The Kings Arms, Stoborough - pub details
Address: 3, Corfe Rd, Stoborough, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5AB [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 19477) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Wareham (1.2 miles), Holton Heath (3 miles), Wool (5.2 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
Pub suggested by peterpenberthy on 15 Jan 2005
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> Current user rating: 5.8/10 (rated by 12 users)
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user reviews of the Kings Arms, Stoborough
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| I caught the end of the beer fest this year and have to say it was very poor quality, not much point really having one is there if the beers poor Henners - 5 Jul 2011 18:37 |
| We couldn't believe our luck when we saw that there was a Bank Holiday Beer Festival on, 20 Real Ales the poster in the road promised, as it is in the GBG we were visiting anyway. The pub itself seems clean and tidy, the diners seemed happy enough and there was a drinking area for us non diners who ventured in to avoid the cold Bank Holiday weather. The beer though was dreadful, why on earth would you pay good money for all these casks and then sell it like this. I tried 3 different beers and they were all cloudy and completely unsettled. I was told that they were put up on Thursday, yeah right. I can see no excuse for the bad planning, ok the big day is meant to be Sunday, but these will be just as bad. Left in a huff as they weren't cheap. imdownthepub - 29 May 2010 17:02 |
| Disappointing, this pub has gone down hill, dirty, very bland unappetizing food, shame really. marhop - 16 Feb 2010 20:21 |
| Had ringwood bitter - it was the end of the barrel... I hope. Food was dull, tasteless and bland. Steak was over cooked and rather poor. service was similar in quality. Couldn't sit with my legs under the table as the table was too low. menus were dirty, I should have realised the standard has dropped. Dont expect it to be good and you wont be dissapointed. proffessa - 2 Feb 2010 22:02 |
| Don't get this place confused with the Kings Arms in Wareham which is just along the road (about half a mile or so). The Stoborough Kings Arms is primarily an eaterie, churning out the usual "pub trying to be a swish restaurant" food (you know, lamb shanks in a berry "jus", deep fished haddock in a beer battered pancake style jacket and served with an anchovie and horseradish condiment all served on a plate of low transfat pomme frites, - i.e. front leg of mutton from the deep freeze and sieved colemans red currant jelly, or fish and chips). The chefs do well, it has to be said, but why, oh why, do you have to ponce it up?!! The good thing, however about this pub is that munchers are to a great extent segregated from the other pub users, so the place still has some atmosphere as a village pub. This is excellent. Also, no smells of cooking emanating from the kitchen and no funereal black wearing bar staff constantly flitting past the bar area with plates of food for those who wish their clothes sizes to rapidly change to those associated with Americans. The beer was OK, but like all other pubs owned by Enterprise Inns where the tenant has to contribute to their profits by having to pay a bounty to Enterprise of well over £100 per barrel more than either a free house publican or a normal brewery tenant - for no benefit - it was overpriced. Maybe one of the reasons that pubs are doing more and more food and raising the prices of their retail beers is because the blood sucking Pubcos such as Enterprise and their cabal have sucked so much of the lifeblood from the British pub that there's nothing left for the poor old publican. You see, the PUbcos like Enterprise even put meters in the beerlines of pubs to spy on their tenants. They can tie tenants to beers bought through them at super-inflated prices but they still haven't found a way to tie their tenants to food ingredients - but, you bet they're probably thinking about how to do it right now, just like the best parasites evolve to suck even more blood from their host. Anyway, I'm digressing - probably because I was shocked at the price of the beer at this pub'. The beer was good and the atmosphere generally jovial, but I wouldn't say I'd make a pub like this my local - mainly because it's such an eaterie. pubquisitor - 15 Jun 2009 14:21 |
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