Punch & Judy, Tonbridge

Visited 09/02/26. Visited previously 09/08/21. Cask amounted to a handpump dispensing Harvey's Sussex Best with the clip on the other pump turned round. Keg was Inch's, Fosters, Cruz, Guinness, Sharps Atlantic Pale Ale, Moretti, Amstel and Heineken. Pleasant backstreet locals pub 5 min walk from Tonbridge station. Bare boarded apart from a terracotta tile skirt around the bar counter which is off the left-hand wall and providing tall stool seating on both its punter facing sides. There are some tall tables with tall stools in the front window and in the nook in front of the bar counter by a large TV showing live cricket absent commentary on my visit. A large screen on the wall opposite the bar counter was showing Winter Olympics action, with a kitchen table and chair array underneath it. Up a step on the left-hand side behind the bar counter is another seating area with regular tables and chairs and another TV silently showing sport. There is an unused fire grate to the right of that step. Up a further couple of steps is another seating area with regular tables and chairs, much higher ceiling with some stained-glass windows at the far end so letting a nice amount of light into that end of the venue. A doorway on the left of the windows suggested there was an outside seating area at the rear of the venue, but I didn't investigate. An 80's pop soundtrack was playing, and the venue advertised a weekly Thursday evening quiz.

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