Cholderton

Additional Notes:	Hi, we are the new owners of the Crown inn Cholderton. Just thought we would send a little update of your review. We would like to extend a very friendly welcome from Jeremy and Lynne, all the staff, the two spaniels, and the two cats. We offer beautiful beer, fabulous food, willful wines from around the world, an extensive home made vegetarian menu, log fires, specialty evenings and a newly refurbished bar and dining area. Welcome one and all, please give us a call. (28/01/01)
	Cider often flat, Guinness not served right, wines expensive, lager OK, food good but expensive, beer OK but rushed. Emphasis on food and not laughter. Good regular clientele, but slightly forgotten during grockle times. Music terrible, stuck CD's. Good pub to visit. Better than this alcoholic can report on. Landlords good with clients but should stop their stealth price rises!! Certainly worth a visit. The decor is new due to the floods over Christmas. Disabled access is good and the locals very willing to help anyone in need. The bar is most accessible and the toilets have a clean smell about them and are generally very good. As a confirmed alcoholic, I would say the atmosphere in this pub is good, not cliquey, as an outsider you could walk in and join in any of the arguments that are frequently going on in here and not feel ostracized. Good pub, bar the prices and the Landlords TB!! The food is very good - a bit pricey but in line with other pubs in the region. I had a ploughman's recently which I could not finish. Most tasty, it is awful sitting in their some evenings when food goes passed you and it not only looks good but smells lovely too!! Very good range in meals, if not prices. This is the trend though. Food to my knowledge is served from 12-9pm daily, 7 days a week. There is no accommodation available. There are hotels and motels very close by. This is a great pub to visit, everyone is friendly, just get in there and get on with it! I like best the atmosphere of the place, it's a friendly pub with quite a few locals calling in there every day, you can join in any conversation without feeling an outsider, the food is of a very good quality, fresh, cooked to order, the beers are kept well although pricey, wines are the landlords speciality, if you are looking for a proper English pub, this is your one to visit. To be honest, the only fault I could find was the poor landlords cough. A little off putting at times, but made up for in plenty by the warm welcome not only by the staff but by the alcoholic regulars! Definately a pub to go back and visit in 'off season' times. I have been drinking there for at least 15 years and would recommend it to anyone! Worth a Diversion. (5/6/01)
	The beer is well kept, the lines are cleaned regularly to make sure they are ok - Ringwood, London Pride. The pub is a lovely old thatched place, with heaps of hanging baskets and tubs. Very pretty. There is a real fire which is lit in the colder months. The toilets are very good. Access for disabled people is not a problem. The bar is right in front of you as you go through the door. The decor is very good, having recently been done right through the pub. There is a non-smoking area which is proving very popular. The food is very good, you have large plates which are well filled. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The prices are well in line with all the other local pubs, but here you get fresh food, cooked to order. There is a very good vegetarian option as well. Food times: 12-2pm and 6-9pm. I like best the atmosphere of the place. You are greeted with a warm genuine welcome and made to feel welcome, stranger or regular alike. I cant think of a bad feature to the place. (Added: 2001)
	The place has been developed further to the direction of food now and there is just one bar and two dining areas; one for smokers, the other for nons. Shut for three months at the start of the year again due to flooding. The landlord's cough is worse and has clearly taken it's toll. There are now two resident chef's who's dishes are superb. You will go a very long way indeed to find better. The bar staff are fantastic friendly and fun. Food prices are too high by anybody's measure - is any soup worth over £5.00? - these are West End prices and more in Wiltshire. But, as said, the food is superb. Bit of a pain having to choose your food from the one menu on the wall at the far end of the dining area; table menus are obviously too much effort. At times you may have to wait a bit too long even to get a drink at the bar - but don't blame the staff, they really do their best. Don't expect everything on the menu to be available all of the time. I tried to order three different dishes and each was not available even though they weren't marked as such - worse, though, the staff hadn't been told and didn't know until they found out in the kitchen. Frustrating or what? (25/4/03)
	Since new landlords arrived in 2004 I cannot give an opinion on beer, food etc. as the reputation of this pub is so bad in our village that I wouldn't waste my time and money going in. I did put my head in the door just before Christmas to ask if they would like the carol singers from the church to come in but they said in no uncertain terms to go away. Most locals have either been banned or abandoned it for better locals in neighbouring villages. I hope they go broke soon so our village can get back its only amenity. I'd be interested in an outsider's opinion, but your website definitely needs to update its record on this pub. (29/1/05)
	I have recently visited the crown inn Cholderton and I have found its a much pleasanter place, I visited a few years ago and found the locals to be hostile and the prices as bad as the food but now there is a good selection of food available and fairly priced to suit the average person. I found the atmosphere more friendly than when I last visited. the landlord and lady were friendly and accommodating. they seemed to be better than the previous owners who I had the misfortune of meeting. All round great pub friendly staff nice ales and kids and dogs were more than welcome which makes it a family pub. so check it out for yourself . (2/3/05)
	The crown inn is a nice pub, friendly and helpful and the food is good pub grub and not over priced. The atmosphere has improved over the past few months, mainly due to the banning of some of the more unsavoury local characters who seemed to feel that they had a right to a say in the running of the pub. Mandy and Gordon are honest people who don't tolerate fools gladly and in my opinion this is a very good thing, too many village pubs are spoilt by surly unwelcoming local people. Good luck to Mandy and Gordon and we hope to see you around for a good many years yet. (14/4/05)
	I have read all the reviews above and I have to say that wishing someone to go broke is exactly the right reason to ban someone from the pub, it's not exactly Christian is it? I found the Crown to be a nice pub, the landlady was friendly and helpful and the food was good and reasonably priced. I don't drink and was delighted to find that I spent a small amount on a soft drink rather than being ripped off as so many pubs do today. It is my mission to visit all of the pubs between Salisbury and Marlborough and review each one. I noted that the Old Inn at Allington did not have a web site, pity, I wanted to warn people against going there, the locals are hostile and the landlord/lady rude and unhelpful. Not a nice atmosphere! (22/4/05)