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The Gardener's Arms, Lewes
Lewes
BN7 2AN
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
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Malden man left this review about The Gardeners Arms
Pub of the day on yesterday's Lewes jaunt. A compact pub with a central bar, fairly limited seating and easily full, as it certainly deserves to be! Mainly wooden floors, small carpeted area to the rear, various pictures, breweriana etc, including some fascinating old 60's beer mats from a time forgotten. One picture of "The Burning of Richard Woodman" is very macabre and relates to the 16th century executions of protestant martyrs, 10 of which occurred in Lewes.
On a much lighter note, the pub has an ongoing garlic growing competition, where cloves were planted on the shortest day, to be harvested on the longest.
The local Toad in the Hole game is also played here if space allows.
Very well run and friendly with it, yesterday we had Harveys Sussex, Kiss,and Porter, Welton's Schneider Gold, not a lager type as I expected but a full flavoured ale, Dark Star Espresso Stout, Hammerpot White Wing and Black Rat cider. Top marks to the landlady as my pint of Kiss looked a little tired, she immediately spotted it, poured herself a small taster and offered an alternative without any words being spoken. That's got you a 9 instead of an 8!
Not sure who supports Swindon Town and who Berwick Rangers but both teams are well represented around the pub.
If you only do one pub in Lewes (which would be silly) make sure its this one. They did us carry outs too!
On 5th April 2009
- rating: 9
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john mcgraw left this review about The Gardeners Arms
Small cosy street corner pub selling up to 6 real ales and "Black Rat" cider.Friendly locals and staff.
On 30th July 2008
- rating: 8
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train man left this review about The Gardeners Arms
Certainly the Lewes pub with proper alternatives to Harveys, although I wouldn't quite go along with Alph's 'vast array' unless a)he visited during a beerfest or b)I missed a separate bank of beer offerings. Another Lewes crawl, another failure to make notes, sorry, but I recall 6or7 handpumps including Harveys Best, Darkstar Hophead, Sharp's Special Ale, Milestone Rich Ruby, & Moles Black Rat cider. Easily one of the pubs in town to 'play a joker' (have a 2nd pint) during a crawl.
On 1st July 2008
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Nigel Sheppard left this review about The Gardeners Arms
Selling some real ales is reasonable condition, quite a popular pub, worth a visit.
On 1st June 2007
- rating: 8
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