Please note: There are no parking facilities at The Jolly Sailor
Welcome to The Jolly Sailor Inn
Always sure of a warm welcome
Daily Opening Times
| Daily Opening Times | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pub Opening Times | 12:00-22:00 | 12:00-22:00 | 12:00-22:00 | 12:00-22:00 | 12:00-23:00 | 12:00-23:00 | 12:00-22:00 |
| Food Serving Times | 18:00-20:00 | 17:00-20:30 | 17:00-20:30 | 17:00-20:30 | 17:00-20:30 | 17:00-20:30 | 12:00-15:00 |
* Please note - Monday night is Quiz Night and we ONLY serve Pizza. Booking is recommended. This does not run in January or February.
Garry and Zoe welcome you to The Jolly Sailor Inn
The Jolly are a family run Inn and we took over the running of the Pub in 2018.
Having never run a pub before, and it needing a lot of love and attention,
we both threw ourselves into training, pub management skills and becoming Licensees.
We have two children and two dogs who you will see coming and going around the pub. The children also like to work for us on occasions.
We turned the oldest pub in Looe into, once again, one of the most popular pubs in the town.
Within the first year of taking over, we won the
‘Best Newcomers’
and
‘Best Community Hub’
awards and were nominated for the finals of the
National Breakfast Awards in London
(being the only Cornish entrant to reach the final 16)
We followed this up a couple of years later with
‘Best Turnaround Pub in the South’
along with a
‘Highly commended Trip Advisor Award’
And in 2026 we received two local business awards for
‘Best Pub’
and
‘Looe Local Favourite’
The Jolly Sailor Inn is the oldest Inn in the town of Looe
(affectionately known as The Jolly by the locals) and one of the oldest in the UK.
The Jolly Sailor was built in 1516 as a drinking hole for the locals.
The main beam in the Jolly was taken from HMS Indefatigable, a ship of the line at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Its job was to be posted out of France to stop and French ships crossing the waters. When the ship was later broken up, the landlord of the time arranged for the beam to be installed in the main bar and it remains there to this day.
Sea faring vessels used to moor right alongside the old part of the Jolly Sailor building,
until the land was reclaimed to build the cottages that are now adjacent to the pub.
It soon became involved with Smuggling in the area and many stories have been told
about the things that happened in various books over the years.
But beware, many Cornish stories report that the historic rooms of the Jolly are haunted…
