please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
While staying with friends, we went to the Hyde Park on Monday for drinks and supper. First impression was that it reminded me of the Edgar Wallace in London with its iconic old adverts adorning the walls and ceilings. Friendly barmaid served me and I found my Dartmoor IPA very palatable. We ordered food from the varied menu and all three of us thoroughly enjoyed our meals which were decent-sized portions. I'd certainly return to this excellent pub.
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Recently reopened and looks great from the outside. It’s a vast improvement inside, too, although the amount of signs and trinkets on the wall and along the bar borders on the tacky. They apparently do a house beer that’s brewed on site, although it was bizarrely off on our visit so we had to make do with Dartmoor Brewery beers, which was no hardship. Better but there's still room for further improvement.
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Now it isn't going to be flats and is going to re-open as a pub. Possibly it is even open now. Something of a victory for local people! Good luck to it!
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Now closed in the process of being changed to flats.
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Ok place in an interesting location on a busy road junction.
It is fair to say that this is one the the only traditional pubs left on Mutley Plain.
7/10
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A brilliant pub with the added extra of trying to cross the road (the pub is on a roundabout) when plastered at the end of the night!
Good cheap drinks. If you like footie then the big screens are always showing the games so if you don't best to avoid during this time but go there whenever games aren't on.
Amazing juke box too.
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Good for live football especially if you follow the Tims as its the HQ for the Plymouth Celtic supporters club. Rangers shirts NOT recommended on match days. Agree with James - only other pub on the Plain worth visiting after the Fort.
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Decent pub, if a little rough. Along with the Fortesque the only traditional pub left on Mutley Plain. Not that there were ever a lot of them but with the recent influx of Weatherspoons', Hogshead's and the various student bars that pop up every 10 metres you could be forgiven for thinking that Mutley Plain has always been the Mecca of Plymouth drinking. It hasn't, blame the university, but it's certainly brightened this area up.
Good for: pool, proper drinking, being able to hear each other speak, avoiding the drunken Janners in the Mutley Tavern and the students in Goodbody's. But not as good as the Fortesque
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Good pub, friendly atmosphere, nice ladies on the bar, pool table, generally a break from the "studenty" pubs around Plymouth
!@n - 28 May 2002 11:59 |
