The Three Tuns, Uxbridge

This is a smart town centre pub with a split level, two bar layout. The front, upper bar has a bit of a corporate feel to it, with modern bare floorboards, plain painted walls plus a feature wall to the left covered in fancy wallpaper, Euro 2024 bunting and lots of promotional blackboards and dumb slogan signs. The small servery stands to the rear and has a curved counter with unattractive frontage and not much of a bar back. Leaded windows to the front and a few old timbers here and there add a little character and help aleiviate the identikit feel of the room. Steps next to the servery lead down to a lower rear bar, which has a quarry stone floor with high stools and backless benches providing the main seating options. The bar here has a nice counter, with tongue and groove panels and a flower-strewn bar back. A large screen on the back wall was showing an England game, with other screens available in the front bar and the beer garden to the rear right, which has a covered courtyard space and plenty of seating. There were four ales on the bar - Taylors Landlord, Greene King IPA and Abbot Ale and a house beer called Three Tuns, which is presumably another Greene King beer rebadged. The Landlord was in decent condition and the staff seemed friendly enough, coping well with the large crowd attracted by England's quarter final fixture. I liked the two bar layout of this pub and thought the lower, rear bar was quite a nice spot that I couldn't fully appreciate due to the packed house. The beer range won't exactly set the pulse racing, but it struck me as a solid town centre option and may well be worth a look in passing. Date of visit - 6th July 2024

Decent looking pub well described below. 3 beers on including Doom Bar and Old Golden Hen. Camra discount too. I went for the Golden Hen and sat out front in the sun. Happy to call in again.

This is a nice quaint little pub with low ceilings and a few nooks off the main bar which is at the back on the lower level.Busy.Three cask beers Doombar,Speckled Hen and London Glory.The landlord should be proud of this awesome choice.Not.

This pub is essentially unchanged since the previous reviewer's visit. It's branded as a Spirit pub, which it means it's now Greene King. This is reflected in the ale choice, with GK IPA, London Glory and Old Speckled Hen on, leaving Doom Bar as the only non-Greene King ale available. It was however the cheapest half of Doom Bar that I had had all day, at £1.45. The selection was a bit disappointing as a board outside advertised a 10% CAMRA discount, which I hoped would presage one or two less usually seen ales. They obviously do food, but no menus were out when I was in late afternoon on Friday. The pub itself is not bad, but it's a typical town centre pub. As you enter there's an area at the front with a bunch of normal tables and chairs; the food counter's still on the left (but not in operation when I visited); and down half a dozen or so steps is an area with a few more normal tables and chairs and tall tables/tall stools and the bar counter. The conservatory is still there on the right, but I couldn't get in there as there was a private function underway. There's a lot of dark wood around the place, including some wood panelling up to dado level that looks ancient, if not original. There are also various knick-knacks around, but mainly old stoneware jugs and bottles on a shelf above the steps leading down to the lower area. This is the second pub of the day that I saw advertising the impending St Patrick's Day, so I guess we can expect to see all the Guinness tat arriving any day now. There was also a laminated page on all the tables advertising weekly offers and events. It seems you can get four Sharp Shooters for £10; six flavoured shots for £5; and four bombs for £11. All gibberish to me of course, but I mention it just in case anyone is interested in that kind of thing. Also mentioned was a quiz night on Wednesdays, the availability of Sky/BT Sports, and free wi-fi. For a town centre pub this one's really not bad, but I doubt whether I'll be trekking over to Uxbridge to visit it again.

Official site of Three Tuns - www.johnbarras.com

Official site of Three Tuns - www.johnbarras.com