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Alfies, Winchester
Winchester
SO23 9BA
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Old Boots left this review about Alfies
Incongruous mixture of an old building unsympathetically furnished with those very fashionable light wood tables and chairs of various heights. A side alcove is furnished as a leather pervert's front room with low leather sofas in black and some even lower tables, some messy artwork adorns the walls. Wide eyed and confused staff, the only customers were a sparce group of youngsters in the garden, myself and a middle aged canoodling couple. You are now thinking the beer can only be a dreary range of kegs and perhaps a badly kept guest ale on a solitary hand pump; well almost right: the choice of Deuchars or London Pride might have disappointed but the Pride was very, very good. The moral being don't judge a book by its cover or a beer by its pump clip. This is very probably a good venue for the under 25s at the weekend but then I'm just going by its looks being as I'm over 50.
On 23rd November 2009
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Ga Andrews left this review about The Old Coach House Inn
Alfies
This was the former ‘Old Coach House’, which was a very run down pub. I believe this pub has been renovated and refurbished in the last year (may be 2 years). Some would question that it has been redecorated, very scruffy chic I suppose! None the less we were met by a very friendly bar man, with other staff who were very attentive to the few customers they had on a cold Thursday lunchtime. An interesting mix of chairs, sofas and high tables. They had 4 hand pumps on the bar but were only serving London Pride and Deuchers IPA. However what I would really recommend is their lunchtime menu, everything between £4.00- £7.00, and huge portions, it’s a wander they are making a profit on it! I enjoyed a very home made locally produced lamb and mint burger, with some great chips, and the ploughman’s had huge portions of cheese! Specials of the day included home made pumpkin soup.
I can see this pub being popular with the local students, but for a quiet lunchtime drink with two roaring fires it was an ideal stop. 15th October 2009
On 19th October 2009
- rating: 6
[User has posted 64 recommendations about 58 pubs]