Swan Inn, Barnbyback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Having read about this pub, I'd imagined a restaurant that served a couple of ales, rather than a pub that does food. Whilst it has clearly won admirers for its seafood, it still has the look and feel of a pub and it had 4 ales - Adnams Bitter & Ghost Ship & Greene King IPA & Abbot. There are outdoor drinking areas at both the front and rear. The etched windows at the front point to a day when the bar area was divided. But I have to say that this pub exceeded my (rather low) expectations.
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Lovely pub - good beer and excellent food.
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Visited for a meal, long on quantity, but short on quality, meals cold, overcooked, and in one case fish on the point of going off.
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Together with friends, the wife and myself had a terrific meal on friday evening last, a young team at front of house, pleasant welcome, proper customer service, (Not as common as it could / should be), the meals, we all agreed, were superb, the beer was excellent and the service was faultless despite a very busy restaurant, highly recommended.
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I'll leave all the journalistic blurb to the previous contributor. Hoewver it is safe to say that I concur with it all.
I would like to go one step further though by saying the restaurant has to be the best value and consistantly superb restaraunt I've ever been to.(Depends what you have of course, but expect �15 - �25 each)
It has never dissapointed me.
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As you see The Barnby Swan from the main road between Lowestoft and Beccles, it is impossible to drive past without stopping at this pleasurably unique Freehouse. Merging what is an award-winning fish restaurant and pleasingly traditional country pub, The Barnby Swan offers a wide range of food and drink suitable for all occasions whether it be a buisness lunch, a romantic meal for two(complete with the finest fresh oysters!), a family celebration or just a refreshing drink thats needed on a break from a bikeride through the quaint village of Barnby. Offering car park space and with a courtyard as well as a fine garden to the rear, the Swan proves a delightfully cosy yet refined place to wine and dine. From the impressive bar through to the Fisherman's Cove restaurant, it decadently displays an amazing range of artefacts, authentic to the vast background and experience of the Swan's owners, brothers Donny and Micheal Cole, in the Lowestoft fishing industry. Amicably greeted and constantly looked after by The Swan's pleasant and hardworking staff, understandably known locally for their charming smiles as well as their efficiency, their enthusiasm can only add to the buzzing atmosphere the Swan enlightens you with. And yet above all else, the vast menu is undoubtedly the Swan's most impressive feature. From halibut to lemon sole served with special cheese and prawn sauce, fresh lobster salad or The Swan's speciality whole grilled dover sole, it's their extensive and delicious menu and quality of cooking which has proved responsible for their sustained success as the most popular fish restaurant in the area. And it is this also, that well-deservedly won the Swan Inn, Barnby, the Best British Seafood Pub award at the 2004 Publican Awards.
CBee6 - 22 Aug 2006 01:35 |
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