Swinside Inn, Keswick - pub details
Address: Newlands, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5UE [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 32164) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
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> Current user rating: 6.0/10 (rated by 5 users)
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user reviews of Swinside Inn, Keswick
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| Called into this pub whilst out walking having to get across a bridge which although closed was worth crossing saving us a long walk around. A very welcoming pub with real log fires. Didn't have food this time but the food is usually good. tomturbo - 20 Feb 2010 11:12 |
| I know they have a captive market here for walkers around the Derwent water but please be advised - take a packed lunch instead and don't stop here. Having being greeted but a very negative man behind the bar saying they had no gas so couldn't do hot food except the soup which he said was asparagus 'that's what it was last week too, doesn't sound very nice, does it', we decided to go for a sandwich. £6.95 for a cheese and ham sandwich, the bread was verging on stale, the cheese tastless and very old & dry and the ham was the plastic, wet with no flavour type that you get in packets in supermarkets. And to top it all the toilets had no lights and were flooded. We had been advised from others who had visited a couple of years agao that it was poor, and now we know it's true. I've never felt so ripped off. petalpumpkin - 9 Mar 2009 20:08 |
| Excellent well-kept beers (incl. Jennings Cumberland and Caledonian Deuchars). Food looks good though didn't try it this time as arrived too late (9.05pm 15th July 2008). Only adverse comment is that the drinks prices are on the high side. A pity pubs in general don't serve later than 9pm even on summer evenings when one wants to remain late on the fells. wppclarke - 19 Jul 2008 22:51 |
| This pub is situated by itself with the wooded slope of Swinside behind it and a view of the Newlands Valley in front. There’s a good space to sit outside in summer. In winter there are a number of interconnecting rooms with a fire at one end of one. There’s a small central bar serving 3 beers (Jennings). It has been in the Good Pub Guide. Sadly I’d have to say on my last visit that it seems to have gone off the boil. The lighting was gloomy rather than atmospheric with too many of the candle holders empty and, away from the fire, rather chilly. The food is cheap (£8-£11) but very ordinary. It was a bit disappointing really but probably better in summer. drtimthornton - 13 Dec 2007 18:32 |