Poltimore Arms Pinhole
Overall rating: 60
Overall first impressions: 7
Olde yolde, warm atmosphere with good hearted locals, the bar staff very friendly with a smile, prices not cheap but except-able, different lay out, and good amenity's, great beer garden when its fine, plenty of nooks and crannies to hide in.
Price & Availability: 7
For a out of town pub the prices are are cheap but keep to the prices of the town center, plenty of choice and often great deals, though bar food not available at present there are talks of adding soon.
Service, 9
The service can not be knocked, always a smile, always happy to serve, acknowledges you if waiting.
Cleanliness, 9
Very good, for a older style pub, even the toilets are exceptionable.
Layout & Amenity's, 7
Based on a L shaped main bar, meaning no lounge.. but plenty of places to sit, to the front of the pub, as you walk in you are confronted right away with the bar, and there isn't much room to move if busy but you can soon pan the area for seats, which we normally sit closest to the back door for easy excess to the smoking areas and superb beer garden, the toilets are situated near the back of the main bar, meaning you have to walk around the L shaped bar, and when busy can be a bit timely, past the toilets to the back of the bar are other areas to hang out, including a made up covered smoking area, a skittle ally and function rooms. all in all you have to be a adventurer to find your way around till you get used to it. worth a extra mention is its large back garden area.. when the weather is fine.. its a great place to be.
Location, 6
Because of its out of town location, really just ideal for the locals, but its worth a venture out, as there are other places near by if this establishment is not enough for a longer duration, the pub is close to a local all hours shop, take away choices and a bus stop, where buses run frequently in and out of town.
Atmosphere, 8
Depends on the day or night, but our first impressions was good, and generally very pleasant, you are made to feel at home very quickly and what with its ye olde pub theme.. with real fires and friendly locals its got great potential for a good drinking session.
Entertainment, 7
Live bands and in house entertainment laid on weekly.. mostly good for the locals but again worth a visit, recreational entertainment includes, Darts, pool table, skittle alley ( available on request), duke box, and Sky Sports.
Overall first impressions: 7
Olde yolde, warm atmosphere with good hearted locals, the bar staff very friendly with a smile, prices not cheap but except-able, different lay out, and good amenity's, great beer garden when its fine, plenty of nooks and crannies to hide in.
Price & Availability: 7
For a out of town pub the prices are are cheap but keep to the prices of the town center, plenty of choice and often great deals, though bar food not available at present there are talks of adding soon.
Service, 9
The service can not be knocked, always a smile, always happy to serve, acknowledges you if waiting.
Cleanliness, 9
Very good, for a older style pub, even the toilets are exceptionable.
Layout & Amenity's, 7
Based on a L shaped main bar, meaning no lounge.. but plenty of places to sit, to the front of the pub, as you walk in you are confronted right away with the bar, and there isn't much room to move if busy but you can soon pan the area for seats, which we normally sit closest to the back door for easy excess to the smoking areas and superb beer garden, the toilets are situated near the back of the main bar, meaning you have to walk around the L shaped bar, and when busy can be a bit timely, past the toilets to the back of the bar are other areas to hang out, including a made up covered smoking area, a skittle ally and function rooms. all in all you have to be a adventurer to find your way around till you get used to it. worth a extra mention is its large back garden area.. when the weather is fine.. its a great place to be.
Location, 6
Because of its out of town location, really just ideal for the locals, but its worth a venture out, as there are other places near by if this establishment is not enough for a longer duration, the pub is close to a local all hours shop, take away choices and a bus stop, where buses run frequently in and out of town.
Atmosphere, 8
Depends on the day or night, but our first impressions was good, and generally very pleasant, you are made to feel at home very quickly and what with its ye olde pub theme.. with real fires and friendly locals its got great potential for a good drinking session.
Entertainment, 7
Live bands and in house entertainment laid on weekly.. mostly good for the locals but again worth a visit, recreational entertainment includes, Darts, pool table, skittle alley ( available on request), duke box, and Sky Sports.
The Poltimore Arm in Pinhoe Publi©ious diary review blog
Hi all and welcome to our newest Publi©ious dairy Review blog, this time we visited the Poltimore Arms in Pinhoe, regretfully this time we didn't remember to take any pictures, but we will up date and add as this pub is just up the road from us, its about a 10 minute walk there, 30 minutes back may be longer dependent on duration of stay.
This time we couldn't be bothered to walk, and got Nina to give us a lift there, which is always ideal, especially seems they have a car park just off the main road, which has ample parking and is easy to turn around in.
We wasn't to flush on this occasion so knew it would not be a long stay, it was a fine day so when we got there the idea was to have a few pints in the beer garden which is situated to the rear of the pub, it was in the early afternoon on a Saturday, so there wasn't to many punters in at the time, we got served quickly with a smile after a quick hello and time of day.
if we remember correctly, Magners was the choice, which Epic Al's drink was poured first, and a good amount of ice was served with it, Wayner asked for 7 lumps of ice, as he is always pedantic, as Al had only 6 lumps... the bar lady, which turned out To be the new land lady, found the banter very amusing and even joined in.
The beer garden was very impressive, with plenty of sitting locations, whilst we was out there, several other people was drinking there, at one point the land lady came out to have a quick cigarette and joined in with conversations with our self's and others.
worth a note on the third pint, there was more people in the bar area, one friendly local joined in the banter, which if i remember correctly was about cleaning glasses and there brand new dish washer, as he was wearing a good pair of bifocals we suggested that if there dish washer was that good, perhaps he should try putting them in there, for that prefect clean, he seen the funny side of it ...and declined the offer.
Al offered Wayne a game of darts, but Wayner couldn't be bothered, preferring more time to be spent in the garden, soon after we rang Nina for a lift home, and finished our fourth and last pint.
The pints where priced at £2.70, and crisps £1 which was not cheap considering the out of town location.
This time we couldn't be bothered to walk, and got Nina to give us a lift there, which is always ideal, especially seems they have a car park just off the main road, which has ample parking and is easy to turn around in.
We wasn't to flush on this occasion so knew it would not be a long stay, it was a fine day so when we got there the idea was to have a few pints in the beer garden which is situated to the rear of the pub, it was in the early afternoon on a Saturday, so there wasn't to many punters in at the time, we got served quickly with a smile after a quick hello and time of day.
if we remember correctly, Magners was the choice, which Epic Al's drink was poured first, and a good amount of ice was served with it, Wayner asked for 7 lumps of ice, as he is always pedantic, as Al had only 6 lumps... the bar lady, which turned out To be the new land lady, found the banter very amusing and even joined in.
The beer garden was very impressive, with plenty of sitting locations, whilst we was out there, several other people was drinking there, at one point the land lady came out to have a quick cigarette and joined in with conversations with our self's and others.
worth a note on the third pint, there was more people in the bar area, one friendly local joined in the banter, which if i remember correctly was about cleaning glasses and there brand new dish washer, as he was wearing a good pair of bifocals we suggested that if there dish washer was that good, perhaps he should try putting them in there, for that prefect clean, he seen the funny side of it ...and declined the offer.
Al offered Wayne a game of darts, but Wayner couldn't be bothered, preferring more time to be spent in the garden, soon after we rang Nina for a lift home, and finished our fourth and last pint.
The pints where priced at £2.70, and crisps £1 which was not cheap considering the out of town location.