BITE user comments - gdlane
Comments by gdlane
This is an excelent pub. I've visited twice on recent visits to Brighton and find the staff charming, welcoming and try hard to please. The beer is excellent, particulalrly the Harveys and the food top nothch. This is a template for all pubs and many of them (including the Golden Fleece, London, E12 and the Crown and Anchor, Findhorn, Scotland) could learn from, in terms of atmosphere, hygienic surroundings, top quality food and drink and happy friendly staff
2 Mar 2009 14:11
Although this pub is closed down at least you won't be verbally abused like you do by Finlay at the Crown and Anchor in Findhorn.
22 Feb 2009 18:21
Rude. Poor service. Like a morgue. Overpriced. Awful. An insult to my very being.
22 Feb 2009 18:18
What a travesty. This pub should be raking it in. What about a community buy out?
22 Feb 2009 18:17
Best pub in a radius of 5 miles. Excellent beer at all times.
22 Feb 2009 18:14
Went in this pub and they had no cask ale on at that time and was not really welcomed in. However, the pub has great views of the Moray Firth and beach and its menu looked reasonably priced and interesting.
Although the pub could have done more to entise us in to stay, at least the staff didn't verbally abuse us,unlike Finlay at the Crown and Anchor in nearby Findhorn.
22 Feb 2009 18:11
Very family friendly pub. Attractive exterior, with small front bar and sympathetically built extension. Attractive beer garden. Two cask ales available and well kept - however no local ale.
This is a pub that caters for the local RAF base and they have a basic food menu (didn't have any so cannot comment on quality). The pub have entertainment during the week and weekends and are welcoming and warm to locals, kids and tourists, unlike Finlay at the Crown and Anchor in nearby Findhorn, who will verbally abuse you.
22 Feb 2009 18:02
I am not sure of this pub. They will only serve customers with children between 12 and 2, And then its empty. Only stayed a for a couple of pints, IPA Deuchars, very good, and the food was basic sandwiches and soup - OK and cheap.
However, the pub was very clean and architectually interesting , although hot (turn it down please) and the staff were very nice and did not verbally abuse you, unlike Finlay at the Crown and Anchor at Findhorn.
22 Feb 2009 17:51
I really liked this pub. The staff were friendly and they served a wicked pint of Deuchars IPA.
The food was good and wholesonme and the steak pie was homemade. At �4.75 for a pie and soup, who can complain.
I liked the waitress service ( they will get a drink for you as you eat) and was excellent, and it saves waiting behind morons who can't make their mind up if they want jacket or chips with their lasagne at the bar when you want a pint! London pubs take note.
Excellent pub and justifies its pub of the year awards. If you are in the area try it (Elgin is a nice place as is Lossiemouth up the road) and also you will not be verbally abused as you do by Finlay in the Crown and Anchor at nearby Findhorn.
22 Feb 2009 17:42
This is an OK pub. The food was of a good standard and my party and I were treated with respect and the service was very good.
The area as whole is expensive, but the food and beer (passable Landlord) and pub do not justify this. �3 a pint is pricey and oven chips with a �10 fish and chips is overpriced (had the same ion Elgin for a fiver) but I accept its a tourist area.
Only one cask ale on was dissapointing (the other pump was Greene King IPA which I cannot count on the ground its the dregs of real ale). The Taylor Landlord was well kept and they appear to have a quick turnaround on this (but bar staff - fill em up please!)
Overall a nice visit to a pub in an outstandingly beautiful area, but inside I felt I could have been anywhere. At least we were not verbally attacked, as we were the pub next door (The Crown and Anchor run by Finlay).
22 Feb 2009 17:35
The Crown and Anchor Inn, Findhorn
I usually start a review with a comment about the beer. However, I will get to that later. The landlord of this pub is an offensive and unlikeable individual with some serious "Napolionic" personality complex.
The beer on the other hand is probably the best kept in the area. The Taylor Landlord was on a par to anything I've tasted elsewhere in the country - its a shame that there was not a local ale to tase when visiting.
Food for five of my party ranged from outstanding to inedible.
The area in general is expensive, and I live in London, but I accept that this is a tourist area. However, I am not in the habit of travelling the best part of 13 hours for a holiday to have a stand up row with an ignorant and ungrateful landlord who chose to pick a fight with my party. I can do that for nothing at the end of my road. As the local in the pub said to me "he is probablty the biggest a**e in Findhorn".
22 Feb 2009 17:20
The Famous Railway Tavern Brewing Co, Brightlingsea
I agree. The pub is very good. Fantastic ale. Shame the landlord is an obnoxious....
22 May 2007 16:15
The Golden Fleece, Manor Park
This pub is dirty, unhygienic and mostly, empty. Avoid at all costs. Shame, the beers ok. It is an insult to humanity.
2 Mar 2009 14:13