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Refurbed yet again! Still incredubly popular. Food is excellent, and it is advisable to book if you want to eat, especially at weekends. Ale choice good, if on the expensive side. Has a large selection of gins, in keeping with the current fad for Mother's Ruin.
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The Junction is a large building, though the front bar area is quite small, then with contemporary booths along the side wall until opening up with more tables and seating at the rear.
On my visit I noticed 6 pumps of which 2 were off. Service was swift and I had a very enjoyable pint of Conqueror Black IPA at £3.95. There were a few ales to choose from though I did not make a note of them all. My pint was pleasant and in good condition.
Has a bit of a gastro pub feel to it and there was a good menu (though I did not stay for food).
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Great location and impressive building.
Huge dining area and a series of little leather seated snugs along the main bar.
Quite a collection of real ales on - I went for the Timothy Taylor Landlord. A favourite.
The pint was fine, even if it did have a slightly odd colour and took a while to settle down to be see through.
Can't fault the place - This would be my local if I lived in the area.
Some photos at bit.ly/1OLHiaR
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So called because it is situated on a prominent junction in the centre of Harborne, the Junction has a modern feel and is clearly popular with diners who were sampling an array of food from the open kitchen at the rear. Ales on offer were Sharps Doom Bar, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Purity Saddle Black & Purity, Roosters 41 Degrees South & Wye Valley Butty Bach. Addlestones was the only decent cider available. The crowd in here was fairly young. In fact, the average age was probably less than half that of our previous hostelry - the Harborne Club. Although the Club was far more friendly. Service in the Junction was also poor. There was a long wait and the barmaid that served us was far from friendly. There are better pubs in Harborne.
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Have been back to this pub in the last week and am sad to report it has undergone some sort of drab "make-under" giving the place a rather empty, un-welcoming feel.
Still has the best selection of beer in Harborne.....
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Has just reopened after a lighning-quick refurb. Very nice, light, airy sort of ambience, but the emphasis now seems to be on the food side of things as the dedicated dining area seems to have encroached on the drinking zone! Interesting selection of ales, and my pint of Doombar was excellent. All a far cry from when it was a two/three room local with a grid of string stretched across the matt-black ceiling in the "lounge" to make it look like it was tiled! Micky Jones would never believe it now!
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Much better places to drink in Harborne
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This pub has got to be the worst i have ever been in, crap beer, crap food and crap service. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
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in a word, best real ale pub and best atmosphear on the harborne hight street i feel. Oh and if the managment read this, can i have the great western railway bench that you keep outside??????????????? pretty please?????????????????
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Tis a nice friendly (but pricey) pub, but I've found recently that some of the real ale should taste better, maybe they don't know how to keep it properly.This is common among many pubs who keep rotating their real ale offer.
I've felt unwell a couple of times after drinking it and as a result select alternative drinks when I visit now.
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Great pub, great vibe brilliant food offer during the week with 2 courses for �8.50 beer a bit pricey but where else can you get franiskaner on Harborne High St
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Been a couple of times in the afternoon. Good range of (pricey) beers, continental lagers, some decent real ales (Purity ales for eg). Ambitious OTT menu, which claims to be tasty pub food though I don't recall seeing squid soup in many boozers. Naff decor which will date in a few years and then the pub will be overhauled to look like a retro 2009 pub. Staff were bored and listless. The sort of pub-not-pub designed for people who are disappointed by the poor range of olives and meagre selection of croissants offered in other pubs.
Stein - 23 Feb 2011 23:23 |
An interesting pub, one of my favorites in the B`ham area. Impressive array of booze from all over the globe, served as you slouch over a game of Operation/Monopoly, sat on a 300 year old sofa that has long since lost its last spring.
Seriously, its more fun than it sounds. Well worth a visit.
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The Junction is a great place to chill out with friends - they have board games!! And if you think here is expensive, the chavvy Varsity close by charged me �6.00 for a double Gordon's gin and tonic - I can have a Hendrick's gin for the same price at The Junction!!
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I'm with SGA - it's great, certainly by Birmingham standards. Friendly, intersteing decore, excellent Titanic stout (albeit in one of those horrible handle mugs that weigh a ton), even let children in. A really good allrounder and a real surprise. Shame the excellent traditional Banks pub close by dropped out of the GBG though...
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pub is going for the pseudo-bohemian look. lots of superfluous candles and mismatching furniture - often in poor states of repair. Food served is very much a hit and miss affair...either very good or downright awful.
Lots of choices for beer, although not really a real ale pub.
It gets the basics wrong, pretty much ALL the lagers that you order are flat. And the barstaff are not very good at following basic commands such as an order. Would suggest that the root cause is that its poorly managed.
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great pub, I like the Budavr Dark in particular. The only problem is the food is a bit variable in quality.
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The few times I've been the barstaff have been really friendly. Suprisingly children are allowed in until 8 o'clock. Real ale comes in handled jugs, always a bonus. Nice selection of ales and more intresting lagers, good back bar selection. The food thinks it's something fancy but is very smal portions and not particually great. If i'm in Harborne I head either here or the Bell.
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Visited July 2007 - The Junction Inn. Nice pub with good smoking area out of the back. I bit pretentious with all the foreign lagers (who drinks that stuff?!) Three real ales on but no classics all very micro brewish but not a bad pint. Staff need some customer service training, our drinks were served a various places down the bar and had to be retrieved ourselves and then to have the audacity to ask to have my beer topped up. She was not a happy soul!
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