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Ye Olde Whyte Hart, Southampton
Hamble
Postal town: Southampton
SO31 4JF
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E TA left this review about Ye Olde Whyte Hart
The interior of this old town pub is well described by Komakino, below, plus there is a patio and garden room at the back. The staff were pleasant, and most of the customers were relatively civilised. I found it a bit fussy at times – a waitress made a big thing about lighting candles, there was some tutting as we asked the locals blocking the bar to let us see the pumps, and it seemed a bit false in places. A Fullers pub, most of the ales were their own – Seafarer, faux-HSB, London Pride and Bohemian Way. There was a guest, Proper Job, which is what we went for and was in good condition, but it was hideously overpriced, as was the basic pub grub. It’s OK if you don’t mind paying excessive prices for ordinary beer.
On 3rd September 2019
- rating: 6
[User has posted 3277 recommendations about 3242 pubs]
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Komakino . left this review about Ye Olde Whyte Hart
A cosy locals' pub with dark, low beams, flagstone floor and chunky wooden tables. Likely a multi-roomer in a previous incarnation, this has a dining area to the left separated from the main bar by an open, central fireplace which was pleasingly ablaze on my early Thursday evening visit. The five-ale line-up included Chiswick favs London Pride and ESB, with the subsumed Seafarers and HSB and a guest in Bateman's Colonel Whisker's, which was sadly Sarsonesque. The HSB was in better shape, but steep at £2.10 for a half. Food is of the pub grub variety and there's a host of bar snacks behind the bar, along with a Sahara nuts glass box sitting atop. There's the odd horse brass, faux copper pans for decoration and pewter tankards above the bar which all add to pleasant ambience of the place. Not an award-winner in my eyes, but enough boxes ticked here and wouldn't be a bad start were you to begin Hamble mini-crawl from this place.
On 25th November 2016
- rating: 5
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BARRY TAYLOR left this review about Ye Old Whyte Hart
It's a landlord and 'locals' pub but you always get a warm welcome. Open Mon-Thu 10:30am-11:30pm; Fri 10:30am-12pm; Sat 10am-12pm; Sun 10am-11:30pm. Ye Olde Whyte Harte was built around 1563, although some of the timbers come from ships in the 1400s. The bar features one of the oldest windows in the UK, which is listed with English Heritage, so you get the picture that it's a nice place to have a 'light ale' The foods great, but you pay a bit more in this part of Hampshire. A fullers pub so Pride, HSB, ESB and Discovery on tap. Don't know if it's got London connections but it's got that sort of feeling which is strange for a pub on the South coast in a sailing village. The clientel is 'yellow wellie' orientated in the Summer. I hear there's a lock-in at the week-ends. Anyhow a good place to visit with historic surroundings.
On 29th March 2011
- rating: 7
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mark Gilbert left this review about Ye Old Whyte Hart
This pub is one of those pubs that's a bit above its station , advertising itself as a B&B i booked a week while i was on a course, i was dumped by the landlord in a crummy flat 500 yrds away shown the fridge and told i had to make my own breakfast ! Then a day later told i had to share the flat with another guest , mmmm the prospect filled me with joy ! less said about that the better. The food again is overpriced for very standard pub fair a standard black pepper steak and chips £15.50 i kid you not. Take my advice and avoid at all costs. probably the worst place to stay in Hamble
On 8th July 2008
- rating: 2
[User has posted 1 recommendations about 1 pubs]