The Half Moon Inn, Lewes

The Half Moon Inn has an old wooden floored seating area with a part exposed wooden building frame at the front where seating sits in the windows either side of the central entrance. In the left rear is a raised area that is being used to store boxes and on the walls was lots of art for sale. Against the right-hand wall is a table with chairs adjacent to a fireplace in a stone and cement chimney breast, beyond which is the small, tiled floor bar area where the stool lined forward facing serving counter supports four hand pumps that were drawing Harveys Best and Gun Brewery’s Scaramanga alongside Kronenbourg and a premium keg selection. To the right of the bar is a split-level laminate seating area and out the back is a well-tended split-level patio beer garden. The service was polite, but the background music was a bit loungey and the atmosphere was very sedate. I don’t think I’d return, and that’s not just because I got stuck behind the Harvey’s Brewery tractor from here all the way back into Lewes.

Very food-led country pub, located right at the foot of the South Downs, with an attractively refurbished semi-traditional multi-room interior. Further wooden bench seating can also be found outside under cover of a marquee. Three real ales and a cider available from the five handpumps: the ubiquitous Harvey's, Gun Project Babylonia Pale, Far Fetched from Hairy Dog (£4.00) and Rosie's Pig.