The Boar's Head, Stockport - pub details
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Address: 2 Vernon Street, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 1TY [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 22449) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Stockport (0.6 miles), Heaton Chapel (1.4 miles), Reddish North (1.6 miles)
Brewery: Samuel Smith's
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served
Pub suggested by 7thEarlLordLucan on 15 May 2005
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> Current user rating: 5.8/10 (rated by 15 users)
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| I had occasion to look up this pub on the internet this evening and was disappointed to find most of the reviews and comments are out of date, as the details pointed out they might be. One comment I found, dated back to 2005, so I felt a few words to bring it more up to date were somewhat overdue to help to do some justice to the present management. Basically, some of the adverse comment needs to be deleted. It really is out of date. The next major point seems to be the availability of food. I note one reviewer wrote about having food there in September 2009. However, to clear up another reviewer’s doubt in November 2010, there has been a change of management and to my knowledge, food has not been available since – apart from crisps and nuts etc. The clientele is still varied, to say the least, as I found at a low point this evening, when someone in a motor-bikers outfit would not let me get in. I have hip trouble and the two steps are steep but he would not get up to let me pass. That is what prompted me to look for the pub phone number this evening. However, the present management took steps to improve the pub from what it was and the sort of image it apparently had – as reflected by some of the old comments still posted – when they took over perhaps close to two years ago now. Even the hand drier in the gent’s toilet, which had a fault for over two years, has been replaced by the brewery recently. On the whole therefore, it is now a better place for a social chat – perhaps over a couple of pints on the way home, as I do – which is what pubs used to be for – not for TV and head-banger music, which destroy social interaction and even the art of it. Sam Smith’s have got that right, in my opinion. They have also got through a recession with that policy, so it seems enough other people think so as well. It is just a shame the taste of the beer is not a bit more encouraging after all the years they have been brewing it and that there is apparently no snack food available at this pub now. Traditional pie and peas, for example, would be nice, occasionally, even if they did not want to extend to burgers and such things in these healthy-eating-sensitive times. Snapdragon - 13 Aug 2011 20:12 |
| I don't know whether there has been a change of management since these old reviews but I was in Friday evening and found the staff very friendly and whilst I appreciate Sam Smiths is not to everyone's taste they certainly serve a good pint of it! Alemale - 13 Nov 2010 11:49 |
| The food is cheap. (You get what you pay for has never been more true.) It's better than a burger from a van. The beer is also very cheap, and if you like Sam Smiths you will be OK. Personally I've never had a pint that made me think I'd have a second. It's very busy (market day lunchtime anyway) and unfortunately many of the clientele apparently don't have a bath or shower. It could probably market itself as 'The Victorian Slum Pub Experience' if only they could get the punters to dress up. To end on a positive note - probably the cheapest pub lunch and pint for 20 miles. TheGuiltyOne - 22 Sep 2009 17:46 |
| Reasonable pint. Decent price. Big_G_unit - 19 Jan 2009 21:02 |
| Great beer, shame about the miserable staff. My family have been going in this pub since some of them were in nappies and they still speak to people as though they don't belong there. GET SOME CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINING. gentletigress - 19 Mar 2008 01:00 |
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