The Gardeners Arms, Lewes - pub details
Address: 46 Cliffe High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2AN [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 6615)
Lewes (0.4 miles), Cooksbridge (2.4 miles), Glynde (2.7 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
Pub suggested by Scott on 10 Feb 2004
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> Current user rating: 7.4/10 (rated by 84 users)
> Local guide: East Sussex pub guide
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user reviews of the Gardeners Arms, Lewes
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| Imagine you could realise that dream and own your own ‘lifestyle’ pub that you could do whatever you wanted with. Well you’d probably come up with something like the Gardeners Arms. Small, intimate and friendly with character and characters built up over the years. There’s not much I’d change about it. The beer is the star of course, a free house with a diverse range of beers and cider, mainly from the South. I had the White’s Dark Mild and then an excellent Iceni Men of Norfolk, supplemented by the, often difficult to find these days, perfect gastronomic accompaniment, a pork pie. This was the seventh pub on a solo Lewes crawl, next time I’ll make it earlier and be a bit more selective. Millay - 14 Jun 2009 09:53 |
| In reply to Maidenman, the previous owner was the Swindon and Berwick Rangers fan (and Lewes FC too). The new owner was so keen not to make discernable changes to the pub that he asked that the football memorabilia was left in place, along with the many Archer's pumpclips, now alas only a reminder of this once excellent little brewery. southdown12jack - 8 May 2009 11:29 |
| A cracking pub, full of well-mannered beer lovers having a good time. They had an extensive range of real ales, including several from the Harveys brewery just across Cliffe High Street and other, also mostly local, smaller brewers and draught Black Rat cider from further afield. Top of the range. rpadam - 19 Apr 2009 19:33 |
| Decent old-fashioned pub with a good range of beers. Friendly enough nickjstamp - 16 Apr 2009 16:48 |
| Pub of the day on yesterday's Lewes jaunt. A compact pub with a central bar, fairly limited seating and easily full, as it certainly deserves to be! Mainly wooden floors, small carpetted area to the rear, various pictures, breweriana etc, including some fascinating old 60's beer mats from a time forgotten. One picture of "The Burning of Richard Woodman" is very macabre and relates to the 16th century executions of protestant martyrs, 10 of which occurred in Lewes. On a much lighter note, the pub has an ongoing garlic growing competition, where cloves were planted on the shortest day, to be harvested on the longest. The local Toad in the Hole game is also played here if space allows. Very well run and friendly with it, yesterday we had Harveys Sussex, Kiss,and Porter, Welton's Schneider Gold, not a lager type as I expected but a full flavoured ale, Dark Star Espresso Stout, Hammerpot White Wing and Black Rat cider. Top marks to the landlady as my pint of Kiss looked a little tired, she immediately spotted it, poured herself a small taster and offered an alternative without any words being spoken. That's got you a 9 instead of an 8! Not sure who supports Swindon Town and who Berwick Rangers but both teams are well represented around the pub. If you only do one pub in Lewes (which would be silly) make sure its this one. They did us carry outs too! Maldenman - 5 Apr 2009 17:06 |
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