BITE user comments - JimmyRibble
Comments by JimmyRibble
Excellent and relatively unspolit village local. Friendly bar staff and customers and excellent Sharp's and Butcome ales, not to mention rocket-fuel rough cider!
One simple bar, with garden and outdoor smoking area.
5 Aug 2010 13:37
Great canalside location and beer garden. Unfortunately, the inside of the pub is all realy just a chain-style restaurant where drinkers are tolerated rather than welcomed. Wadworth's beers here are expensive and not particularly well-kept. You'd do better to walk along the road to the Brewery inn in the village.
5 Aug 2010 13:33
Recently refurbished village pub with lots of wood, stained glass and real fires. Run by "Joules Brewery" but doesn't sell Joules beer! Sepatare dining room at the rear. Good atmosphere and well worth a visit.
23 Mar 2010 13:23
Gimmicky canalside pub trading on its location and previous reputation. Unimaginative and expensive food. Pricey real ales served at lager-type temperatures. There are better pubs in Audlem.
23 Mar 2010 13:21
Interesting pub with good, local real ales, open fires and occasional folk music. The food is supposed to be good, but they were fully booked on the Friday night when I wanted to eat there recently.
15 Mar 2010 20:25
Interesting old pub - a bit "beams and horse brasses" but not over the top, with several distinct drinking areas and a restaurant. Excellent Robinson's beer and good food - with a choice of four vegetarian dishes and a "local and seasonal" menu. Despite this, food doesn't dominate or take away the atmosphere of a good town centre pub. Great views of the bus station from the lounge windows!
8 Mar 2010 21:23
Old-fashioned Brains pub (was Buckleys) at the eastern end of Pembrey village. Separate public bar and lounge and upstairs dining room (rarely used). Once the "heart of the community" but nowadays much quieter and not trading to its full potential. Usually two real ales from Brains range.
8 Mar 2010 12:47
Large comfortable Robinson's pub in the "Manchester" style. Separate bar and lounge and a third room out the back. Only bitter and one other Robbie's beer on handpump.
12 Feb 2010 13:46
Newton Brewery Inn, Middlewich
Clean and tidy back street pub with a graden leading down to the canal. Well-kept Marston's beers on handpump.
12 Feb 2010 13:44
Previously the pub in Audlem that only got busy after the other two closed, the Bridge was given a makeover in 2009 and much improved.
11 Feb 2010 17:36
This small two-bar pub on the banks of the canal is stuck in a 1920s timewarp - although it may have been modernised a bit as recently as 1955! Wooden settles in the bar, formica tables in the lounge. Wadworth's 6X 9shame its not a local beer) pulled from the cellar by handpump into a jug then into your glass.
If you like food, sound systems, television, fruit machines or even inside toilets then forget it! Just good beer, conversation and occasional folk music. It is impossible to sit in this pub for long before being drawn into the conversation.
11 Feb 2010 17:28
Junction Inn, Norbury Junction
Two bar pub with 1970s decor overlooking the canal. Very busy Saturday and Sunday afternoons with families there for the (average, pub) food. Quiet in the evenings. Usually Three cask beers from the Banks' / Marston's range plus a house special brewed by Coach House Brewery.
11 Feb 2010 17:22
Don't be misled by the postal address. This pub is 20 miles away from Hereford.
11 Feb 2010 17:17
Located halfway between the canal and the village centre. Two separate rooms, one used mainly for eating in the early evenings. Can be very busy early on but gets quieter later. Good range of well-kept traditional beers. The 481 bus from Stafford and Telford bus stops outside..
9 Feb 2010 13:57
Advertsies itself as a pub for eating in and obviously caters for the passing boaters' trade in this respect. However it also has a traditional public bar and well-kept traditional beers.
9 Feb 2010 13:55
Canalside pub popular with boaters. One room, albeit divided up into separate drinking areas. Large bay window in bar overlooking the canal and an outside drining area from which to watch the boats go by. Well-kept beers from the Banks's / Marston's / Jennings range.
9 Feb 2010 13:53
Large village pub with a thriving public bar (although somewhat dominated by TV screens) and a separte loungd and dining room. Usually three traditional beers such as London Pride, Deuchars IPA and a guest. Landlord of the "old school".
9 Feb 2010 13:51
Yet another Hereford pub that doesn't live up to its potential. A small 1930's roadhouse in largely unaltered form with a separate lounge and public bar, but never seems very busy. Not sure what the ale is like these days.
3 Feb 2010 17:44
There has been a change of landlord since the last review, but food service can still be slow.
Its an old pub, heavily modernised but still retaining a number of different "drinking areas". Generally quiet in the evenings, unsurprisingly as its too far out of town to walk to and not far enough out to drive.
Banks's beers usually well kept so worth calling in if you are passing anyway.
3 Feb 2010 17:41
Loud music, fruit machines, dreadful beer, worse clientele.
Not even a bowling green.
Avoid.
3 Feb 2010 17:37
A long time ago this was Hereford's premier real ale pub but that's no longer the case. Despite several refurbishments in the last 20 years it retains an aura of faded glory. In most towns a pub in this location (next to the river and the old bridge, with an outside drinking area on the riverside) would be a goldmine. Not here though and this pub is strictyly for the few locals that can't be bothered to go anywhere else!
3 Feb 2010 17:35
The Amberley Arms, Sutton St Nicholas
Good food, Wye Valley Beer and friendly staff in a quiet village local.
2 Feb 2010 17:46
Golden Cross Inn, Sutton St Nicholas
Oh dear! What was once a quiet unspoilt village local with great charachter now thinks its a city centre circuit bar. Not worth the trip out from Hereford any more.
2 Feb 2010 17:45
The Crown and Anchor, Lugwardine
Good beer quality assured due to frequent "testing" by the landlord.
2 Feb 2010 17:44
The Bunch of Carrots, Hampton Bishop
Good choice and quality of beer and good food too. As with most local country pubs booking ahead for an evening meal advised at weekends.
2 Feb 2010 17:43
Locals' pub hidden away on a council estate. Banks's beer. Its actually called the "Vaga Tavern"
2 Feb 2010 17:40
Beer range has got very disappointing lately and as with all Wetherspoons pubs not enough bar staff. More than once I've decided what was on offer wasn't worth the wait and gone elsewhere.
2 Feb 2010 17:37
Huge city centre pub well and truly "on the circuit" but large enough to cope with the crowds. Very attractive outdoor area as well. The cask beers (sometimes Wye Valley, sometimes just Bombardire) are surprisingly well kept.
2 Feb 2010 17:35
Food and beer both seem OK to me whenever I call in. Usually Brains Bitter and Reverend James on. Never too busy and can be deadly quiet midweek. Worst thing about it is the huge number of TV screens always showing sport (but thankfully without any sound).
2 Feb 2010 17:31
A rare example of a pub being improved by refurbishment and having a few walls knocked down. Still a locals' pub used primarily for drinking, although it does do lunchtime and evening food. Always a real ale, sometimes Wickwar.
2 Feb 2010 17:28
Its a big estate pub (although located on a main road) dating from the 1960s. the lounge has been modernised more than once since then but the public bar is a fine example of such bars from that era, if such things are to your taste. Beer has always been OK when I've called.
2 Feb 2010 17:26
Recently bought by Wye Valley Brewery so should be OK when they've finished sorting it out and re-opened it.
2 Feb 2010 17:24
The pub had its licence suspended by the Council for a fortnight in January/February, following a "serious incident". Yet another of Hereford's pubs that caters solely for the 18 - 25 market.
2 Feb 2010 17:23
One of Hereford's more disappointing pubs, which could be so much better (although in the past it has been worse!). Real ales are of variable quality and availability - most customers prefer lager, which should give you a good idea of what to expect.
2 Feb 2010 17:21
Old fashioned locals' pub on the main road out of town. Friendly staff and at least one real ale.
2 Feb 2010 17:15
Looks like the landlord may have moved on again. But was "to let" when i walked past
1 Feb 2010 13:59
Interesting decor, excellent food, home-brewed beer, friendly staff and customers: What's not to like?!
1 Feb 2010 13:56
I don't know who decided it was called the "Old Sheaf Inn" as its always been known as the Golden Fleece by everyone else, probably because that's what it says over the door!
Small single-bar Banks's pub with an interior design more akin to similar sized Black Country pubs - which may be why it has never reached its full potential in Hereford.
Never busy - and often deserted - one wonders how it keeps going and especially how they managed to keep the two cask beers (Banks's Mild and Bitter - electric pumps) so well.
27 Jan 2010 13:48
The Lichfield Vaults, Hereford
Completely agree with everfything said by others - plus they now sell Hobson's Bitter.
27 Jan 2010 13:45
Its the TUMP Inn actually. Large roadside pub, good reputation for pub food and the beer is OK.
18 Jan 2010 14:09
What ought to be a village local is trying to be a city centre bar. Owned by the same people as "Karlo's" in Hereford ('nuff sed?)
18 Jan 2010 14:05
Pub now closed with a planning application in to convert to housing.
18 Jan 2010 13:52
The Pelican, Devizes
Large pub next to the bus terminus in the town square. A bit "rough and ready" in the public bar, but staff and customers are friendly and the wadworth's ale (what else?) is excellent.
5 Aug 2010 13:44