Thomas Lord, West Meonback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Definately a gastropub - but we didn't get the chance to pay any price for the food, as we could not be fed without a booking (on a Saturday evening). Lucky there is another pub in the village. Having said that the choice and quality of the beers on offer was excellent so we came back after eating. Surprisingly the beer was an almost realistic £2.80 per pint.
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Hampshire Pub of the year 2008. All food locally sourced hence a little pricey although you do get what you pay for. Great ambience, nice staff.
Split between best time of year to visit. Summer for the excellent garden and outside bar or winter for the real log fires and deep settees!!
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Lovely meal good service, but very pricey for the size off the meals. Wont be going back in a hurry!!!!!
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A nice local atmosphere. A real effort is made with the food although a tad pricey for a pub. A commendable effort to support local suppliers. Attentive staff. A quick wipe with a cloth/apron over the table to remove evidence of previous incumbant before laying down the silver would be nice. Nice to have linen napkins. They'll see me again. Well maintained beer too.
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Stopped for lunch on on very cold Saturday lunchtime. Staff very pleasant and friendly. Excellent food - we can recommend the beef faggots and the lentil 'spouts' (very good for veggie food which is a rare find), and not overpriced. I disagree that it's 'pretentious' (see below) I think they are simply make a decent effort to get away from the standard chips-with-everything pub fare. Excellent and well kept beers straight from the keg.
As the afternoon darkened early, a member of staff lit all the candles in the dining room - what a lovely touch. Highly recommended.
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Nice pub with excellent beer fro local breweries. The Triple F Moondance was sublime.Food very expensive and a bit pretentious, so went for a meal at the Hampshire Bowman instead.
anonymous - 11 Nov 2007 13:34 |
Excellent pub with great food. Service is not the quickest but food always worth waiting for.
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Went to the thomas lord on saturday,,beer was good but main reason we went was for the food and it was worth it, all locally sourced and very good value, if you like food and beer in a warm freindly pub then get yourself to the thomas lord.
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Draws on its association with the eponymous founder of Lord's cricket ground and former resident of West Meon with plenty of cricketing memorabilia, but not overpoweringly so. More to the point, it's an absolutely tremendous country inn: roomy, comfortable, with a nicely weathered assortment of furniture, including big leather armchairs, many pulled up to fires which blaze through the winter. Friendly, chatty and, it would appear, a matey dog at every table, which may not be standard but was a nice touch on the day that we were there. Excellent range of beers, including favourites from the Triple F brewery in Alton. Tempting short menu, drawing on local suppliers - when we dropped by for lunch, smoked haddock stovie topped with a fried egg and a dash of chilli hit the spot very nicely. Good for lunch, dinner, or just idling away a few hours with beer and the papers. Lovely.
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Open fire. Lovely pint of Abbot's Ale. Lovely barstaff (well, the girls are), lots of cricket paraphenalia (Thomas Lord is the bloke who Lord's cricket ground is namedd after).
MarkM - 27 Feb 2006 17:17 |
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