The Peterboat - LEIGH-ON-SEA

What a nice pub! it seems to be more pubs than houses in old leigh, so it was difficult to choose one (we had no time to try them all sad! . it was a cold but sunny afternoon and the peter boat has a large beer garden with a view of the sea. once in the pub order drinks, we realized how warm and cozy it was there and how cold it was outside. we decided to sit in but through the huge windows on the beer garden and the sea. the drinks were good and very favorable. the staff was friendly and there was a good choice of beer and apple wine. we had only one drink as we had only time, but we got Bretzel sticks and a plate of kanape's small French brot pieces with brie and cranberry, huh and sweet chili and whistled and BBQ sauce. delicious little surprises! if we had more time, we could have stayed longer and also eat there. the food looked good and good inexpensive. I also thought while we were there that if they wished a high-time reception in a pub, that would be a nice! I don't know if they ever did it or would think it would, but it is beautifully decorated, the big windows look like they would open onto the beer garden when they look at the sea and it is a decent size.

Very busy as his bank holiday, but I have never eaten fish and chips as well as this, no fat fish was light and crispy and chips were crispy and fresh as beautiful I could not recommend enough

Imagine if they want to, a ancient secular fishing village down in the direction of the mouth of the river thames, which once testifies to a time the Roman poor, who directed his way upwards to lick the city of londinium. that is leigh at the sea, or old leigh, as it is known to the locals. the piece leigh, which was not transformed into a pose paradise of cafe/bars, ladies, eating and illegally parked expensive cars with equally expensive vanity. old leigh is just that old. it has been for hundreds of years to catch and serve in small tile skins. Of course, this has been hand in hand with a series of fine (and just as old) pubs, which have been cared for the soul man for an equally long time. to the peter boat. in its current incarnation, it is one of the newer pubs in old leigh and offers for two different masses: older regular (mostly of the year) and younger trinker (each the sun vague in view from mai to september and over christmas). the pub itself is certainly nothing special standard dishes, standard foods and manages to blur a price increase apparently based on the temperature. the service is always incredibly slow when the bar is busy (each of these sunny days) and the staff in the summer are the next students willing to work for minimum wage regardless of experience or ability. the winter is however a completely different fish boiler, but it is not really winter that makes the peter boat worth a train trip from london. in hot days, this pub comes alive. it generates huge amounts in nothing better than a parking lot full of picnic tables with a portakabin flew seafood in the corner. on one side there is the sea wall and the fishing boats with a view of the mouth canal (muddy sea bed, looking at the flood and coming out and kent far away from a clear day). what makes it special is the pure ingenuity, eccentricity and mix of people who drink in the sun. it is really a melting pot of the Essex people and I apologise to everyone to go there without running into at least one person they know. old leigh is one of my favorite places in my hometown and there are not many! I am not going enough there and I am critical of the overall Southend area. there are places like the peter boat and those who go there for year more that remind me why I loved it when I grew up. if they dare in this direction, they owe a visit....and are not deducted from the brights angels, essex young and girls or seafood they need to meet. it is never really a place, decorations, music or products that cneipen or bars make it the people. so they meet them; all character with their strata and all the long, sunny days of summer to tell them.

Good eating a bit more expensive than it was still quite good. one of the best places to go on a hot day.

The Peter Boat has fond memories for me as it's so many pubs in one location. It's brilliant if the sun's out and you want to get lazy drunk by the water waiting for the tide to come in. It's the place to be when Leigh has a festival on as you can sit and drink watching the world go by in all it's glory. Finally I'd recommend popping down there on a dark wintry rainy night as it's atmosphere changes completely. You feel exposed to the elements in the car park but once inside you don't want to leave. The recent and much needed refurbishment has given it a new lease of life. The only downside was last week we were refused breakfast at 11am after the Leigh 10K run as they claimed it was too late. Shame the sign outside said it was until 11:30am. All in all worth a visit...