The Borough Hotel, Southend-On-Sea

Official site of The Borough Hotel - www.theboroughhotelsouthend.com

Official site of The Borough Hotel - www.theboroughhotelsouthend.com

A nice building from the outside, with seating on the main parade near the screams from the amusement park. The inside is mainly given over to entertainment areas, a music area & pool area. Nothing much more inside to describe! 2 real ales - Speckled Hen & Courage Best Bitter - thre quality of which was very average despite its listing in the Good Beer Guide.

This is a small old fashioned seafront hotel that is GBG 2014 listed. It consists of an open plan lounge with what looked like a stage area for live music by the windows and a raised area to the left of the bar with a pool table. At the front there are pavement tables and chairs and there is a beer garden of sorts at the rear. There were only two beers being served on a fairly dismal May Thursday afternoon. These were Courage Best and Fuller's ESB. I went for the ESB (£3.30) which was completely lacking condition but OK apart from that. I took solace in the fact that I'm not a northerner and that it was almost certainly cheaper than a London Fuller's tied house. I was expecting a better beer choice than this so overall I was rather disappointed.