Latest reviews from Lowestoft

“Didn't visit 10/11/2023 but have visited on previous trips to Lowestoft and realised I'd not rated it when doing so. This is Lowestoft's second best place and should be combined with the Stanford Arms if only doing two places. The pub is divided into 2 by the centrally located bar and serves very different clientele in the 2 rooms, the front room being a heritage type set up for your more traditional ale drinkers with the back room being for a more lively younger wilder crowd. Green Jack do some good beers and it's good to try them here at the former home of the brewery.“

Grumbo 165 days ago

“Visited 12/11/2023 with Andy. Have visited a number of times before though, not sure why I didn't rate the place before. It's Lowestoft's stand out place by far. Very glad that Sir Toby's bought it when it came up for sale during Covid times and kept it as good as it was, if not better. Very comfortable back street pub surrounded by a terraced streets. Has a lovely sun-trap garden which the family and I spent a good amount of time enjoying when we last visited in June. Very good range of cask and keg beers, a little more keg focused now than it was. Cask range on this visit included a very good impy stout from Docks. Can/bottle fridge can be seen in back bar. Take outs available. Service has always been great each time I've visited, this time from Merynn who was super friendly. Cracker of a place.“

Grumbo 165 days ago

“Visited 10/11/2023 with Andy. A pre-cursor to Beccles Beer Festival. We arrived in Lowestoft by train and this place faces you as you leave the station. Set over two floors, a busy downstairs and a slightly less busy (and brighter) upstairs, where the toilets are incidentally. 4-5 ales on offer, not a lot of interest except the price. Did have one by Wolf, otherwise offerings were National. There was an unusually good (by average 'spoons standards) can fridge though with a fair few craft offerings to supplement the ales and unusually for a 'spoons (in my experience at least) this one allowed us to buy a couple to take out and have as train beers later. Friendly enough service. As well as looking back out at the train station (called Lowestoft Central on the big historic sign even though Lowestoft North closed over 50 years ago) there is also a Taco Bell right opposite which was a super lunch spot!“

Grumbo 165 days ago

“In a beer dessert of a town on a lunch-time visit this new opening is a bit of a shining light. On the other side of the harbour bridge from the Wetherspoons, working your way through the current craziness of road works and no pavements. It's a large building housing the pub and a club upstairs. They are attempting to bring beer back to a town that appears to have turned its back on it with a range of cask and keg beers. Lots of seating inside and out, enthusiastic staff. There is hope.“

imdownthepub 703 days ago

“Huge Wetherspoons, over 2 floors in an ex Department Store, close to the harbour and train station in Lowestoft. Very busy with locals and holiday makers. Due to the weird opening times in the rest of Lowestoft it has little competition but it also has little of interest on the beer front unfortunately.“

imdownthepub 703 days ago

“Where the commercial centre begins just across the harbour bridge and opposite the train station. It's in a large attractive enough building opposite the town centre's most prominent sculpture on the ground floor, with terrace seating put out on the pedestrian street out front. It's fairly modern looking inside with the tables packed in. Only nationally available cask brews being served on my visit.“

ManVsBeer 840 days ago

“In a large area of terrace housing, just west of the town centre, this place is a block or so south-west of the football ground, and on a corner. The area is a little rundown but the pub is not, with lots of updated modern features and furnishing, but retaining a traditional enough style. The tiled floor helps this. Even if the decor wasn't a good enough reason to visit the beer selection is, with a long row of rotating cask ales and a shorter row of rotating keg ales (with a 10% pour as an option on both cask and keg). There's also a fridge full of craft cans around the back of the bar and two real ciders. Seating is around the central bar in one big open plan area. Music features here and a walled garden with grape vines providing natural shade is the place to sit in the warmer months. Next door a water feature can be heard and adds to the ambiance.“

ManVsBeer 842 days ago

“Just behind the left fork of the Triangle market place if you've headed here up the High Street from the town centre. It's not the most attractive of shopping areas but most of the town seems to be suffering from a lack of regeneration. The pub itself is fairly attractive inside with two rooms of heavy wood furnishing, with a gritty unpolished appearance. The bar serves both rooms, one at the front, one at the back with a linking corridor between. Four Green Jack casks were available and there seem to be a couple of interesting looking cans in the fridge. There's some parking at the rear where some picnic tables exist, and a long bench down the side wall of the pub, in a very urban environment.“

ManVsBeer 844 days ago

“About ten minutes walk from the train station in Lowestoft, this street corner pub can be found in a residential area. A well kept, free house with ciders on gravity, 10 hand-pumps with good rotation of mostly regionally sourced real ales, craft beers among the kegs and cans/bottles. The whole beer menu is listed on a blackboard to the left of the bar. Unfortunately, they do not serve ales in thirds. Smiling and friendly service offering tasters. Different seating sections with the serving bar and all their hand-pumps close to the entrance. A patio to the rear of the pub. Wooden benches and tables, and walls decorated with beer related photos and posters. No wonder that this pub has been runner up in CAMRAs national pub competitions. (Visited with friends on a Saturday afternoon 06.07.2019).“

Rune 1742 days ago

“Nice backstreet pub, really good ale selection, friendly service. Great find.“

kwik-lime 2382 days ago

“A traditional, old-school English pub with two rooms and two bars in dark wood, brick and granite interiors. The main outlet for beers from the local Green Jack, seven of them on cask joined by one guest ale and four real ciders. Some Green Jack beers on bottles as well. The pub is located about 15 minutes walk from the train station up hill towards the historic High Street. And Lowestoft can be reached by train from Norwich and Ipswich, 35 minutes train ride from Norwich. Polite service. Well worth a checking out. (Visited with Synnøve, Gary and Frau Eva 08.07.2017).“

Rune 2466 days ago

“Located bang opposite Lowestoft railway station, the Joseph Conrad is your welcome to the town that gave us L’il Chris! Visited for a quick one at lunchtime on Monday 21/11/16 and found this venue doing a very brisk trade. Typical social club spoons with quite a few career drinkers saving on the heating allied to a lot of folks eating lunch in various groups from older folks to office workers. The place itself is a large open plan Spooneria in typical JDW livery. The bar to the left of the building has the usual Spoons house beers and bottles, allied to this the pickings were average with one local Green Jack beer, a collaboration and an offering from Sambrooks. The beers we had were well kept. Service was decent enough for a Spoons too. Overall a pretty middle of the road spoons experience but there isn’t a huge choice of worthy boozers in Lowestoft so no harm popping in and seeing if you drop on a tick !“

Theydon_Bois 2703 days ago

“Visited 7th and 21st November 2016. Former Brewery Pub for Green Jack now the Brewery Tap. Just off the High Street on the northern edge of town, this old school local promotes very well kept beer, bar snax and Bottles in 500ml and 750ml of there own brews including special brews. 8 Beers available and one guest, some direct from the cask. Friendly service. Front room open plan with lots of old pump clips on the roof beams. Rear room is more for the locals with a pool table.“

47574xeCD 2704 days ago

“Visited over lunch on Monday 21/11/16. Two room street corner local about a 10 minute walk up the High Street from Lowestoft station. The rear room contained a pool table and was occupied by half a dozen youths partaking in said ball game so we opted for the front room which was wood floored with bench and table seating. The walls were adorned with breweriana and the beams filled with pump clips ... a proper old boozer for sure! 8 Green Jack beers on cask covering a range of styles, not just the ubiquitous goldes ! A porter, a barley wine, a couple of Golds, a bitter, an ESB, a wheat ale and smoked beer. There was also a guest offering from Oakham and 3 or 4 real ciders. All the beers we drank were in excellent condition and backed up by friendly service. The place was ticking over slowly on a wet Monday lunch but half a dozen or so friendly locals, who stopped to chat, came and went over a lunchtime pint. In addition to the cask beers they sell 7 or 8 Green Jack bottled beers to take away, individually or by the case, including some 750 strong ones such as their Baltic Trader, and the Rippah - Barley Wine. Overall a solid back street local with very well kept beers.“

Theydon_Bois 2711 days ago

“Old style pub near the centre of Lowestoft. Looks a but run down from the outside. We visited on Sunday afternoon and the place was very quiet. Nice friendly service. Beer selection : 5 green jack beers on cask plus a guest cask. Green jack beers also available in bottles. Keg selection is not very interesting - 2 generic lagers, la chouffe, lindermans and aspall. Also 9 extra casks on for a beer festival this weekend. The ambience may be better on a Saturday night. Might come back to try green jack beers but not somewhere I would come to in a hurry.“

mR_fr0g 3161 days ago

“Enjoyable pub with a good range of golden ales on when I visited. Various rooms with different characters - good pub.“

kwik-lime 3971 days ago

“Excellent boozer just outside of the main shopping area, traditional and very friendly. There was a Beer Fest on when I visited so there was a decent crowd in on a Saturday afternoon. We went into the front room which is the more relaxed of the bars, lots of chat and banter with a good feeling. Well worth a visit.“

imdownthepub 4154 days ago