Pig N Falcon, St Neotsback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
A bit higgledy piggledy making it difficult to find somewhere to perch but there is plenty of covered outdoor space (more than there is actually in the pub. had the Facon Red which was one of the better brews on what was turning out to be a duff night for beer.
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I really like this pub. There is always a varied selection of well-kept ale, that keeps changing so there's always something new to try. Much of the beer comes straight from the cellar. It's a relaxed, friendly place, with a large beer garden (with heaters!). There's live music a few nights a week, and barbecues in the summer.
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On a couple of recent visits the beer ranged from OK to excellent, helped by being served flat and cool from the cellar. Lovely drinkers pub, and a great place to watch the olympics with a pint and scrachings.
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Very good pub, shambling and old-fashioned, it distracted me from looking for meat ends in the nearby Waitrose Deli. A beer festival was on with an excellent selection of ales, 43 listed. They also advertise in excess of thirty foreign beers on a board above the bar. Friendly staff who offered samples of their favourites. Toilets like the Public Health Acts of the Victorian era were never passed. I had Cottage Brewing Co's Howling and Tydd Steam Red Baron. Recommended.
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Now the Pig'n'Falcon have spent the last few years perfecting their ale, maybe they can sort out some of the things they've overlooked. The toilets, for a start, are woeful, and the garden heaters often don't work. When you ask, you're told "I have to plug them in, I'll do it in an hour or so". Not on considering it's impossible to stay inside the oub due to the excessive volume of the live music!
Apart from that this pub is a winner and not to be missed, especially by real ale fans, and smokers will enjoy the large beer "garden".
Barbeque on Fri/Sat nights, �2.50 per burger not to be sniffed at
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One of the best pubs I've ever had the pleasure to visit. Beer is fantastic. Excellent range of proper cider and perry. Good atmosphere, some beers are pricier than others but you can drink for �2.20. It doesn't really get any better than this.
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Deservedly, this pub was awarded most improved pub in the area. Fine selection of ale ever changing served straight from the cask.
Beware however, bar staff may ask you to move seat if a 'more regular' customer should come in... Pity!
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Most Pubs wither in the face of a Wetherspoons opening in there town. and indeed a Wetherspoons has opened next door, however i feel the landlord here has relished the wetherspoons openeing and has risen to the challenge, providing a good range of real ale,beers and cider along with entertainment, a traditional dingy pub, but by golly its good!! Avoid on a friday and saturday night when it can be raucous, but my advice is avoid St Neots on those two nights not this pub by itself, apart from those two nights, good at any time..
For me New Years Eve speaks volumes, Wetherspoons shut before midnight as it was nearly empty, and the Pig and falcon was rammed.. and they are literally 25 yards apart..
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Apparently this is the most improved pub in Hunts, according to CAMRA. I really like it. The landlord knows and loves his beer, keeps it well, always has a range available (plus a couple of good ciders) and encourages local brewers. I've been in a few times and I'm yet to have had a beer that wasn't spot on.
More power to his elbow, says I.
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It is a little early to be sure about the Pig and Falcon, but this pub deserves encouragement for providing the best array of high quality beer in the town (with constant representaion from the Potbelly brewery) and a landlord who wants to make a distinctive success. It is in a great position for a beer after/before/while shopping with a tiny dark interior but a useful outisde drinking area. Sometimes competes for noise with other pubs locally by putting on live music.
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Beware the Mexican Wolf man. Apart from him, it`s ok.
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