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The Swan
The BBQ will be on tomorrow as we are expecting 20 degrees sunshine!! Get here early to guarantee a table... Plus live music in the eve!!
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Swan
This is a Young’s pub, which had the usual range. I had a pint of the London Gold, which was OK. Like most riverside pubs, food is an important part of this pub’s business. I didn’t get to look at a menu, but I could see a number of diners noshing away – sitting outside on the beautiful sunny lunchtime that we enjoyed on Monday.
This is a big, sprawling pub with several separate, but interconnected, drinking areas and nooks & crannies. One of the larger rooms is clearly a restaurant area, as all the tables were laid for diners. In the other rooms there is the usual mix of sofas, banquettes and normal tables and chairs. It also looks as if the pub has expanded into an adjoining cottage, which looks as if it is being utilised as the pub kitchen. I didn’t know this pub before it was given the makeover referred to by the previous poster, but it’s obvious that it’s been given the Young’s treatment. The interior is very modern in concept, although I didn’t find it unpleasant. There’s not much left in the way of traditional features, but the leaded light windows featuring swans (of course) as their centre piece are quite attractive.
Here, as for The Anglers next door, the riverside setting is its main selling point. But unlike The Anglers, this pub has lots of outside seating at various levels leading down to the river’s towpath. This is an upmarket riverside pub, with prices to match, but is in a lovely spot to sit outside on a nice day enjoying a pint, and the interior, although modern, is clean and comfortable. This is probably another pub to which I’ll end up returning to.
On 15th March 2011
- rating: 7
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Swan
I'm sure that I am not alone in hating what Youngs are doing to their pubs, and this is a prime example. Virtually all the old character swept away in creating yet another trendy restaurant, with prices raised to pay for it.
On 12th January 2009
- rating: 6
[User has posted 532 recommendations about 525 pubs]
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- Official site of the Swan, contains menu and wine list - www.swanwalton.com
- Swan page at the Youngs site - www.youngs.co.uk
