice and found an impromptu gig going on. All brilliant fun and memorable.
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are there two clachaigs in glencoe? cos i love the place, it has history, it has soul, it has the finest selection of malt whiskys. you just have to realise the barstaff here have seen everything, and are unlikely to be impressed by your new boots/cagoule and overloud post climb yammerings. this is a climbers pub and can be as welcoming as any eastend london boozer and just as unforgiving. brilliant
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Very possibly the best beer garden in the UK - What a view!!!!!! Always had great menu and great food when ive been. A very interesting bunch of tourists, mountaineers, hikers, walkers and the odd local. I note some comments about the staff - always been good to us though noticeably the staff are t look at those mountains :-)
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Visited the Glencoe area last week - was looking forward to sampling this pub - but VERY disappointed. Terrible service I'm afaid and an uninspiring menu led to us scarpering after just one drink. What a shame!
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Dispite the surly Bar Manager, this is still the best place to go in the Glencoe region and one of the best in the highlands of Scotland.
Live music once a week, up to 10 real ales on busy nights and has the sence to know that a traditional scottish pub is not all about tartan and Kilts.
This is the only place to be on a Saturday night in summer (especially if Box of Bananas are playing!)
Dont let anybody tell you that the kingshouse is better. Its a lie.
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It's a wonderful looking place and the pub is exactly what you want to sit in with your pint after a long walk. However as many of the previous posters have said it is very expensive and friendliness is definately not a premium here which is a pity as it really could be one of the finest pubs in the country.
When I was there I went in for a pint after a long walk and the pub was empty apart from a scattered few who looked at me like I had come in to crap in the corner, after I finished my pint I put it on the bar out of politeness which prompted the barman to say "Jesus there's always f*cking one isn't there?" to his mate next to him.
Did I break some unwritten rule? Is it offensive in some parts to put your pint on the bar when finished to save the barman the walk to your table? I don't know but there was no need for that and it was well out of order.
Anyway next time I walk Glencoe I'll be staying elsewhere, for 36 quid a night you should expect more than this.
Pity because it could be a legendary pub.
anonymous - 27 Apr 2006 14:41 |
Wins on atmosphere, location & number of ales for the Highlands. Bands normally good too, or at least entertaining! Loses on average food & the slight feeling that you're merely being "processed" for profit rather than welcomed. Still one of THE classic pubs in the country, on the right night.
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Fantastic location and history. Food expensive and uninspiring.
Bar staff can be hit and miss. Some are excellent - very professional and great fun, others seem to think customers think it flattering to be on the receiving end of barbed quips and put downs. Invariably the customers turn out to be wittier.
Still, it is more fun than the Kingshouse - I have enjoyed a rectal probe more than that place.
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This pub is trading on past reputation. The beer is good and it is quite nice inside. This is all ruined by the expensive food which is poor and the attitude of the staff.
The manager is very rude especially to students he quite happily swears at you and is generally horrible. The rest of the staff are not much better.
Go to the kings house along the road its much better.
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Unfriendly, not what you'd expect from a pub in an area such as this.
anonymous - 30 Jan 2006 16:06 |
Good accomodation but getting very lack lustre now. The place trades on it's walker friendly attitude but a recent incident has tarred my opinion of the place. A climber, who had obviously fallen was refused food at 9pm after just staggering in off the hill. Not very good!
The menu is very dated and is not of the best quality and the beer is very hit and miss - often they run all the beers down so there are only one or two real ales on.
Excellent selection of malts - one of the best I've seen and the prices are not to steep.
A warm but often very smokey place (soon to change with new legislation), there is not sufficient seating to accommodate diners on busy days.
The place seems to trade on it's reputation - prices are generally very high (36.00 per person per night) as are the food prices. Combine that with the current attitude of the staff and the lack of seating means that the pub soon won't have a reputation to trade on. Ally that to the fact that there are some other fine pubs and eating houses close by means that the standards of the place need to pick up.
Rich
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Brilliant pub and they serve 3 Sisters ale, but get there quick 'cus it's standing room only after 9pm. I think it's the best pub in Argyll. A+++++
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Awesome pub and well worth the walk. Has the most enormous pool table I have ever seen along with a huge range of single malts and a varied selection of scottish bitters.
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This is the perfect walkers/climbers/outdoor types pub. They don't really mind you coming in with wet stuff on and drying off by the fire whilst enjoying a nice pint and one of their excellent square meals. They also have a dizzying array of single malts if that's your thing! Wonderful atmosphere, perfect place to exchange your stories of the time you nearly died on the hill. Occasionally they have live music on, which is a good thing.
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