BITE user comments - richhol
Comments by richhol
Overall a good Wetherspoon pub. Beer was very good indeed (Thornbridge and Teme Valley tried) with enough serving staff and top up without asking. Beer choice was also very varied at about 14, most being small brewery offerings rather than the usual suspects.
Food was the usual Wetherspoon menu - some of it pretty basic but a good price. They were doing fine mid afternoon on a Tuesday in January - a good cross section of customers.
25 Jan 2011 18:12
Middling Wetherpoons. Staff were better than many, but 3 different beers were all a bit hazy and bland. Deuchar's that is not crystal clear is a very rare occurrence. Food was the usual Wethespoons standard - cheap but not great.
22 Jan 2011 21:34
A regular haunt when in the area - nothing much seems to change here and that is a strength. Excellent Sharps Doom Bar bitter (when I visited - not sure if permanent) and reasonably priced food which was more than acceptable.
28 May 2009 10:13
Good Sharps beer on my visit and the cut and thrust of a proper pub. Good natured but a bit loud at times and a slightly surly barmaid (to visitors anyway).
28 May 2009 10:09
Very friendly service and beer more than acceptable. This is the slightly 'out of the way' pub in Lyme and all the better for that.
28 May 2009 10:06
Very good St Austell Tribute beer - possibly the best beer of a week long stay in Dorset. Beer was a reasonable price for a seaside town, but the food looked expensive for a pub, to a northerner like me anyway! However, I didn't try it and other reviews are favorable.
28 May 2009 10:04
The Royal Lion Hotel, Lyme Regis
Butcombe beer was top notch and a comfortable place to drink it, although it is of course more a hotel bar than a pub. If you want the cut and thrust of a pub try The Volunteer up the road.
28 May 2009 10:00
The Pilot Boat Inn, Lyme Regis
A bit short of atmosphere, but Palmers beer was fine and food reasonably priced for a seaside town. A slightly more interesting range of food options than is normal.
28 May 2009 09:57
Shave Cross Inn, Marshwood Vale
Interesting pub that clearly is well thought of. Helicopter directions are included in their brochure!
The food smelt very appealing indeed but no lighter menu is available at lunch time, except for very overpriced soup at nearly �6. The friendly service didn't mask the poor, murky Branscombe beer either (the worst beer of the week on my Dorset holiday).
28 May 2009 09:54
A recent change of licensee (2007) and still a great pub. Cask beer as good as ever with a choice of about 6 or 7, certainly at the weekend. A litle more food available now, but mainly a friendly local that welcomes all.
27 Nov 2007 23:01
The Greyhound Inn, Old Higham Village
Much more a restaurant now. Meals expensive really for mass prepared, although the 'lite bite' options offer better value. Service a bit hit and miss but usually good. Pedigree and one other guest - ensure the staff fill them up to something approaching a pint at these prices.
20 Feb 2007 12:10
In Feb 2007 beer moving over to the Greene King set, and still somehow drab and tasteless in here. Everything else good - bit smokey, but that will be gone soon.
20 Feb 2007 12:04
A very cloudy pint of cask beer blindly offered up here when visited in 2005, but the Landlord quickly on the case and sorted it out to give a first class pint. Other things v good all round.
10 Mar 2006 20:16
If you like your beer in Matlock...
Zero passing trade, welcoming with quality beer.
5 Aug 2005 21:40
Welcoming, but somehow never quite managed to be interesting. Beer usually OK rather than good.
5 Aug 2005 21:38
Smart, but expensive beer - well over �2 for Boddingtons (6/05) is too much.
5 Aug 2005 21:36
Seemed smart enough and service prompt, but beer (Brains SA) was very poor.
9 Jul 2005 17:40
Very good feeling to the place. Beer quality and service top notch.
9 Jul 2005 11:41
The Benjamin Huntsman, Sheffield
Agree with previous reviewer - decent range of beers (quality of some Harviestoun beer we tried really was up there with the best), reasonable food when considering the price and staff better than many other Wetherspoon pubs.
Certainly superior to the Banker's Draft down the road.
28 Jan 2011 17:44