please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
cant beat the place for location and it makes the most of it by having a spectacular beer garden.
Food was quick, good value and quality.
Ales were varied - with Castlerigg IPA and Thwaites Bitter in great condition.
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Large hotel, bar and restaurant in the tiny but beautiful village of Buttermere, this is one of 2 here and when we arrived was very quiet, that all changed within 15 minutes as the garden got packed with walkers, most accompanied by their dogs.
Another Jennings run pub with 3 of their ales on plus another 3 as guest's & Old Rosie cider, the ales were all very decent brews but I had to have the very local Keswick Brewery Thirst Quencher @ 4.3%, nicely kept.
I cannot comment much on the interior as we took our drinks & sat out the back in the suntrap beer garden admiring the view's.
I rate this one 7/10 and that's for the ale selection and suntrap garden.
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On first glance, this looks like a nightmare out of a Marty Feldman bus tour sitcom with old fashioned decor and empty to character but the ales were kept very well indeed - Thirst Blossom from the Keswick Brewing Co. and Ale Mary from Jennings were both lipsmackingly good. The food looks utilitarian and hence, we opted for the nearby Bridge, but the Fish wins for ale as well as for tradition given that the famous Maid of Buttermere served here. A glorious view up to the High Stile Range and mercifully bereft of mobile phone reception.
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Excellent location 'neath the fells. Good service and a reasonable beer range. Food was pretty good too. Let us leave the car in their car park while we tottered round the lake.
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Thought the place exactly what you'd want in a country inn. Warm welcome, good range of beers well kept and the food... I had a wonderful sirloin steak cooked exactly as requested that just melted in the mouth. My wife had the scampi and chips, which she said was excellent. Her sister had the hamburger which also earned great praise. The chips are real chips, toasty hot and delicious.
The landlord even came and helped us break into the nearby disabled loo when we mislaid the RADAR key - now that is service!
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The main events in Buttermere are the Fish & the Bridge inn as the village is so small. This pub was busy on the Easter friday and I visited it 3x in 3 days. It had 8 ales on of which 4 were from Marstons (3 Jennings & 1 Wychwood). They also had ales from Loweswater and Keswick. Beer was on a from a prices reasonable - Snecklifter at 5.1% was �3.40/pint. Decent pub grub and they also have a slightly boring restaurant which is really an overspill as pub grub was served here to. Was told they go down to 4 ales over Winter due to the obvious drop in demand. A nice pub in a convenient location - also next to the 77 bus route to Keswick.
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Different in every way to its neighbour, the Bridge. Nowhere near as homely feeling, this is more than compensated by the better range of beer (Hesket and Thwaites being the main fayre at the time) and the polite landlord, who was happy for us to try samples before committing to buy. Walkers more welcome here than next door.
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The Fish is a bit of a disappointment, at least in winter, only open Thursday pm to Monday lunch in February. Only two of the handpumps in use on both occasions we were there. The large bar was sparsely populated. Must be better in Summer!
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Although the interior of the pub is not nearly as pretty as the neighbouring Bridge Inn, a range of beer that includes the local Jennings and Thwaites breweries, plus the exceptional Coniston Bluebird (not to be missed), make up for this. Standard pub grub; non-smoking; walker-friendly. Defintely recommended.
sross - 17 Apr 2006 21:08 |
