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The Boot Inn, Salisbury
Tisbury
Postal town: Salisbury
SP3 6PS
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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E TA left this review about The Boot Inn
Well described by others, this town pub has a definite rural feel to it and is a really good place to spend an evening. The large trees provide shelter in the pleasant garden, part of which has been cultivated to form a vegetable patch for the pub kitchen. There was a marquee over the paved bit of the garden, adjacent to the pub itself, and there was a disused barbecue stand at the side of the lawn. The customers were a mixed bag, manly civilized, representing a good cross-section of the town’s population, human and canine. Three ales on: Sixpenny Best, Plains Ales’s Sheep Dip and Langport Bitter, all in excellent condition. I also treated myself to a curry, which was better than the average pub curry, and not over-priced. I’ll certainly be back next there’s something afoot around here.
On 26th April 2021
- rating: 8
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Boot Inn
This is a rather rustic, rural pub with a two bar set-up on the main road through Tisbury. The two rooms have been opened out quite a bit, into what might just as easily be viewed as a wide single room with the servery along the rear wall, although the division is still fairly apparent. The bar has a dark wood tongue and groove panelled counter with a stone and plaster bar back which has the cask ales on stillage in front of it. The room opens out a little to the left where a couple of tables and chairs can be found, with more such seating also available under the front window. Passing through a doorway, you enter the right-hand side of the bar which has some nice herringbone wood flooring, a grand inglenook fireplace on the right-hand wall, a small alcove housing a dartboard, an upright piano and about four or five more small tables with plenty of chairs. Dark wood beams cross the ceiling and the joists have been decorated with plenty of green foliage, which added a nice dash of colour. The front right is screened behind a curtain, initially looking like it leads nowhere but when pulled back, reveals a small dining room with a few more tables and chairs in a fairly plain and unremarkable space that is seemingly left empty unless overspill space is required. Walls throughout the pub have been decorated with photos of race horses and newspaper clippings relating to the racehorse, Sworn In, that was bought for £5,000 by the pub’s owners and won its first race at odds of 100-1, garnering national media interest in the process. To the rear right, the walls have been decorated with a collection of old black and white photos and from here you can head out to a rear garden with a gazebo shelter, which looked pretty scruffy on our mid-Winter visit but I’m sure it scrubs up okay for the summer months.
Two beers were racked up on the stillage – Andwell Resolute and Sixpenny Best – with the Resolute clocking in at £3.80 a pint for a well-kept, sessionable bitter. Two further casks could be seen behind the bar, but these were evidently still conditioning and not yet ready to be poured. The pub has a good food menu and judging by the look of some of the dishes coming past, the quality is very high.
We had a quick stop-off here when passing through the area and found this to be a very welcoming rural pub with friendly service, some decent beer and a simple but effective set-up. Not perhaps a destination pub but well worth a look if you’re heading through Tisbury.
On 15th April 2020
- rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about The Boot Inn
A lovely old building, with a small front cobbled courtyard and old-fashioned opening hours. Down some steps to enter the sunken bar and adjoining knocked-through rooms; though a bit of character is retained (even if the red paint is perhaps a bit much) with large fireplace, black and white pictures of old Tisbury and black roof beams which looked original. The dart board, despite having its own recessed berth, looked very shabby. Four ales (Bath Gem, Bath SPA, Wadworth Farmers Glory and Otter Bitter, around £3.20pp) on stillage which does often ring alarm bells with me; and so it turned out as the quality of the three I tried varied from decent-but-warm (Farmers) to downright awful (SPA). Pub grub is offered (labelled on a greasy laminated table menu). I took refuge in the rear grassed garden with a couple of trees and aged dog who took a sniff of my shoes and then promptly sauntered over to his blanket and nodded off. A quick trip to relieve myself found both the urinals blocked and backing up, with the toilet clogged too. I thought this place was pretty poor all-round. I either hit it on its worst day in 5 years (given the glowing reviews below) or the local CAMRA branch (for this is GBG-listed) don’t get out much. What a let-down.
NB – I did overhear (at distance) a local saying something about ‘the old man not being there’ and the staff ‘not knowing how to do things’. If this is true, the Old Man needs to start handing out P45’s ASAP on his return.
On 15th September 2013
- rating: 5
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I L left this review about The Boot Inn
This is a lovely old stone pub a short walk up the hill from the station and main part of the village. Great to see three well kept ales served straight from the barrel. We had the wonderful home made pizza. Great to see this pub as good as ever since our first visit over ten years previous.
On 16th August 2010
- rating: 9
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Boot Inn
A very attractive stone built free house set towards the top of the High Street in a very pretty Wiltshire village ,this is a must visit pub.The friendly landlord and his wife have been here since 1976,and pictures of the various racehorses they have owned adorn the traditional interior.If you are into the nags they have many interesting anecdotes to share with you.There are flagstone floors,and a few nooks and crannies around the bar and a charming beer garden.Three barrels were racked behind the bar with Bath Ales Gem normally stocked as a regular with Alton Pride from Triple fff and Fuggle-Dee-Dum from Goddards as guests.A jar of pickled eggs completed the rustic feel at the bar.Quality food is offered here and the pub has a dining pub vibe but the guv'nor really cares for his ale and is happy to have quaffing customers who dont want to eat.He will stock a strong summer ale in the warm months and seasonal brews at other times of the year.A quality establishment ,friendly and traditional.
On 24th May 2010
- rating: 8
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