BITE user comments - Davo1
Comments by Davo1
This is a real gem - good beer and good food, and they have the balance just right between eating and drinking, maintaining a good buzzy atmosphere. The landlord and landlady are very friendly and have cgot it just right.
2 Apr 2008 20:50
The Grove Tavern, Tunbridge Wells
This is a great little pub serving the best pint of Harveys in town - no suprises its one of the few Tunbridge Wells entries in the Good Beer Guide. I always end up spending a fortune on the pool table....which is another good reason for going there.
2 Apr 2008 20:45
The Duke of York, Tunbridge Wells
What a great pub - a proper boozer with great beer, friendly bar staff, decent clientele and plenty of atmosphere. The Harveys is excellent too. Definetly the best place for a decent pint in town.
2 Apr 2008 19:44
The Compasses, Tunbridge Wells
Oh how the mighty have fallen.....What was once the best pub in Tunbridge Wells is no more. The rot set in when Green King took the place over, dispensed with the Harveys and introduced their own bland and badly kept beers. A succession of fairly clueless managers with a 'don't care' attitude has seen a further deterioration in the quality of the beer, sport is no longer shown and the food is awful. This pub is located in one of the most characterful and affluent areas of Tunbrdge Wells and should be a goldmine. Clearly it isnt and is eerily quiet on weekdays as a result. My advice is to avoid it at all costs and head to the Grove and the Duke of York, both of which serve well kept Harveys and are run by people that actually care.
2 Apr 2008 19:42
The Compasses, Tunbridge Wells
I last reviewed this pub in 2008 and boy have things turned around. In 2008 the pub was badly run, the staff rude and disinterested and the beer very poor. Since then there have been a succession of mediocre managers and little has changed......UNTIL NOW. The current managers are friendly and courteous, as are their staff. The place has been smartened up, the food is good and reasonably priced and best of all they know what they're doing with their beer, with a varied choice of ales all of a consistently high standard. The Compasses is once agan one of the best pubs in town and long may it last!
25 Jan 2011 13:47