Blue Keys Hotel, Southampton (Closed - victim of lockdown)

Slightly off the beaten track, so I had not previously noticed this place. It's a hotel with a bar serving one cask ( on my visit), and is  a restaurant in the evenings. The bar is clean, and has been recently refurbished, but has a Seventies feel. It somehow works inside an older building. There's an attractive beer garden area. It's an ok place, albeit feeling more like a hotel lobby than a pub. Food only in the evening. OK place if you're local and don't want to walk further for a proper pub, but not a place I would otherwise recommend as worth seeking out.

The cask beer

The ambiance

The building is in a residential area, and was originally a house. According to CAMRA it was used as a girls school after the war before being converted into a pub.

Date: Sept 2019.  Score: 5


82 Northlands Road
Southampton
SO15 2LH

Place is closed, and has been since March 2020. It is not listed on the Enterprise (now Stonegate) pub list, and the pub/hotel website is down. Reviews on TripAdvisor is that of customers who had rooms booked, but when they turned up the place had closed. I'm marking this as closed for now - victim of the lockdown. 

Date: April 2021 

The building has been bought by a new, small, Southampton based hotel company, Jamba Leisure. Unclear if the company owns any other hotels. 

Date: Feb 2023


Open: Midday to 10.30pm

Food: Evenings only

Owner: Enterprise Inns


* BlueKeysHotel (website not active as of April 2021) 
* WhatPub
* TripAdvisor1 / TripAdvisor2
* BITE

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Enterprise Inns (Ei Group)