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Delightful C18th coaching house. Access under the arch and through a porch - where towels are provided for wet dogs. Inside, its low ceiling and narrow - which on a bank holiday led to a cramped feel - with a small bar barely able to cope with the three staff and punters lined up ordering food for many.
Three real ales on and the reason I was here was because its in the 2019 Good Beer Guide. A perfect Allendale Brewery Curlew's Return red ale.
Taken outside to their beautiful beer garden, with views over the estuary.
Just before the rain started :-)
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Coaching inn in the lovely port of Alnmouth. There are 2 rooms - 1 is a traditional bar and the other a dining area. At the rear is an outdoor terrace. I arrived on a Thursday morning and was the first customer. With no staff around, I had to ring bell for service. Ales were Black Sheep Best Bitter, Credence Blonde, Roosters Yankee & Cumberland Great Corby Stout. I chose the stout which was nice. A Thistly Cross cider was available on keg. Nice pub in a nice town.
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Reading the rveiws am wondering if they are describing the same place. More like a restaurant and all the tables were reserved - only place for drinkers was outside where there were a crowd of screaming children running about. Gave it a miss.
anonymous - 5 Oct 2014 10:56 |
Very good pub! Real ales were terrific, friendly barstaff (knowledgable for young 'uns!) and a 'proper pub' feel to it. Prices a bit on the high side, but well worth it.
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Lucky enough to visit this lovely pub twice recently whilst on a short holiday in the area. Excellent atmosphere & very good service. Black Sheep plus 3 local ales - Farne, Lizzie's tipple and another one, I think from Home Farm brewery but may be wrong. Barman just offered a sample glass of each without us asking: how often do you find that? Some good whisky on the shelf too. The food looked good too and at reasonable prices. Would love to have this pub as a local! I rate it a 10! Sadly we had to miss the beer festival at the weekend.
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Best beer pub in the village. Excellent ales from a constantly changing selection of local breweries
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We stayed here for 3 nights in August. Pretty good - nicely furnished accommodation (if not especially cheap), on the whole good food and beer including Black Sheep, Farne Ale and a rotating guest beer. Staff were enthusiastic, friendly. Got most things right so wouldn't hesitate to recommend on the evidence of our visit.
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On Wednesdays from 5-8pm they do a selection of tasty pies for around �8. It's great value for a classy product. Both the farmhouse-style restaurant and traditional bar are very pleasant. The garden is also another big draw on a nice day, boasting estuary views for those lucky enough to find a place on the raised deck at the far end. Beers: Farne and Black Sheep, both well kept.
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Still a great pub , just how English pubs should be , warm , welcoming and friendly. good beer at reasonable prices and excellent food.
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Excellent traditional style pub with good selection of beers and first class food. Highly recommended
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I dropped in with my wife one evening after a long walk and found that I had to wait ages to get served due to the large number of food orders being processed. My wife and I each had a pint of Gladiator, which was excellent, but I had to drag myself down a long path to the beer garden where my wife decided to sit - it must be one of the most remote beer gardens from the pub that I have encountered and I was lucky not to have spilt half the beer. Despite this, it is well worth a visit and I will make a point of sitting inside next time, ignoring my wife's wishes. One point to note though is that food was being sent back by the people on the adjacent table, as it hadn't been heated up properly. So it might be best to avoid the food, although it looked O.K.
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I stubbled upon this pub after fishing one day in alnmouth, The ale is kept to a very high standard, and as many people have said about the 70's Outhouse style toilets well, they are are gone! well they have replaced they with new clean warm toilets a very nice improvement indeed (well done Landlady). the Staff are very friendly and warming to your needs. I rate this pub a 10 out of 10. Keep up the good work.
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This is a lovely pub! Pleasant and relaxing, good food and beer, and individual.
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Fantastic and how true was last comment , well said mate!!
Went in after a walk on the beach with our dogs , gave us towels to dry them :really friendly. Great beer and food and a great quiz on Tuesdays. Definately will visit many times!!!
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Happened upon this pub by chance as was staying in the village, but it has left such a lasting impression upon me that I would make the journey back up there just to pop in for a visit.
Amazing traditional pub. Main lounge room was full of people drinking real ale, a roaring log fire and plenty of dogs. Lovely relaxing atmosphere and exceptionally friendly staff who remembered us throughout our visit.
Used the main bar alot for just drinks. Contrary to other reviews here, I felt like there was no pressure at all to give over tables to diners. This pubs is about quality beer as well as quality food and staff were nothing but attentive to what you wanted, rather than shifting you to accomodate diners. It's just not that sort of pub.
Also, my family of 6 ate in the main dining room one night. Lovely atmosphere, again exceptional service by the staff and the food, oh my god, was outstanding. This chef could keep his own with the best of them out there. Truly beautiful rustic but sophisticated local food. I had gammon that just melted on the fork, my sister had lamb with an exceptional bacon and herb mash and the steak and ale pie my mother have gave me huge food envy.
Go if you're in the area. If you're not, turn your car around and go anyway. Charming.
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Fine 18th century coaching inn on the main street in Alnmouth, leading down to the sea front.
There's a fine wood-pannelled lounge which merits the pubs inclusion in CAMRA's Regional Inventory and a separate restaurant area at the front with attractive stained glass windows, depicting red lions.
At the back through the longish yard, seemingly in a dfferent postcode to the main building, is a garden, which gives fine views over the estuary.
There's also outside toilets for the nostalgia buffs among us.
As with the other pubs in the village - all within a few hundred yards at most - food predominates, but you don't feel uncomfortable, just popping in for a beer or so. It seemed to be convention, if you just wanted a beer, to occupy a stool at the bar, rather than a table, a convention which I was happy to comply this.
Real ales seem to come mainly from micros - try the Wylam Bitter if it's on.
Recommended, well worth a visit
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An old coaching inn with bar through archway. Not the friendliest I,ve been in lately, food seamed more important than beer. Ticked off my list.
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A superb coastal tavern located in one of the most picturesque locations in Northumberland. An old coaching inn, the main bar has a traditional feel with low ceilings, oak beams and 2 roaring log fires. 4 handpulled cask ales are available from local breweries and are always in perfect condition. Adjacent to the bar is an attractive restaurant area that opens in the evenings yet the available menu can be ordered from both rooms. The food is not the cheapest but the portions are large, the choice is ample and varied, and the standards are fantastic, specialising in local seafood and northumbrian raised beef/lamb dishes.
Another major plus is the huge beer garden with a recently decked area that overlooks the river estuary and the fact that dogs are welcome in the bar at anytime, even when food is on the go. My advice would be take a walk up the coast to Boulmer and back (approx 6m), grab a table next to the fire and order a steak & ale pie with a pint of Hadrian & Border. You will feel like you have died and gone to heaven.
The Red Lion also has 4 ensuite rooms available for B&B but if you intend to spend more than a couple of nights in the village I recommend booking one of the numerous cottages as you will save a mint by going self catering.
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Just great - one of the best pubs I have ever been in. Someone here really knows how to keep their beer. The Farne Island ale from the Hadrian And Border micro was sublime, as were the Mordue Workie Ticket and Northumberland Secret Kingdom. The staff were charming with that rare knack of making a stranger feel perfectly at home, and the sing-song accented locals are a friendly bunch. Interior is all knocked-about panelling, heavy oak tables and roaring fires. Food is relatively pricey, but excellent and unpretentious. I even loved the way that a visit to the gent's facilities involved a hike down the yard to an outhouse reminiscent of a 70s campsite. One of the few pubs I've visited that deserves a 10 out of 10.
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Returning to visit this pub after two years it was, again, delightful. There's a relaxed bar area and a second more formal, less pleasant, dining room. We ate in the bar and the food, though a tadge expensive, was very good. There were three micro-brewery beers in good condition on the bar.
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Small and cosy one roomed pub, set in a charming coastal village. There is a separate dining area just off the bar.
Three real ales on our visit: Black Sheep Ale, Houston 'Peter's Well' and Derwent 'Parson's Pledge'. We tried the latter two and they were excellent: Flavoursome, a decent temperature and well pulled.
The beer garden was lovely with a raised decking area at one end. Unfortunately, the adjacent hedgerow was so overgrown that you could only see the estuary if you stood up!
The young lady behind the bar was friendly and efficient.
We could quite happily have stayed for hours.
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One of five pubs in this small village. The beer is always well kept, normally 2-3 real ales and good menu. Child friendly, no smoking policy with excellent beer garden.
If you like a pub to be a pub, i.e adults only and smoky avoid. Otherwise enjoy a real fire in winter, and a beautiful beer hgarden in the summer with great views out to sea.
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