Not already a member?
Join our community and
- Rate & review pubs
- Upload pictures
- Add events
JOIN for free NOW
Chat about:
Beer of the Week (w/e 27th April 2025) with Thuck Phat
on the Pub Forum
Detail Pages
The Poyntz Arms, East Molesey
East Molesey
KT8 0DP
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Graham Coombs left this review about The Poyntz Arms
A much-improved former Shepherd Neame house now being managed by Big Smoke but retaining a couple of Sheps beers alongside a good selection from Big Smoke and the occasional guest, drawn from 10 handpumps and a dozen keg taps. Just for a change, the very smart refurb has significantly improved the previous rather mediocre interior with dark decor, woodwork and leather furnishings. There is a good drinking area of a couple of rooms to the front, with a dining room behind and covered outdoor area at the back. The place has a good, comfortable, laid-back feel which I quite liked. Notable was the range of different brews, much more than just the usual hoppy IPAs, and the food looked good. Can be a bit pricey, as with other Big Smoke pubs, but it would have ben very easy easy to get settled in for a session.
On 10th December 2024
- rating: 8
[User has posted 3641 recommendations about 3576 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Blackthorn _ left this review about The Poyntz Arms
A good sized, street corner pub on the main road through the village, it looks quite attractive from the outside with some stained glass at the top of the windows but otherwise in a fairly contemporary way rather than old and traditional.
The contemporary theme continues internally with a porch just inside the door constructed entirely of glass. Beyond this the pub was divided in to a couple of rooms, with the rear room housing a pool table. Flooring was a mixture of carpet and wood strip, whilst the paintwork was mostly cream along with some dark grey wood panelling on the lower part of the walls. There was some exposed brickwork at the rear which perhaps added a rustic touch, but although I didn’t inspect it closely I thought it looked rather fake to be honest. Continuing the fake theme, the obviously not real wood burning stove had a pile of firewood stacked up next to it! A large Shepherd Neame mirror was on one wall, whilst a couple of lamp shades had been constructed from empty bottles. A TV was up in one corner, but the volume was off so this was not too intrusive.
Beers on tap were all from Shepherd Neame with their Spitfire Gold, Whitstable Bay and Master Brew. Unusually, there did not appear to be any draught ciders available.
On 11th April 2018
- rating: 6
[User has posted 2060 recommendations about 1962 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Malden man left this review about The Poyntz Arms
A light and airy single room with the bar fairly centrally located. The bar front is stained woodwork whereas the general colour scheme consists of pale green, light brown and cream. A modern feel, seating at high tables and sofas but with the occasional standard sized variety, all tables had a single daffodil in a vase and a tea light candle. A row of candles burned over the mantle to the fireplace. A number of large potted ferns distributed around completes the picture.
The rear area has a pool table and I counted four TV screens around the pub, two of which were on showing the cricket.
There is a rear garden/patio area with notices asking patrons the keep the volume and the language down.
Shepherd Neame ales, two banks of three pumps offering on each Masterbrew, Spitfire and Early Bird. Service was quick and friendly.
As it says below, this is not a traditional pub now, but somehow the makeover works and doesn't result in the feel of a bar rather than a pub.
On 26th March 2011
- rating: 6
[User has posted 1710 recommendations about 1683 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Rex Rattus left this review about The Poyntz Arms
This is a Shepherd Neame house, with Spitfire, Masterbrew and Dragonfire on during my visit. Having earlier enjoyed a drop of Dragonfire in the Cardinal Wolsey I went for it in here as well and enjoyed it just as much. This place has clearly been “modernised” at some stage; it’s now bare-boarded with some banquettes, sofas, and normal tables and chairs. The wood-panelled lower half of the walls are painted a sort of pastel light grey/duck egg green. The bar area slides round to the left of the bar counter, leading to another room at the rear containing a pool table and the obligatory large TV screen.
The main bar area was decked out with flags of St George (reasonable it being St George’s Day) and the barmaid was wearing a red and white tall hat, just like those green and white ones we saw everywhere on St Patrick’s Day. In fact I had a déjà vu moment when an Irishman came in and wished everyone a happy St Patrick’s Day. And who said irony has no place in the pub?! Despite its less than traditional appearance, this place still has the feel of a real pub to me, and I would be delighted to pay a return visit.
On 26th April 2010
- rating: 6
[User has posted 2606 recommendations about 2520 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Philip Carter left this review about The Poyntz
Sells real ale, another Shepherd Neame pub. Bare wood floors with off white walls, which some might say, stripped wood flooring with a cream painted wall.
On 21st February 2007
- rating: 6
[User has posted 759 recommendations about 721 pubs]