The Swan, Brentwood

The Swan maintains the feel of a traditional pub with a good selection of ales. The staff are young and do as they are told by the management, which is very efficient, maybe too efficient as to not notice or possibly doesn't take the trouble to look at customers and recognise them. If you say hello, you get glard at. But still the rest of the company there is great, the choice management makes for music is of a generally high quality - except they have decided to put it on earlier on a Sunday evening than previously done, 7pm which also means it finishes early, the muscicians tend to get an audince only for their second set. All a bit odd. If evening meals were re-introduced on a sunday evening as they used to have that would work with the early music start. Despite my management moan there is seldom trouble and the place gets very full Friday and Saturday night

19 Jan 2007 15:59