The Coach & Horses, Birmingham

Quinno _ left this review about The Coach & Horses

Somewhat confusing place. With the grafted-on modern extension facing the side car park it doesn’t look like a pub at all when you alight your motor, more like a local community centre. This, it turns out, is the modern dining area and you need to go down what feels like a side passage to actually get to the main door. Upon entering through a porch is a large and fairly sparse quarry tiled bar area with said dining extension up steps off right and a far better drinking room to the left. As we were eating we sat ourselves in the dull (mint green and white) dining area, in retrospect I should have asked if they served food in the drinking room. Anyway, the request for three rounds of faggots got a guffaw from inside the bowels of the pub with the served-up chow of decent unpretentious presentation. GBG-listed and a brewpub too (Weatheroak Hill); there were three of theirs on with four others from regionals. I tried the Icknield Pale and Slow Lane which were both GBG quality (NBSS 3.5 x2) and pretty decently brewed. Desmond would like it noted that his gunned lemonade was rated ‘dire – one of the worst I’ve had” and that boy has deep knowledge of the genre. Despite not getting the full drinker’s experience, I would happily do this one again. 7.5

On 11^th March 2024 - rating: 7
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