Becketts Inn in Mendip

The landlady and staff at this pub all seem to care deeply about their customers, the drinks they offer, the town of Glastonbury and their welcome. My own choice of tipple, Stag, is easily the best pint I have ever enjoyed. This is a BIG old pub! There are two large bars, a snug and a huge beer garden where we spent a very enjoyable few hours. When we went there was only one member of the bar staff working. But a couple of minutes out of our lives is pretty negligible, especially considering what we were waiting for (Stag!) And there is even a little notice in the carriage bar requesting a little patience. If visitors expect instant service of substandard, homogenous products at a Poundland price, might I suggest they pop into a 'Spoons rather than a family-run community pub?

came here for a Friend's Wedding Reception. The garden was a pretty pleasant place to be able to talk to the other guests whilst eating food the bride & groom brought/made & drinking some of the cider, soft drinks or whatever the guests chose from the selection they had

Very disappointed. Drinks were fine, we ordered one lager and one cider. The woman who served us was unfriendly and rude. She poured one of our drinks and then left to deal with someone else. When she came back she pulled the other pint without a word, let alone a smile! I tried to make conversation but she just ignored me,"awkward." We sat in the garden, which was pleasant. Toilets had no hot water to wash hands and was not very clean.

We popped into this pub after The Frost Fayre. My word it has gone downhill since we were there last, a few years ago. The place was grubby, dirty and had an overwhelming sense that the management had given up on it. The Landlady was ensconced in her own snug with a few friends, not welcoming or at all cheerful. The bar staff seemed rather put out by us disturbing them when we asked to buy a drink. I hear the brewery are looking to close it down. That would be a blessing. Give it a refurb and a manager who wants to make it a success.

A surprising place! It was raining hard when we got off the bus, so went into the first pub we saw. Almost a throwback to the 1970's with its separate little bars. Excellent choice of beer and cider. We chose the latter, would be rude not to when in Somerset. Very quiet at lunchtime but we were well looked after. Doesn't do food, signs say to bring your own if you wish.

A Real Pub. Have been coming here since the mid 80’s. It’s not glitzy. It’s not posh. But it’s clean. Friendly if you make an effort to smile, you will be rewarded with a relaxing drink with the locals. Usually 2 real ales and a plethora of ciders from the district. Beer garden is a magical spot away from the hum drum of the high street. If I lived in Glastonbury this would be my local

The Beckets is not a restaurant, although they do offer pizzas from the kitchen on Friday evenings. It is a pub which keeps up the near-extinct custom of welcoming drinkers bringing take-away meals with them (and provides plates, cultlery, etc, as well). Given the limited range and high prices for eating out in Glastonbury in the evening, especially with a vegan and a real cider drinker in the party, being able to take advantage of the wider range of take-aways available and still eat and drink in comfort is very useful. The Beckets offers Old Rosie cider and varied real ales. Following the recent sad death of Buster, the spaniel who lived here for the past 15 years, well-behaved dogs are now allowed in the pub.

Lived in Glasto for almost 2 yrs now and only started going to the Becketts after the cash only + the no-dogs signs were removed. Absolutely great pub with friendly service and great atmosphere. A new favourite… one that will be happily recommending in the future

The atmosphere can best be described as mouldy, the place smells revolting, the staff unfriendly and the decorations reminiscent of a 1980's pub. Even the lager was undrinkable, whilst the cider warm and unpalatable. It needs a deep clean top to bottom before I'd think about returning. The one cubicle in the gents was broken and taped off with warning sign from the management that anyone caught trying to use it would be barred from the premises. There are other hostelries in Glastonbury, this one is possibly the worst.

We’ve been here a few times over the years - there’s always a friendly welcome, and the kids love sitting in the beautiful gardens. Being able to bring your own food in is a huge bonus and saves a fortune when you have 3 kids! Today was especially lovely as the trees provided welcome shade for us, and a group of D&D adventurers playing on the next table 😊😊

Landlady lacks charm, welcomed like an inconvenience. No children, no dogs, no food, flat ale and flat soft drink!! Very disappointed as we found it in the CAMRA guide.

Gem of a place! Real pub, real fire, affordable. Love the fact that you can take your own food in- they provide plates, napkins & silverware for free. Proper old fashioned pub, cash only wish we prefer- friendly & welcoming

Lovely pub set off from the hustle and bustle, nice to sit down in the garden with a drink. Pub is cash only and doesn't serve food but allows you to bring in your own food and even have plates/cutlery if you do bring something in with you. Nice selection of ciders on tap and bottle.

Myself and my partner went here for a meal under the new Covid restrictions and were very disappointed. No alcohol until our meal was on the table so we waited twiddling our thumbs for the best part of half hour until our meals were served. They then they couldn't take our plates away quick enough to prevent us from ordering another drink as if we was some kind of hindrance. I had a glass of wine and my partner had a coffee with a shot of Tia Maria, not as if we were getting plastered. Needless to say I won't be going back! The next pub we go to, if they have restrictions like this I will walk straight back out the door, Absolutely ridiculous!! Thanks Boris !!!!

my wife and i have just returned from a week at glastonbury. called in on the off chance on our first night for a pint there after travelling from durham and so pleased we did. during our stay we did quite a lot of walking and it was great to rest our sore feet with a couple of relaxing pints. like others have said it's a proper pub with a very welcoming host, good beer and a great beer garden. great dog as well!!

Stopped here for a quick pint with our cycles which the Landlady let us take through the pub to the garden. We sat at the very end of the peaceful garden and enjoyed the sunshine with a tasty drop of Old Rosie. The landlady was very friendly and welcoming to us and although no food is served, you can bring your own to eat with your drink, which seems pretty fair. A lovely place to escape the crowds.

I popped in here for a pint after visiting Glastonbury. What a terrible disappointment! You cannot approach the bar as this is roped off like a crime scene - I think friendliness and hospitality were the murder victims! Any attempt to excuse this ludicrous arrangement as a health and safety response to Covid19 is negated by the fact that card payments were *not* accepted, and only cash could be used - the least safe and healthy payment method! If the landlady was really so incredibly concerned about the virus she could have erected a plastic screen, or worn a mask. Instead she merely created an inconvenient and unfriendly customer exclusion area which served no useful function at all. While the beer was perfectly good (though the selection was limited), and the garden is decent enough, the inside furniture and decor is extremely dated and tatty. Further unfriendliness is experienced if you try to sit at the rear of the pub, as the doleful landlady is quick to tell you that this is apparently a private bar. Customers are not welcome here either! The outside toilet is also rather scruffy, with a rude notice on the wall. With a redecoration and a more friendly staff this could be a nice old pub. Instead, the way it is now, I will certainly not be returning. I'm not surprised that, at the time of my visit, there was only one other chap there!

We absolutely love this place. A little gem. The kind of place that’s hard to find. Quaint, original, historic place with a landlady who’s very charitable and an asset to the local community. Definitely worth a walk further up the Main Street. A consistently good pint of ale. No fresh food available but you’re welcome to bring your own food, or even have it delivered from the local Indian restaurant etc. What more could you want. Bring your friends and have a feast with your favourite foods and favourite tipple available at the bar. Everyone’s happy. Do it, you’ll love it. Then share the idea with your friends. We really need to keep places like this.

In a world where pubs have become uniform, soul-less play areas for kids, with the same menu for every pub, this is the last good old fashioned British Pub.Visiting family, we were introduced to this hidden gem on Glastonbury High Street and immediately felt as though we had stepped back into my childhood which was spent sat in the lounge with my parents. Buster, the pub dog came and greeted me, inspecting me for treats before assuring himself I was clean and the lovely server asked me what I wanted to drink. The jukebox was playing some fantastic music, the mood was brilliant and there was a sense of being comfortably welcomed in. The ales on tap are served cold and perfectly poured, a good selection of bar snacks, and no shortage of people to chat to and pass the time of day, you leave feeling as though you have a new local even though you may just be a passing visitor. It may not be to everyones standards, if they're searching for a gastro pub, or somewhere to sample the local delicacies, but to us, it was somewhere we'll be heading back to time and time again.

Sorry but this place needs to be brought up to date. The staff seem to have there own little bar at the back of the pub. Not a very inviting place at all.

We live just up the road, and we’re going to a event in the Abbey, we were a little early so called in for a quick drink on the way. There was one one gentleman in small front bar (no staff in sight) who looked a little worse for wear. So we went through to the back bar, where we were abruptly told ‘this is private, go to the other bar!’ NO THANKS!We left and went to a proper pub further down the high street.

We came here for a cold drink as it was very hot and we sat in the garden under shelter. The staff were friendly and it was very pleasant to sit there and look around the garden. Would call again if in the area.

Can’t even believe how bad it was, not good in any way. Beer crap, wine crap, decor proper scruffy, can’t think of anything good to say about this place.

It was good to find that the Beckets still welcomes drinkers bringing take-away meals with them (and provides plates, cultlery, etc, as well) and an added bonus to find that they now serve Old Rosie cider.Given the limited range and high prices for eating out in Glastonbury in the evening, especially with a vegan and a real cider drinker in the party, being able to take advantage of the wider range of take-aways available and still eat and drink in comfort is very useful.NB - I see the Beckets has got listed under 'Restaurants'. It does not cook and serve food, just lets people bring their own.

A real treat in Glastonbury..nice beer and cider, friendly staff, very personable dogs and a lovely outdoor beer garden.

My daughter (AKA Poppy) was visiting me from out of town, we normally go to a different pub when she is here but decided to try somewhere new this time. I arrived first, sat at the bar and ordered my drink, I noticed to start with that the lady that served me was not particularly friendly, I tried to chat to her and was almost ignored with no comprehensible conversation in return.

Called in for a pint to find a reasonable selection of well-kept ales. The interior is nice and cosy and the beer garden is nice for a town centre pub. The bar-lady was very pleasant. Other than that, it was distinctly average.

Great atmosphere and ales. Good selection of ales. Good value for money. The staff are really friendly.

We we made very welcome at this amazing pub. Good range of real ale and ciders. You can bring your own take away with you and they provide plates and cutlery and then wash them up afterwards at no extra charge!

Nice pub and service is great, smells of dog but once you are over that service is good. Nice outdoor seating area.

Darts, beer, Juke box and a great laugh. Our new favourite pub......we will be back next year. Beer Garden is great also.... Oh, and a proper land lady!!! one that talks to you.

The Beckets still carries on the very useful custom of welcoming drinkers bringing take-away food with them, and even provides plates and cutlery. It is also a comfortable and welcoming house and serves nice Rosie's Pig Herefordshire cider.

The Becket is an old fashioned pub - it's not glamorous, it's not a Sports Bar or a Gin palace or even a modern pub. It doesn't do food but it does some good cider and good ale and allows people to bring their own food to eat - which in these times of austerity is pretty good. The garden is nice and the back gate leads on to the car park behind the High Street.

Popped in here quickly while my wife was loitering around shops. I am a pub loving person and did my apprenticeship is some ghastly watering holes.

Called in for ‘one for the road’ and was served blackthorn cider which tasted like it had been pulled through dirty pipes. When I politely told the bar lady it did not taste right, she was in complete denial, she had been ‘drinking it herself and it was fine’ - the owner who was sat at the bar told me it was ‘old recipe’ blackthorn (no wonder they reinvented it then — who are they trying to kid? It was dirty, that’s all) I told them I’d just leave it. I received dirty looks thereafter and my brothers Carling was also dodgy (you know that strange caramel smell and flavour when lager is off?). Pool table was a state, generally a scruffy place which needs a big refurbishment. On the plus side, My mum and aunt enjoyed their coffees though we will not be calling in again under current management.

Unfriendly. Empty. Can't be bothered doing food. Terrible selection of beers. Dirty. Unloved.

I get the impression this is very much a locals pub, I hadnt been in for years and didnt feel terribly welcome with my friends.

Estábamos empapados después de nuestra visita tor y esta fue nuestra 2ª pub.

Me encanta la visita y Beckets cuando estoy en la zona. OK, Sí, necesita algunas reparaciones en algunas zonas, pero realmente no importa cosas como esa. Lo que importa es una mesa de billar, servicio amable, perros encantador, un gran juke box y lo mejor de todo, momentos de queso. Seguiré viniendo aquí mientras pueda.

Utilizamos este pub reasently desde 1979 aunque no viva lejos de Glastonbury. Este sábado entré en mi lugar favorito para el bar. Me dijeron que era parte privada del pub y miembros solamente. Después de pasar una buena noche en muchos este pub y mucho dinero en efectivo a lo largo de los años. Este salto al pasado de exclusión en los terrenos de permanente ofensiva social. Yo wounder si es legal. En la compra de una bebida que tiene derecho a sentarse a la premisa de licencia y beber mi copa. El bar es parte de la zona para beber público

No particlarly amplia gama de cervezas, es un pub Wadworth, pero lo que tiene mantiene y sirve bien. No perro amable pero eso es porque tienen dos perros igualmente amable/volúmen de su propio.

En una tarde visitamos para algunas pintas con mi marido. Es un pub acogedor, amable con excelentes cervezas y aperitivos de cortesía. Es acogedor y sincero. Sin pretensiones. La grandeza. La prioridad es bueno ale y eso es lo que sobresale. Unos de pasar horas sentado en la ventana bebiendo su selección.

Es extraño, pero después de visitar Glastonbury durante muchos años, hemos encontrado un buen pub, amable para pasar una o dos horas en la noche... Y esto no es una.

I always visit this old pub when I'm in Glastonbury. Good friendly staff and customers, just what you want in a decent pub!

Un refrescante tradicional pub ale gente real excelente jukebox simpático personal. Hermoso jardín, es un pub con un corazón verdadero. No hay promociones ostentoso, no hay hilo musical simplemente precioso seguid gente de trabajo.

called in for drink was nice day so sat in beer garden out back which was very nice was a sunday couple locals in bar land lady seems ok

A great place to visit if you want to be on your own, toilets not to good but it does have a nice garden

We drink here regularly when visiting the town - friendly, welcoming, good real ale selection, great jukebox and lovely walled beer garden

Looked like a pub being wound down or they just don't care. No card payments - which is a bad sign and the interior could do with a spruce up. The other side of the pub was closed for some reason. It's best and only feature is the location - it's opposite Glasto's best (and probably only) Indian restaurant so it;s a good waiting place.Friendly staff and lovely dogs and the choice of real ales was very good. King Henry VIII IPA was particularly excellent.Will revist and revise next year.

Lovely atmosphere, great bar staff and good food! Karen is always very attentive as are all of the other staff. Good selection of ale too! Nice to see a pub with a jukebox, pool table and dart board! A real Glastonbury Gem!

The Beckets carries on the custom of welcoming drinkers bringing take-away food with them, even providing plates and cutlery. It is also a comfortable and welcoming house and serves a nice Rosie's Pig Herefordshire cider (1). When staying in the town, we have found it very pleasant to settle in here with a Chinese takeaway (2) from just along the road. A much better price to portion size ratio in most of the restaurants along the High Street, and our usual Glastonbury dinner now that the old Rifleman is no more.Dog-lovers will like the very friendly residents spaniels, Buster and his young nephew Jack.(1) But I do wonder why bring cider from Herefordshire when there are excellent local ones!(2) the Chinese over the road and just up the hill will do vegan versions of their dishes if asked.

The bar woman seemed put out to be serving us and wanted to spend more time with the owner at the bar. We went there because they advertised a warm fire. When we arrived, they refused to even start the fire and it was cold inside. Crap service overall and will never go back. We had travelled all the way from South Africa only to get service like this. In contrast to the rest of the people and places in Glastonbury being so nice and friendly. The only plus was the music on their jukebox....only reason why we stayed.

We went ehre for one dirnk while waiting for our table to be ready at a nearby restaurant.The garden was really nice but there wasn't a great choice of ales. Friendly service though!

Called in on 30th June 2015,premises in need of upgrade,looks if this pub is struggling,bars were dark only 3other customers when town was quite busy,ordered 1and a half pints of lager shandy this cost £6 ,at these prices no wonder people are avoiding this pub,a pub a little further don the Main Street was bustling with visitors,give this place a miss

Called in on the off chance and found they did light bites!! Yay! One ploughman's which was superb and a veggie chilli which was just 'ok' but we admired their willingness to provide food at a moments notice. They also let you bring your own food if you buy a drink and that's fab in my book!

We visited here after a walk around Gladtonbury and fancied a drink. We saw a rear beer garden was out the back so we thought here was a good idea.The barman was friendly, drinks as expected and the outside rear garden quite nice.It certainly wasn't pretentious but certainly could do with a little love around the edges, still this was Gladtonbury.Had a nice drink here and enjoyed ourselves.

The outside beer garden, the friendly dogs, being able to bring in food to eat in the bar.... friendly talkative locals... good ales.....

Yesterday we attended a Handfasting and went on to Becketts Inn where the evening reception was being held. The Pub room was reserved exclusively for our use and the restaurant manager had transformed the room beautifully.The range, quantity and quality of the food that she had prepared was second to none. It was a marvellous feast. Everyone tucked in to the spread,Conversation flowed freely, and the evening was truly memorable ! If you are looking for a establishment that will make your evening reception a day to remember.... Becketts Inn should be at the top of your list !