Portland Arms, Maidenhead

The Portland is situated just off the town centre and is a simple and quite unassuming pub. The carpeted L shaped interior is quite plain with a modern brick bar and no nonsense furnishings. The rear section contains a pool table whilst there is an awkwardly positioned dart board just inside the front door that would probably give the health and safety people a field day. There were a couple of TV’s but given that our visit coincided with a Chelsea v Spurs televised game that wasn’t being shown I will presume that they don’t have subscription TV. They do at least have a good local ale policy with Rebellion beers regularly available although there was just the one (IPA) on my visit, the Royal Wedding commemorative Nuptuale being the unavailable option. There is limited accommodation if you fancy spending the night (3 rooms) but, apart from the couple of ales, I didn’t really find anything here to warrant a stay longer than an hour or so. File under “OK as part of a crawl”.