The Hole in the Wall, Colchester - pub details
Address: Balkerne Hill, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3AA [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 19430) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Colchester Town (0.5 miles), Colchester (0.8 miles), Hythe (1.5 miles)
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> Current user rating: 5.8/10 (rated by 32 users)
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user reviews of the Hole in the Wall, Colchester
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| This is a rather late review prompted by receipt of the 2012 CAMRA guide which incredibly includes this pub for the second year running. I visited in June prior to going to see Modern English at the Arts Centre – big mistake, not the gig ME were wonderful. Maybe I’m getting on, maybe we were just unlucky, but there must be better pubs than this to put in the guide. A couple of the hand pump clips were turned round, never a good sign and the pint we had was distinctly poor but just about drinkable. Exactly the sort of pint to put off any young person from ever trying real ale again, (this is predominantly a young person’s pub) not that I’m young of course, but if CAMRA want to attract young people to real ale then this pub is a fertile recruiting ground for the fizzy yellow chemical product, I can’t understand what Colchester CAMRA were thinking of putting this pub in the guide. To complete the picture the bar staff were all very young and wouldn’t know an off pint from a glass of Bovril, both our pints were of course served short as in nearly every pub, and the empty interior was explained by a DJ sitting hunched over a deck pounding out thrash metal at stadium gig levels. If you are a CAMRA member on a tour of the Colchester pubs avoid this place like the plague. 3/10 Monkdawallydahonk - 15 Sep 2011 09:37 |
| Bit disappointed with this one. There was a pretty boring beer selection, rather uninterested staff and not much atmosphere. Obviously, others have been here and had a good time and interesting beer, but I'm afraid we didn't. paul154 - 13 Sep 2010 15:45 |
| Good beer selection available here in a historic rambling town centre pub. Brentwood Blonde - an acquired taste, took me at least a third of a pint - and Caledonian Surf Sup sampled. Friendly bar staff. Worth a visit if in town. metrology_man - 28 Jun 2010 08:17 |
| A great selection of real ales on my midweek visit - at least 4 including an excellent Thornbridge Brother Rabbit. cobbo - 15 Dec 2009 13:15 |
| amazing food, good atmosphere, and amazing ales. Who ever the chef is needs praise and thanks as well as the manager. will go again and will tell friends.... from Mr S. J Thornton stamford200 - 5 Nov 2009 13:47 |
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