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The Sundowner, Burnham-On-Sea
Brean
Postal town: Burnham-On-Sea
TA8 2QZ
Reviews of The Sundowner (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
E TA left this review about The Sundowner
The layout and position remain as described by Steve, below. It’s main selling points are proximity to the beach and car park, plus the outstanding view, but as a pub it leaves a lot to be desired. The staff were less than friendly, and the food, while cheap, was not great. No real ale, unsurprisingly, while the keg options were Shipyard, Thatcher’s Gold and Hobgoblin. There were a few other pumps but these didn’t seem to be in use. Fine for quick refreshments if you can find a place to sit, but not my first choice.
On 27th March 2025
- rating: 4
[User has posted 3516 recommendations about 3480 pubs]
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Sundowner
Visited the fantastic Brean beach a couple of weeks back at the start of the mini heatwave which worryingly seems to be what passes as our summer for 2021 and decided to try the Sundowner Cafe and bar for a spot of lunch before hitting the beach.
Positioned to service the adjacent large caravan park, this is more like a holiday camp social club than a pub and to be honest you would only come here if you were staying in the adjacent caravan park or visiting the excellent Breen beach (which is one where you can drive your car onto the hard sand and park all day for £6) and I wasn’t expecting much, especially when working out that you have to queue at a hatch to place food orders if you were eating.
It has the benefit of a very large outside garden space equipped with as sizeable kiddies play area and small wooden hut blaring out tunes to the assembled punters continuing the holiday social theme.
We we’re very pleasantly surprised when our tuna and ham sandwiches turned up and they were excellent and very good service levels from the mainly young staff who were struggling to keep on top of the punters at the food hatch and thirsty punters at the outside garden bar but doing a fine job to get through them.
On the bar front, internally and externally it’s standard keg products only as you would expect and cider and lager seems to be the order of the day, but then I would have been surprised to find any ales or craft beers here. But there was a Butcombe keg bitter which was obviously served frozen but hit the spot on a hot day.
On 4th August 2021
- rating: 5
[User has posted 2236 recommendations about 2098 pubs]
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micheal timmins left this review about The Sundowner Cafe/Bar
visited yesterday Sunday 21st June. great service . very friendly people and good entertainment . would definitely recommend a visit.
On 22nd June 2015
- rating: 10
[User has posted 1 recommendations about 1 pubs]
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- Official site of The Sundowner Cafe/Bar - www.beachsideholidaypark.co.uk
- CAMRA WhatPub :: The Sundowner - whatpub.com
Weston-super-Mare, 7.7 miles, 2 hr 28 min walk (show)
Weston Milton, 8.28 miles, 2 hr 39 min walk (show)
Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Car Park : Yes - Don't get confused with the beach parking need to use park parking - last updated 16 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Darts : No last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Dog Friendly : No last updated 23 March 2025 by E TA
- Function Room : No last updated 23 March 2025 by E TA
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Jukebox : No last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Karaoke : No last updated 23 March 2025 by E TA
- Live Music : No last updated 23 March 2025 by E TA
- Micropub : No last updated 23 March 2025 by E TA
- Pinball : No last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Pool Table : No last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Real Ale : No last updated 10 June 2020 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : No last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 23 March 2025 by E TA
- WiFi : Yes last updated 07 September 2014 by Jonathan Wilde
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