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Popular restaurant and hotel. Fortunately there is a proper bar, which sells the local Brancaster Brewery beers (one of only three such pubs). However I had Adnams Ghostship which was fine. As might be expected bar food is also available. My friends and I had a selection of sandwiches, again nothing special. Lots of staff, so swift service. Overall, very professionally run..
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Walked here from Overy Staithe on Saturday last: great oysters as usual! Good house wine ... excellent, quick service and a cheerful ambience.
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Good pub. Okay beer. Awesome selection of gin - and boy, do they know how to serve them!
Seefood sharing platter is amazing
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We visited for a refreshing pint whilst on the coastal walk and were not disappointed. We sat in the immaculate front bar and enjoyed some excellent Wherry bitter but as we were on a long walk we didn't stay to eat but plan to return for that in due course.
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Very well cooked food and excellent ale - Woodforde's Great Easter(n) is my beer of the Spring so far. Not especially cheap but good value for the quality. Sat in the relatively cosy bar area - the conservatory restaurant does indeed have fantastic views over coastal delights, but booking seemed advisable. Something of a must, with the rating here being spot on.
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Still up to scratch. Great oysters!
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I think this is a great pub, and totally agree with the comments below. The view from the back deck / verandah is of the salt marshes, staithes and distant sea is amazing. The food was stunning, reasonably priced and the staff helpful and friendly. When we visited in July 12 it was around 25 degrees which always helps. Beers were the ever present Wherry and Adnams Ghost ship, both which are quite acceptable. Highly recommended...
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Great views from the back terrace looking over the salt marshes and distant sea. More of a bar and restaurant than a pub but still OK to pop in for a pint. Nicely furnished and modern interior with efficient and curteous staff.
Brancaster Best and a few other ales, in good nick.
Food was good quality restaurant standard and definitely not pub grub. Nice but small-ish portions (given the price). Somewhere to go for a nice meal or snack in relaxed surroundings rather than just to stoke the furnace.
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Very good lunch on Saturday - came on from the Ship. More realistic prices here.
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Food was very good if expensive. Beer was good too.
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What a location! View, food and service all excellent. The local oysters were the best I've had in ages. Children very welcome and offered something more than sausage & chips!
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Visited a few times whilst on holiday in BS. Excellent pub. Good pubby bar, well kept ale (at least four beers on - Brancaster, Woodforde's etc), good food and excellent view from the outside terrace. Would recommend a visit.
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Visited for a swift half on the way up the road to the Jolly Sailor's beer festival, and were impressed by the beer (Brancaster Best and at least two others) and the view over the tidal creaks so came back for Sunday lunch in the conservatory restaurant. The food was excellent and the service pretty good. We paid just under �50 for two mains, desserts and wine. Feels like the Jolly Sailor's slightly posher big sister.
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Good friendly pub that gets the sun on the front in afternoons - was there last week and did a bit of walking along coast path - hot! As for the pub - real ale on offer, I had Brancaster Best which I was told is brewed for them by Iceni Brewery - it was very nice. Also own the Sailors down the road which is a bit different and equally good if not slightly better - both well worth a visit.
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Made it last, earlier this week. Yes - very good: fantastic collection of local photographs and, of course, breathtaking views. Curious looking guest-rooms at the back - like Hobitholes under a kind of roof garden. I hope they don't flood at high tide!
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Great pub, and very proud to have it as my local! Basically the owner has got a good handle on how to run a quality pub, and has turned the White into a friendly pub at the front with an award winning restaurant out the back.
Quiet off-season, but still friendly and homely. Rammed in summer months with tourists, sailors, locals and hordes of clueless rich kids.
Recent additions are abar food menu (rather than just food in restaurant) and a spacious outside seating area.
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The White Horse - gr8 pub! We couldn't get a table in the restaurant here last friday night, its that popular! We did get a bar meal tho', dressed crab, which was v.good. Nice atmo, good car park at rear, leading you down passed their chalets to a gr8 coastal path walk (before or after your drinky)! Recommend it!(if you're ever up Norfolk way..!) TJ
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I've not been in yet, but I'm glad to see it made the "coastal" section of the Guardian's good pub supplement this year!
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This place looks like one of those hotels that have a refit to look smart but are incapable of serving decent ale or food.
How wrong I was. The beer was superb, the food likewise, and the prices were very reasonable compared to all my other Norfolk experiences. The staff were friendly and informative - and attractive.
I felt so guilty having got the first impression so wrong, I had to have a couple more before walking some off directly from the pub's back garden. Brilliant location and great views from the terrace.
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This place is owned by the same person who owns a very good gastropub near us in Herts, so I just took my wife for her birthday. Wow !! As a pub it looked okay, with Woodforde's Wherry and Adnams on draught at reasonable prices. The only critical comment I could make was that the bar billiard table was out of order, but at least they had one - they are very rare beasts these days.
But as a place to stay it is superb. Great food, very good rooms ( we had the 'Room at the Top' with magnificent views over the salt marshes and viewing scope provided ), very friendly staff. Perhaps a bit on the pricey side, but we will certainly go back ( at some point in the future !! ) I'm only giving it 9 / 10 because on principle I never give anywhere the full 10.
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Great example of a pub that has re-invented itself, both unsuccessfully and successfully...
Back in the 70's, it was humming-very busy, especially at weekends, a lively, mostly local crowd, all out for a few beers and chicken in a basket of a Saturday evening.
It then lurched towards near closure, empty apart from a few diehards, run down, dull, dank, a bit like Moes bar from "The Simpsons" and seemingly not up to the task of providing a more 'down to earth' challenge to its illustrious neighbour up the road, the "Jolly Sailors".
Someone had to seize the reins of the dying nag then, and boy, did they! It has reinvented itself as a rather fine gastropub with views to die for, an excellent and ambitious food menu that goes far and away above "Sirloin steak with chips or new potatoes and salad, �8.95" (and theres nothing wrong with that, but sometimes you just want MORE!) and which has gone down a storm.
Good beer as well-nicely kept and respected. You should be anthropomorphic with beer, it matters-and it cleary does here. Ask for the "Old Les"-rumour has it, that...etc etc
Worth a visit, but for a drink and a snack, go to the "Jolly"-for a treat, go here.
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Improved no end in the last few years, although the extension lacks a certain something. Lovely looking holiday chalets (seemingly built into the hill) and really superb food. Great views over the marsh to the sea as well. Large selection of beer , which is generally well kept. Had some unusual brews in here.
Pete - 21 Oct 2003 12:04 |
