Upstairs At The Beehive in Cheltenham

The Beehive has a friendly atmosphere with great service. The Christmas lunch was really good and the room we had was spacious for the 10 of us. Although there other rooms available for different size parties. Parking could be an issue but bays available on Bath Road for 3 hour slots which was ample. The Beehive did cater for vegan and vegetarians and even asked whether someone wanted dessert without cream just in case. Would go again and would recommend.

Excellent roast dinner will definitely go back.

Didn't eat here. Just a few drinks. Will be back to try some food.

Good ales. Can be quite bloke heavy sometimes though didn't feel unwelcome due to lovely bar staff.

Great cozy pub tucked away down a side street, cakes on the bar and good selection of drinks, friendly bar staff and outside seating

Great pub amazing atmosphere and food

Nice place to sit and watch the world go by on a summers day just a really nice place to spend an evening friendly staff good beer

After many lunch time meals we have enjoyed we thought we'd try Sunday lunch . The food was fab but the service was not . We had to ask for accompaniments, glasses , cutlery. When the waitress did engage, it was false and uninterested. We were looking to book a Christmas meal but this had made reconsider .

Great pub and awesome food yum yum!!

The fish and chips were top notch. Best I’ve had in Cheltenham by far. The peas were awful. Dried out hard things, but I’ll let that slide because the rest was so good.

What a Great Pub had a lovely evening here when visiting Cheltenham with family.

Lovely pub in residential area with a lot of history. Great selection of drinks, extensive menu and daily special nights (steak night on a Friday etc.)

Held my Xmas party booking, due to covid, till tonight..Feb 22nd..amazing night and made many NHS workers happy. Scott is a top bloke and the beehive is a great pub and 100% recommended to anyone. Certainly made my team very happy tonight. Xmas pudding and Xmas crackers in February isnt too bad at all. Thank you all at the beehive

Always a good atmosphere, friendly staff and good selection of beers.

Great little pub with a courtyard in quiet streets. Easy walk to town, and a good selection of local beers.

Friendly staff, good beer options.

Great place for Sunday roast and a beer with chums

Not a nice experience - loud unpleasant rowdy crowd arrived, which bar staff totally ignored and let them be obnoxious with other customers... would not visit again.

Only popped in for a quick one but the place was buzzing.

Really lovely dog-friendly pub with friendly staff, delicious food and a nice atmosphere. The vegan pie was so tasty and we always appreciate being able to bring our dog with us. Will definitely be coming back to try more of the vegan options and the themed evenings!

Great little pub full of atmosphere and serving good food the staff are very helpful and great fun overall a very good experience.

The nachos were great. The rest of the food was not. Cajun chicken very spicy, burgers were dry and chips over salted. The pie pasty was really hard none of is finished our meal.

Didnt eat but good beer friendly staff

Absolutely delicious Sunday lunch Roast, photos don’t do it justice. Half a roast chicken with the most tasty seasoned veg. Plenty of gravy as well as spare and sauces if you like. Was pleasantly surprised! Staff were nice too. (Veg is under chicken and extra green veg and gravy came on a plate to share)

Fantastic roast dinner, service a little slow though.

The best pub I’ve been in for a long time

Fabulous back street boozer with a modern look

Great atmosphere and lovely little pub full of character

Great traditional British pub. Absolutely delicious food and variety of different beers to try out.

It's such a shame to write this but I wanted to warn people of the Christmas Day disaster we and many people experienced this year to potentially save other families for next year. We were a party of 9 and there were lots of other large parties there as well, we first spoke with the Beehive back in June / July to book the table. Told them we had X amount of meat eaters, vegetarians and a Vegan coming, no problem at all the restaurant said they can do a vegan pie and the vegan person can choose their own starter & desert, great! We put everyone's pre-orders in back in October and again were told everything was available and what the vegan had chosen for starter & desert was no problem. On the day we were waiting 45mins for our "arrival" drinks and canapés, the drink was Prosecco with no alternative for the 60% non drinkers at the table. We were told there were vegetarian canapés but the waitress couldn't tell us what they were so the mystery food went untouched and there was no vegan option. It was 1hr 30mins until our starters came which were very nice (soup, pate and scallops) and we all devoured every bite! Around 45mins later the manager came to tell us the vegan pie they ordered is not actually vegan, they had only found out after another vegan diner had asked to see the ingredients list and they realised the pie was not vegan, clearly they had not done their own research when ordering the dish. Vegan diner was offered sausages as an alternative but unfortunately these were soy based sausages which she could not eat due to dietary restrictions. We had been there for 2.5hours and there was no communication on when our food would be coming out. We had to find someone to tell them that if the food did not come out soon then we would have to leave to find alternative food as we had a type 1 diabetic in the party who had already injected their insulin when the starters came so they were on a deadline to eat or this person would become seriously ill. When the food did arrive one plate was sent back immediately as everything was cold, another went back as it had the wrong potatoes on (dietary requirement noted in the pre-order email), the other plates people ate what they could stomach but it was not good. The vegetarian option was advertised as a mushroom, spinach & blue cheese wellington but it was an individual pie, the only thing I could taste was pepper and the pastry was unbelievably soggy. The baby leeks on my plate had brown dirt grains still in there from where they had clearly not been stripped / cleaned before cooking. We all left after our mains without our deserts as we had been there for over three hours and we all had other plans to get to and pets we had to get home for. We also had to find an open store to get more food for the diabetic urgently. I noted that other tables were making the same complaints whilst we were there and two tables even left and came back with their dogs. We did ask the table behind us that were there when we arrived, they had just been served their deserts after being there for four hours. This was our first time dining out for Christmas Day and we certainly won't be doing it again, we thought it would be worth the price of 80 pounds per person to have a stress free dinner but it was terrible all round.

Would have been a 0 if i had the chance! Came here for a christmas dinner.Awful service. We were seated at 1:20 and didn’t get our starters until 2:30. We then waited an extra half an hour for our mains. We left before our desserts had arrived because who wants to be waiting 2hr 30 mins for their food. When our mains had arrived, the roast potatoes were rock hard and the vegan main didn’t arrive so had been given sausages instead. My only day off work and i’m spending christmas day waiting hours for the worst roast i’ve ever had? Everyone else was complaining as even tables of 2 had to wait hours to be served. A young couple even walked in for a drink and got denied service as they said you have to eat to be served any drink. But 5 men sat at the bar not eating? When we were leaving we also heard other people saying it was awful and they would never return. Just the worst and definitely not £80 each worth! Will be expecting refund

Still retains the feel of a proper boozer, despite the gentrification of the place. Can't comment on the food, but the beer selection is decent. Lovely fire though!

Cosy Sunday lunch by a roaring log burner. Roast beef superb as was the Yorkshire pudding, all served with plenty of gravy and a good selection of vegetables. Good choice of puddings, wine very good, service friendly and efficient. Lovely pub atmosphere, charming old building.

Great proper pub good drink great atmosphere

Went for a meal with family, it was a lovely pub with great food. Made all the better that they allow dogs.

£30 for Christmas lunch, 2.5 hours to serve three courses, pate starter had tiny mini toast, bork belly fatty and no crackling, desert had cold custard. Avoid

Fantastic food great service very friendly pub..Find very relaxing know rushing in and out … on the plus side food hot and plenty off it great Sunday roast thank you ❤️👌

Really good experience, bit pricy but definitely worth it really good presentation of the food and good service would recommend visiting

Lovely roast. Great atmosphere for friends to meet.

What a fabulous choice of both craft and cask beers available at this suburban hostelry. Oh to have a local like this.

So looking forward to our Sunday lunch here. What a total disappointment - vegetables too al dente, roast potatoes overcooked and the Yorkshire pudding was black and so overcooked, it crisped like a prawn cracker ! Then , the treacle tart was stone cold Hoping it would be our Sunday regular , but we’ll never eat here again

Classic pub. Good vibes all round.

Lovely little pub, staff were so friendly and helpful. Will definitely be back next time we're in the area. Also, very dog friendly 🐶

Just had lunch Roast potatoes not perfect so only 4 stars

Great pub, lots of real ale options. Good quality food.

Friendly pub with a great range of well kept beers. Really lovely pint of 6x. Cosy, intimate and well worth a visit.

Nice corner pub with outside seating at the front and back. Good selection of ales. Friendly atmosphere. We did not eat here so unable to rate food.

Atmos was good. Mate got upsold a 2 pint Hofmeister. Didn't need it. Classic barmaid.

Lovely little pub at the end of the street. Friendly staff and enjoyable atmosphere.

Probably the best sunday roast I've ever eaten. Well done chef!

Great pub, with traditional pub grub, well done

Great pub with super staff who go out of their way to help Thanks guys and gals

Haven't been here for years but enjoyed a nice pint of Deya IPA here today.

Nice atmosphere and a bonus of Timothy Taylors Landlord beer!

Great old traditional pub. Good atmosphere.

Nice dark pub with good music good choice of beers and ciders,etc. Food looks good too.

Good back street pub with a wide selection of beers. Personable staff. (Not eaten there, so can't comment on menu/service

Always been a favourite pub of mine..great staff..great choice of beer 🍺

Excellent service great atmosphere

Atmosphere has taken a serious nose dive since they put big TVs in

Great service and great staff 👍

Excellent service a niiiiiiiice staff

Nice enough place. Been here a few times to eat. Burger and chips were decent but a bit bland and the pie and mash with gravy was just that with no vegetables. For the price it was ok but definitely lacking a bit especially considering it was quiet when we visited

Our Sunday lunch was lovely. Can not fault anything. Perfect crispy roast potatoes lots of vegetables, chicken and beef requests was to our request, a large yorkshire pudding and plenty of gravy. Service was very good too. Will definitely visit again.

Nice feel about the pub downstairs although we were sat upstairs which is quite soulless. Good selection of beers and food was standard pub fayre. Will definitely come back for a few drinks in the future

Excellent lunch and service in a traditional pub. Recommended

An out of the way sports bar, pleasent staff, reasonably priced simple food.

Good traditional pub, food not bad either.

Great beer but staff were a little stone faced. Everyone is allowed an off day I guess so I won't mark down for that. I've docked a star only because of the lack of seating available, we had to use the seats in the ground floor restaurant which were set up with cutlery, wine glasses etc even though the restaurant seemed to be closed that night.

Excellent food and service in a proper traditional pub. And dog-friendly, too. A really good couple of hours.

Great local pub. Good atmosphere and wide selection of beers. If you’re in the area give a visit you’ll not be disappointed.

Fantastic food, brilliant service and a wonderful atmosphere.

Lovely Christmas meal, Ales not too bad either. Would revisit.

Awesome! Warm fireplace as well and good food

Buena comida y un muy buen servicio, recomendable.

Lovely pub with a log burner to keep you warm. The mulled wine wasn't as warm as I would have liked it, maybe I should have asked them to warm it up in the microwave

Really yummy dinner and nice atmosphere- felt like a proper pub experience. Staff were very friendly and helpful and kept our table for us even though we were late for our reservation. Recommend!

What a dissapointment this pub was. The website makes it appear like an upmarket gastropub. It is in fact the opposite, just a regular boozer. The food was awful, bland and uninspired. The baguette I had was just soggy bread with virtually no filling, dumped on a plate with a few chips and no garnish at all. Also the bar staff were indifferent, more interested in chatting than serving. Oh yes and they had the cheek to charge a 10% service charge by default, even though there was no service.

In a word the Beehive is - comforting. The holiday decorations are up making for a cosy atmosphere. The pub has been around for a long time and has a quintessential warm ale house feel. We ate and the service and food were both good and matched the price we paid given the current climate. Staff are very cordial, the manager Laura is very helpful. Definitely try the Creamy Garlic & Tarragon Mushrooms on toasted bloomer, and one of their very tasty pies.

Lovely pub & great food as always!

Espectacular. Nunca había probado algo así.

I had Sunday lunch here with 4 others on the spare of the moment and it was really very good indeed. Good service and tasty food served plentifully at a good value price. I was impressed and will be back.

Accommodated a large group on short notice on a Saturday night. Very happy 😁

Food was amazing and the service Laura gave was brilliant! It was a great atmosphere and mad friends with a friendly dog. I'll definitely be back 😁

Fabulous! 8 of us in for a meal. Staff, friendly, smiley and helpful. Food, plentiful, hot and delicious. You won't be disappointed

Very expensive £5 60 a pint might has live in London. Won't use in again

Went there on a Thursday evening. Restaurant area was very quiet. Lovely serving staff but menu was pretty average. Food was okay. Nothing to pull you back sadly. Parking was difficult.

I have always liked the Beehive and probably don't use it as much as I should. Called in mid-afternoon with a couple of friends. There were only two other customers. The drinks were well kept and nice and cold. Sat out in the garden at the back. A very pleasant sojourn.

Good food. Still offering the old English meals

Quirky locals Boozer slap bang in the middle of a residential area

Lovely pub with friendly staff.

Warm beer and food a bit stodgy. To be fair that is typical. Unless you are a local there is nothing extraordinary about this place that would draw you as a tourist. If it’s your local them maybe ok.

Proper pub, good beer and atmosphere

Great local that serves decent food too, recommended

Had a Sunday roast here, my advice is not to bother, it wasn’t very nice and the staff weren’t up to much.

Rustic old pub just off the town centre. Helpful staff, outside seating and good food.

Great little pub, and wonderful, friendly staff. A real hidden gem.

We booked here for Sunday lunch and we were not disappointed. The beef was cooked to perfection as were the roasties. If you book a table try to get one upstairs as the room is beautiful. We felt that downstairs it's was cold. Staff were lovely and attentive.

Delicious food, great service and a lovely ambience

Nice pub, great local beer 🍺. Particularly like the Cheltenham Gold.