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What an improvement!
It's now a far more family-friendly place with welcoming staff than the miserable couple who ran it before. The curry night on Thursdays is excellent value and the food top quality, at least as good as any nearby Indian restaurant. The bar menu is pretty good for snacks and a full a la carte menu is being prepared.
The Fuller's beers are well kept and not badly priced at �3, below average for this area. There's a new bouncy castle in the garden, which is safe and popular with children.
There is still more work for the new owners to do, but we hope they'll get there soon and bring out the full potential of the pub.
One small criticism is the attitude of one of the staff - a hangover from the previous regime.
3 Sep 2010 07:49
Oh dear.
What has happened to this pub? This was the best pub in Denmead but has now become a chav-infested cesspit.
The food, always mediocre, has now descended to poor. Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire Puds from a plastic bag!
The real ales are very poor, probably due to the long line from the cellar. There's plenty of fizzy lager served at the temperature of liquid helium for the chavs, when they're not going to the toilets together with a rolled-up tenner or rowing in the car park.
The interior furniture is tired and uncomfortable and the wooden floors make the whole place so noisy one can't hear oneself think.
The garden is an unkempt mess with a wreck of bouncy castle looking like an accident about to happen. The garden furniture is wobbly and likely to give you splinters. If you're lucky you might find a table not covered with bee-infested glasses and surrounded by muck, but we doubt it.
Avoid, unless you have a Burberry brain.
3 Sep 2010 07:39
We went to the Harvest Home again recently. We had the pub nearly to ourselves, it seems most regulars have deserted the place now. There was no atmosphere and some unidentifiable muzak was playing and the ubiquitous sky sports news was on the TV.
We were pleased to see that the licensee's daughter had recovered from a broken ankle she got slipping off the bouncy castle, which had negligently and stupidly been placed on the concrete patio area last summer. We wonder what would have happened if the accident had happened to a customer's child.
We had a meal, which would have been poor for a greasy spoon. The veg had obviously been kept warm for hours, it was soggy and practically inedible. The meat in the pork curry was obviously left over from sunday lunch (4 days previous) and was accompanied by a dried up and tired salad garnish.
The only saving grace was the beer, the London Pride was well kept.
I doubt the pub will be open if we try it again next year.
This used to be a thriving pub. It's a shame to find it so run down and deserted. It seems to have been caused by the attitude of the landlady, she is given as the reason the former regulars have deserted the place.
26 Jul 2009 19:37
Nice pub with an excellent large garden. Pleasant to spend a few hours sitting under the trees in the summer.
11 Mar 2008 15:51
Sadly, the pub has gone downhill recently, due to the attitude problem of the landlady. Most of the regulars have now deserted for the White Hart or Forest of Bere. We hope it doesn't go bust and the pub sold for development.
11 Mar 2008 15:49
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The Harvest Home, Denmead
I wish I could withdraw my previous comment.
We went for a curry again last week, and I now understand squashcourtfun's comment. The pub was practically empty with a lack of atmosphere. The curry was quite poor, I understand the leaseholders also run the bar at the golf club, which has a curry night on Wednesdays. I suspect I can guess where at least some of the food comes from.
The staff's attitude seemed to range from, at best, disinterest to downright rude, if they're not all chatting near the kitchens.
My pint of London Pride was flat and uninteresting.
We won't be rushing back.
23 Nov 2010 00:21