Kings Arms Hogshead, Colchester - pub details
Address: 61-63 Crouch Street, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3EY [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 3475) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Colchester Town (0.5 miles), Colchester (1 mile), Hythe (1.6 miles)
Chain: Hogshead
Pub facilities/features:
- Live music
- Food served
- Outside seating (Large beer garden)
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> Current user rating: 6.9/10 (rated by 25 users)
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user reviews of Kings Arms Hogshead, Colchester
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| This is by far the busiest and best pub in Colchester. The court yard garden sometimes resembles Brighton Beach on a sunny day. The food and service is great and I couldn't think of a better place to go to. Its's toilets are the best I've seen and the pub is always spotlessly clean. JamieJ - 10 Jul 2011 21:10 |
| Pub has had a massive facelift this year and looks like a lot of money was spent on it - shame they couldn't have diverted a few quid to install some air conditioning or ceiling fans as this pub is ABSURDLY hot no matter what time of day or even what time of year. the poor staff are dripping with sweat when they serve you. have to say that the landlord is an old drunk who is never without a pint even when he works which doesnt seem very often. beer is a bit steep but i guess they have to claw back the cash spent on the refurbishment somehow. it's a lot cleaner, brighter and welcoming than it used to be. Most of the old bar flies have long gone and it's now a nice place to drink......apart from the heat - SORT IT OUT GREENE KING! mw79 - 19 Aug 2010 12:07 |
| I should add, in fairness, that they were very happy to give tasters to my pals, what a shame I didn't even occur to me to ask likelise for whatever was badged as Lomond. If anyone's interested, my pub rating was still 7, oh, and the manageress was very pretty. trainman - 5 Jul 2009 15:01 |
| Gk ipa (served two ways! No, & no thanks), Abbot, Goffs Jouster, Wickwar Bankers Draft, Batemans Miss South Africa, Lomond Gold. Large central hexagonal island bar serving various drinking areas, dark wood to street, tiles to right, more wood, carpet to left/rear. Very large, mostly paved, outside area with lots of picnic sets, some umbrellas, a long open wood-roofed area to rt & a small tented set-up nr door. Front bar has a mix of wooden furniture and a nice large corner window fully open to the street in yesterday’s sunshine. Small & large plasmas, but no Sky, they aint looking for the football set. Now the problem: one of my halves was Lomond Gold (it’s not), calls itself blonde (it’s not), sounds tasty (it’s awful). When the barman agreed that it was far from what he expected when he had tried it earlier I asked whether it might be changed for summat else, he referred me to the 20-something, pierced-tongued, manageress who rightly claimed that the pub could not be responsible for a brewery’s pumpclip and that I should have read the tasting notes (a brief-sheet I hadn’t seen on the bar), she then disappeared. Lomond Gold wasn’t listed, enabling me to ask the barman if I could have another word. She maintained the stance that they couldn’t just ‘give away’ beer because a brewery’s (clip) notes/descriptions were wrong. I shouldn’t have let frustration allow an F to slip out, but I apologised and said not to worry, I’d just state that in my report. Suddenly she couldn’t give me a replacement quickly enough. I really didn’t want to make such an issue and would have backed down if she hadn’t dismissed me quite so summarily in the first instance. Looking now at Lomond Gold tasting notes (and SIBA gold award), I can only think that the pump was wrongly clipped – what came out bore no resemblence to the descriptions available, and was pretty foul. Despite all this, I rather liked the pub and would certainly return (if allowed to after this diatribe…) trainman - 5 Jul 2009 14:39 |
| Love this pub! It's so warm, friendly and welcoming. It could do with a face lift but I belive this will be happening later in the year. On holiday monday my wife and I went to Wivenhoe and we ended our day back in the Kings Arms listening to an absolutely top rate band. The whole pub was singing with them and there was a real 'feelgood' atmosphere too. FANTASTIC! lovetruckin - 27 May 2009 16:16 |
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