BITE user comments - HappyJack
Comments by HappyJack
Popular with Broadway locals. No guest ales, yet, but good local brews from Wickwar Brewery in Gloucestershire: Cotswold Way, Bob and Coopers. Symonds cider on tap and Old Mout in bottles. Also, lots of draft lagers and bottled beers.
Reasonable menu which is reviewed regularly and daily specials.
Fantastic location on a warm summer evening, being right on the green.
20 May 2014 11:43
£3.70 for a pint of Timothy Taylors Landlord. Some interesting guest beers regularly on. Monday night is pizza night where you can enjoy home made pizza, though if you go there straight after work you will be accosted by screaming kids in the garden with their oblivious yummy mummies.
20 May 2014 11:06
Had a very nice home cooked lunch here last week. Good value, pleasant bar staff and good selection of drinks (see photo). Good choice for vegetarians.
16 Aug 2013 14:10
The Kilvert's Hotel, Hay on Wye
Minus points:
Food slow (1 hour wait); cold when it arrived and incorrect order (beef delivered instead of lamb). It was Sunday lunchtime, and chef had two large tables to do in front of us. Bloody London priced beer (�3.30), which is irritating when other pubs in the area are managing �2.60-�2.80 a pint.
Plus points:
The ale was really good, though. So, good beer and the garden are the main reasons for the high score.
Sampled Butty Bach and Kilvert's Gold which were both tasty and fresh. The highlight, however, was the guest - Thai Bo which tasted of lemon grass, great summer pint.
1 Aug 2011 14:27
THIS PUB HAS NOW CHANGED ITS NAME. It is the Bell and has Bobardier & Courage Best on tap. Fabulous food - great veggie sausages & excellent staff. The manager came up to me to explain that the veggie sausages are so like meat ones in texture, appearance etc that I shouldn't be worried and that they are organic & totally vegetarian. Lunchtime crowd made up of mixture of local office workers and officers from the local nick. TV had BBC news with the sound turned down. Chilled out and groovy vibe. Loved it.
4 Dec 2009 14:10
Harveys in the Town / Larkin Inn, Hounslow
This place has now changed hands, had a refurb and has (I am reliably informed) a great Thai chef and jazz on sundays. Also, renamed THE ROSE. Review to follow
13 Nov 2009 12:59
This place has now changed hands, had a refurb and has (I am reliably informed) a great Thai chef and jazz on sundays. Also, renamed THE ROSE. Review to follow
13 Nov 2009 12:03
Had a pint of Doom in here, which can be hard to keep any distance from Cornwall and it was well kept. Stayed for a weekend and was made to feel welcome; great breakfast, comfortable, private room (four poster!) and very convenient for the town. Would certainly revisit. Oh, they had the rugby on in the corner too, which was nice.
4 Oct 2007 22:34
This week, on a lovely, early summer's walk along the canal with my girlfriend, we chanced upon this joint. Heaving with godless poseurs drinking rose and hiding behind over-sized sunglasses. Got a pint of Becks Vier and mooched outside. Almost immediately the pygmy bullyboy acting as security told us where we couldn't stand. We then proceeded to watch the 'door policy'. It seemed pretty random. In spite of the fact that there was ample seating inside and even some spaces outside, I watched the bully expressly exclude two black guys whilst the (white) yuppies slipped in. I guess he must have twigged this looked odd, so he then stopped a puzzled white couple. We drank up double quick and scarpered. Disgusting. As Groucho Marx said, 'I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member.'
24 May 2007 15:24
This is my local and a nice change from some of the toss on Kilburn High Road.
Jack behind the bar is a friendly chap. John is too. If you called either of them a "plastic paddy", they would be upset. Rightly so. This pub has two projection screens for sports and about three other tellies all showing sport sport and more sport. You've got yer Premiership on every weekend and last Sunday they were showing the Hurling live from Ireland too.
The Guinness is reliably good and very reasonably priced.
This is a proper pub, where it does have locals and genuine regulars and they laugh at you if you ask for coffee.
Child friendly, but only take your kids if you don't mind them passively smoking about 100 cigarettes an hour.
Hopefully the 'beerpolice' will stay away from my local and let me enjoy a pint in peace.
3 Apr 2006 15:41
The Swan, Broadway
The Swan is not a destination I will ever return to. Tried it dozens of times over the last decade and it hasn't changed. Lousy food, rotten staff, average beer. Go to the Crown & Trumpet if you like proper pubs.
20 May 2014 11:47