Onyx Bar @ The Crown Hotel, Weymouth

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The Onyx Bar is a basement bar, part of The Crown Hotel, open to non-residents. It’s entered from a side door on the adjacent St Edmund’s Street, rather than the main hotel entrance on St Thomas’s Street. It feels a bit like an air raid shelter, with basic canteen-style chairs and tables, and very unhygienic-looking salad buffet at one end. The customers were mainly down-market tourists, many of whom had discovered beer long before deodorant. The overall ambiance was a bit like a school canteen without the charm, but with truly dire music. The barmaid was, at best, apathetic. We couldn’t bring ourselves to try the food which was a limited range of pub food, over-priced and apparently under-quality. Their real ale offering is, they claim, ‘seasonal’, but Doombar was on draught when we visited albeit in poor condition. A bank of sad-looking taps on the bar offered an unadventurous keg range – Budweiser, Amstel, San Miguel, Fosters, Thatcher’s Gold, Guinness, John Smith’s and Moretti. Best avoided even if staying here, it’s a sad shadow of what was once a rather grand establishment.

On 29^th September 2025 - rating: 3
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