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 Greyhound Inn, Wantage
Letcombe Regis
Postal town: Wantage
OX12 9JL
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Greyhound Inn
The Greyhound appears to be first and foremost a food-led pub nowadays. On our Sunday morning visit, serving staff were being briefed and they had 92 covers for the day. Whilst we were there, others were still arriving without reservations. Indeed, most tables were made out for dining with just a couple of high tables and stools adjacent to the bar available for drinkers.
The wooden bar is just to the right as you enter. 4 cask ales were on - Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter, Theakston Best Bitter, Broadtown Upper Quadrant & Oakham OPA. SALT Jute was the pick of the keg beers. The ciders were Aspall's & Weston's Vintage. Cask ales and the guest draught beers are listed above the bar along with tasting notes and the distance the beer has travelled from brewery to pub. A board opposite the bar lists beers coming next, whilst the wine selection could be found on a beam. Payments are card only.
The main bar has an inglenook fireplace with a wood burner directly opposite the entrance door. There is a further smaller fireplace with another wood burner at the far right hand end. There is a sunken area at the left-hand end and a fair sized room on a raised area to the rear of the bar. A small garden to the rear provides further seating.
Not a bad pub, but it wouldn't survive without the dining trade. My Upper Quadrant was enjoyable though.
On 2nd March 2025
- rating: 6
[User has posted 3040 recommendations about 3038 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Komakino . left this review about The Greyhound Inn
A former Morland charge, as evinced by the dark blue and red-rimmed 'car park' sign and ceramic plaque of the ubiquitous artist to the left of the former entrance, and recently opened after a brief period of closure. The (current) entrance leads to a long, rectangular room with brushed bare floorboards and a bright, pine bar. Most, but not all, of the tables were set out for dining, which gives you an idea of this establishment's main focus (they serve food seven days a week). A raised area wraps around to the right of the bar to provide further dining, which also leads to the newly-landscaped, if a little soulless beer garden; overlooked by newish housing, and busy on a rare warm spell on a June Monday evening. Four ales were available: Marstons Pedigree, West Berks GOB (good), Shakespeare Bard's Best (decent) and Sadler's Cat's Pyjamas (also decent), all a reasonable £3.50 a pint (and halves charged £1.75 accordingly). A young and friendly barmaid was on good form, happy to offer 'try-before-you-buy' samples, and this would have scored higher if it weren't for the Radio 1-esque background muzak (think "contemporary R&B") which was slightly out of keeping with the ambience they appeared to be trying to create.
On 7th June 2016
- rating: 7
[User has posted 1077 recommendations about 1077 pubs]