The pub was bought by the McHugh group, operator of a number of Centras, some specialist off-licences and wine bar/restaurants and extensively renovated, reopening in 2024. This renovation has modernised the particularly dated exterior, reopening a blocked up doorway and removing the faux mansard roofs attached to the sides amongst other things
Something that they didn't consider in that renovation is air conditioning; with the main bar being particularly stuffy on my visit; but there is a roof terrace I could have presumably gone out to - there was a requirement to wait to be seated, but I was offered multiple options - except for needing the plug sockets which are sited at nearly every seat and also under the bar counter at multiple points.
The interior to is to a very high quality, with some design features I'm starting to recognise from one of the main pub interior designers (one being prop old bottles of 'whiskey' on display shelves which are reprinted labels on modern empties filled with caramel water - indistinguishable to 99% of people).
There isn't any outdoor seating out the front, currently at least; this was a car park in the Foxhound days and faces on to housing so may not be particularly suitable. There was also a bouncer on - well, floating near rather than directly on - the door; which is odd on a weekend afternoon, but the pub was much busier than the others I visited on the same day so there is potentially justification for this.
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