Queens Head Inn, Harlowback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Mainly Woodforde’s beers now served.
Once Bittern, Wherry. Butcombe Gold, and Adnams bitter an excellent choice.
Food a bit pricey.
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In addition to the previous reviewer's comments, I can confirm that they also open all day on a Sunday. We visited just before 4pm today after a visit to the nearby Gibberd Garden beer festival, which was very good by the way. The Queens Head is a very nice village pub. There is a large lounge bar at the front and a smaller room to the side. Beyond this is a large outdoor drinking area. The beer range is more than adequate - Crouch Vale Essex Boys & Brewers Gold, Adnams Bitter & Broadside & Colchester Metropolis & Braggot. It couldn't beat the beer festival. But it was a nice stop off.
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Just for information, they no longer close during the afternoon (well, not on Saturdays, anyway).
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Probably one of the best pubs in or near Harlow for real ale and food.
Not a vast choice of ales but they are good ones, including: Webster's Wonderful Wallop, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold and Yakima Gold - which was served straight from the cask. Everyone should try this beer - it is superb.
Maybe one day the head brewers of Greene King and McMullen might produce a tasty brew like this one. Gripe over.
Choose your meal from an extensive list on a chalkboard. Majority of main meals about �9.
Landlord was very informative about his beers, and a small group of locals were pleasant enough.
Very enjoyable.
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nb. closes 15:00-18:00 even on Saturday.
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Jump on the number 7 bus from Harlow Town and 14mins later you arrive outside this lovely old pub set in a picturesque village street with a variety of aged and weatherboarded buildings. The bar has low, original heavy beams and timbered ceiling & walls, comfortable fabric settles below the windows and darkwood tables & chairs. A handful of locals were already chatting on the barstools when we arrived at 12:05, the service was friendly and the beers good. Brewers Gold (�2.90), Websters Wonderful Wallop (aka Nethergate IPA) �2.50, also Adnams Bitter & Broadside. Smaller room to left of entrance is similarly timbered, with a large working brick fireplace, 3 tables with seating for 12-15, french window to rear carpark, decorative old brass cash register, a serving hatch from the bar, and a dartboard (although tables would need moving to use), also a local version of the Paul Whitehouse character Rowley Birkin qc, babbling on incoherently, I suspect he was already ver ver drunk.
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I was off drinking beer when I visited, but the range of wines were great. The food, although standard pub grub, was excellent and the welcome warm. And we could set up a tab which I'm sure was totted up wrong at the end of the night (in our favour!). The only downside was that I couldn't find the gent's toilet door which was outside and had to hang on till closing time. That could have been down to the vodka though...
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Perfect, perfect olde worlde pub: ancient outside and in, old beams, fireplaces, etc, etc. Beautiful churchside location too in a gorgeous street. Who would have thought Harlow could be so idyllic?
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Just in the Beer Guide, and a real gem. The pub is typical untouched old Essex, rather than upmarket foodie pub, and the Websters was sensational for a 3.5% er. Absolutely gorgeous little village only a mile or so from Harlow.
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Great pub, food's good and the house beer 'Websters Wonderfull Wallop' (Nethergate best)is a must...will be all the better when the smoking ban comes in!
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Has been a pub since 1515, fantastic old style pub,
real ales,
Fine wines,
Excellent Food
Quiz on Wednesdays...
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