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Great drinks, great location, great staff. Shocking food. Warm not hot pie, with dry chicken and little taste, hard peas. Wife's food, veg inedible, potatoes cold. In the end we got a refund for the food, very good service, very polite. We we're not the only ones that night who had a problem, another couple sent their food back....... Need a chef that can cook, otherwise a lovely pub. If a little over priced.

Date visited: 29/3/14

Review by Valerie O on 29th January, 2007

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I was fortunate enough to find this pub on a cold, miserable day in early December. My husband had to visit a factory in Littleport (we were on a business trip, we live in Australia). I had intended to tour Ely, but it was such a miserable day, I said, you go to the factory, I'll stay here in the pub until you get back. They couldn't have been kinder. I didn't want to sit there and get drunk, so I had a couple of ciders, then some lunch, then coffee, then finally a glass of wine - not only did they let me sit there in the warm, they offered me reading material, a duvet if I got cold, and even rustled up a great ham and mustard sandwich for me, even though the restaurant had stopped serving meals. We might have to go to Littleport again next November, and I'll be more than happy to while away the time again at the Crown Inn. But next time, I'll order a proper meal and have a few more drinks!

Date visited: early December 2006

Review by Smilin on 24th April, 2006

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This is an interesting pub. It’s also awful. The day my friend and I visited was the day after – according to the apologetic landlord who served us – the previous owners had “left without warning and taken everything with them”. Not only did these things evidently include a means of washing glasses, but the whole place did look as if it had been abandoned and then hastily reoccupied, a new pub operating in the shell of a former pub, much as a victorious people’s revolutionary council might work out of the battered palace of the regime it had just overthrown. But even so, the previous incarnation must have been very odd. The Crown is the only pub I’ve been in which has centuries-old timber ceiling beams with crudely hand-painted WKD adverts next to them. A selection of Regency prints lay between a slot machine called Megatouch Maxx (with two ‘x’s) and a pool table with its ball-return mechanism stripped out. The place was pervaded with an atmosphere of forlorn, fly-blown menace. It’s fair to say we drank up and ran away. One for the guide books – but only so people can make very sure they go past it in the search for anywhere else.

Date visited: 22nd April 2006