A very cool English pub in Hastings. We just had a quick drink and we really enjoyed the ambiance…read more Great selection of dry white wine. My husband was pleased with the beers on draft. The bartender was super kind and helpful. Very glad we stopped in here. There are a lot of fun things to look at and the menu looked really good.

Nice pub on George St. Very pleasant staff which helped us pick out some good pints. The menu…read morelooked delish with reasonably priced including appetizers. This pub gets very busy during the weekends. So arrive early and enjoy!

Up the hill and round the corner, you don't really stumble upon the Horse and Groom by accident…read more But you should seek it out: it's a traditional pub in the heart of St Leonard's and the ideal place to get a bite of lunch or a nourishing real ale after you've been browsing the antique shops of Mercatoria and the environs. Plenty of people in Brighton and Hove look down on Hastings and St Leonard's. How wrong they are. It's not the land that time forgot but a secret they haven't discovered yet. If the Horse and Groom was in Brighton, it would be packed with wannabe London playwright émigrés moaning about the BBC. But here, it's a friendly, lively, arty boozer with a good time vibe and an insatiable thirst for real ale. The beer is good. They have an array of real ales that change regularly and all your usual lagers, spirits and wines too. There's a little patio out back and a selection of books if you fancy a read while you sup. My only gripe is that they close very promptly at 11. Maybe they show more lenience for proper regulars? Best of all, it's very welcoming. I got chatting to the locals in no time and met an aging rocker, a computer programmer and a writer in one evening. The attached restaurant, St Clement's, comes highly recommended but I've never eaten there but if it's as good as the pub you'll love it.

Great little pub that prides itself on selling a variety of real ales. Always a good selection on…read moretap and not too expensive. The pub is quite small inside but very friendly. It is like a pub used to be. Not full of youngsters trying to drink the place dry and not so noisy you cannot hear yourself.

Great food, great choice of ales and a beer garden. I liked the fact it was child friendly and had…read morea music event last week which was amazing. I recommend this little gem in St. Leonards on Sea as a lovely friendly pub which is definitely worth a visit.

We had a wonderful lunch with lots of varieties of food. Also, the wines and beer were very tasty.read more

Apparently this pub is more of a Londoner's pub, and we were Londoners down for a day trip - so…read morethis was the perfect lunchtime stop. The Crown is just the right size to feel cosy without being too crammed, a bit dark on the sunniest day of he year perhaps, but then it's only sensible to take shelter at midday. I always insist on having fish and chips when by the seaside and was almost disappointed to not find this basic pub grup offering here ... the menu is a lot more sophisticated and I had my cod served served on a bed of sweet potato. The fish is caught locally and was beautifully presented and delicious. We had a taste of the chips as a starter along with freshly baked bread (on the premises!) and pickled eggs (I was too squeamish to try those, but apparently they were delicious and definitely not of the turned-blue-on-the-counter type). And we didn's stop there, the pudding menu was just too tempting. I decided to stick to ice cream (bakewell tart flavour!) and soon had food envy as other's plum compote, tarts and cakes arrived - everything tasted just as wonderful as it sounded on the menu and looked on the plate. Lunch at the Crown Inn alone is reason enough not to leave it too long till the next trip.

Great vibe and good prices! We didnt eat, just stopped in for a pint. Good selection and whatever…read morethey were cooking in the kitchen smells divine! :)

The Bo Peep feels like the last chance saloon on the Hastings and St Leonard's seafront. As the…read moreroad turns away from the coast at the eastern end, all that lies beyond this fine Victorian pub are the wilds of Bexhill. And not everyone comes out of there alive! The term 'community pub' is much overused and usually incorrectly but this place truly is the beating heart of the area. It's a big pub with a pool table, a separate restaurant area, a well used juke box and often live music on a Friday and Saturday night. They also have free wifi. It's a friendly, workaday pub popular with families, couple, young people and people propping up the bar. It always seems to be busy. One of the main draws is certainly the food. They do excellent dinners - roasts, local fish and chips, pies and all sorts of lovely home cooked fare. Thoroughly recommended for a feed.

The Clown in Hastings is the very definition of a local boozer, almost exclusively frequented by…read moreolder punters from around town, not tourists. It is cramped, a little worse for wear, doesn't offer Wifi nor a huge range of beers. That said, it's also the place to get into touch with the locals, especially in the evenings when it can get quite busy (there's not a lot of room anyway). Fairly(!) cheap prices on various lagers, including Staropramen from the Czech Republic.

The most demonstrably disreputable pub in all of Hastings. The roar of a drunken mid-afternoon…read moresing-along coming from the pitch-black open maw of a doorway was like hearing the very hounds of Hell rehearsing a choral performance for the pleasure of Satan himself. The lady's half-pint you take in here may well be the last thing you do. Though by the time of evening when the fights break out, general inebriation levels are so high that every punch fails to land. Enjoy!

Great clean, comfy little pub. Nice leather sofa and chairs. Most importantly, real ale on tap…read more It's a CAMRA recommended pub. Not in the center of town, looks like they have a good regular patronage. A little hike from the station but worth it! Enough reviewing, now let me get back to my drink. ^..^

Regularly go here. Food has always been superb. Along with the service. Although there's a lot of…read morefresh fish on the menu they also have a great choice of other dishes. Profiteroles are amazing Thoroughly recommend it here.

St Clements has a pretty good reputation in the south coast sun trap that is St Leonards on Sea. It…read morehas a "Michelin Bib" which, for the uninitiated (like me, prior to googling it), denotes good quality food at moderate prices which is a nice touch, as it allows reasonably priced restaurants to gain recognition next to the big boys. Hmmm, that was a rather long sentence, there will be less of those as the review goes on as they can often make paragraphs look intimidatingly drawn out and give the impression they are a bore to read, despite the content, which I can promise will be nothing short of fascinating. 51 words. Get in. Anyway, I'm sure you'd rather hear about the restaurant then have me waffle on about sentence length, and I have to say it is outstanding. First off, I recommend booking, certainly on the weekends as it can pack out. There is a lovely, little pub next door called the Horse and Groom which acts as a 'feeder' (not my words!) for St Clements, which makes choosing where to go for a drink beforehand a very straightforward process. The staff were friendly, and 'well paced'. By this, I mean they gave us enough time to peruse the menu and didn't clear the table before we were done, which is a sign of good training and an experienced team. They offer a set menu at £26.50 for three courses which has three choices per course. One of the mains is vegetarian, however the starters were all meat and fish dishes. Sinfully, there was NO chocolate option for dessert. Quite why I stayed is a mystery. The full menu is around £16.50 for a main, with starters coming in at the £8 mark and desserts at just over a fiver. I went for the Pork Terrine with Sourdough and Picalilli, Seabass with lemon, corriander and Thai Salad and Chocolate Truffle cake with cognac soaked raisons and pistachio ice cream. It was all delicious. Like insanely good. With the wine (some chilean thing I picked to impress my companion. I find the trick with wine is that you don't have to know a lot, just more than your date), it came to around £100 for two of us. Since going, St Clements has become the place I take anyone I want to impress whenever I'm in this neck of the woods.

Fantastic pub great food and good companyread more

been using the oak for over twenty years and seen it go from great to poor many a time. but since…read moreit's been a green king meet and eat pub its on the up again. good beer, good food and all at a great price. keep it up

Loved this pub---one of my favorites in the area. Friendly and accommodating---informing me of all…read morethe local ales and allowing me tasters, this place is a returner for me.

Great hang out place. Cozy back area with fireplace and open front for dancing and talking. Awesome…read moregin selection...I had the 7 sisters yum! Front area can be a little drafty on cold days /evenings. No food except rolls which I havent tried . All around fun! Great bands!