The Little Gem, Aylesford - pub details
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Address: 19 High Street, Aylesford, Kent, ME20 7AX [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 7729) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Aylesford (0.7 miles), New Hythe (1.4 miles), Barming (1.4 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Real ale
Pub suggested by allan on 2 May 2004
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> Current user rating: 7.4/10 (rated by 15 users)
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| Such a shame to read about the demise of this one true Little Gem. I first went here back in the early 80's and on several occasions since. Last time I visited would have been back around 2002. Back then, there were a decent number of well-kept ales to choose from, and good food. Very sad. Eyebee - 5 Apr 2012 18:28 |
| Still closed when I was in the village this week. wobblybob - 18 Aug 2011 15:05 |
| I tried to visit this pub at the end of October 2010, but it was shut and looking very sad; I talked to a local man in the High Street - he said it had been closed "for a few months". Such a shame as a few years back when I lived locally it was a really nice place for a drink or two in the evening denwaller - 18 Nov 2010 01:27 |
| This pub needs more than just a reputation for its size and its name, in order to survive. It needs 3 things: a) A cellerman who knows his job, b) A good steam clean (including the barman), c) No animals in the food area. The state of the beer would not be tolerated `up north` where I come from. I only had a pint because it was nowhere up to scratch - I didn`t want to risk gastric problems a few hours later, by having another ! The tables were sticky to the touch caused by many years of never being cleaned properly by anything hot or soapy. The meal, when it eventually arrived a good 20 minutes after ordering, had been cooked by microwave and was not in the least succulemt. In the tiny bar area, my wife and I had to share the meal in the company of two dogs. One was under the bench seat where my wife was sitting and the other, a huge slobbering mutt, had free reign to roam the bar area dribbling all over the carpet. It was not the finest environment in which to eat food. There is a much better and cleaner pub about 20 metres away. The Little Gem is no competition for them at all either with their beer or their food. My wife and I visited the pub during the second week in July 2010 and unsurprisingly, were the only punters in the place. The place is certainly little, but a gem ? No, not unless you are a dust mite or a bluebottle ! gavioli gavioli - 25 Jul 2010 12:33 |
| Got a touch of constipation? The Gem will sort out that problem. Contrary to what I said before, it hasn't closed although one cannot help but wonder just how much longer it will limp along. The stand-in landlord, dressed in grey t-shirt and grubby holed Addidas jogging trousers told us he had another pub in the Darenth Valley so was helping someone out by being there. The first pint of Doom Bar lived up to it's name and was off. Clearly the first sold that day as the 2nd and 3rd were fine. He apologised and said that the pipes were dirty or had been three days earlier when he arrived. The cheese & onion baguette was fine as was the re-placed pint. He came up an apologised again about the beer, but the little place seriously needs a landlord who cares what he serves his customers. The solitary toilet had black mould around the bottom of the walls, no much better than the squelchy carpet that used to be in there 25yrs ago. We hear that the pub has been on the market for a year or so but with no interest shown. No garden, no car park, and being so small, the signs aren't good. Paul_Rochdale - 23 Jun 2010 09:21 |
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