Excellent range of Wye Valley beers at around £2.40 a pint, friendly service, dogs pottering around without a care in the world and a superb curry house across the road. So, can't complain!......Best pub in Hereford by a mile to my untrained eyes.One of the best, if not the best boozer in Hereford.

Walked in a stranger walked out a friend and have always recieved a warm welcome.

Beer good, locals smashin', atmosphere top notch, smoking area second to none!Excellent pub, nice beer garden - make sure you see the fish in small pond ! Thatcher's Heritage @ £ 2.10 a pint went down well - the three ladies serving behind the bar were a credit - must visit place - will definitely be going back

I live in Ledbury, have been to all of the pubs (well, you can count them on your fingers) and this is definitely the best value for food. The best pies I have eaten in a pub in many years. I'm not a beer drinker, though the Belgian strawberry beer isn't THAT awful, but there is certainly a good choice of real ales. Generally nice ambience, welcoming to children and dogs and all the staff are nice.In a picture postcard setting of cobbled street and black & white tudor style buildings you'd expect this to be your usual tourist orientated kind of place but this one came over as being very much a porper decent locals pub. Excellent variety of ales (have forgotten most of them including the ones I had), bottled beers and pretty much most kind of alcoholic beverages. Convivial locals (even if they do tend to hog the bar) though not the place to go in if you have just dropped an anvil on your big toe as they have a no swearing policy.Brilliant pub, doesn't pretend to be anything else, good banter, very welcoming and a pleasure to be in. 6 Real ales on, a good selection from 3,8% up to 5.5% and a revolting Strawberry beer which I only had a sip of. The beers were in excellent condition, served properly and they were fairly priced.How this pub does not win Camra pub of the year is amazing.

home of hereford brewery was in tuesday night there was a fairly lively quiz going on 5 cask ales on there bar tried them all they had a beer bat system where you could try 3 for the price of 1 (£2.20) all were in great nick my fav was christmas cheers 4.3abv also saw 3 ciders and a perry on handpull will save them for another day.lost the quiz badly but had a curry at the end so not all was lost.Very interesting interior of pub, well worth a look around - tried a pint of their bitter which was very flat - barmaid was very good and played some good records on jukebox (T-rex, Thin Lizzy etc.) only about half a dozen people in on a Saturday afternoon - compared to the Barrels over the road how does it compete ? There is so much potential there ! Worth dropping in to see the bar in the shape of the a ship (presumably HMS Victory). A bit rough & ready alehouse and the area near the windows with cusions on the seats smelt a bit like dogs sleep on them (maybe appropriately as it is home of the Spinning Dog brewery). Seven ales on including four house ales - I tried the Original Bitter which was a good ale. They also had a Spinach Ale which was a light 2.9% brew and four handpulls for ciderheads. Good sized shelter to the side.front for the smoking fraternity.

Broden, salutes, top gooner - thanks mateys, you wrote my review for me, we in the Real Ale Questers Rambling Club (both of us), spent hours walking here, beautiful hot sunny day - only to find the choice suddenly of only 2 real ales, paying for them, sitting down, then being told by the miserable landlady that we couldn't sit down (in the empty bar), as it was reserved for diners 'in an hour's time'. When a protest was voiced - politely - , she promptly turned her back and ignored us. Against our better judgement, six months later, we returned in the evening, and were treated like second-class citizens as we were not interested in eating. Luckily this time our money wasn't taken before our minds were made up. Swerve rating out of ten - eleven.Enjoyed lunch at this pub a few years ago and looked forward to returning today. What a let-down! Wanted coffee while waiting to meet friends for lunch and was told coffee can only be served after a meal! What happened to the "huffers" the pub was well-known for? The only choice for lunch seemed to be a ploughman's at £11.50 or soup. We were told on the phone that the pub was open from 12 til 3, but they failed to point out that they stopped taking food orders at 2. We ended up with an excellent lunch in Hay-on-Wye and won't be returning to The Bulls Head again. Sought this place out after a morning in the hills. Wished we hadn't bothered. Really felt as though the landlady wished we hadn't bothered either.
Begrudginly served our drinks - although I think she was hoping we'd decide to leave after she'd told us we were too late to have food. She only had one beer on (I forget the name) - I would have tried it had there been time - but I needed a thirst quencher first and the bar closed on us.
Limited opening hours (I think closed on Monday, Tuesday and Sunday evenings, then only open 12-3 and 6-11 the rest of the time.
This pub is in an ideal location and should be a dream destination for walkers in need of ale; but if it is always run this way then I'd be suprised if it survives.

The usual appalling service you expect from JDWs. Barman didnt like it when I told him and asked "why do you come here then".Very good question to which I told him that one day I was hoping to find a Wetherspoons that was run properly.Beer was average quality but pleasant enough surroundings.The usual appalling service you expect from JDWs. Barman didnt like it when I told him and asked "why do you come here then".Very good question to which I told him that one day I was hoping to find a Wetherspoons that was run properly.Beer was average quality but pleasant enough surroundings.Weston's dry cider 6% @ £ 1.95 per pint pulled from the pump was very refreshing - very quiet at 18.00 hrs on a Saturday night - pub very clean and tidy

A place to go if you are young and wanting to get 'smashed' I belive the term would be. You can get food here but on looks alone I wouldn't eat here... staff were lacking and so it took a while for me to get a very suspect pint of Ale!!!! I only drank half and made my way to somewhere with less drunkun teenagers and more ale that you could consume without a real worry...Having just come back from Ross on Wye, I must admit the Mail Rooms wasn't that bad. Only real problem was the staff took ages to clear tables from all the food they sell. Ales good, only had one suspect pint in the 3 weeks I was there. Service reasonable not much waiting time.Lout,I only returned because to get from Gloucester to Hereford on that day was 2 buses,changing at Ross!!!! Railways all dug up. I won't rushing back,don't worry!!!