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Riviera Centre, Torquay
11-13 April 2025
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Westgate Brewery, Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1QT
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Comfortable 1604 pub near the historic Westgate, with an attractive suntrap garden. Bar billiards is played and a famous quiz, is held weekly on Sunday evening. There are three changing beers, often from Kent microbreweries. Beer updates are posted on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Food is good value, with a '2 meals for £12.50' special offer on selected days. Sporting events (not Sky) are televised unobtrusively. Good range of bottled beers, mainly from Kernel and Hopdaemon. The garden bar is open in good weather.
A pub since 1664 and was owned by Flint & Sons Brewery of St Dunstans, Canterbury taken over by Alfred Leney & Co in 1924 and then to Fremlins in 1926. It has timbering on the first floor added in the 20th century.
Vestibule entrance has two doors but the two front rooms are now knocked-together. The interior has suggestions of 1930s and postwar modernisation. The central bar counter has an attractive sloping front with projecting ribs and appears to date from c1930. There is panelling all round in a similar style to the counter, but in the left-hand side the panelling is topped by a delicately-carved cornice-shelf: this part also has genuine old beams. The bench seating in the front parts also have some age and may date from the same remodelling. Fairly non-descript bar back.
At the rear left is a small area with a bar billiards table and has panelling on the walls some of which loks old (but may be from elsewhere?). At the rear right behind an old brick fireplace is a small room with a dado of post war panelling.
This Pub serves 3 changing beers and 0 regular beers.
Unicorn, Canterbury
Changing beers typically include: Black Sheep - Best Bitter , Canterbury Ales - The Reeve's Ale , Ramsgate - Gadds' Hoppy Pale
Sports TV
Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals
Live Music
Garden
Family Friendly
Dog Friendly
Games
Newspapers
Real Fire
Smoking
Wi Fi
Real Ale
Real Cider
LocAle
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