Name: The Winston
Address: 51 Archers Road Southampton SO15 2NF,Archers Road, Southampton, Southampton, Southampton, SO15 2NF, United Kingdom
Rating: 9

Smoke-free property

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The Winston

Southampton

Excellent service especially from our waitress Polly, kept on checking up on us and made us feel at home , friendly at the same time. I'm from Kenya and the service she provided made me feel at home and I'm very grateful

Winston

Polly was great with service, amazing time at the Winston, one of the best times of my life and without question Polly’s kindness and fun-ness made me not want to leave. I realised this is the best pub

Polly was an excellent waitress and made our social 10/10 she provided us with high quality service and made our night amazing. She was constantly checking if we needed more drinks and the service was very fast.

Excellent

Holly was an amazing waitress and put up with all my mates drunk shenanigans very professional and also made sure my drink was never empty. A staff member like her is needed and the majority of pubs in the area

Holly the waitress

Today I went to the winston , I really enjoyed my stay and would definitely come back. I think that it is a Great pub with Even better staff, who bring brilliant service  would recommend to anyone staying in the area.

14th

Came here with my two friends for a few drinks after lockdown! 2-4-1 cocktails were amazing, the summer strawberry lemonade was my favourite!! Our waitress Frankie was hilarious and helpful! Will be back for sure!!

Wow!

I visited The Winston for some drinks with friends last night and had a great evening. The service was great, staff were super friendly - particularly a waitress called Frankie! She was very attentive and super nice! Will be visiting again for sure. Drinks are also very reasonably priced

Great Service

We come to The Winston all the time. The staff (Frankie and Levi so good they deserve a raise!!!) are amazing and so friendly. The food is incredible and the drinks are equally good. The steak melt looks incredible.

Give her a raise

Currently (April 2021) drinking and eating is outside only. We did step into the bar area and noted that it had been cleaned up, and is no longer smelly. Cask beer not currently available, so I was given a pint of keg Lagunitas IPA, without being told it was 6.2%. Ouch! It was light and drinkable, and certainly didn't feel like 6.2%. Good job I only had the one pint. I did feel the impact when I was home, and felt a little tired...

The seating area outside is very pleasant. It's an L-shaped grassy area - with one end the car park, and the other end a child's play area - a path dissects the two areas where they join on the corner. Even though the areas comfortably separate into two, and there is a child's area in one of them, people are allowed to smoke wherever they want. We are making such an effort to stop people from catching Covid, yet pubs like this don't seem to give any thought to protecting non-smokers and children from breathing in the poisons like tar, carbon monoxide and arsenic from cigarette smoke.  1% of all deaths in the world are non-smokers breathing in the fumes from smokers - 165,000 children die every year from passive smoking. I mentioned it to the waitress, who simply shrugged. Shortly after being served our food, a man sat at the table next to us and started smoking, so we had to move away. He was the only one in our section who smoked, but he affected (and infected) everyone. When we left we noted that the end table in the other section had smokers, while the other tables did not. It would make sense to put the smokers together and keep them away from the majority of non-smokers (only 14.1% of people in the UK are still cigarette addicts). 

The menu was a decent offering. OK for me as I eat fish, though a vegan would struggle. I ordered salmon fish cakes, which were very nice, and were presented beautifully, though came with chips, which I hadn't ordered, and were not mentioned on the menu. I'd prefer not to have chips with everything! If they wish to bulk out the dish, then some fresh wholemeal bread would have been more welcome, or a little rice or cous cous. Just a bit more imagination. And, at the least, let people know what they are getting so they can ask for it to be left off. Once given, the temptation to eat it can take over. 

Anyway. Nice place. But as there is no cask beer, and they allow smokers everywhere, we won't be back.

Nice pub, shame about the smokers and lack of cask beer

Visited this place after a 3 hour drive the atmosphere and people really made my day. You must go to this place for a drink and a nice time.

The owner was fantastic along with levi at the bar will be going here every time in Southampton

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