The Halfway House, Pitney - pub details
Address: Pitney Hill, Langport, Somerset, TA10 9AB [map] [gmap]
Tel: 01458 252513
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
- Outside seating
Pub suggested by Graham on 29 Sep 2003
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> Current user rating: 8.9/10 (rated by 21 users)
> Local guide: Somerset pub guide
other pubs nearby:
Rose and Crown, Huish Episcopi (1.4 miles), Seedhouse Lodge, Langport (1.4 miles), Devonshire Arms, Long Sutton (1.9 miles), Old Custom House, Langport (2.0 miles)
user reviews of the Halfway House, Pitney
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| Visit the Halfway every year to visit an old school friend in this part of the world. I guess that seeing the place so infrequently, I also notice the changes. And this time, I would have to say that the most obvious change is the customer mix, with a lot of people turning up for a night out 'dressed up'. It felt a bit like a rotarians' evening, and as much as I like the sight of well-turned out ladies, some were a bit OTT for the Halfway. There were also a lot of what seemed like 'special occasion' groups, families celebrating birthdays, gaggles of girlies out 'on the town'. Nothing wrong with that, but not the kind of crowd you'd have seen a couple of years back. Also, and somewhat curiosuly, it seems popular with teenage drinkers. This is the kind of place they're supposed to hate because it was always a bit of a 'dad pub'. But, leaving aside those observations, what a fine place it remains. Beers, as always, very good. The highlight for me was the superb fish and chips - the battered fish was the best I've ever eaten. On a sadder note, I hear that the pub is being (has been?) sold. Let's hope that some pub management company doesn't try to turn it into a restaurant, and resists the temptation to tinker with a format that seems to work beatifully. Fat chance. norbitonpaul - 29 Jun 2008 12:22 |
| Well thanks jamesouthdown for your tremendous expression of self-congratulatory wonderfulness. Archers?...good god, one must be miserable....numpty! Lets hope the new owners don't feel it necessary to change an otherwise great establishment.....apart from a ban on parents with kids under 25 that is! tee-hee! alehouses - 16 Jun 2008 13:55 |
| I am generally comfortable enough in myself to be more concerned about atmosphere, drink, sometimes food and staff than what my fellow customers decide to drive, wear, talk about, drink. Snobbery, anti snobbery, inferiority, etc. are all very sad human traits. This is a cracking pub. It has genuine atmosphere. This is backed up with a great selection of (sometimes too many similar styled) local ales, farmhouse cider, simple but effective wines and some good bottled beer and spirit selections. The food is hearty, rustic, homely and extremely reasonably priced. Price is not really something that I base my decision to visit places on and a lot of places probably can't afford to have prices this low, but it's a bonus! I've met farmers, thatchers, carpenters, accountants, property developers, people from the city, people from the country, people from the country that moved to the city and are just visiting, people from the country that moved to the city and have now moved back, people from the city who have moved to the country and people from the city who are just visiting. Plus some Americans, New Zealanders, Aussies, French and others. Some of all types are nice, others are not. This is life. Get over yourselves and start enjoying things for what they are and what they offer, not what nuance you canhave a moan about. Go and drink Archers beers and drown in your own misery. I for one am having a great time. jamessouthdown - 10 Jun 2008 14:48 |
| hould also note that the Halway House is one of the pitifully few pubs in somerset that sells rough cider, including Heck's from Street. Woppit - 30 Apr 2008 22:53 |
| I visited this fine perveyor of alcoholic beverages with some co members of the local branch of camra in order to appraise some of the ales on dispense. Having made our choices from a rather excellent variety of examples of the brewers' skills we retired to a corner tables to compare notes. I quaffed from a local beer that I must say was in very fine fettle indeed, while a friend drank heartily from his half pint of ale from another brewers stable, which he too considered to be in the most excellent of conditions. Others from our group joined us to imbibe their libations, some of whom opted to partake in the locally produced fermented apple juice. All in all a rather excellent time was had by all in this most fine Somersetshire tavern. chopin - 30 Apr 2008 16:43 |
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