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The Narrow Boat, Northampton
Weedon
Postal town: Northampton
NN7 4RZ
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Narrow Boat
Roadside at a very fast part of the A5 ,but also high above the Grand Union Canal the interior has had a modern refurb which has extracted any atmosphere,it's horribly corporate.The pub part comes first ,it's full of high backed chairs ,pine tables,some tartan covered fitted benches,a flatscreen (off) and an unused wood burner.The bar has a pine top ,modern and faceless.Three handpumps ,with just a reversed St Austell Tribute clip so the best option from a dull looking keg range was Charles Wells Dry Hopped Lager,£5 and boring.
Beyond the wait to be seated sign is a restaurant area,with the larger room in darkness and no one dining at 8pm on a Wednesday.The staff were hanging about ,bored.
There is a large exterior decking and a sizeable beer garden ,even a marquee for hire.Rooms are available and you could book in for bed,breakfast and dinner but you could be in for a boring stay.
Charles Wells have really screwed up with this place,best avoided.
On 11th March 2022
- rating: 4
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Nick Davies left this review about The Narrow Boat
Watling Street has been a major road for two thousand years and until recently a traveller on what is now the A5 could be sure to pass a pub every couple of miles. Nowadays most of those pubs are either boarded up or converted to other uses, and our traveller is more likely to seek refreshment in a drive-through McDonald's.
The Narrow Boat, near the once strategic crossroads at Weedon, is one of the survivors, still here due to its position on the Grand Union Canal. As is typical, those who passed this way 200 years ago would recognise the solid building. They'd be quite rightly mystified once inside by the pub-restaurant arrangement beloved of 21st Century British pubcos. In this one the pub bit is near the road, the restaurant 75% at the rear with the views over the canal and protected by a 'please wait to be seated' sign. However if you need to be seated in the loo you don't need it to apply to the gatekeeper and can have a nose round on the way. The best bit is the garden outside, set high up above the canal.
Charles Wells, just IPA and Bombardier, neither of which I fancied, so I had a drink of their Dry Hop lager, presumably a Marston's take on a craft lager and refreshing enough, if extraordinary expensive: a pint of that, a J2O and a packet of ready salted came to just short of nine quid. This is very unfashionable rural Northants for heaven's sake
It's OK if you passing, and I'm sure nice enough on a sunny day when you can enjoy the garden.
On 7th February 2019
- rating: 5
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