Barley Mow, Southsea

I approached this pub from the south ands is dwarfed by a really imposing Tudor style building that might once have been a pub and is now a hairdressers, so this fifties looking pub really looks bland on the opposite IDE of the road. Don't make the mistake I made by going in the first door which is the public bar with a pool table nod only fizz on the small bar. The next door leads to the lounge and this is very different and has a really nice wood panelled interior which is so different o the lounge. Seven hand pumps were in use and The Entire Stout I went for was superb. I paid £3,35 but the bar lady came back tome sayingI had given her 10p too much. So not only great honesty but great value for such a nice pint. Well worth visiting this friendly place..

The Barley Mow is a a corner pub that looks a bit different as the side of the pub is single storey and the rest of the pub is two storeys high,the pub looked quite nice outside with plenty of flower baskets on the window sills. Once inside there were two rooms and we had a drink in the bar which was a decent size and comfortable enough,when we visited the pub it was a Whitbread tied house and there was only one real ale on the bar this was Flowers bitter and this was a decent drink. This was a decent enough pub to start our Portsmouth crawl in, but i have since found out that it was a Portsmouth and southsea crawl. Pub visited 17/2/1999