The Newport Inn, Braishfield - pub details
Address: Braishfield, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 0PL [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 1770)
Romsey (2.5 miles), Dunbridge (3 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
Pub suggested by Tye Holmes on 25 Mar 2002
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> Current user rating: 7.2/10 (rated by 22 users)
> Local guide: Hampshire pub guide
other pubs nearby:
Wheatsheaf, Braishfield (1.5 miles), Hunters Inn, Woodley (1.6 miles), Dukes Head, Romsey (1.9 miles)
user reviews of the Newport Inn, Braishfield
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| When The Plonkers are not booked for Saturday evenings why not join Golly at: The Newport Inn, Braishfield, near Romsey, Hampshire Most Saturday nights Gordon duets with Janet Cook, the landlady, on her old Joanna Everyone welcome for a good old fashioned sing-along More at: http://www.theplonkers.com christheplonker - 28 Mar 2009 11:10 |
| A weird experience. Being a relative youngster I do not remember the period supposedly when all pubs were like this. The Gales HSB was in decent nick but the overall 'tatty' ethos of the place was a little bit depressing to be honest. Kudos, however, for being the only pub I have been in that does not use any form of cash register. ChrisP87 - 21 Oct 2008 14:56 |
| Braishfield has three pubs and this is probably the one that doesn't need to make the usual 40% profit on food for the owners to continue to exist. Sure, the interior is reminiscent of a down-at-heel club with its tatty chairs and rickety tables; of course, the garden has furniture in it that has seen better days (white plastic tables with lichen? I remember trying to get the same effect by using sour milk!); well, the owners are no spring chickens... BUT this place has the charm to attract the old boys out for a quick pint of Gales/Fullers HSB and a game of cards who look as if they've been doing the same for eons. I went on a Friday lunchtime, had the dirt cheap ploughmans (what else is there?) washed down with a couple of HSB's and sat in the garden watching the robins, blackbirds, coal-tits et cetera whilst listening to tantilising tales coming from Old Braishfield-ites. Very nostalgic and good value. normality2000 - 25 Jul 2008 14:26 |
| Let's go up the Newport for a ploughman's, we thought. It's my birthday this week and we're turning it into a long weekend. So we did. It used to be pleasantly eccentric, now it's just a dump. Still does a good cheap ploughman's lunch (rumour has it that the kitchen fails all food hygeine rules hence they only do cold food.) And I don't even mind that the furniture is filthy and falling apart. It always did. I've been going in there on and off for 17 years, and my husband for 30. But I do mind when it took my husband 25 minutes to get served, even though there were only 2 people in front of him. And that when he ordered two ploughman's lunches at 1.45 he was greeted with 'I don't know if we can do that, we close at 2.30'. And that, at the same time he ordered our second pint, and he placed our two empty straight pint glasses on the bar and said 'two HSB please' and the response was 'pints? halves? straight? handles?'. He pointed out that the glasses in front of the barlady were pints, straight. This made the other customers giggle. They were then told off by the barlady for giggling. On the way out we politely said to the other couple 'see you later'. 'Not in here you won't' they replied. Yep, that sums it up really. anonymous - 27 Aug 2007 18:02 |
| Delightful dump - if you only look at the decor - far more if you're going here for a pub as in the traditional sense. Yes the interior is shabby and the loos stink to high-heaven but the landlord is smartly turned out and very professional. The beer was good (my first pint of HSB since Fullers bought them) rgb - 18 Aug 2007 17:54 |
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