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Used to lve this pub would always pop in on a night out as never over crowded could allways get a table up the back - friendly staff.
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Sit yourself in one of the bay windows (if you can, it gets busy here) and watch the world go by. You might even see Chris Ewbank park his Hummer out the front and get swarmed with adoring fans (he loves it!). Food great, really cheap and cheap wines too. Beer good. Lovely panneled walls and pictures all over the ceilings, could give you a stiff neck looking at them all though. The sort of place I can take my mum to!! and have!
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well worth a visit, can get busy......but that makes the place even better. Good beer, bottels etc.
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I live on the outskirts of Brighton and often catch a bus into town for a pint and some food. This is our current favourite (my wife likes the large Bombay Sapphire gin for just a pound extra) with pleasant, helpful bar staff and three well-kept beers: Harveys Sussex Best, Bass and Spitfire.
It can get very busy, but the staff keep the beers coming. Gets quite smoky despite the air-con, but there is a large smoke-free room at the rear. From next summer there won't be a problem for the likes of me....
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Had a little break in Brighton and found this pub after wandering around the lanes.Had a great Sunday roast and even got tempted into the treacle pud even though I was full from gorgeous roast beef.Staff were really friendly and efficient and the wine and food were a really good price.It restored my faith in the great British pub.And I should know;I run one
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Good, decent little pub in nice area of Brighton.
Food was pretty good and not too pricey - £5.50 for sausage and mash. Staff very helpful - offered to ring my mate if they found his lost sunglasses.
Be prepared for long wait for food during tourist season - had to wait an hour, but were told of this in advance.
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One of the better pubs in this part of the lanes. Well styled and furnished, full of tourists as usual but still worth a visit.
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Nice cozy pub with a good atmosphere. Lovely mulled wine in the winter. Great to sit in the window seats and watch the world go by. Not the best place for food, more a drinking place.
anonymous - 13 Dec 2005 18:00 |
No response from sianpower to a personal message I sent in defence of staff at this pub (or was it an April Fool posting in the first place?)and also offering details of the quiz night if he/she wanted them. Phone a City centre pub on a Friday lunchtime and you might find them a leetle bit busy to deal with enquiries about a Wednesday night!!
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SOoooooooooo rude.... I just called to enquire about their pub quiz nights on Wednesday.. and guy who answered the phone jsut said...Ehhh can ya phone back layr... I wont thanks very much!!!!!!!
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v. friendly staff, cosy atmosphere - not sampled the food yet, but get more and more tempted to do so every time I visit.
Quiz night on a Wednesday is fun - unfortunately not getting to that particular as regularly as I would like but that should change soon.
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In the years following Dr Richard Russell’s (1750) Dissertation on the use of sea-water in the affections of the glands, both drinking and bathing in the saline stuff was popularly presumed to have therapeutic effects, especially for suffers of fever, consumption, cancer, ruptures or madness. The pub is named after the 18th century timber framed building that stood on the site and housed a hand-operated contraption used to pump the sea-water cure ashore to the surrounding hostelries. Publicity information on the pub’s menu remarks that the cellars are of medieval origin and that the initials of a Miss Elliot, purchaser of the property in 1766, are still visibly inscribed into the stone fireplace in the bar. The 18th century shop-like frontage remains today; the first floor brickwork is painted jet black, while the two large bow widows on the ground floor face onto the heart of the Lanes. The traditional, wooden panelled interior comprises an area to the left with a TV and smaller room to the right, on the ceiling of which is displayed an assortment of old prints and cartoons, new and old photographs, and a framed selection of the famous Brighton Rock confectionary. Both areas lead into a rear room. Beers are Interbrew Draught Bass, Fullers London Pride and Harveys Best Bitter. My pint of the Bass takes a while to begin to clear; but although it remains slightly hazy nonetheless smells distinctly hoppy, tastes OK, and retains its head until the end of the glass. The Pump House was GBG listed in 1996/1997 and again in 2001/2002. (Spring 2004)
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Multi roomed pub on historic site in the Lanes. Good pint but fairly long wait for standard food
lout_from_the_lane - 4 May 2004 13:30 |
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