Funny you should say that. When we visited on Saturday, it was closing at five, probably for a similar reason. The MP was the second destination pub I've visited where I've been disappointed, but on the basis of having to drink outside and only having one pint I don't think I could review it with any objectivity.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.