Anchor Bleu, Boshamback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
good beer, good food, good location, very helpful staff, but go this time of year it's fine cosy and relaxing, if you go in the summer it's jam packed. but still good
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We've tried this pub twice now and on both occasions been disappointed. It's probably gets sufficient transient customers not to care but when one of the more senior members of staff comes out with comments like "If you are disappointed don't come back, it's only one customer" then you know there's a problem. Nice location, decent pint, food's OK but the attitude stinks.
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Great little pub this, sea views from the terrace and a rural feel inside. Normally a few guest ales on tap, good food and a locals atmosphere. Usually very busy at the weekends
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The last review was spot on since the change in management the pub does the best food and has the best atmostphere around
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Good news. The previous reviews where all spot on until December 2005, not there is a new couple running the pub. I have tried the food twice and its very very nice. They also have up to 4 good ales on tap. The place gets very busy now as a result.
anonymous - 16 Feb 2006 18:05 |
I visited this pub last year for the third or forth time in Six years. It used to be OK, but on my last visit, it has really gone down hill.
I don't know if they have change the management, but if so they need to change it again, for the better.
The food was abysmal, and the miserable bar staff couldn't give a toss.
Even though the tide was out and the weather was lovely (sunny and warm), when I went to open the door to the patio, I was given short shrift from the landlady and ordered to close it again, because it was as she said too windy.
What a shame this could be a gold mine in the right hands.
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Agree with other comments re the food. They really don't know what they are doing. And such a pity for a pub in this fantastic location.
The bitter was fine so I recommend drinking there rather than eating.
Also one of the guys behind the bar was just plain rude and uninterested. Guaranteed to keep customers away. I will keep trying in case things improve
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While the setting is great, and it is an attractive pub, I found the place very dissapointing. We popped in for a quick lunch, and while we didn't sample the beer (due to driving and too many the night before) we obviously tried the food.
The food is what really made the place stand out in the worst way. It was the poorest attempt at catering in a pub I've seen for many years. Myself and a friend chose a ploughman's each, one a stilton version, that other ham. The salad part consistent of a pile of iceberg lettuce, which as we all know is about as flavoursome as distilled water, and a couple of bland tomatoes. The bread was a pretty uninspiring mini french stick, and there was a dollop of coleslaw which has clearly come from a packet. The portion of stilton was pretty small too. For £5 I expect a lot better from a ploughmans, this was worth no more than £2.
My other half chose the daily 'special', which was an 'Ocean Bake'. I assumed this to be some kind of fish pie; a selection of seafood topped with crusty mash potato. It looked very limp and bland, with no discernable pieces of fish or seafood in there at all. This was served with some roast potatoes (why you would want potatoes with a fish pie?), some cabbage and carrots. The vegetables were overcooked and grey, having been sat out for ages. Apart from being a rather inappropriate accompiment to a fish pie, the veg was of a standard 1970s dinner ladies would have struggled to plummet to.
What really got to me with the food was how it was served. The food was kept in hot or cold plates by the bar, so was sitting around for ages. While this might be OK for some types of food, for others, such as cooked green vegetables it results in pretty tired washed out food. Things were obviously not cooked fresh as the day progressed; just knocked together in the morning and left to sit out. Even though they had the food on display, it did not look appetising. As least this gives you the chance to decide not to eat before you get it. I think they chose this system to get food served quickly, as the bar staff basically served up what you chose right away, and you took it to your table.
I really think this place need a good Gordon Ramsey make over to get the catering sorted out. It was very very poor and an insult to the customers. Given the lack of pubs in Bosham and its great position, this place has really taken for granted the one-off passing trade of visitors who are not going to go back again. Bosham deserves something a lot lot better.
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What a great pub. Great Food, Great Drink, Great Location and run by a Great Couple!!!
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It is deemed to date from the 1820s, and was converted from two fishermen’s cottages. The flagstone-floored bar is immediately to the right, a seating area is to the left and, stepping down a level, another seating area with a food counter opens onto a back patio that directly overlooks the harbour. More seating is available on benches in front of the pub. The beer range is limited to Scottish Courage Directors and Best Bitter, along with Greene King IPA. A board also advertises ‘a guest ale’ as well as the above beers by name, but only the three handpumps are evident. I decide to go for half the IPA, but although it is clear as a bell and kept commendably cool – if perhaps too cool – on this very warm day, it has a distinctly harsh, almost metallic, aroma and taste that I personally find quite unpleasant and which makes me shudder as I finish it. Given the tone of some of the letters to What’s Brewing following Greene King IPA’s Silver Medal in this year’s Champion Beer of Britain award, perhaps the pub’s management should be applauded for obtaining any sort of strong reaction to the tasting of what many drinkers obviously believe to be a boringly bland beer.
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The Anchor Bleau (formally The Anchor Inn name change 1939?)was opened by the Martin bros.,circa 1820's from two converted fishermans cotts purveying henty&constable Ales, then passed through several hands once owned by the propietor of its sister inn @ Dell Quay (Crown&Anchor)Was featured in "The Eagle" comic in the fifties as part of Jack O Lantern strip.coming under the banner of GrandMet in the eighties had a hey day under the stewardship of Jeff&Mary mid eighties with good food & live bands notably the icomparable Willie Austen&Co then with several managers since.Bosham once Had 11!pubs 3 in the high st of which 1 remains The Anchor Bleau.A point of historical interest the "Lantern"two doors down from the Anchor Bleu has a mural painted by the American painter Whistler sic., when the pub was a wartime club for nearby Polish Airman, the house now private A glimpse of said may be seen through the window.I cant comment on the pub at present having not been there nearly twenty years.
max - 1 May 2004 13:40 |
Having spent some time in Bosham I can say the food all seems to be heated up frozen veriety. The building is very old and quaint but has more of a tourist feel, it is positively dead in the evenings even at the weekends.
Clive Leek - 9 Dec 2003 15:18 |
A good pub, with very pretty surroundings, chaeck the tide before parking your car in front (the sea comes in and they many pictures on the wall showing this)
stephen - 7 Sep 2002 16:07 |
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