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The Bulls Head, Coventry
Meriden
Postal town: Coventry
CV7 7NN
Pub Type
Inn Keepers Lodge (Mitchells & Butlers)Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Bulls Head
Attractive old coaching inn, and still operating as a hotel, albeit thoroughly remodelled and modernised inside and out but not completely losing all of its character. Entering through the courtyard, you find various seating / dining areas inside, all with the vaguely inoffensive 'charm' of a Vintage Inn to the general visitor if not the traditionalist... Two of three handpumps in use, offering Doom Bar and Purity Pure UBU (£4.75).
On 6th July 2019
- rating: 6
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Nick Davies left this review about The Bulls Head
Before the current A45 was ploughed through Meriden was the halfway point on the Birmingham-Coventry road and the number of pubs here shows it was a natural place to break your journey. The Bull's head has been around for nearly 500 years and I guess the M&B Premium Country Pub plus Innkeeper's Lodge operation still fulfils the same purpose. Though if you have that purpose to fulfil there are many, many better places to fulfil it.
It is, of course, indistinguishable from any number of similar places along our main roads, and any coaching-inn atmosphere has long since been bastardised out. Largely a restaurant but there's a reasonably pubby area with a choice of Doombar, Doombar or Doombar. I stuck to Eurofizz, a pint of which plus a J2O and a packet of cheese and onion ran the wrong side of eight quid. The garden looks nice should the sun make an appearance, a rarity this soggy June.
Fascinatingly the only other punters present were a couple sat at the bar complete with a pile of coins, B&H and lighters, phones in leather cases, bling and Benidorm tans. I wondered if they were holographic projections from 40 years ago.
On 13th June 2019
- rating: 3
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Roy Collins left this review about The Bulls Head
More a restaurant than pub with most of the tables laid out for diners. Standard range of national beers. The TT Landlord was fine.Sat outside in the pleasant rear garden
On 27th June 2013
- rating: 5
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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Bulls Head
A large updated roadside pub that is laid out for eating. It seems popular and caters for a certain (up)market clientelle. The car park has numorous cameras to look over the collection of Range Rovers in the car park.
Its rather trendy inside, old but with modern touches such as glass walls. The front lounge has a mixture of sofas and standard dining furniture, the further lounge is a little more conventional & again laid out for dining. The menu looked appetising and the prices starting around a headline price of around £10 - but beware the 'extras' such as veg or chips need addding on (£3.50 for chips).
There is a garden at the rear, along with an outside patio type area as you walk in, where the horses may originally have been, which, whilst furnished with wicker chairs, could be made more of.
3 real ales, including on my visit a Bitter & Twisted so straying slightly from the predictable easy choice, though the quality could be better.
Its a nice effort to udate and upmarket a roadside inn, a bit too hooray for me personally, but its popularity suggests they are doing a lot right. If I could give 6 1/2 I would, improve the beer quality & it would be a 7.
On 28th March 2012
- rating: 6
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