Pearsons Arms, Crab And Oyster House, Whitstable - pub details

I have now dined here since the refurbishment and can highly recommend it. There were a choice of a couple of decent beers on draught including a Gadds stout. Other bottled beers were also available including desset ales such as Greenwich Meantime. The food was to die for, I had the scallops in their shells and the shoulder of lamb. Service was much improved and it wasn't a complete wallet buster so well done Richard Phillips !! Will return again soon.

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KOTB - 2 Feb 2012 08:36

Pub has just had yet another facelift, and was relaunched last week as Are You Being Served theme pub.
Barmaids are all dressed as either Miss Brahams or Mrs Slocombe (depending on age, obviously) while male members of staff are 'done up' as either John Inman's character or Cpt Peacock (depending on age or sexual preferance). Music is a loop of the theme tune from the popular 70s sit-com.
Was greeted at the door by a 'young' Mr Grace lookalike, who fixed me with a steely gaze and said: "YOU'VE ALL DONE VERY WELL."
To drink I had a pint of Gusset Warmer ale while my wife, Imelda, opted for something from the cocktail list, a tall drink called PINK PUSSY.
At one point I went to the bar, cleared my throat and in a bid to get served, proclaimed: "ARE YOU FREE?"
Cracking pub. I will deffo be back.

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Ladhimself - 26 Oct 2011 12:24

Ladhimself, keep up the good work. The world can do with a bit more whimsy.

This site is far too up its own backside for its own good (witness the Beer in The Evening's "Thought Police" in censorious action on The John Snow site recently). Pathetic .

Lighten-up you plonkers.

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von.schlieffen - 26 Apr 2011 17:40

The Ladhimself, while I find your reports whimsical, and occasionally vaguely amusing, perhaps it would be better to stick to the facts, therefore enlightening viewers of this forum to the pros and cons of the local inns. I mysef have not yet visited the newly refurbished Pearsons, but I will in due course despite your rather bizarre comments.

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KOTB - 13 Dec 2010 07:54

Things have indeed changed since I last reported on this pub. It is now a a theme pub called FISHWIVES. The theme, such as it is, is haggard old women with very few teeth cleaning fish on the quayside. To this end all of the staff, male and female, wear shawls, have teeth blacked out and smell very strongly of fish.
When they are not serving they sit in cages resembling lobster pots and clean fish in an old bucket (mostly dab and bass on my visit).
The manager, meanwhile, patrols the pub dressed in oilskins, occasionally handing out a casual whipping with a cat-o-nine-tails either to a customer or a member of staff, sorry fishwive..
Music-wise they seem very limited. I spent eight hours in the pub and all they played was the overture from Bejamin Britten's 'Peter Grimes' on a constant loop.
Beerwise...I had a foaming pint of Monkfish IPA followed by several halves of Old Whelk wheatbeer, which really did the trick.
Later, in the evening, I produced a little bit of sick. On a bus. Oh, the shame of it!
I will certainly be paying another visit, probably with Lord Gusset of Glamorgan, my parole officer for Michelmas term.

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Ladhimself - 8 Dec 2010 15:14

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