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The Lazy Fox, Crowborough
Mark Cross
Postal town: Crowborough
TN6 3NP
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Steve of N21 left this review about The Lazy Fox
We chose this one as a lunchtime stop on our way down to the south coast due to its proximity to the A267 Tunbridge Wells Road and in that respect it did not disappoint.
Internally it is now as detailed in the review below. You enter to face the main bar and the area to the right still has the feeling of a pub lounge with comfortable padded seating and large wooden tables. Then the area to the left resembles and indeed functions as a restaurant. This section is where the Elite Pub Co spent the money and now benefits from a very large modern light and airy square extension which has huge glass doors that open out to the garden beyond and the paved outside section that runs alongside the extension. Both the grassed garden and paved area provide excellent views of the High Weald.
The food was very good but unfortunately I couldn’t say the same about the beer. Only two real ales that I could see and the Doom Bar clip was reversed leaving just Harvey’s Sussex Best which was OK but a bit thin and frankly not a patch on the same pints I experience in Eastbourne later in the week.
For a food let pub for lunch or evening meal I thoroughly recommend this one but glad I don’t live in Mark Cross and have this one as my local for a pint.
On 5th July 2023
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Lazy Fox
Taken over by the local Elite Pubs mini-chain in ?2021, the former Mark Cross Inn has been comprehensively refurbished and extended in their usual upmarket country pub style. Plenty of general seating in the old part at the front, but the dining areas beyond the bar are much larger. There are splendid views across the High Weald from the side patio terrace and rear beer garden (which also has a row of three 'beach huts' and a children's play area). Another plus is the friendly and helpful staff here. Doom Bar and - of course - Harvey's (£4.90) from two of the four handpumps.
On 8th May 2022
- rating: 7
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Steve C left this review about The Mark Cross Inn
The Mark Cross Inn is located just off the A267, but far enough away to escape any sign of the speeding traffic. The A board giving directions from the main road mentions breakfast that is available from 9am until 11am. Whilst in the toilet I read the breakfast details more clearly and discovered that the pub only opens early for breakfast on Thursday through to Sunday. A full English not including a drink is £8 and the tea will set you back another £2. I mention this as I left this pub feeling that it was much overpriced with a half touching the £2 mark and a cheese and tomato sandwich costing £6. Maybe this pub regards itself more as a restaurant, but the four hand pumps on the bar drawing Doom Bar, Adnam’s Bitter, Harvey’s Best and Landlord would beg to differ. There is also a standard draught selection alongside Symonds cider. I found the service to be polite and the Landlord was pretty good, but I didn’t really know what to do with myself. The sprawling rear of the pub is open plan except for a large wine rack acting as a pillar and all the tables are for dining. There is a good sized area at the front of the pub that is more pub like, but it’s all very sedate and populated with people that have got dressed up to visit and this is at 14:00 on a Friday afternoon. There was some barely audible music playing in the background, but it may have just been playing behind the bar. Outside the pub there is a large car park and a beer garden at the rear with lovely views of the landscape.
There is step free access and a disabled toilet by the entrance.
You’re more likely to see my mother-in-law in here than me, but I’m sure it is lovely out the back on a nice summer’s day.
On 7th January 2012
- rating: 6
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