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Olde Trout Tavern, Southend-On-Sea
Southend-On-Sea
SS1 1NX
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Reviews of Olde Trout Tavern (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about Olde Trout Tavern
The Olde Trout Tavern is situated close to the centre of Southend and near to Victoria railway station. It is a corner pub that feels light and airy inside. There is a stone tiled floor, multiple flags on the ceiling, a games machine and a jukebox. Toilets are reached via a corridor to the rear, lined with dozens of pumpclips. There also appeared to be an upstairs room, which I did not explore but which is possibly used for functions. TVs were off, in favour of music and the pub hosts quiz nights. A wifi code is provided.
The pub can be found in the Good Beer Guide and there are 4 handpulls on the bar. The house beer is called Trout Ale, which is a rebadged Black Box Landing Gear. 2 guest beers were both from Wanstum - SS Richard Montgomery & Session Mild. The fourth handpull was clipped with 2 Snail's Bank ciders - Apple Hog & Fruit Bat. On keg were Anspach and Hobday London Black & Thornbridge Jaipur. The only food option was the well promoted toasties.
There were plenty of locals in for my Monday afternoon visit and I found the barmaid to be friendly and efficient. Certainly one of Southend's better pubs.
On 16th June 2026
- rating: 7
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Olde Trout Tavern
An alehouse of sorts, although looking a bit more like a café at the front (and a fish and chips shops from a distance). Perhaps twice the size of a typical micro-pub at ground-floor level, but there's also an upstairs room by the look of things. The 'house' Trout Ale from Wantsum, Greene King's London Glory and Golden Fez from Mighty Oak (£4.30) plus a Snails Bank cider available from the four handpumps. Thankfully my beer was in better shape than the atmosphere, which was very flat on a Sunday afternoon.
On 12th October 2024
- rating: 6
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Quinno _ left this review about Olde Trout Tavern
Quite light and bright and full of life. Not necessarily a traditional pub (very much feels like a shop or restaurant conversion) and is fairly plain but perfectly acceptable, with further seating upstairs. At the bar were three cask ales and a cider. They do jugs of beer so I slipstreamed behind one just out, meaning another excellent pint of George's Brewery, this time the Wallasea (fair to say that I was getting a taste for their old skool bitters by now) which shook the Richter scale at NBSS 4.5 - so well-worth the GBG slot. 7.5
On 22nd July 2024
- rating: 8
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Southend Central, 0.32 miles, 6 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : Yes last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : No last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Darts : Yes last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : No last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Function Room : Yes last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : Yes - Only toasties - last updated 16 June 2026 by Blue Scrumpy
- Jukebox : Yes last updated 16 June 2026 by Blue Scrumpy
- Karaoke : Yes - first Sat - last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Live Music : Yes last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Quiz Night : Yes - Sun - last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 16 June 2026 by Blue Scrumpy
- WiFi : Yes last updated 22 July 2024 by Quinno _
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