The Lamb Inn, West Wittering

Sadly under the current ownership, local opinion on the Lamb has taken a turn for the worse. The pub is a traditional low-ceilinged country pub which, on the face if it, has plenty going for it but is let down badly by the remarkably poor food. The current management can't seem to decide what market they're going for either, one night we went in and there was a brass band shoved in a corner playing silver-screen classics, seemingly designed to prompt a nostalgic tear from the local silver-hair brigade. That's all very nice but us here in the land of the living could make better use of vacated seating and we're still in the market for buying beer!

Poor food quality lets the side down, since positioned in the middle of nowhere on the manhood penninsula, if you're visiting you might reasonably expect a meal. Lately we've seemingly dropped by, been disappointed with the atmopshere and left without a single drink. We can only hope the Lamb changes hands again and we can have back our lively local boozer where we'd take visiting friends for grub.

1 Oct 2006 20:21

The Shore Inn, East Wittering

Refurbished the new restaurant area is clean and presentable and the food is decent, seemingly to missmatch the older rest of the pub with it's built-in wall seating and single pool table. It's drab beer garden is popular when the weather permits, situate just 50m from the sea.

As one of the few local pubs in the Witterings, the shore has a refreshingly cross-class blend of customers ranging from the local chav contingent, holiday makers (grockles) and the posher locals from West Wittering. Lays on quiz nights on Thursday and food in the beer garden on weekends during the sunny season. It's a decent enough place for a pint or a bite to eat in an area that offers few alternatives.

1 Oct 2006 20:12

The Fox Goes Free, Charlton

Gorgeous setting in the backwaters of Goodwood racing course, a pub with a real rustic atmosphere where you might run into a group of gentlemen taking a break from some pheasant shooting. The ales are excellent and the food is good too although sadly overpriced. Real ale out in the garden beneath the apple trees in summer, you don't get much better than this.

1 Oct 2006 20:01