The Crown Inn, Tunbridge Wells

Characterful old inn on 'The Walks' above the village green on the Kent side of the river. Mainly a food destination these in various small dining areas forming a L-shape around the bar (with a oddly disused snug on the other side), so it's pot luck finding a seat if just looking for a drink unless the weather is good enough to sit out on the narrow front patio. Very traditionally furnished and decorated throughout. Three real ales on handpump: the local Larkin's Traditional (£4.40), Brumaison BB and Harvey's.

Official site of The Crown Inn - www.thecrowngroombridge.com

Official site of The Crown Inn - www.thecrowngroombridge.com

Brick and tile hung Elizabethan pub on the green facing you as you come from the Sussex part of Groombridge.The bar faces you as you enter, with a dining room off to the right, and a snug up some steps behind the impressive fireplace.Some nice tiling and related brickwork-the pub is on the regional register of important pub interiors, and seems genuinely unspoilt. A hot late June Saturday lunchtime, we sat outside under one of the limetrees with our dogs, and enjoyed some pretty topnotch Larkins Traditional,together with BB from Brumaison, a fairly new Kent Brewery,This pub was once connected to Black Cat Brewery, and there was a reversed pump clip advertising one of their beers.Service was friendly, and the food genuine, and not overly expensive for the area. I've always liked the look of this pub:it has taken me over 40 years to actually visit it.We might well return.

Pleasant pub on a small green offering decent food and ale. Accomodation is available although when I enquired about a room I never received a reply to my e-mail!