The Dolphin pub

10/09/2026

Thanks for all of your support in Round 1 💙 🍻

Onto the final 16! Team Dolphin 🐬

🏆 Group D has given us our most emphatic winner yet!

The Dolphin absolutely dominated the voting and becomes the fourth pub through to the last 16 of Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026! 🍻

They now join The Brook Inn, The Hyde Park and The Kings Head in the knockout stages.

🥇 The Dolphin: 301 votes
🥈 Hyde Park Social Club: 50 votes
🥉 The Union Inn: 39 votes
▪️ The Steam Packet: 19 votes

That’s 409 valid votes across Group D, with The Dolphin taking an incredible 301 of them. More than 73% of the entire vote!

The post itself generated 429 comments, 28 shares and 40,986 views, which is another huge response for four more Plymouth pubs.

A small housekeeping note though. Voting is strictly one vote per person. Two people voted twice for the same pub during this group, so only one vote from each person was included in the final count. I replied to both comments at the time so everything was completely transparent.

As always, the results are processed using TrueParse, the software I built for last year’s competition, with the final count also sense-checked using AI.

A massive congratulations to The Dolphin, and a huge thank you to Hyde Park Social Club, The Union Inn and The Steam Packet for getting involved.

And remember, getting knocked out doesn’t make any of these pubs any less worth visiting.

This whole competition is about celebrating Plymouth’s pubs, introducing people to places they might not have tried before and hopefully getting a few more people through their doors.

So if one of these pubs is your local, keep supporting it. And if you’ve never been to one of them, maybe this is your excuse. ❤️

🤝 Want your business alongside Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026?

The first four voting posts have now generated 139,450 views between them.

That’s approaching 140,000 views after only four of the 16 first-round groups, with another 12 groups still to come before we even reach the knockout stages.

We’re looking for the right local business to partner with the competition throughout it. Something relevant to Plymouth’s pubs, hospitality or nights out, rather than a logo appearing for the sake of it.

Taxi companies, breweries, drinks distributors, glassware suppliers and other genuinely relevant businesses would be a natural fit.

If that sounds like you, drop me a message. 🤝

And we go again tonight...

🍺 Group E goes live at 8pm!

09/09/2026

🐬 🏆 Vote Dolphin 🏆 🐬

If you love The Dolphin, the atmosphere, the laughs and the good times please take a minute to vote for us! We loved winning Plymouth’s favourite pub last year and couldn’t resist giving it another go this year.

We couldn’t have done it without the incredible support from all of you. Every vote made on the Plymouth on Tap post over the next 23 hours counts to help get us through to the next round 🐬💙🍻

🏆 Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026 – Round One, Group D

Now this is an interesting one.

Group D brings together four very different Plymouth pubs:

🍺 The Dolphin
🍺 The Union Inn
🍺 The Steam Packet
🍺 Hyde Park Social Club

The Dolphin comes into this year’s competition as the reigning champion, but last year counts for nothing once the voting starts. Every group begins from scratch.

If your favourite is in this one, make sure you back it and help send it through to the final 16.

Voting is now open.

Who wins Group D? 🍻

64 pubs. One winner.

06/09/2026

🍻 Plymouth on Tap – Group A is up tonight! 🍻

Good luck to all the pubs taking part tonight.
We’ll be cheering everyone on and of course backing the pubs we know and love. We love seeing Plymouth’s pubs getting behind each other so we’ll be sharing the action throughout Round 1 of the competition. Let’s have some fun with it! 🐬 ❤️

Good luck everyone and let the voting begin! Remember to click and comment on the Plymouth on Tap post for your votes to count 🍻

🏆 Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026 – Round One, Group A

Here we go. The talking is done and the voting starts now.

First up in Round One:

🍺 The Pheasant Pluckers Arms
🍺 Beacon Park Social Club
🍺 The Duchy of Cornwall
🍺 The Brook Inn

Four Plymouth pubs. One place in the next round.

Have a look at the four contenders, pick your favourite and cast your vote.

And remember, this isn’t about which pub is the biggest, busiest or best known. It’s about the pub you love and want to see go further in Plymouth’s Favourite Pub 2026.

Voting is now open.

Good luck, Group A. 🍻

64 pubs. One winner.

03/09/2026

Hi can ye please vote on the link and it opens on Sunday but thanks for the enthusiasm ###x

03/09/2026

11/08/2026

Black Friday today from 4 pm and Friday from 8 pm 🍀🇮🇪🎶💕

15/07/2026

England v’s Argentina @ 8pm best of luck 🍀

19/06/2026

Tonight Live music with Angel from 7:30 pm ###

11/06/2026

Live Irish music tonight at the Dolphin with Splann! Starting at 7.30pm, come for the craic!! 🍻 🇮🇪🎶❤️🍀

09/06/2026

Our old whistle player Louis Phillips ‘Apples’ is over from Ireland to play a few shows as Splann this weekend - check them out…. The Dolphin pub Kitty O'Hanlons The Globe Inn Looe The Cross Keys Cawsand