The Swan Inn, Old Isleworth

This pub has been in new hands for about 18 months and any comment before that time really needs disregarding. It,s clean, bright and well managed. Has developed a deserved good reputation for food so can get quite busy but it is still caters well for those who just want a drinkers bar and shows a lot of sport without ever allowing it to take over. Great quiz on a Tuesday night which gets very busy with its cash, meals and drinks prizes.definately rates a visit in its own right or as a stop off on a Isleworth riverfront pub-crawl.

17 Mar 2008 20:24

The Bear, Holwell

Great pub, discovered by chance a year or so ago. Been back a few times. Despite being stuck next to a main route its is still a traditional village pub but actually welcomes people except MPs - see signs on main road for confirmation. (In this respect it is completely the opposite of the George in the centre of the adjacent village Nunney which seems to attract the local inbreeds and neanderthals to its bar). The Bear has a good crack in the bar, good food, back yard/beer garden is huge and well cared for and the governor will show you how to play bar billiards.

17 Mar 2008 20:18