Amazing pub with so much character and quirky vibes. The live music is amazing too. They support local and up and coming bands so its a great place to hear amazing music and have a pint of local brew.
I love this bar!! From the outside it looks small, but inside its fabulous and just keeps going!!! It has a very good sized outdoor area. The theme is fun, the cocktails are great and the pizzas they cook fresh are delicious! The music is always great and the staff are lovely and do such a great job! Overall a very good bar.
Rude, unnecessarily defensive staff, who don't do much to encourage a good atmosphere. We paid £10 on the door at entry. We went in for the cocktail t-shirt challenge, after being told if you get 9 stamps you get a t-shirt. I asked a bartender if he would stamp my drinks card after he'd finished making my drink. He told me he didn't have four hands. I asked another bartender if there were any drinks she could recommend. She told me she didn't have time, advised me to look at the menu and pick one and in the meantime, she'd go do something else. The cocktails weren't very nice. All have flat lemonade or cola in them. Our table was cleared by another gentleman, we said thank you, he ignored us apart from one silent, hateful gaze. Our custom was an inconvenience for them, so we won't trouble them with it again. Additionally, upon completting the challenge, we were told we had to pay for the t-shirt. We were also later told we could have paid for the t-shirt anyway. When we visited 12 years ago, this was a lovely pub, with a piano and a love for lord of the rings. Now, it's lost all its charm and no longer associated with Lord of the Rings. One bartender working in the garden was lovely. She was a gem in the rough. Otherwise, a very rude team of staff in dire need of customer service training.
1/5 Visited the hobbit pub 12 years later. Met by arsey and RUDE bar staff. 9 x awful, gassy, weak 'cocktails'. later we then got to spend £6 on an awful t shirt. There is nothing lord of the rings about this place! P.s it smells like BO.
Amazing evening, loads of people from different walls of life, felt welcome and comfortable during the whole evening! When we got there the man at the sore told us to go downstairs, which in my head meant a dark and dingy basement area.. turned out to be massive outside area! Complete with a pizza bar and a stage! They have a HUGE selection of interesting cocktails! I had a pink one, a purple one and a blue one and they were all amazing! Love music was amazing and I look forward to going there again! Soon!
Really nice pub, very cheap drinks and good size for your money. Good vibes, however slightly disappointed it has nothing to do with the lord of the rings anymore. A ton of dungeons and dragons related drinks instead now. If you're not a student you might feel a bit out of place as I did! Being older has its downsides!
We went to the Apocalypse summer bash. The pub itself was great and dull of character, also who doesn't love a t shirt challenge.
Just an all round excellent pub, full of character history and themed like the Hobbit. What's not to like? Regular live music downstairs with some of the friendliest promoters you could hope to work with. There's an insane outside space which also occasionally has live music, but also all sorts of other events. Drinks are reasonably priced and there's an insane range of pint sized cocktails. You can order food and the staff are all super friendly. The only thing that lets this place down is a lack of parking, it's straight off the corner of the main road and if you are a band it can be difficult to load in and out. That's what you get with a city pub though. Also not sure what access arrangements are like? Steep narrow set of stairs down to the garden music area. Very well may be better access if you are disabled, but it wasn't obvious. Highly recommended venue and pub, particularly if you are a student and you like live music.
Came down from London to visit this pub. Seems more like a meeting place for students rather than an actual nightlife venue. Cliquey atmosphere, whole place lacking in energy, frankly quite dry and a little dull overall. No music playing except for a student garage band in a small gig room. Disappointing lack of Tolkien decor (or any kind of fantasy fiction decor at all whatsoever) inside. The cocktails, which I had particularly been looking forward to, were very sugary and lacking any sort of bite - you would likely get diabetes from all the sugar before getting a buzz on the cocktails. I went with a friend who is a local and they told me the establishment has changed a lot over the years, they even felt it necessary to apologise to me afterwards. Luckily we found another excellent venue nearby so the night was not a complete disaster. Would not recommend overall sadly.
Brilliant place! Plenty of space for bands and people watching. Lost a star mainly due to the fact one of the staff refused to let us put a small table and chair in the event room for my disabled friend who can't stan for long therefor missing out on watching the bands. Other then that thank you for hosting our husbands band, I'm sure we will be back. (and will bring our own collapsible table & chair) #Drallion
The Hobbit Pub is located at 134 Bevois Valley Rd, Southampton SO14 0JZ, UK
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