BITE user comments - kon23uk
Comments by kon23uk
Nice friendly pub with decent beer and good food. Wonder if the putting course is finished yet? Feel this is going to be a favourite.
25 Nov 2012 13:48
Called in here during wander around Marazion & SMM. Nice beer with good food. Definitely worth a visit.
25 Nov 2012 13:31
Another holiday haunt. Not fair to judge this place as a pub: it's a seriously good seafood restaurant with decent beer on tap. But there's a lot worse pubs in Penzance than this one and we'll definitely eat here again ;-)
25 Nov 2012 13:22
Called in on holiday this year: really nice place with friendly service. Good beer, good food (but I hope the chef's granny is OK now).
25 Nov 2012 13:18
Decent beer, but as we were scouting for places to eat rather than actually buying food, the landlady(?) was "terse" :/ There's better places to eat in Penzance so didn't go back.
25 Nov 2012 13:14
Visited during a holiday in Penzance. Beer excellent, food good, and... There are pubs with character, and then there are pubs where it's like meeting Ken Dodd, Lily Savage, and Muse and they are determined to overwhelm you by going over their usual top. This is one of the latter. It won't be to everyone's taste, and if you find white tiles, with scandinavian glass and steel furniture too cluttered, this place will freak you out. I love it :)
25 Nov 2012 13:12
This has now been refurbished and reopened. Still not sure what the opening hours are, but managed to get in there on a Friday evening.
Refurb looked plasticky, but seen an awful lot worse, and it's fundamentally the same (unfortunately this includes the loos). After a while, we'll probably think this is what it looked like all along,
Guest and 6X were pretty decent, but it's a cider disaster: nothing reasonable, even on bottle, and how do you manage to ruin Stowford? (my guess is to freeze it, put it back to the proper temperature, and then hope people won't notice).
I'll visit again, but it'll take a lot to get the Chairlady of the Board there.
26 Feb 2012 19:15
New menu (at last), new update...
Overall, still a nice family pub, but the food prices still creep up. Also, the food has become less consistent in its production: for example, the "chicken sizzler" can range from the bland to the "omigawd", so this is something to look at Lenny...
29 Aug 2011 17:24
Sorry, spent enough time in airport lounges to know that they ain't my favourite places.
That said, the beer/cider is cheap, the range is wide and not badly kept.
29 Aug 2011 17:00
Got to agree with SW6 on all counts: the guest ales are "variable quality", and the the "bankers" (6X/London Pride) are OK, if expensive.
You go here for the food and the music; not the real ale. That said, even adding just Stowford would improve it a lot...
29 Aug 2011 16:53
Went in while waiting for Wyvern to finish: found someone playing some covers, and what looked like a token real ale attempt. Overall, a definite improvement on what it has been like, but gave the feel of someone with energy, ideas; but not a lot of patience or the experience to know how to make it work :-(
This place has got to get a personality: it can't compete with Wetherspoons at what Wetherspoons do best. Could target people not wanting to be ripped off by the Wyvern before/in interval? Families not wanting to go in amongst the Savoy's cheap booze brigade? Build on the space to have some more local musician spots? Lots of options in this building, but it needs vision (and more cash?)...
29 Aug 2011 16:30
Went in just after the new menu: had an excellent meal at a "non-trivial, but worth it" cost, and then saw the Happy Hour start, with attendant peeps... Think this place is working up to an identity crisis :-(
29 Aug 2011 16:14
Been here a couple of times now. I'm not normally a fan of this type of modern "white sofa and Sky Sports"place, embarrassingly, I quite like here.
They've a couple of drinkable real beers amongst the fizz, some reasonable wines, and the food is limited in choice, but very good, usually... They occasionally have some aberrations on the food front, one strangely mushy jacket potato springs to mind, but there have also been far more excellent meals. Also important is that it has always been possible to avoid the sport, if we've wanted to.
Not a replacement for my usual haunts, but when I want to pretend I'm "cool" I'll go here and still enjoy myself; and the Lady Chairwoman likes it, so we will be visiting fairly regularly.
10 Jul 2011 17:34
Visited here a few times, usually with family to eat, Beer has improved, but oddities like the "party box" of Old Rosie on the bar getting hot are disappointments (esp. when I really felt like a decent pint of cider),
Still well worth a visit, and I've raised my rating...
10 Jul 2011 17:11
My wife and I called in to get a drink and some food before moving on. Unfortunately it was the wrong time, but a few things struck me:
1) the complete lack of real ale;
2) not the greatest choice of wine;
3) the clientele (obvious iPhone Users ;-);
4) the way in which my wife and I were being ushered out of the pub as not fitting the demographic (we're middle-aged, and were reasonably dressed for where we were going, rather than "smart casual").
I think they will miss us as little as we will miss them.
29 Mar 2010 12:09
This historic building has been very nicely updated, and had a very pleasant atmosphere when we visited. There was a superior "pub grub" menu, and, for a change, the wines there were decent quality, and there were 6 real ales on tap.
Unfortunately, the ales tasted like someone had kept them far too cold at some point, and killed the flavour. Also, prices in general were high compared to alternatives not too far away. I see a future for here filled with my daughters and their friends talking, over bottles of wine and a light meal.
A very pleasant place, but the beer...
29 Mar 2010 11:42
I think that the food "specials" have quietly been dropped. It's still definitely worth a visit for food, just costs more ;-(
11 Jun 2009 12:39
Well, after flirting with food and a couple of other diversions, they seem to have settled on doing what The Wheatsheaf has usually done well, being an excellent beer pub, and they are making a decent fist of it, with "ancients" like me in the quieter front bar, and Da Yoof at the back.
Good range of bottled ciders and perrys alongside the Wadsworth + guests (though where did the Green Goblin go?).
21 Apr 2009 11:57
Been open a bit now, and it seems to be going well. It is being run more as a family food pub, in line with the local area. They have also done a good job of tweaking things to fit their clientele.
Food, in general, in excellent quality "pub grub". They have kept the specials, but prices have gone up as demand has grown, so the Friday steak for a fiver is now �6, but still well worth it. It is now a firm favourite when "Da Management" go out.
Now, if they could widen the range of ciders and improve the "Campaign for Real Lemonade's" rating of their offering...
21 Apr 2009 11:49
Without any discernable publicity, this place has been refitted and reopened. The old dedicated restaurant area has now been integrated into the rest of the pub, and it now serving a very drinkable set of Arkell's beers, with Stowford Press available as a draught cider.
They are also doing food again, but that only started on Jan 4, so not tried yet.
Definitely good to see this back in operation and worth visiting.
5 Jan 2009 20:56
Visited in afternoon. Decent food served all day, good beer, reasonable wine.
3 Aug 2008 18:23
John Peel Inn, Bowness on Windermere
Couple of decent ales on. Certainly not the best of the pubs in Bowness, but would definitely lift the standard in some parts of the country.
3 Aug 2008 18:15
The Angel Inn, Bowness on Windermere
Only pint of half-decent cider I've found around Lakes (Westons Draft Scrumpy). Some good local breweries represented, such as Bluebird. Excellent food. Campaign for Real Lemonade tells me that that ares OK as well ;-)
Well worth a visit.
3 Aug 2008 18:00
Decent pint of Tetley's with a good range of non-veggie "home-cooked" food, which we enjoyed.
Also had Dent's Rambrau on as guest beer.
And the Campaign for Real Lemonade approved of their ''brew" and that they left the curly straws out for her to choose from.:
31 Jul 2008 13:47
The Hole int' Wall, Bowness on Windermere
nice pint of Hartley's XB and daughter, founder of Campaign for Real Lemonade, appreciated their homemade.
30 Jul 2008 15:25
The G W Hotel Bar and Grill, Swindon
rpadam sums up why I don't like this place (except I do like decent Arkells; something getting harder to find), but then I wouldn't go to the Queen's Tap either...
Just not my demographic...
21 Mar 2008 21:01
Refurbished, and the Adnams was drinkable, so I'll up my rating. There's better a very short walk away, but it's not now an automatic walkpast.
21 Mar 2008 20:52
Real Ale, but expensive! Food is excellent, but the last few times we've eaten there they've taken almost an hour to do our food! Still, it's worth a visit.
21 Mar 2008 20:26
Called in again recently. To my eye, the only changes to the Real Ale bar were a more conservative selection of beers with higher prices, but it's still well worth the visit.
21 Mar 2008 19:06
A decent pint of 6X, but limited opening times. This is mainly a small gig venue, so clientele is wildly variable. It's worth going to their web site to see what to expect. Outside event times, it's a nice enough place.
21 Mar 2008 18:11
Been here a few times. A nice pub, which seems to have taken over from the Glue Pot as the locals' Local. Got the impression that it's not fully found its feet yet, and can develop further, so something good to look forward to there.
21 Mar 2008 18:02
SW6 is a less actionable version of my original review. Used to come here regularly with family. It now has an entire estate just behind it, yet the beer, when they have it is often undrinkable. But it has massive potential given the locality and the space it has...
11 Dec 2007 15:58
Good beer, and a big plus is that it does bottles of Weston Organic Vintage cider (not as good as the draught, but better than the other bottles).
24 Aug 2007 22:46
The new folks seem to be OK, if different, and are making an effort to keep things the same. Fortnightly open mic nights are back, but I'm not sure that they're the ones to do the quiz.
Atmosphere has gone downhill and it's now pretty easy to get a seat, but how far that's due to disaffected locals, the smoking ban, or the new guys, only time will tell.
16 Aug 2007 16:35
Rubbish beer, but always seems to have a bunch of Irish folkies playing away! Good fun, but stick to the bottles...
20 Mar 2007 15:00
The Plough, Swindon
Refurbished & reopened as an "ale & cider" pub, I'll Talk about the cider. While lacking things like Weston's Old Rosie, it does have a good range of "session ciders" such as Hermitage & Rosie Pig. It also has the usual Arkell Ales.
The internal area looks very pleasant, as is the outside area, even if the latter is quite small. Main annoyance was Radio 1 music for this Radio3 audience.
18 Jul 2013 22:59