The Victoria Cross in Poole

Amazing atmosphere great pub recommend for all types of people get down here

Awesome place great vibe love it 🤩

First time coming here lovely atmosphere and good music. Also a great place to have a drink.

The food is out of this world. Menu caters for everyone. The food is fresh and everything made to the highest standard. Very talented chef!

Was in parkstone shopping fancied a quick drink so popped into this pub. Landlady very friendly and couldn't do enough for me. Just there for about an hour but made feel welcome. Just had crisps and a j20. Sky sports on so that was a bonus. Will be back.

Fantastic pub had a great experience in here made you feel very welcome really good staff and very friendly. It was a good atmosphere with irregulars we paid a bit of pool and had a few drinks. Great variety of drinks. Really enjoyed it and will definitely come again.

Fab trance music and stella service.

Great locals pud. Friendly staff. Funky music 🎶 Felt safe as two women going in 😄

Great food friendly people. Great place to come

Good little pub, freindly staff and reasonable drinks. Landlord even sorted us out for a few games of pool. My favourite of the local pubs!

Lovely venue with great staff and great atmosphere. Recommend for a couple drinks and a good time.

came here for a wedding and had a fabulous time, the band were fantastic!

Great pub, great atmosphere, fantastic drinks on a Saturday night x

top quality customer service is great

Very professional staff the owners are very friendly and welcoming I love the food and very good quick service

Landlord is great, welcoming place. Great atmosphere

Amazing service, loving the happy vibes

Wonderful service to all customers

this place was unreal good atmosphere and good drinks at a good price

Good staff good drinks good times

Lovely staff, lovely pub, great time all round 👍

Great pub great pints great time

Landlord is the absolute best wouldn’t go anywhere else

amazing great atmosphere and vibe

Only pub for me landlord are gems

Really nice pub and nice atmosphere nice staff

Amazing place. Very cheap and friendly pub

Lovely pub great atmosphere and very warm

Great pub. Clean, fantastic service and a magnificent atmosphere. Definitely a pub to visit. Highly recommended

Quick bite to eat at lunchtime whilst visiting friends. Relaxed atmosphere, good food and beer, bar staff polite and friendly. If I lived near would probably make it my local.

Had a great night out. Plenty going on, the staff & customers were friendly. Drinks offerings were good and

Booked a table at the Victoria Cross for my partners birthday the food was great it came out piping hot and presented well. lots of variety on the menu to choose from. Upon arrival the Staff were polite and friendly. The pub itself was very clean.Will definitely be back.

Lisa is the greatest bar lady she like a best friend you don’t even know yet easy talk and kind lady works Mondays pop down to have a good talk and a well pored pint

Good food, nice friendly people, good and reasonably priced drinks

Very nice place to visit and very friendly. Atmosphere is great.

Good environment great service great food.

The staff were great, they even called me a taxi when I was a bit worse for ware lol🤣

Lovely pub with nice feel to it. Didn’t get to stay long but will definitely be back when I have more time.

Brilliant place love the atmosphere nice prices

Great place to go to have a couple pints or even a night out with friends/partner or even a meal with the family. Great events like live music🎶, karaoke, quizes and even card bingo.Food is delicious, staff are friendly and the environment is always clean and spacious. Definitely will be going again. The owners are great people thank you for having us.

It's a really nice place to work and the landlady and landlord is amazing to work with and you can talk to them about anything and they will listen to you and it is a really friendly and family pub and they took me in a made me welcome I really enjoy working here

The pub has good landlords who will cater to your needs the best pub down ashley Cross unfortunately no food but for atmosphere and service a high quality pub that is catered to most. A genuinely good experience to have a quality couple of pints at 10/10 would recommend.

Better class of pub in parkstone. Welcoming, amazing atmosphere and great choice of drinks. Decorated to perfection for Halloween 🎃

Love this little pub, The owners are awesome and Halloween is coming up never have I seen a pub better decorated than this place.... It's definitely a Halloween party you don't wanna miss.

Great place, friendly and helpful staff. The menu was okay and the options met most people's tastes. The food came hot an well plated. The beer was great and I enjoyed my meal...thank you...🤗

Lovely friendly pub good atmosphere good beer good food excellent quiz night on Thursdays and card bingo

Lovely, friendly, family run pub. Food is lovely and good value. Also quite a bit of entertainment throughout the week. It is nice to have 'a local' near to home (becoming a rarity). Great for lunch if you are on your own or with friends.

Great pub. Great atmosphere. Good prices.

Brill atmosphere especially on karaoke nights 🤪

Not many better places on planet earth

Beautiful place. Staff are beautiful too. Wish she’d give me her number.

Prices have slowly gone up but staff are friendly new ones not so but landlords are great 👌

Food average had to go back to the bar twice as order was wrong would not recommend

Friendly staff , dog friendly pub, steak sandwich was very nice good price

Great free Pool night with darts, made for great family night out. Great hospitality from the barman, with treats for the dog and delicious Bloody Mary. Great Value too.

Amazing place, lovely staff and sublime drink, would recommend.

Yes sirrrrr this place is sick and Tyler and Jamie are dirty mincers

So this is the best bar I have ever been too, bar woman is 12/10. yes Yes yes

Amazing service. To host me and my crazy family thank you

Great place to spend time with friends

Strictly come drink with me this place is awesome friendly athmosphere 5 star

Best service best food briallant all round

Good drinks good price good atmosphere best pub around

Lovely place , quick service , beautiful beer garden highly recommend

Popped in for a drink hoping to get some food… but too late. The landlord Ray was brilliant.. advised us to use the Indian next door for takeaway. After a couple of drinks he then gave us a free drink and brought some treats for our dog. Lovely establishment and very welcoming. Highly recommend.

Lovely staff, great service, a pool table which is only ever busy at weekends, jukebox (with a surprisingly wide and varied selection of music!), dartboard, beer garden and great food - I eat lunch there often. Highly recommend the Hunters Chicken Melt Baguette! Has been my local a few years now (since the Seaview got turned into a Co-op…) and has everything you could want from a proper pub. Highly recommend!

Great place to visit. Very clean. Great beer garden. The staff are lovely and friendly. Drink prices are very reasonable too. Look forward to my next visit.

good service and clean very nice pub

It’s a lovely atmosphere to be in and the staff are just so friendly. The food and drinks are just the best I have had.

Amazing pub good atmosphere band every mth what more could you ask for

Friendly staff, great atmosphere

Amazing! Came here with the wife for food and I loved it

Me and my partner came for some for my husband is coeliac and the staff were more the attentive. Amazing survive, if your in parkstone come to the vc

Brilliant pub with loads going on.

Friendly staff great band played there

Extremely friendly staff and wonderful management our meals are always hot and very tasty love going there every Tuesday

A lovely Christmas meal with Alderney Manor, a very friendly and hard working staff

Never been in the place without this guy lurking near the loo :(

I walked into pub and got thrown out because someone had called the Victoria saying I'd been sat with someone who tested positive for covid. Unknowingly I stayed in for 3 days then got told about Covid. I got tested which was negative. Had I self isolated the day I went into the Victoria was day 11. So out of order. Then I was barred because someone called the brewery, however it was NOT me. But I'm NOT allowed to explain. You will get barred from this pub if you FART in the wrong note.

We are on a weekend break, because we can now! We were recommended to go to the Victoria Cross pub in Ashley Rd, Poole. Bar man Lee was brilliant, on ordering the first drink he was such a people person, interacting with us and made us feel very welcome. Lee remembered what drinks we had when we went to re order! Fantastic garden too. Thanks Lee for making our weekend.

I work in the care industry, and have taken one of my residents here in several occasions, and the staff have always been friendly and understanding, such a lovely atmosphere.

Barred for standing up against homophobic bar staff and customers. Also accused by the bar staff of bringing in underaged drinkers and causing “chaos” for sitting at a table in the bar garden enjoying a drink with a group of friends. Wouldn’t go back even if I wasn’t barred.

No social distancing, rude staff , lots of noise and swearing. Beer garden is ok but not practical as people in and out like yo yos. No clear markings on floor or doors. No one using anti-bac and no ensuring track and trace unlike other pubs in area. Just one member of staff to ensure guidelines being stuck to. Was going to have a meal but changed minds. Avoid if my answer til the pandemic is over as this is just the place which will cause a local spike in cases.

A pub with really friendly/smiley staff. And good food, at a reasonable price. Nice atmosphere to chat in!

Really good value and delicious lunch and pudding. As a break from shopping on Ashley Road we decided to try the Victoria. We enjoyed freshly fried fish and chips with mushy peas. 3 pork sausages and homemade mashed potato peas and plenty of gravy were very tasty. Both £4.15 on the Monday to Friday lunchtime menu (12 to 5pm) Order at the same time and you can have a pudding for £1.50. I definitely recommend the traditional homecooked apple pie and custard! Friendly personal service from the bartender and Dan the new chef. Looking forward to visiting again soon 👍

The food is excellent value for money and service is good. The entertainment is excellent and regular (always busy) The staff are great, like any busy pub you might have a short wait but it's worth it when you're greeted with a smile! Though there may have been problems in the past, these are now log gone and it's back to being a fun place to be! Well done Michelle and Ray, you are doing good guys! Thank you x.

very well maintained and clean pub. very good and well cooked food. small outdoor space with tables and parking for customers.

Food was to a high quality, cooked to perfection I ate a cowboy burger only thing it needed adding is side salad, pint of strongbow cost £3 burger was 6.75 Definitely recommend, the staff are awesome n friendly.Weekends here are imense and alight with live bands and cheap drinksThank me later

Local band The Scanners playing great music, good drinks and food. Visiting a boaring town, not that boaring at all!

I used to like the VC but sadly its going down hill and has been for months. Went for a drink and food at the weekend many locals were drunk loud and I believe taking other substances. Barmaid on duty was slow and not paying attention to customers had to wait to be served. My partner went to the gents loo and clear evidence of small bags having been left in the toilet cubicle. Food well its not a home cooked roast hard veg, ready made yorkshire pudding and frozen spuds. Come on everyone this used to be a great place to go sort it out and get rid of the people who are bringing it down.

Amazing staff (David and Jamie are lovely!) and Mich has made the place feel really welcoming. However the treatment of staff by the landlady/landlord is appalling as I have seen on previous visits to the pub. So glad Mich has come back to the pub as I have seen a massive impovement to the establishment and I’m sure many people agree with me on this.

Mixed Grill. Steak - Asked for medium rare came out medium Gammon - Tastes like eating a plate full of salt Onion Rings & Chips - Undercooked Peppercorn Sauce - Glumpy like it’s been reheated.All In All Seems Like Our Meals Were Cooked By Microwave.

went for Christmas day dinner no stuffing roasties hadn't seen a roasting tin turkey was like rubber and a big dollop of cranberry sauce in the middle of the dinner being 72 years of age I have eaten quite a few Christmas dinners out and this was the worst one I have ever had

I was really starving and dropped in for some food. Went for the curry, wow. Blown away! Value for money I did not expect this.

Hot and tasty ! Absolutely bargain price !! couldn't fault the quality or service what so ever The landlady worked tirelessly to ensure all customers were looked after Well done !! Just a shsme we live so far away

2 star for the young boy who is polite and trying doing good job and running like chicken! 1star for pint off stella but not for girl what served it(feeling unwelcome) Roast dinner it was bad cold veg and meat. The beef was over cook, potatoes no flavor. Big + for bechamel on over cook cauliflower. Wait for roast circa 20 min come cold I send back and come after 15s little bit worm. Cheap roast just for £5,25 but maybe I didn't has lucky day for food this time

This pub has gone from mananger to manager and it goes good to bad. We have seen many people come in and out of this pub and some i can say im glad some have gone but its a real shame you let tammie go she made that place into somewhere i was proud to go and to call my local and she had a daughter who was spot on who helped her mum out them two together would make a wicked pub. Molly has the lot and can take anything thats thrown at her she was born to work in the pub trade just like her mum. Was gutted that they had to go and the pub just hasnt been the same. BRING THEM BACK!!!!!

Reviews on web sites are out of date. Management has changed. Food definitely not home cooked - now from frozen. . Vegetables cold. So called roast potatoes very chewy. Yorkshire pudding uneatable. Certainly not going back

So the The Victoria cross now known as the "VICTORIA" has changed hands for the 3rd time in a year. The service is worse than before half the time certain beers have run out or there is a problem with the barrel. It was recently closed for a refurb which was just a paint job in reality as the toilets may have had a new floor and new paint job but the toilets and washbasins are still the orginal ones and have not even been cleaned and one in the ladies struggles to flush. The carpet again new looks like it hasnt been hoovered as bits all over it and the flooring round the pool table had not been mopped as you could see sticky beer spills from the night before.

Thought as my last review was given a reply by the manager I would give this place another go as they would bang on about it being a new business ( not really pub has been there since the 80's) and they had started food. Place was still pretty empty specially as this was a Saturday! Was going to order food but for some reason they only serve 12-3 on weekends which seems very unbusiness like considering more people are likely to eat out on the weekend. On entering the pub I was overcome by the stench of what I can only descirbe as burning oil which needed changing. So my freinds and I retreated to the back where the pool table is and near the door to escape the smell and I did overhear people outside also complaining about the smell which was in the main bar area. The New Manager does not seem to want certain clientel in her pub as the slightest noise she gives you a look of distaste and as for cheering when your team score, well dont as you will get an even worse stare or even tutted at. And as for the outside advertsing thats not even correct. Big signs on the pub say food served 12-9 daily a tiny blackboard in corner window states different and also says they have Sky sports which I then found out they dont, I am sure they will blame this on being new sorry no excuse you took over in Nov 16 plenty of time to correct the signs. Sorry but unless Marstons change the present team I wont be back as this team just dont work if you want a posh wine bar come bistro go get a place in Ashley Cross or Sandbanks this is Ashley road pubs for working people who just want a pint snack and watch the sport !