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The White Hart, Hook
Hook
RG27 9DZ
Pub Type
Greene KingReviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The White Hart
I arrived here on a Friday afternoon in thickening snow. Parking at the side and the rear of the pub requires registering your vehicle at the bar. Also at the rear of the pub are several rooms for accommodation.
The interior feels much more traditional with low beamed ceilings and a number of pillars creating individual drinking areas.
Service wasn't the quickest with the barmaid choosing to serve people she knew first rather than myself who had been waiting at the bar longer.
As with all pubs in Hook, the real ale choice was uninspiring with just London Pride & The Rev James available. However, it was also the only pub with real cider in the village. So, I opted for Weston's Family Reserve from a box in the fridge. CAMRA discounts are offered here, but not on real cider.
TVs were showing Sky Sports News, whilst I sat next to a stained glass window which seemed to have some history behind it. Probably just about the pick of Hook's hostelries.
On 10th January 2022
- rating: 6
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Graham Coombs left this review about The White Hart
An olde-worlde sort of place in M&B's Innkeepers Lodge group, with a hotel part behind. The pub section has a nice rambling interior with lots of beams, brick and glasswork, and a good collection of pump clips arranged round the ceiling. Sadly this was just teasing and, in mid-Covid, only Doom Bar was on offer and they were having some problems serving it "because the gas is wrong"?? They did however apologise for not having their usual range of guest ales, so I will give them the benefit of the doubt. It felt a bit commercialised but has the potential to be a good pub.
On 20th October 2020
- rating: 7
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Old Boots left this review about The White Hart Hotel
An erstwhile coaching inn on the main London to the South West road and still retaining a great deal of charm with low ceilinged darkness inside providing a wealth of cosy corners, nooks and crannies. It's a long thin bar with the counter at the back, inglenook fireplace at one end and a more airy dining room at the other. The counter snakes along and is home to six handpumps with regular Doombar and during mid-week a single guest from one of the smaller breweries, the other pumps with clips had little blackboards telling us the beer was coming next or just settling in the cellar. The beer quality could not be faulted and the service was mainly pretty good although the levels in the glasses varied alarmingly from the typical thin southern scummy layer to a deep northern head requiring a substantial top up. GBG listed and I'm with CAMRA and Moby Duck on this one.
On 1st March 2014
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Moby Duck left this review about The White Hart Hotel
A 16th century coaching inn situated on the busy A.30 road in Hook,although a hotel it is very much a pub if you enter from the main road front door. A long narrow bar area with lots of dark stained ancient oak beams throughout the whole pub area.The bar space widen's at a couple of points by the bay windows to allow some extra seating.Six pumps are available for ales of which four were in operation early on a Monday lunch time,these were (the almost obligatory nowadays)Doombar, Triple fff Moondance,Flowerpots Goodens Gold and Binghams Space Hoppy IPA, a reasonable selection,a fifth pump had a Morlands Golden Hen clip on with a coming soon notice attached the final pump handle was bare apart from an attached mini blackboard advertising the wine selection.A discount of 20 pence off the price of a pint or ten pence off a half is available to card carrying CAMRA members.Being a hotel there is a quite extensive food menu. Confusingly there is another pub a few hundred yards up the road called the Old White Hart, a Greene King Pub,but The White Hart Hotel is by far the much older Building and I would suggest the more desirable destination.This was my first visit here for around Twenty years,I wont wait so long for the next one.
On 16th July 2013
- rating: 7
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dave stray left this review about The White Hart Hotel
Holds music nights and quiz nights every now and then. Plenty of new Real Ales in the pipeline, this is the best pub in Hook.
On 6th December 2011
- rating: 9
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dave stray left this review about The White Hart Hotel
This is actually The White Hart Hotel. There is another White Hart in the area. This is old fashioned, but not a very lively pub. London Pride is on tap.
On 29th August 2010
- rating: 5
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