The Drum & Monkey, Solihull

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The large car park with a one-way system up the right-hand side of the Chef & Brewer run Drum and Monkey gives the game away that it is primarily a food pub. It was extremely busy with a pensioner aged crowd during a recent early Thursday afternoon visit, all of them were dining so there was a queue at the entrance by the ‘please wait to be seated’ sign. While waiting I noted that there are a mix of wooden floored and carpeted seating areas across the front of the pub and up the left opposite the long serving counter with a red tiled apron that runs up the right. There’s lots of exposed wood and brick which gives a rustic feel and on the rear wall is a large fireplace before more seating in the rear with views out of the windows into the beer garden. On the bar is a standard and premium keg range alongside four hand pumps that were drawing TT Landlord, GK IPA and C&B Brewer’s Pale, the Abbot was off. I thought the service was polite, and the food must be modestly priced to attract such a crowd, but this isn’t somewhere I’ll be visiting again.

On 22^nd July 2026 - rating: 5
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