The Queens, Ludlow

Cracking pub with 4 ales on. Ludlow Blonde and Gold alongside Butty Bach and Hobsons Best Bitter. The Hobsons was spot on. Well worth a visit.

As described below with photos aplenty on their website, this is a decent example of old meets new, with features such as a slate bar top with white ceramic tiled and scaffold ‘Shoreditch’ bar back. There was an unattractive games machine, conventional furniture and some exposed roughhewn beams, all contributing to a cosy cocoon. There’s food, but I wouldn’t call this a gastropub, certainly not when compared to the Church Inn or Charlton. Customers were definitely on the older side, one couple playing a board game but all making for a good atmosphere, well attended for a Tuesday evening. Cask offerings amounted to Butty Bach, Hobsons Best and Ludlow’s Blonde and Gold at £2.15 a half and very nice, served by a friendly barman. This isn’t a half bad place, a damn site better than the neighbouring historic pubs with their all fur coat and no knickers half-timbered frontages with little or nothing to offer behind.