Quayside, Lower Southampton (Closed)

 

An Enterprise Inns pub reopened October 2016. Cask beer and meals. Closed.

Not visited

West Quay Road, SO15 1RE

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Enterprise Inns (Ei Group)

Stonegate Pub Partners / Enterprise Inns

  

Enterprise Inns (now called Ei Group) is a very large pub group, claiming to be the UK's largest with over 4,000 pubs. It was formed in 1991 when a businessman, Ted Tuppen, acquired 300 pubs from the Bass Brewery. 

Enterprise was taken over by Stonegate early in 2020.  By 2023 Stonegate are so heavily in debt due to the double whammy of lockdown and energy/cost of living crisis that they are selling off 1,000 of their pubs. 

Most of the Stonegate/Enterprise pubs are pretty basic and pretty rundown. 

Enterprise Inns / Ei Group / Stonegate pubs in Southampton 

 

Horns Inn, Nursling Score: 6 

Mbunto (formally Bitterne Park), Bitterne 
Score: 6

 

Bedford Arms, Bedford Place Score 6

 

Obelisk, Woolston Score: 5 

 

Hop Inn, Bitterne  Score: 5 

 

Old Farmhouse, St Mary's (Closed) Score: 5

  

The Dolphin, St Denys Score: 5

 

Blue Keys Hotel, Southampton (closed) Score: 5

 

Winston Hotel, Southampton Score: 5

 

Gordon Arms, Portswood   Score: 5
Has changed management, needs new review

 

 

The Ice House, Shirley    Score: 4

Fox and Hounds, Bitterne  Score: 3 1/2

 

Yates, Southampton  Score: 3

  

Brass Monkey, Shirley Score: 3 

 

The Griffin, Shirley   Score: 2
I don't think this is still a Stonegate pub

 

Shirley Hotel  Score: 2 

Unreviewed: 

The Lion, Bedford Place 

Slug & Lettuce, Southampton 

They Keys, Totton 
The Station, Eastleigh 

Links

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Pubstops of Southampton

Alfies, Winchester

Decent traditional pub in Winchester at the King Alfred statue end of the high street. Originally called The Old Coach House - renamed after the town's most famous resident. Allows children, and does food, though few people were eating on our Saturday afternoon visit. Four local cask beers. Attractive place, though just a little lacking in genuine atmosphere and character (appears to have been refurbished just a tad too much), but a decent place to stop for a pint. Quite popular without being crowded. Very good service. 

Cheers

We came here some years ago when we first moved to Southampton, and sat in the archway entrance to the old stables - the ceiling was covered in assorted framed pictures.  

Ambience

Steam Town beers in Alfies

Date: Dec 2019 
Score: 6

Owner: City Pub Company   (London Road Brew House, Southampton)

157 High Street
Winchester
SO23 9BA

Open 11.30 to 3am
Meals 11.30 to 8pm (after which children are no longer allowed)


* Alfies 
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