Ian and Ellie's
Pub Review Guide

Ian & Ellie

Welcome to the comprehensive Ian and Ellie Pub Review Guide

We don't just review pubs. We also review restaurants, tea rooms and basically anywhere where we have both eaten out at together. Details on those will be shared soon.

The places we have reviewed by location

Sorted by county and then by town/village where appropriate. A-Z by area and not by our ranking.

East Sussex

Alfriston

  • Ye Olde Smugglers Inn
  • The Star

Battle & Telham

  • The Bull Inn, Battle
  • The Squirrel Inn, Battle
  • Black Horse, Telham

Berwick

  • The Berwick Inn
  • The Cricketers Arms

Bexhill

  • Wheatsheaf Inn
  • Picture Playhouse

Eastbourne

  • The Beachy Head
  • The Pilot Inn
  • The Ship Inn
  • The Dolphin
  • Counting House
  • Friday Street Farm
  • The Rainbow*
  • The Stage Door*
  • The Bohemian

Hastings

  • Ye Olde Pumphouse
  • The Marina Fountain
  • The Crown
  • The Harrow Inn
  • Hollington Oak
  • The Bull Inn
  • Bo Peep

Hooe

  • The Red Lion
  • Lamb Inn

Lewes & Kingston

  • The Juggs
  • The Cock Inn

Pevensey & Pevensey Bay

  • Smugglers Inn, Pevensey
  • Royal Oak & Castle, Pevensey
  • Castle Inn, Pevensey Bay

Robertsbridge

  • Saleshurst Halt
  • The White Dog

Willingdon

  • Wheatsheaf Inn
  • The Red Lion

Winchelsea & Icklesham

  • The New Inn
  • Robin Hood Inn

Other

  • The Plough, Upper Dicker
  • Sussex Ox, Milton Street
  • Lamb Inn, Hooe
  • The Tiger Inn, East Dean
  • Eight Bells, Jevington
  • The Gun, Gun Hill
  • The Yew Tree, Chalvington
  • The Giants Rest, Wilmington
  • Plough and Harrow, Litlington
  • The Old Oak Inn, Caneheath
  • The Six Bells, Chiddingly
  • The Yew Tree Inn, Arlington
  • Roebuck Inn, Laughton
  • The Cuckmere Inn, Exceat
  • Eight Bells, Jevington
  • Blacksmiths Inn, Ninfield
  • Eight Bells, Jevington
  • The New Inn, Westfield
  • Ash Tree Inn, Ashburnham
  • The Bulls Head, Boreham Street
  • The Merrie Harriers, Cowbeech
  • Swan Inn, Dallington
  • The Red Lion, Stone Cross
  • The Wheel Inn, Burwash
  • Queens Head, Sedlescombe
  • The Ram Inn, Firle
  • The Star Inn, Old Heathfield
  • Lazy Fox, Mark Cross
  • Two Sawyers, Pett
  • The Half Moon, Plumpton
  • The Anchor Inn, Barcombe Mills
  • The Bull, Newick
  • The White Hart, Netherfield

London

  • Argyle Arms
  • The Dickens Inn
  • The Coal Hole
  • The Porcupine
  • The Princess of Wales, Blackheath

Somerset

  • The George, Nunny Catch
  • The Crown, Wells

West Sussex

  • Rose & Crown
View a list of the pubs in the order we visited

Our top-rated pub

The Gun in Gun Hill is our top rated pub. We visited in September 2018 and it scored an impressive 86 out of a possible 100. It has remained in first place since then despite having some very close calls. The crown was almost taken by The Plough and Harrow, Litlington when that scored 85 in February 2019 and then again at 85 with the The White Hart, Netherfield in October 2025.

Read 'The Gun, Gun Hill' full review
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The places we have reviewed, mapped

Each and every pub that Ian and Ellie have visited together and reviewed are included below. Click any icon for more information.

75+

Pubs Reviewed

86

Highest Score (so far)

11

Platinum Visits

2017

When it all started

Number crunch

Facts and figures regarding our many culinary adventures.