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The Seven Stars, Falmouth
Falmouth
TR11 3QA
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Quinno _ left this review about The Seven Stars
Set back from the street is this CAMRA *** heritage listed multi-room gem. To the front left through a door is a plain main bar with fixed bench seating, carry on up a corridor to the off sales hatch and then to a small rear snug under the stairs and saloon room behind the bar. Perhaps smaller overall than you’d imagine it to be when looking from the outside. Older reviews mention scruffiness – I suspect it got done-up a bit over COVID as it seemed fine to me, I certainly was happy to sit down! In the main bar from the ceiling hang hundreds of key-rings and there’s a bank note collection on the bar back. Four cask available and a load of ciders. My Bass off the stillage was excellent (NBSS 4) and the place is a perennial GBG entry. There’s no bleeps, screens or squawking kids here - just a lovely basic drinker’s pub.
On 4th April 2024
- rating: 9
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Ian Mapp left this review about The Seven Stars
First bit of advice to the tourist - dont follow google maps on walking mode. It will take you up very steep steps behind the pub and leave you in need of abseil kit to get down to the pub.
When you do find it, its every bit as good as your research will have indicated. Completely unspoiled. Multi room. GBG2024. Most beers (if not all) gravity fed. Bass in fine condition.
I'd say a must visit for pub tourists.
On 24th October 2023
- rating: 8
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Seven Stars
Set back from Killigrew Street and near to the town's bus terminus, this is a rather grand-looking building with outdoor seating at the front.
The interior is even more impressive with a traditional public bar at the front and then a short corridor with an off-sales hatch leading to a smaller snug at the rear. The pub is Grade II listed and deservedly so.
Bass & Sharp's Atlantic are the regular ales. Sharp's Special was also available with another guest beer being Penzance Trink. I also spotted a boxed cider on the bar back and duly selected the Winkleigh Sam's Dry.
Since the last review, the gazebo has gone and ordering from the bar is once again possible. The second best pub in Falmouth in my opinion.
On 12th April 2023
- rating: 7
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Brainy Pool left this review about The Seven Stars
first thing you notice here is that you can barely take a decent photograph of the pub because of the huge gazebo at the front. When you actually reach the door you are struck by a barrage of Covid health & safety messaging and it all makes the feeling of going to the pub like a chore. Orders are taken through the window and it’s table service only. The multi roomed layout makes life difficult for them, but the whole experience feels awkward and the staff were rather worldweary. My pint of Bass was okay but I have satisfied my curiosity of this pub now. Out of respect for their obvious difficult situation, I won’t leave a rating. Maybe again in normal times, if they ever come.
On 8th September 2021
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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Seven Stars
Smart exterior but very run down inside with peeling plaster and very basic, but almost saved by the character. With a bit of TLC it could be nice. Tables at the front on the main square.
On 1st July 2019
- rating: 6
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Seven Stars
The Seven Stars is a decent looking pub that is in the middle of Falmouth.
Once inside it looks very scruffy,my wife refused to sit down in the pub so went outside to sit on one of the picnic benches.
There is a narrow oblong shaped room to the front which has a stone floor,there is very basic bench seating,there is a separate room to the rear which is square shaped and has a few pew seats.
There was a decent choice of real ales served from Barrel's,we had a pint and a half of Bass,which went down well outside,while watching the world go by,the other real ales i noted were St Austell Lucky 7,Sharps Atlantic and Skinners Lushingtons.
We did it once and never did a revisit over the week.
The toilets were also very scruffy.
Why do some of these top real ale pub have to be so scruffy.
Pub visited 12/8/2017
On 29th October 2017
- rating: 7
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Seven Stars
One of the oldest-school pubs I've been in for a long while (and all the better for that). The façade doesn't deceive, and the compact front bar is as traditional as anybody could have hoped for back in the 1950s. However, the smaller back room, with a hatch through to the servery, harks back to an even earlier age. All real ales are served on gravity, including the regular Bass, two from Sharp's and one from St Austell; but I went for the Padstow Windjammer (£3.25, which might have been a bit warm from a smaller cask without a cooling jacket, but was in fine condition).
On 15th April 2017
- rating: 9
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Seven Stars
Set slightly back from the road on one side of a small square in the town centre, the Seven Stars is a lovely unspoilt ale house, still serving beers straight from the barrel. You enter into a corridor with a nice old Bass sign on display and a small serving hatch to the bar on the left hand side, which I assume was a former bottle and jug. A door immediately to the left leads into the front Public Bar - a long shallow space with the servery along the rear wall. The room has a stone floor with a couple of table-less banquettes along the front wall and a single table made from an old cable spool in the bay window at the far end of the room, served by a decent curved banquette. The bar has a white wood counter front and the top of the counter appears to be a little warped at one end - the surface certainly didn't seem flush - suggesting it has probably been in-situ for a good many years. The bar back is decorated with the ephemera of many years of pub trading, including some ancient looking tankards, bowls, salvers, whiskey boxes and a fine carriage clock which is apparently set to GMT all year round. From the ceiling, hundreds of key-rings have been suspended from the beams and a bank note collection and string of fairy lights can also be found nearby. The room has been decorated with plenty of Bass memorabilia, various old photos, mirrors and CAMRA award certificates, whilst on the end wall, a small fireplace stands, looking like it gets some god use in the colder months. The corridor leads on to a small rear room, almost snug-like, which houses the majority of the pub's seating options mainly in the form of smart button backed benches and sturdy low stools. There's another nice fireplace on the rear wall and a few paintings to brighten up the walls. There are no distractions from TV screens, slot machines or piped music, just the pleasant buzz of chatter from a modest early Tuesday evening crowd.
The plentiful Bass memorabilia throughout the pub is a nod towards their famed house beer, still seemingly their most popular ale, with all but one customer ordering a pint of it whilst I was there. The antique stillage system behind the bar also had Skinners Lushingtons, Sharps Special and St Austell Ella racked up as well as a few more casks that weren't ready to come on yet. I obviously had to try the Bass (£3.20) which was an outstanding pint and welcome reminder of what a great beer it can be in the right hands. A number of ciders were also available, either from handpulls on the bar or polypins.
Falmouth has a good mix of pubs for a town of its size, where modern craft beer bars rub shoulders with lively Quayside boozers and familiar chain pubs, but the Seven Stars stands out as the town's top traditional ale house, rightly recognised on CAMRA's National Inventory. I loved the ambience in here - the buzz of conversation creates a pub atmosphere that really can't be beaten - and thought the beer was superb. This one is well worth visiting for any number of reasons and was one of the highlights of my time in Falmouth.
On 26th November 2016
- rating: 9
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Blackthorn _ left this review about The Seven Stars
A prominent pub in the old town square, it’s not nearly as big inside as you might imagine from looking at the outside. According to the friendly landlady, parts of the building date from the 13th century, whilst it was converted to a pub in the 16th century. Prior to that it was a grain store with the right hand part being stables.
The main bar runs along the front of the pub and is quite long and narrow. It has a very “unspoilt” appearance and I would think that it hasn’t seen a paint brush since the 60’s. This may not be to everyone’s taste of course; depending on your point of view you may describe it as tatty, but I thought it was a great example of a timeless old boozer. Some type of old lino was covering the floor, whilst painted wooden boards were on the walls in a mixture of pale yellow and maroon. The ceiling had nicotine stained wooden boards and a large collection of key rings, many hundreds probably, were strung up. A table made from an old rope drum was at one end and there were a number of nautical pictures on the walls including several of a sailing club. A couple of notices banned the use of mobile phones and to emphasis this point there were a number that had been nailed to the wall. There is also a small snug at the rear which looks to be a cosy spot.
Most beers were dispensed from barrels racked up behind the bar and on this occasion included Dark Star Pale Ale, Sharp’s Special, Bass, Skinner’s Porthleven, Pressgang, Sharp’s Atlantic and something called Grandma’s Weapons Grade Ginger Beer. Ciders too were well represented with Thatcher’s Haze, Stowford Press, Hand Brake and Rosie’s Pig. All in all, a great pub and well worth checking out.
On 10th May 2016
- rating: 8
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peter ashworth left this review about The Seven Stars
This down to earth pub is full of characters and prominently sited in front of a small square,is thought to be Falmouth's oldest pub,opening in the same year as Charles 11 restored the Monarchy.The pub has been in the same family since 1868 with the The Rev Barrington Bennetts the local Anglican Clergyman being behind the bar for the last 50 years until his death in 2011.As John Bonser described in his detailed account of the pub there was a sign high up at roof level that fell down during a storm and since yet to be replaced (The only evidence of the pubs name i saw was a small blackboard near the entrance with The Seven Stars chalked on).
The unspoilt public bar had a late victorian shelf and wooden stillage from 1894,with beer being served from casks behind the bar,and the metal stillages being introduced in the late 1940's.In the ceiling of the back room,close to the spiral staircase there is a hatch where they brought the coffin down when someone had passed away in the upper floors,because the stairs were to narrow to handle a coffin.
Although on my visit i found the pub a bit shabby and worn, certainly in the back room, realise it would not be everyones cup of tea but nevertheless certainly worth a visit.
On 8th July 2012
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