Beer:
We visited earlier in the week and discounted it- the hotel bar is a very bland hotel bar. However, we missed the public bar on one side, which is traditionally pub-like, and was a nice place to wait for our restaurant booking just up the street. Good staff and beer, As the Rugby World Cup was on, so was the TV, but not so loud you couldn’t talk.
Beer:
This was a traditional pub, overlooking the bay, as per it’s Google Maps description. I suppose it still is, but it’s been hit with the Greene King pubco stick of Old English Inns.
By no means bad, but it’s got the middle-class-green, the over-polished lanterns outside, and the pubco-slick but trying to be pally food menu. As it was, the food was OK, but a little expensive and not exceptional, the beer not bad at all, and the staff were fine; it just lacked atmosphere a bit.