The Queen Inn, St Cross, Winchester

Excellent pub in the backstreets beyond the college. A nice old building with a tidy patio area on the street and a large garden behind. By chance I coincided with their beer festival, which featured some 80 ales and ciders in a marquee at the back, but I presume their usual range is as the previous review.

A bit of a walk out of town but more than worth it. A single main room with an extended dining area, food was quite a big thing on a Sunday lunchtime and seating was at a premium, it is though very much a pub with six handpumps, all on, and four casks for gravity dispense behind the the bar, three on, on my visit. Although a Greene King Pub there was a good cross section of choice, from the GK stable there was IPA,Old Speckled Hen and Cornish Coast, more interestingly there was also Broken Bridge Snowdrop, Wolf Battle Of Britain,Fallen Acorn Rye Bos, Red Cat Mr M's Porter, Siren Yulu and Yeovil Stargazer, a fair selection indeed, there is also about seven or eight bottles of Red Cat beers for sale, If that wasn't enough, the roast beef was excellent. A top pub.