BITE user comments - Doggo
Comments by Doggo
It depends what you want from a pub doesn't it? No TV, radio or music but lots of chat about sport, news and just about anything else. A wide range of superb beers properly kept and served in jugs too if you wish. No lager, no bottled beer and no fake heartiness. A mobile phone is nailed to a shelf to remind you to turn yours off and so long as you don't trip over a customer's dog, the worse thing that can happen to you here is developing a compulsion to come back -for the beer, the friendly but sharp banter and Kevin's pickles. The cheese and Mrs Miggins pies are pretty good too when you can get them. This tiny oasis of calm does what it does very well indeed. You can enjoy great beer and find yourself drawn into good conversation. You might even wind up on a brewery trip or find someone to fix your chimney. A proper local that's been imitated oop north as well as on the Kent coast. Because it's such a great pub, it attracts customers from far and wide. They always have a story to tell and before long you can really feel at home. Surprisingly so. And if you live too far away, well then, if you like the Butchers, you'll have to start your own. Ask Martyn, it's not as hard as you think. Check his website for opening times. Google Micro-pub, for that is what it is.
24 May 2012 18:36
Love it. A pub that's kept it's style and continues to do well. I used to live next door and the reviewers are talking about the smae kind of pub that it was thirty years ago. Whenever I go back it feels like home. Decent beer. A friendly smile and a perpetual feeling of lazy Sunday afternoons. Excellent corner pub.
24 May 2012 18:14
I lived round the corner and went here when it was a cinema. Then I watched it renovated. I went once. Not really worth going again as there were nicer, corner pubs within staggering distance. I live in another town now. And Spoons have just bought the old cinema. Having tried Wetherspoons up and down I still can't make my mind up about them. Fairly good beer. Reasonably clean facilities. Fair value uninspiring food. But, that's it. Always TOO big. A McDonalds of the beer trade.
24 May 2012 18:09
So sorry to see this. Used to be my local and very ordinary but comfortable and decent beer it had too. What a shame.
24 May 2012 18:01
Popular pub. Always has been. Good beer, relaxing space. Always someone to see and usually something to do too. Great.
24 May 2012 17:58
Well, if you have to. A decent pint perhaps but why should a small local try to compete with footie and music in the big pubs? A cheerful, welcoming chatty pub with a choice of good beers and a bit of acoustic music once or twice a week would be so much better than this fairly boring establishment. Its get up and go has got up and gone.
24 May 2012 17:55
Sad that many Richmond Yorks pubs seem to have slid downhill and lost confidence in what makes a good local - great beers, hospitality, good service and friendly welcome. It's not asking much and this place had it in spades. Now rather mediocre. What's worse, is there's not much better within walking distance. What has it come to when a Wetherspoons, up the road, is the best around for beer and at least something of a warm welcome. Pass the Prozac.
24 May 2012 17:50
Sad that many Richmond Yorks pubs seem to have slid downhill and lost confidence in what makes a good local - great beers, hospitality, good service and friendly welcome. It's not asking much and this place had it in spades. Now rather mediocre. What's worse, is there's not much better within walking distance. What has it come to when a Wetherspoons, up the road, is the best around for beer and at least something of a warm welcome. Pass the Prozac.
24 May 2012 17:49
Went in, came out again fast. Horrible to watch a place die in agony.
24 May 2012 17:42
The Butchers Arms, Herne
Can't get enough of this place...always something delicious that's NOT up on the board so ask for what else there is. ESB this week! There's a rumour there's the odd bottle of proper cider too. Thin end of the wedge if you ask me. Reassuringly sane pub.
28 Nov 2012 14:56