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A great pub, well worth a visit (when its open!). A good range of beers (Cheriton, Sharpes etc as well as the usual for this area Hopback brews), well kept and very reasonably priced. The front bar is small and has the feel of a local's pub. A small flight of stairs leads to a back room which is decorated with various boat related paraphenalia and has a large television for sport and a table football. Well worth avisit if you are returning from the town to the railway station.
21 Apr 2006 22:14
Oh dear. This should be so much better than it is. Cheap beer of variable quality but it takes an eternity to be served (and not just on Friday and Saturday nights). The area around the bar is more reminiscent of a high street arcade parlour than a pub. There is something about this place that results in it having no atmosphere whatsoever. There's just something not quite right about this place.
21 Apr 2006 22:04
Watership Down, Freefolk Priors
This is a superb pub, on a side road off of the B3400. Outside hens peck around the garden whilst inside there is a range of real ales including a mild. There is an old arcade game, a pin ball machine and a table football. There is seating for food in the pub and its conservatory, the food itself is good. The pub closes in the afternoons. The only slightly off putting thing is the stuffed rabbits that adorne the inside of the pub (maybe they are fake!).
21 Apr 2006 21:55
Rural pub with limited opening hours, it closes in the afternoon even at the weekends. The food is reasonable but the highlight has to be the award winning beers which are brewed in the brewhouse across the car park and are gravity dispensed from cask behind the bar. An annual beer festival is held on the August bank holiday weekend when the pub is open all day serving the normal range of Cheriton beers whilst a marque outside serves a range of maybe twenty of the best beers from around the country and usually including the wining beers from the Great British Beer Festival held a few weeks previously. Curry and burger stands and live music in the evenings all add to the festival. Accomodation is available and there is a field behind the pub where you can camp. Next door is a bed and breakfast.
21 Apr 2006 21:42
The Winchester Gate, Salisbury
Four real ales (Hopback Spring Zing and Timothy Taylor Landlord appear to be on permanently) excellently kept. Two rooms and a garden. Worth visiting.
21 Apr 2006 22:19