Tom Browns, Dorchester - pub details
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Address: 47, High East St, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1HU [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 3555) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Dorchester South (0.6 miles), Dorchester West (0.6 miles), Upwey (5 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Live music (Regular live music nights usually on a friday as published in the pubs guide), Jukebox (kept in back bar)
- Dartboard
- Food served, Sunday roast, Real ale (Dorset Brewing Company Ales plus Tom Brown's House bitter variety of guests), Brews own beer
- Riverside location (Stream at bottom of extensive pub garden)
- Outside seating, Dogs allowed (If on lead in pub and garden), Children allowed (If well supervised), Credit cards accepted, Function room for hire (Coming Soon), Wireless internet access, Coach parties welcome, Disabled access
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> Current user rating: 5.2/10 (rated by 35 users)
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user reviews of Tom Browns, Dorchester
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| Scruffy around the edges but an ok place. beer decent, only pub I can remember has a school can prominant behind the bar... loveleedshatebates - 7 Apr 2012 20:48 |
| On Monday they had three DBC beers including Durdle Door which wasn't in great condition plus two Plain beers. Some decorating was going on so sat out in the garden. Ok pub. GuideDogSaint - 1 Sep 2011 22:06 |
| I didn't stay in here long, absolutely no atmosphere, grumpy bar staff and poor quality ale. I went straight back to the Raddle. Nigethebeer - 7 Feb 2011 14:22 |
| Basic, take-us-as-you find us establishment with a mixed clientelle. The beers I tried were excellent, and miraculously cheap. Makes quite a contrast with the King's Arms, and the Blue Raddle is a happy medium Uncle_Dunkel - 21 Oct 2010 14:07 |
| In the middle of historic Dorchester is Tom Browns, which, as the CAMRA Good Beer Guide correctly points out, has the feel of a town centre ale house. The main room at the front has bare boards and the usual mixture of sofas and wooden tables and chairs. It feels basically more like a room than a pub, but a piano and an old cash register, inter alia, add a bit of interest and character. The pub is the former home of the Goldfinch Brewery and, although the name has been retained, the beer is, so I understand, now brewed by Dorset Brewing Co in Weymouth. The former pub sign denoting Goldfinch Brewery now leans rather forlornly against a wall in the main bar. A longish corridor leads to a small basic room at the back of the building which houses a dartboard. The walls of this corridor are decorated with a number of Tom Brown's Schooldays framed caricature prints, including a rather tasteless one which depicts a large nude and bears the caption "Flashman's First XV Team Hooker". There's a large garden at the back which I didn't get to explore properly because it was persisting down. On my recent Monday afternoon visit, the pub was virtually deserted and lacked any kind of real atmosphere at all, but I stayed longer than I otherwise would have done until the rain relented. There were 5 beers on in total - Chesil and Jurassic from Dorset Brewing Co , Tom Brown's Goldfinch plus 2 beers from Potbelly in Kettering. The Chesil was rather uninspiring, but the Tom Brown's Goldfinch - £ 2.55p - was superb. The pub is listed in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2010. Perhaps my judgement was clouded by the heavy rain outside and the lack of atmosphere inside, but I was rather underwhelmed by the visit as a whole. JohnBonser - 23 Sep 2010 10:34 |
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