Category Archives: Willenhall

The Robin Hood

Willenhall:

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Another Black Country Taverns pub, and quite reminiscent of The Swan. This is most definitely not a bad thing.

As such, it’s the standard BCA arrangment: choice of real ale, with a TV screen displaying the choice. Traditional decor in the BCA house style but completely fitting a Victorian pub. Decent food (cobs, pork pie, sausage rolls, and snacks like crisps), inoffensive music that you can talk over.

It’s a short way out of town, like The Swan, but very walkable from the 529, and it’s a fantastic pub.

Revisit: The County

Willenhall.

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Top local pub chap and rightful mayor of Walsall Mikee Evans went here a few weeks ago. We wanted to visit a friend in Willenhall and had loose plans for The Robin Hood, too.

This didn’t work out, but we did make The County. Recently refurbed, it’s a lot tidier and pleasant, and as Mikee mentioned, it still has seperate bar and lounge.

No cask ale, but tolerable lager, pleasant vibe, even in the bar. Not a destination pub, but one you’d happily drink in, unlike last time we visited.

The County

Willenhall:

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Somehow, I’ve not blogged this before, though it definitely has been visited in PubBlog’s timeframe.

Last time we visited, it was a busy, but pleasant and well-run pub with a few real ales.

Today? Well, we weren’t having a good day, but basically, it’s just yet another urban, tatty, run-down pub with football and lager. Only one room open, so we got all the joy of the football and the shouting from the people watching it. The lager was at least tolerable, so it claws back some respectability there.

The Loft

Willenhall:

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The name, and the grey paint job visible on the Whatpub link had me expecting trendy craft micropub, but this is not the case.

This was at one point Mad O’Rourke‘s Kipper House, and it was that incarnation I visited it as back in the early 90s. It’s also been known as The Worker’s Rest, which I felt suited it better.

Now? It’s a unremarkable but OK backstreet boozer. A little tatty in places, but friendly enough. No ale, but 2 drinkable lagers. No wine- “We’ve just sold the last one”.

Nothing to write home about but an honest enough everyday pub.