Smoke House @ The Chequers Hotel, Newbury

Official site of Smoke House @ The Chequers Hotel - chequershotelnewbury.co.uk

Official site of Smoke House @ The Chequers Hotel - chequershotelnewbury.co.uk

The Chequers Inn is primarily a hotel, with rooms upstairs and out the back where there’s a substantial car park. The bar area is found across the front of the building to the left of the revolving door entrance and is access via the central hotel reception. I found this bar area to be more functional than inviting and the draught options of Madri, Staropramen, Coors, Worthington’s Creamflow, Guinness and Stowford Press cider didn’t have me jumping for joy. Seating runs under the front windows opposite the serving counter and a few more tables are found to the left. There was some background music playing while a daytime quiz was in progress with sound on the TV hanging from right-hand wall. There are other seating areas in this parge building, including a lounge area to the right of the entrance and The Smokehouse restaurant to the left that has it’s own frontage onto the passing road. I was surprised that the bar doesn’t have its own door but the restaurant does. I wasn’t surprised to find myself as the only customer and if I ever stay here again I’ll not be popping back into the bar.