The Weld Arms, East Lulworth - pub details
Address: East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5QQ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 2882)
Wool (3.4 miles)
Pub suggested by John on 29 May 2003
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> Current user rating: 5.9/10 (rated by 17 users)
> Local guide: Dorset pub guide
user reviews of the Weld Arms, East Lulworth
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| Served me a very well-kept pint of 'Cider by Rosie' local cider - a very tasty dry real cider. Friendly quiet pub with newspapers & a bookcase. Didn't try food (starts at £10 for ham, egg & chips) but meals looked good. Will call here again when in the area. jgurney1 - 19 Aug 2009 19:34 |
| Another extremely attractive exterior, the Weld Arms is set in a lovely thatched cottage. A corridor leads from the front door to the main bar, located off to the left. The main bar has been modernised: not unpleasantly so, but I was perhaps hoping for something a bit more historic-looking. Just two handpumps, dispensing Ringwood Best and Palmer's Dorset Gold when I visited - both were served excellently. An extensive food menu although like pubsampler a fair few things were off and some other dishes not served as traditionally understood, presumably due to shortage of ingredients. Not a bad place, but not excellent. grecian - 14 Aug 2009 11:44 |
| I visited this pub for an evening meal twice earlier in the week with a four year old. The "Dorset" beer was fine, and two pints went down well both times. The main menu was adequate if not-wide ranging, but I enjoyed the lasagne one evening, and the fish and chips the other. However, the choice was pretty limited for a vegetarian child (basically just panne and chips or salad), and also there were inaccuarcies in the wording of the menu as to what was really available by way of choices. On both occasions the staff were really friendly, efficient and courteous, being both adult and child-friendly. pubsampler - 18 Jul 2009 10:02 |
| Re comment from Sunbeam. You're absolutely right!!! I couldn't concur with you more. The problem is, though, if you look at the other pubs in the area (excluding the Castle Inn) they're all the same. (The New Inn, The Greyhound, The Fox, The Bankes Arms Corfe Castle, and so on and so on.) If youn go into a pub and see the funereal black, corporate-style bar staff uniforms I suggest you leave immediately. The best pub to go to is one which is happy in its own skin and doesn't have an air of "superiority" about it. You can usually tell that when a pub' has a menu which tries to look like something like the Ivy or Le Quatre Saisons, or similar swanky restaurant in the home counties, that they're going to be hideous. Find a nice little grotty pub which does food if you're looking for a pub lunch, or book into a proper reastaurant. My advice is to give these eatery pubs a wide berth - they might then get their acts together. BTW, a letter of complaint to the owner (in this case the Weld Estate - ask for James Weld) might be useful. Having been into the pub in the more recent past, I would suggest that the overall manager is sent scurrying away and the Welds allow the pub manager to run the pub' without meddling. pubquisitor - 15 Jun 2009 13:44 |
| Took my elderly parents here for a drink and were made to feel like we were a bloody nuisance. Wherever you go you're in the way of staff scurrying to and fro with mounds of full or empty plates. Yet another example of a decent locals' pub turned into a 'Nice Peoples' eaterie that treats you like a leper if you have the temerity to merely order a drink. Sunbeam - 10 Mar 2009 12:05 |
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