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| - Located in Baxter Village, I have driven past this place several times but have never stopped in. Large, easy to read signage and the typical red phone booth out front make the place easy to spot.
The atmosphere inside is fairly standard for an Americanized English pub, lots of dark wood, tin pan ceiling, and lots of English style artwork adorn the walls. The food is hit or miss, I got the fish sandwich and pub fries and thought they were fairly good. My wife got the pulled pork sandwich with slaw; the pulled pork was about 60%-70% fat and was pretty bland. The service was somewhat slow and a bit confused. We had two different waitresses coming by trying to take our orders, we would order from one and the other would come by asking if we were ready to order. At one point the waitress came by and picked up our plates before asking if we were done with the food that was left on them... we weren't. They seemed friendly enough, but didn't even know what beer they had on tap.
They have about 10 taps, and are all mainly the standard import selections; Guinness, Harp, Bass, Old Speckled Hen, New Castle, Smithwicks, etc... They do have 1 or 2 rotating taps for seasonals. Not a bad selection, but not great. The other issue is they serve the beer nearly ice cold, most of the beers on tap should be served a little warmer, the beers were so cold that they were nearly undrinkable until we were almost ready to go...
All in all, if it weren't for the atmosphere this place wouldn't have much going for it. The food is not bad, bit it is a little pricey for the quality.
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