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The Malt Shovel, Solihull
Barston
Postal town: Solihull
B92 0JP
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 4 of 10) see review guidelines
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Nick Davies left this review about The Malt Shovel
Another more-restaurant-than-pub affair so common in the semi-rural areas surrounding big cities. This one is all varnished pine inside, making it feel vaguely like Austrian gasthof. Fancy food, you won't get a snack. That FB gives the food times, which are reflected on this page, is telling - it is in fact open all day.
We gave the Sharps Atlantic a miss, judging that at 4pm on a Monday the pump probably hadn't seen use for 24 hours and stuck to eurofizz. At the thick end of nine quid for a pint of the aforementioned, a J2O, and a packet of cheese and onion unaccountably imported from Ireland, you don't come here looking for a bargain. These places go on about the local provenance of their food, yet the fact that there's a brewery (Silhill) four miles away and the crisp capital of the world (Leicester) isn't very far is beyond them.
The garden is lovely, but if it's a proper pub you're looking for, there's a great one just down the road.
On 6th August 2019
- rating: 4
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