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The Muggleton Inn (Lloyds No 1), Maidstone
Maidstone
ME14 1HJ
Reviews of The Muggleton Inn (Lloyds No 1) (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Muggleton Inn (Lloyds No 1)
Imposing building that gave the impression of having returned to being a regular 'spoons on my last visit in 2015, and little has changed since then. The main bar has a fairly standard seating area at the front but gets narrower and very gloomy as you further back past the main servery, and the mood here isn't lifted by the charmless behaviour of some of the place's more devoted patrons. The best seating is upstairs, where the two partly opened-out rooms along the main frontage - joined by a small secondary bar - have an open feel (particularly the tables by the windows when these are open during periods of decent weather). There is also another seating / dining area further back which is generally the least occupied if you are looking for a quiet meal. Just three handpumps at first-floor level, so you usually need to go back down to the main bar for anything other than Ruddles, Doom Bar or Abbot, with Broadside, Southwark's Routemaster Red, a pair from Twickenham - Autumn Red and the Belgian-style brown ale Buford Abbey (£2.63) - and the more local Tonbridge Rustic available from the two banks of five handpumps this time.
On 23rd November 2024
- rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about The Muggleton Inn (Lloyds No 1)
Set in a grand old insurance company’s head office and much more upmarket than the other Maidstone Spoons (re-opened in December 2023 after a big refurb) and is very tidy overall – the four decorated arched openings between rooms looked very snazzy, as sis the pub’s name picked-out above the bar. Upstairs hosts another sizeable seating area with a bar and is much quieter and more relaxed with a faint Georgian drawing room feel, wish I’d known about it well-before my departure toilet trip! The non-GBG Spoons in town but my pint of Three Acre IPA was in good enough nick (NBSS 3). Shoddy kitchen let the side down, my salad came with no bowl of dressing, tut. This is certainly the more impressive of the town’s two Spoons and you should head here if you only have time to sample one of them. 7.5
On 2nd September 2024
- rating: 7
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Muggleton Inn (Lloyds No 1)
A vast Spoons in an rather splendid old building, as described below. Sadly the service in the downstairs bar was poor, so we ventured upstairs only to discover there was only the trio of doom there, so back down and queue for the two guest ales (Jaipur and Acorn Golden Brewer). Visiting both floors revealed that the packed clientele were almost entirely twerlies and mostly eating, so the various empty pubs visited elsewhere in the town really need to open their eyes and get their act together. The place itself just needs an improvement in service and some better ales.
On 11th January 2024
- rating: 6
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Maidstone East, 0.42 miles, 8 min walk (show)
Maidstone Barracks, 0.62 miles, 11 min walk (show)
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- CAMRA Discount : No - Just the usual 50p vouchers - last updated 02 September 2024 by Quinno _
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