The Black Boy, Winchester - pub details
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Address: 1 Wharf Hill, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9NQ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 2748)
Winchester (0.9 miles), Shawford (2.7 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
- Outside seating
Pub suggested by Hes on 22 May 2003
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user reviews of the Black Boy, Winchester
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| Glowing report in Saturdays Telegraph Pint to pint column.. this is a gem of a pub Landlord a dead ringer for Frank Zappa 5 real ales stuffed Baboon in a kilt. hogshead - 8 Feb 2010 18:33 |
| This is a fantastic old pub, a little out the way but worth the detour to find it. As others have said, it's completely full of "stuff" everywhere, far too much to list. Plenty of stuffed animals, including what was presumably the pub's dog at one point, and one room that's more like a library with floor to ceiling shelves of books. I liked the old space invaders/pacman video game table, I haven't seen one of those for ages! Many different rooms on several different levels, and a couple of real fires. Friendly barmaid, everyone got a "Hiya" before they were hardly through the door. Beers on this occasion were Palmer's Best, Hidden Quest, Hop Back Summer Lightning, Flower Pots and Ringwood Best. Also Stowford Press and Thatcher's Dry ciders. Blackthorn - 6 Feb 2010 15:47 |
| Well, where do you begin? This has certainly got to be the oddest pub I've ever been in. If you're into fire buckets and baboons in kilts, this is the place for you. Very welcoming barstaff, and the beer is superb, albieit a little pricey. No fruit machines or TVs to annoy you either, so this gets top marks from me. robfrancis - 12 Dec 2009 16:26 |
| Went out of my way to visit this place on my first trip to Winchester over the bank holiday weekend and was not disappointed. A really quirky and interesting place serving a nice selection of quality beer. There is a rough and ready outside seating area but it is the inside that really makes this place. The decor has to be seen to be believed and there are all kinds of nooks and crannies and interesting places to sit for a good pint. Sampled and Summer Lightning and the Bowman's Quiver, which were both excellent. frolix22 - 30 Aug 2009 17:03 |
| Where do I start, a seriously quirky place with numerous rooms, nooks and crannies, chock full of the oddest collection of paraphenalia I have ever seen in a pub. There is no way I can list them all but there are stuffed animals, (a donkey, leopard, a baboon in a kilt and a gull in a cage), plastic and papier mache hams hanging from a beam, an aga, suspended model aeroplanes, an old set of handpumps, clocks, tin and cast iron signs, blow lamps, hundreds of key rings hanging from a ceiling, an upside down Christmas tree, a collection of fire buckets, dried chilli peppers adorn a window surround, numerous book cases all around and so much more. One set of seats are numbered and tip up, looks like they are reclaimed from a football stadium somewhere, I'd rather like to know which one. There is also a bar football table. Part wooden and part stone flagged floors, old timber beamed ceilings. Outside seating to the front and also the side with an area under the cover of a pergola. Beers were, Flowerpot "Flowerpots", Hop Back Summer Lightning, Ringwood Best Bitter, Andwell King John plus one badged Black Boy Bitter; I'm not sure what this is, the barmaid thought it was from Ringwood but as they already had BB it wouldn't add up. An interesting place with good beer. Not one to miss on a Winchester crawl. Prices on a par with other pubs visited, not a cheap town for beer with prices similar to London, generally £3+. Maldenman - 3 Aug 2009 12:29 |
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