White Hart Hotel, Lewes

This is primarily a hotel rather than a pub that retains 'hotel' in it's name. The bar is small and not particularly good. We ate in the restaurant at the back and whilst the food was good, and the room was nice, it was quite expensive.

The White Hart Hotel has a small bar to the left of the entrance and there is some overspill seating to the right of the entrance. Beyond the bar is the check-in and a restaurant and the toilets that are a bit of a trek up a corridor and flight of stairs. The bar area has enough seating for maybe twenty people and the bar is stocked with a limited standard draught range alongside two hand pumps that were drawing Harveys Best and Olympia during my visit late last Thursday afternoon. I went for the Olympia and I wasn’t keen on the taste or the price of £3.35 for a Pint. I’ve not had it before so it may be my taste buds, but a governor of a local pub divulged to me that the White Hart Hotel has poor beer, and this was without any prompting from me. I found it a little sombre in here as there was no conversation, music or television. Yes the barman was polite, but I think that this bar is best left to the hotel guests that cannot be bothered to walk down the road for a far better experience.