Harveys

takeiteasy

25th August 2009

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The Tap Room is very friendly pub with great staff and good clientele.
It gets very busy at the weekends and I now always book a table for dinner as was disappointed on too many occassions. The food is more like that you would find in a restaurant as apposed to a pub!
If you just fancy a drink there is entertaiment nearly every night of the week as well as sport on the large screen tv during the weekend days.
They have a useful website 'thetaproomhamiton.co.uk' that oulines their current food and drink offers and an entertainment schedule.

Roguephoenix

Formerly Haverys now called the Tap Room 1st September 2008

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This public House is located at the end of peacock cross, Burnbank in Hamilton. Formerly called Haverys but has since been taken over buy new management and is now called the Tap room.

The layout of the public house is rather small but with mordern decor, with plasma screens TV's and entertainment weekly it gives this small but friendly, public house, some character. The bar is well kept and the staff are all friendly. Whenever football is being aired on the TV the staff put on half time free food which usually consists of sandwiches and pies.

The service is extremely good; with serving the obvious alcoholic beverages they also make cocktails from scratch right in front of you. It is almost like a scene from the movie Cocktail. They also sell hot food in a separate part of the bar; the food is not just your typical pub food but also caters for different tastes. The waiters and waitresses are all extremely helpful and the food is delicious.

Overall the Tap room is extremely friendly and has a great atmosphere, with entertainment as well as live music which appeals to different age group. The Tap room can get rather crowded due to the fact of the lack of space but don't let this put you off.

colinji

Harveys 12th July 2007

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Haven't been in here recently but Layclerk is right, a truly scary bar with 2 other scary bars within 100 meters in either directions. The Silver Tassie is one but it occasionally has bands that do tend to be entertaining.
My sister had a flat about 300 yards along the road from here, in the old Purdy building. The picture sums the Peacock Cross up just right, grubby, dreach & drap. It always seemed to be raining when I went to visit and all to frequently we'd all go for a pint in the Peacock Bar then to become Harveys. Quite a colourful collection of people who thankfully left me along because they new my brother-in-law, to be fair it wasn't that bad.
Drinking in here probably inspired David Livingstone to wander the world! However there always seemed to be a new species in the corner, next to the bandit with a vodka & Iron Brew clutched in claw.
About 30 yards down the road is Equi's, possibly the best ice cream in Scotland. Pass the pub and go for an ice cream.

Layclerk

7th March 2007

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Standing at Peacock Cross and formerly known as the Peacock Bar, this certainly used to be a scary place on the very few occasions when I ventured inside, usually to meet a colleague from work who sometimes drank there.

Of historical interest is that the cottage where the explorer David Livingstone was born is about 100 metres along the road from here, so presumably this was his local when he wasn't off finding Africa and stuff!