Ship Inn, Looe

Large and rather dark interior, with various nautical bric-a-brac sttached to walls. Slightly too much mixture of old and new, which doesn't quite work.

Ship Inn pages at the St Austell brewery site - www.staustellbrewery.co.uk

Ship Inn pages at the St Austell brewery site - www.staustellbrewery.co.uk

This is a deceptively large, street corner pub. It's owned by St. Austells, but gives the impression of being part of a much larger chain with a corresponding corporate feel and distinct lack of atmosphere. They've made a bit of an effort with a mixture of slate tiled flooring around the bar and carpet elsewhere, but ultimately it fails to deliver much in the way of ambience. There's a pool table out towards the back of the pub, and a front bar filled with tables which I guess is used more for eating. There's a small snug area with a couple of sofa's around a plasma and a log burning strove, and plenty of fruit/quiz machines to keep the punters amused. Beers on tap were all from the St. Austell's stable, with their Tribute, Tinners and HSD. Ciders were Cornish Rattler and Olde English.

Large pub that seems to do a fair trade.tried the St Austell HSD which was excellent.