The New Drum, Tonbridge

Visited 15/09/25 No cask these days with a couple of un-used hand pumps. Keg offering was Moretti, Hawkstone cider and IPA, Fosters, Guinness, original SB, Cruz. Traditional pub a decent walk up the hill on which it is located. Small amount of seating out the front on the small, paved area by the entrance. Inside bare boarded rectangle with two-sided bar counter in rear left-hand corner with some tall stool seating at the bar counter. Some wing back armchairs in windows either side of the front entrance serving small round tables. Regular tables and chairs down right-hand side and a tall round table in the rear right-hand corner with tall, backed stools by the game’s machines. There is a chimney just inside the front door with a small round table hidden behind it. The venue has a nice rear garden with a covered area by an external bar and some comfy leather sofas under the cover. There is a long well-kept narrow grass area with traditional picnic benches. The garden hosts a pizza oven that I would imagine would be hugely popular on sunny days. Pubs are about the people (as well as the beer) and had a superbly warm welcome here from the ex-landlord (his some now is the landlord).