Lion and Unicorn, Kentish Townback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
I paid a brief visit to this pub at 1330 today. It is under new management, and I had the pleasure to meet the new manager, a welcoming lady from the Midlands.
Visitors to the Lion & Unicorn will find plenty of space both inside and out, and a traditionl, warm interior featuring a wooden bar. There is a large smokers' area in the front garden, and a pleasant beer garden with a tent.
The rear of the pub is spacious and contains the dartboard and pool table.
No real ale is presently available, but there are three handpumps which the landlady intends to bring into use as soon as viable. She stated she has run a real ale pub [the Moot] in Nottingham and is very keen to reintroduce real ale to the L&U if enough local trade could be canvassed. She also plans to reintroduce food to the pub.
The upstairs houses a theatre which stages plays each weekday apart from Monday, and for details of any shows you are advised to contact the pub directly.
The Lion and Unicorn has had a chequered past, but under new, keen management it deserves a chance, and all the support and encouragement it can get in order that it can make a success, not only of real ale, but as a pub generally.
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I paid a brief visit to this pub at 1330 today. It is under new management, and I had the pleasure to meet the new manager, a welcoming lady from the Midlands.
Visitors to the Lion & Unicorn will find plenty of space both inside and out, and a traditionl, warm interior featuring a wooden bar. There is a large smokers' area in the front garden, and a pleasant beer garden with a tent.
The rear of the pub is spacious and contains the dartboard and pool table.
No real ale is presently available, but there are three handpumps which the landlady intends to bring into use as soon as viable. She stated she has run a real ale pub [the Moot] in Nottingham and is very keen to reintroduce real ale to the L&U if enough local trade could be canvassed. She also plans to reintroduce food to the pub.
The upstairs houses a theatre which stages plays each weekday apart from Monday, and for details of any shows you are advised to contact the pub directly.
The Lion and Unicorn has had a chequered past, but under new, keen management it deserves a chance, and all the support and encouragement it can get in order that it can make a success, not only of real ale, but as a pub generally.
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when Nick & Jane ran this pub it was under very unfriendly and actually quite nasty management. Therefore bringing in new people had to be a good thing eh?.... AH NO!
Talk about running what could be a lovely little pub and earner into the gutter! Bev is soo unfriendly and rude and her partner is a complete alckie who takes all year to serve you. If the brewery had any sense at all they would take a look at their recent takings and think to themselves - okay something is going well here. The pool team were driven out because Bev decided to Barr the captain for telling a rude joke (hello its a pub you run love, not a nursery) even the old staff cant stand her. Jukes was a lovely girl and a complete assestt to the place - where has she gone?
Its actually quite sad - I live very close to this pub and it would be lovely if the brewery could get their act together and bring in the type of friendly yet firm management that this place needs in order to live up to its potential of being a perfect, residential local - 4 now 4get it - Id rather stay at home.
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This fairly large, spacious traditional style Victorian corner pub is set in a leafy residential street far enough away from the hustle and bustle of the main road to remain largely ignored by those with little sense of venturing into the back streets. My previous visit was only memorable for 3 redundant hand pumps and a sozzled up local who insisting on holding an indecipherable conversation while I tried to get served. Given the subsequent postings regarding new management I recently returned to see what, if anything, has changed. Firstly there were no signs of anyone worse for wear propping up the bar which can only be a good thing and secondly the 3 redundant hand pumps are now down to 2 albeit the London Pride occupying the third pump was, at best, barely drinkable. One of the pool tables has been removed but apart from that the place is pretty much as it was and probably has been for years. The interior is a bit dated and tired but sometimes this can be part of a pubs charm. There are several wonderful brewery and whiskey mirrors but the abundance of cheap plastic flowers doesn’t do the place any favours. The rear pool and darts area is partly screened off by an isolated fireplace and there are several fruit and quiz machines dotted about as well as a juke box. The bare floors add to the basic approach and with a bit of imagination and better quality beers the place could be quite appealing. There is a shady patio at the rear and sectioned off tables under umbrellas at the front. As things stand it is a useful place to know if you want to lose the crowds and are not fussy about the beers. Otherwise it’s not really worth making a big effort to find.
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the lion and uni is a shithole its went way down hill the beer is dear and very flat the bar staff is slow and the new management is diabolic i would not reccomened this place to any1
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Used to be my local and was a great pub before the change of managment. Reasonable prices and always a good laugh. Very welcoming and you could always find a friendly face in there. But the new managment have driven out the regulars that made the pub what it is by being unfriendly, unreasonable and generally making it not a fun place to be. I play for the pool team on a Monday and i find myself not wanting to go. Any pub managment that treats their regulars that badly shouldn't be allowed to be in charge. Bring back Nick and Jane!
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Nice unpretentious place for a relaxing pint and a game of pool (two tables!) in the afternoon. Unlike many "local" pubs the regulars are a friendly bunch and embrace strangers rather than snarl at them. Informed by one of the regulars that the pub has gone downhill since the recent change of ownership. Not having been before the takeover, I am unable to comment on the accuracy of this. Good pub though. Well worth a visit.
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