Pubs in Southend, Essex*

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• chinnerys on the seafront is cool and has a venue upstairs, usually quite busy on the weekend.
• The Alex is the best pub in Southend. Great staff!
• The Alex rocks
• weatherspoons is the best, a burger, chips and a pint just 3.99£ i love it,
• Rileys =)
• the best family pubs in southend are the anne boleyn in rochford. has the best food for a small amount of money and kids can stay till about 9. then theers the rose inn wich has a bar for the over 18s and also a family room with a play area . nice food as well.
• Last post is quality if you like standing up in a crowded, urine soaked room with tramps and vagabonds
• Sell Alcohol for the over 18's, apparentely
• The Kursaal Bowl in Southend has a nice bar that sells bitters, ciders and lagers on draught. We also sell sprits, liquors and soft drinks bottled drinks. Come down to the kursaal seven days a week, (especially Thursday, Friday and Satuday nights from 8 till late)! We have two top dj's who will play to your requests and who often give prizes out. It's a top night out, so make the most of it!
• I disagree with the the Angel Inn (Shoebury) review, which to my mind has fallen from grace. Still good beer, food & table staff, but the management is terrible. There are now lots of hidden extras, that really add up and can ruin a good meal. Beware, you can be charged for 'free' complimentary items. If you do dine here, get the full costs in writing, in advance.
• Trendy pubs include Yates, Hogs Head and Clarence Yard. Plus, for cheap drink is the Last Resort (sorry, Last Post). Alternate pubs include The Alex, The Sunrooms and Saks.
• The Cliff is ok but there should be more gay pubs in southend
• Smithys oppersite the sea life centre is a strange place... Its next to Dreams nightclub (formerly Brockets). Its advertised as "Southends Karaoke Hotspot"... Okayyy. They have karaoke most evenings and the DJ's aren't too sad, the bald one takes bribes, the young thin bloke can sing and the chubby fella is a great entertainer, Gary, Ben and Mark I believe the names are. Pub itself not bad, 2 landlords of questionable sexuality but overall a good atmosphere, you could do a lot worse (like the Minerva!)
• again, The Minerva, The Alex, Club Riga or the Cricketers.
• woodgrange
• Dont try The Sherlock Holmes, Shit hole & so is the Park Tavern in Park Street, watch out for the local attraction "The Ostrich", bleach blonde hair, long arms & legs with very long neck. Watch out for Christine and slim sade, maneaters!!
• The Cliff, a gay pub behing Southend Central railway line. Very busy, is visited by gay's/bi-sexuals and str8 people from all over Essex. If you fancy a good night out pay it a visit, you will be made to feel very welcome!
• Not Yates full of cunts, I reckon Motels cos it's full of cunts without being pretencious!
• leigh again
• The Alex rocks. Make sure you get a Yellow Card if you're a student, for some discountage.
• The Alex - Good music and beer pub-style
• seymores. it trys to be a club but we all know it isnt. go there its the best one.
• The Peter Boat (sat outside on a summer evening looking out over the sea - can you beat it?), The Smack and The Crooked Billet in Old Leigh; The Grand, Mariner's Court and the Elms in Leigh; The Hog's Head in Southend; The Angel in Shoebury; and all the Paglesham pubs are worth the drive. So many to choose from, but nearly all do a nice line in ales.
• Read your the remarks re The Cricketers Pub in Westcliff. Can I suggest a revisit. In September 2002 the Pub underwent a major refurbishment and is now modern and open plan. It also did away with all the sad people. It also now incorporates a Thai influenced restaurant called The Salty Dog. With a new upbeat manager as well I think you'll notice a difference. Oh, and the excellent Riga Bar is still next door, the best live music venue in the Town
• I prefer the quiet 'Checkers Pub' in Canewdon...Yates's and Town house too much like clubs, - dress-codes, bouncers, no-where to sit, expensive, hot, sweaty, bad-food, smirnoff-ice,(poofs drinks), - give me a pint of bitter and a bag of pork scratchings anyday!
• The Sun Rooms. The food has just improved beyond belief. And it's cheap!
• The Alex!
• The Crokked Billet (although not as good thesed days in my opinion now it has a blooming TV installed). The barge in battlesbridge.
• Just like to say that Seymores in Southend is up and coming recently, ok I know its isnt great for Talent, but since the new DJ hit there on Saturdays it is livening up and getting a different crownd coming in.. so get yourself down there and check it out... oh and look out for a couple of Guys from kent, your know who we are.... cheers..!!
• Just like to say that Seymores in Southend is up and coming recently, ok I know its isnt great for Talent, but since the new DJ hit there on Saturdays it is livening up and getting a different crownd coming in.. so get yourself down there and check it out... oh and look out for a couple of Guys from kent, your know who we are.... cheers..!!
• Cricketters Inn has been refurbished from a nice old fashioned pub into a gay wine bar 1980s style nightmare. should suit the owner and his boyfriend.
• There is a pub on every corner in southend.You would find most of the pubs down the seafront. They have a karaoke in most of the pubs. But if you have kids most of the pubs won't let them in.
• The Last Post is probably the best place to go
• The Alex is the place to be for alternatives really. wednesday nights, £1 a drink nite :P
• Cork & Cheese (ok its from memory i was a student once !) Last Post any one ?
• Good pubs : Grand in Leigh, Townhouse, Yates (hardest place 2 get into in town) BAD pubs: Last post (girls wearing hardly nething blokes just wanting one thing!) UGLY pubs: Chinnerys!
• O 'Neils just off the High Street in Southend is the best night out for miles. Not only is the atmosphere friendly, but there is a fantastic mix of people every weekend. The DJ / Manager is wicked and not only spins some great recent hits, but knows exactly when to put the funky oldies on. Drinks are reasonable and loads of room to dance! Doormen are absolute tossers though...!
• Last Post in the middle of the highstreet in Southend, Cork N Cheese under Argos in Southend n if in Rayleigh, go to The Half Moon before goin 2 t Brush for a mental meet up wit metal nuts!
• Stear clear of *all* pubs in S'end on Friday and Saturday night. There are dress codes. The music is way too loud (so bring a loud hailer). The bouncers will at any given moment kick you out for no reason other than 'because they can'. Pop over to Westcliff for a nice quiet (but not too quiet) drink.
• The ALEX is cool
• The Sunnies is NO WHERE NEAR as good as it was when run by Mark and Pete. All the staff now think they are the reason people visit and they're the coolest funniest people in bohemian Southend. They're not.
• What has happened to the Angel Inn, Shoeburyness? Pub food used to be great especially the roast on a Sunday, now its all frozen microwave wraps and the prices are expensive even by London's standards!
• THE ALEX IS THE BEST PUB IN TOWN IT HAS BIG LEATHER SOFAS AND ITS AS COMFY AS IT GETS AND THE TOP ALEX IS PHAT IT PLAYS GRET MUSIC GO ON A FRIDAY AND ON THURSDAY AFTER 7PM IT DRINKS FOR A POUND YOU CANT GET BETTER THAN THAT!
• Alex
• The Alex and the Sun Rooms, within safe walking distance of each other for a lazy buggers pub crawl.
• Parsons Bar in Shoebury. I'm only saying that coz my brother works there and he's lovely! look for a 6 foot 4 guy with a bald head and wicked personality!
• the alex - great music, good beer and pretty nice staff
• The Cricketers Inn - nothing going for the place, old fashioned, dingy and loads of sad people!!! Drinks expensive compared to other places and a few decent looking bar staff wouldn't go a miss. One good thing not a bad bar next door with some okay music.
• Go to the royal hotel, theyll serve anyone!
• bored of them all
• Alex,Scumrooms,Liberty Belle
• The Grand is the only decent pub and that vis full of bums.
• Hogshead is a good one, nice friendly pub, recently been done up!
• Let's take a drink. Meet at Victoria Circus (Vic Corner if you like).We won't start on an empty stomach, so it's into the Bluebell Cafe for a Fergie pie. Then cut through the Talza Arcade into Southchurch Road for the first one in the Sutton Arms (Manns). Back towards Garons Corner to take our pick of the bars in the Victoria (Courage). I favour the little one right on the corner. If you want to use the lavatory, go to the one deep in the hotel, through the reception. You'll find that each of the urinal stalls has, just at the aiming point, an image of a bee in blue glaze put there by some Victorian sanitary-pocelain-making humourist. What's the latin for "bee"? "Apis". Is that what he was thinking? Anyway, time for another, so it's down the High Street to the Middleton for a quick one half way on our route to the London Hotel (Whitbread) The side bar is best: echoing wooden floor. I recall Champion Jack Dupree playing a surprising version of "The Sheik of Araby" in here. We'll resist a detour along Clifftown Road for a game of table skittles in the Railway (Charringtons), and carry on to the Bottom Alex to see if they've got any Bass draught barley wine on. If so, it'll be in a small barrel racked on the bar, but they'll only sell it in half-pint measures. Nothing to stop us having a couple, though, is there? I think we're probably getting the taste of it by now, so off to The Royal. It may be Courage, but who comes to the scrumpy bar for beer? So it's a pint of the rough and a restorative slice of Peg's bread pudding (or an Arrowroot biscuit or two) before we cross the road. We could have a bite of shellfish from Goings' stall (literally pavement oysters) or straight into The Royal Stores (Manns) where there may be a bit of music. If so, odds on the Nancy Mount Trio (bottled Guinness on the piano) (Nancy's piano, that is). Out of here through the other door with the port tun onto the top of Pier Hill, where Queen Victoria's statue is pointing the way to the public lavatories. Turn left and we've arrived at The Grand Pier Hotel, and here it is that the drinking starts. The front bar is fine for a game of bar billiards or a look out over the water with the old naval gun sight mounted in the bay window, but the Private bar (the smaller of the two facing the Ritz) is our destination,as this is where we find more draught cider. Andy was tapping a new barrel on the bar one day and got it wrong somehow.The thing eploded cider everywhere and an old dear fell off her bar stool right by it. by the time the ambulance came, she was functional again, though (or as ever she was). Probably would have taken another dive for a few more of those medicinal brandies. We could go over to the Long Bar, and down the hill to the Criterion or the Hole in the Wall, but I'm for settling into the Grand Pier. After closing, there's always Gerry's Nosh.
• the bell pub is really big it's opposite the shell garage.
• Seafront, Argos, loads!
• Yates's is a surefire winner - excellent DJ on Fridays and Saturdays. Female barstaff ming though...loads. Its a requirement to get the job.
• The Hogshead ain't bad Its by the underpass, Bring back the ARISTOCRAT and the DICKENS, They were real pubs!!!Also try the Shorehouse really good actually!
• The Plough in Westcliff. More like a London boozer. Serious drinking. Friendly. Southend Bob does his disco. best place to watch the footy or gaelic games. The JUG and BOTTLE station road, cool jamming sessions, Southend Irish Association have traditional music sessions on last Friday of every month where you can bring along an instrument(acoustic) and join in or just listen. Big nod to Club Riga at the Cricketers, saw top blues band THE MOTEL KINGS there. Last saw them at national blues festival where they were seroiously respected.
• Look, The Sun Rooms is OK, but it's a sad state of affairs that it's the best Southend has to offer. It's tiny, for God's sake. I recently returned there for a drink after years of living away, and found the clientele to be a little pretentious and living under the delusion that they were drinking in the coolest bar in town. Ha! Compared to the best bars in most other towns and cities, the Sun Rooms is a little new age lounge bar with some average DJs and nothing more. There's no atmosphere there, and it would appear that having a goatee beard is part of the dress code for the men (remember - all beards are evil, regardless of their form). Call Pickfords and move out of this town, that's my advice. I did only a few months after my return.
• The Grand
• Well I'm in the Elms every friday, saturday, sunday, wednesday etc. BLoody nice place with friendly staff. Yates is also pretty funky on a friday too and seems to be full of HSBC staff ending their week with a piss up.
• The Railway in Clifftown Road has an excellent DJ on a Friday night.
• The Peter Boat in Old Leigh is well worth a visit on a hot saturday afternoon, you can sit on the sea wall get a tan and drink (cheapish) beer!!!
• The last post, the alcohol is cheap. Crap for music as there is none. Best bet for that Yates Wine Lodge, but the beers not cheap and its very warm in there. The music is a little old!
• the bowl bar at the kursaal bowl - sport on big screen, great music ,great times
• People have very varied views on The Sunrooms in Southend but i have been going there for many years now the clientel has changed but the atmosphere has always remained the same. Tuesdays is always one to look forward to with vodka mixer only a quid and DJ Stevie Wonder to completely entertain you throughout the evening with a large range of very cool music. Give it a go and make up your own mind.Friendly, sociable and a bloody good laugh.Dress code scruffy to potentious.x
• Well i just want to say that i work in the best pub in southend 'The Sunrooms'. Thankfully it is a well chilled out place and has no room for tots boys or the southend sea front slags. The bar staff are gorgouse especially Russell!!! The beers cold and the food is lush (as supplied by Elnie our sexy sassy chef)If your very very lucky Peter the manager might sing you a song it normally goes' toilets, arse, bums and cocks.'I'm normaly behind the bar but now spend my friday nights on the door with three burly bouncers(its a hard life), so come down give me your 2 pounds (after 10.00pm) and have a cool one.cynical_kitten@yahoo.com
• Fish 'n' Firkin has possibly the best jukebox in Southend expensive drinks there though what's happened to the Townhouse - its become all continental but they do Jugs of Vodka/Red Bull now so it can't be a bad thing!
• the sunrooms i always go there for a pint but end up having serveral. it's just sooooo chilled out and they do great drinks like absinth (70%proof!) and hemp beer which gets you stoned as well as pissed. excellent.
• Futher on up this page someone said that Saks was brilliant and so were the Sunrooms I love that person!! They are soo right. The sunrooms has some of the horniest barman around and Saks underground (open 10 til 2) Is great, although not as good since they enlarged it and painted the downstairs white! Or if you just want somewhere for a nice drink, The Fish and Firkin or the Townhouse (Queens Road). In Summer the best place to go is the Peterboat in Leigh.
• The town house. Great meating place before the clubs. That or the bar in the Kursaal.
• The slating of Churchills is totally out of order..where else in this area can you see top stand-up comedians (every week) eg Lee Hurst, Jo brand etc. The few cultured people left in Southend will also tell you of Churchills Sunday lunch JAZZ. Eat good food and chill out to some coooool sounds!!
• ive been in southend for one year(i come here from madrid).i have made vise to many bars...of course!!the only one me and friends like is the sunrooms..very good drink and food..bands and dancing,also sexy barstaff (marky and pete)almost like madrid xxx maria
• yes please.....ok The weir- Big fmaily pub, nice food, all my mates work there....erm Id say ages range form 16/17+ The paul pry:- nice inside, but needs redecorating outside.....ranges from 16-50 id say.......Spread eage just been reinfurnished VERY easy to get served!!!! The crown NICE but dont try unless your 18 the landlords a tosser....White horse....hahahaha 13 year olds galore..shithole.......half moon......old mans pub......pinchos funky little wing bar, fairly strict but nice...and the lincoln and rayligh lanes snooker halls......lanes is better
• sun rooms or crooked billet
• Teh new one in town that everyone is going to is Yates's (wine bar??) opposite MVC at the top of the high street. There's supposed to be a couple opening in the Victoria circus complex soon but otherwise stick to O'Neils (used to be the Dickens) The last Post, Yates's, The fish&Firkin, the Sunrooms, Bakers bar (late opening) or the Grand in Leigh.
• The Angel Inn in Shoebury is a great pub with really good beer.
• Bakers Bar
• The Last Post
• The Dickens. The Spread Eagle on Victoria Avenue is being redecorated (Best pulling pub)
• Clarence Yard, Bakers Bar and the Fish & Firkin - the first two being very mediocre and the last better, depending on the time of year.
• The new Irish pub (O'Neill's?) opposite Central Station is worth a look - stays open later and has a better atmosphere than most of the other town centre pubs. Good for dancing on tables etc.
• The Paul Pry Tavern in Thundersley. Popular, local pub and absolutely rammed to the hilt on summers days!
• I only saw one mention of the Sun Rooms, it sells some good beers, the toilet floor is covered in piss, always packed, has gay nights on Wednesday (avoid Wednesdays), the staff are crusties, there's a few board games to play, I've seen a few people rolling cigarettes out in the beer "garden".
• During summer months, Old leigh for a beer, Anchor in Hullbridge, the Hawk in Battlebridge (great food).
• The Forresters (on the sea front). Great family entertainment, lollies for the kids, tits for the dads (if you know what I mean!)
• The best thing about Southend surely (after the Blues!) has to be the "Crickters" pub in the London road. Exellent Abbot Ale. Pity about the bar staff though!
• Great Wakering High Street, several pubs within a short walking (stagger) distance.
• Sun Rooms, Market place. A good chilled out venue (not really a pub, more of a gathering place for the deep thinkers) Lots of cool and groovey art work and really funky toilets (still smell of piss though). Probably the only place that's got a bar too high to see those under age drinkers - I think the idea behidn this is that you have to be tall enough to see what drinks are served. Nice place to chill out on a Sunday afternoon after a heavy weekend.
• Route 66 (The UK's biggest Pool Club) above WH Smith's is the best evening out in Southend, besides the clubs. The staff are friendly, atmosphere great and the booze cheap. Great!

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