Three Horseshoes, Elstedback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
interesting good ale will go again
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First the good news - great views, lovely roses in the garden, claen pint of Young's. BUT......unfriendly welcome, grotty garden furniture and not an umbrella in sight on one of the hottest days of the year. Bland salads with the cheapest processed chicken pennies can buy. Like tea at your nan's , circa 1973. Rip-off.
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this pub is FANTASTIC - delicious food, great atmosphere and lovely welcome from the staff. we were a mixed group of 12 cycling the south downs way and cant recommend this pub highly enough!
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Fabulous view, charming warm welcome, delicious food and well-kept beer - the Flowerpots is delicious.
The garden is amazing - must return when the roses are in bloom.
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Lucky enough to visit this place on a mild spring day and enjoy the garden when it was busy but not packed. The Flowerpots was excellent and had to return to the bar two more times to make the best of it. Had a great ploughmans too.
Decided to have dinner there that night (wife and I staying nearby in Minstead) after we had had a dreadful experience in another pub a few miles away the night before. Glad we made this choice as the food and atmosphere waas excellent. we were sat facing the huge fire and enjoyed some excellent venison. This was good hearty pub grub yes, but very well cooked and presented and certainly not overpriced.
Anyone who likes their country pubs to be authentic and traditional then I think you'll be happy here. If you want to know which pub local to this that we had one of the worst meals ever, then look at my list of reviews.
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Had a lovely couple of pints of Cheriton's Flowerpots bitter in the garden today - it really is a wonderful place to spend a sunny afternoon, with views of the Downs and roses. The crab salad was bit pricey but excellent.
I understand some of the points which mainly relate to the bar area being a bit small, and being a victim of its own success, but the plus's far outweigh the minus's.
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This pub attracts because of the view over the downs but in every other respect it is a disappointment. Many of the dishes are outrageously overpriced for what they are, in particular the salads. It turned out that £13 bought four scallaps and half a piece of bacon, not to mention the after effects associated with dodgy seafood. I will not be returning.
anonymous - 2 Aug 2007 12:25 |
Ancient pub, great atmosphere, spectacular views over the downs from the garden, really very good. Food is classic British... Sussex lamb cutlets, Selsey crab, Scottish mussels, lobster salad, venison, Dover sole, and some extremely toothsome puddings. Beers are from the barrel, wine list is short but good. Manages to cater to both the real ale and the champagne crowd (it's within the gravitational pull of both Goodwood and Cowdray Park) while maintaining its own identity. This is a gastropub dating from years before anyone coined the term, and full of brisk confidence. A local great with which the myPetersfield team is blushingly smitten. Definitely a pub to settle down with.
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Superb. Plenty of room in garden on 4 Feb with views of Downs. Got lunch in 2 secs, gourmet cottage pie, bacon in it and leeks in the potato topping, will revisit and I hardly ever go to pubs.
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Agree 100% You'd be better off going to The Elsted Inn
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I agree with the other reviews. The beer is excellent, straight out of the cask. It is a lovely garden with wonderful views of the downs. The only problem I have with the place is the time it takes to get served. Even if there is only one person in front it will still take forever. It attracts the type of customer who don't know what they want until being served and then have to ask their friends what they want, and they won't have decided. Bloody frustrating!
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It is an affluent area in which this pub nestles, and so one has to expect a few range rover drivers. However, notwithstanding the generally middle to upper-class background of some of the clientele, this pub is none the worse for it, and it remains thoroughly charming. There is much room in my heart for earthy, honest, no-frills boozers, but equally there must be high regard for civilised picturesque rural pubs that pride themselves not only on their beer (there is usually at least 2 ales delivered direct from cask) but also their food, which I have to say is excellent. I have never tasted a venison pie quite like the one I enjoyed here! All food is home-cooked and sourced from good local ingredients wherever possible.
The views across the South Downs only add to the charm of the place, along with the colourful garden, free-range chickens roaming, and in Autumn, that gorgeous aroma of burning wood from the real log fire indoors.
The only drawback? It gets very busy and in a way is a victim of its own success. You'll need to book for a meal in advance, and check opening times as I am bound to say they're not the most generous.
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Lovely garden, one of the best views of the South Downs you're ever likely to encounter. Nice beer, nice food.HOWEVER, the gaffer doesn't like too much work, so closes a lot of the time. Gets very full of Range Rover types who wouldn't know a pub from a restaurant with a beer concession
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