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Open at 11:30am, apart from Bank Holidays when its 12pm. We arrive at 11:20am on the Summer Bank Holiday!
Forced to return once the walk was over.
Very popular with good food. Three real ales on and the barman helped me choose a Prescott Hill Climb. Superb Condition.
Great example of a country pub.
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Busy with both drinkers and diners last week on a sunny early Saturday evening and a friendly welcome from the staff. I was expecting to pay over the top but I was pleasantly surprised and my choice of Prescott Hill Climb was superb. Although I wasn't dining the food servings looked good and well-presented with a menu offering plenty of options and also not too pricy. The setting is superb in an idyllic Cotswold hillside village with its honey-coloured stone with footpaths all around for walkers.
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Really cosy, 17th century village pub with restaurant area. 3 ales, including Butcombe and Moles. Has a great fish nights on Wednesday. Bar even has a heated foot rest!
Don't be afraid of the several ghosts reported to haunt the pub. The interesting carved pub sign is apparently one of the most photographed in the country. Once a butchers shop, butchering is said to have been here when Henry VIII hunted deer in the valley. Staggering views from the tables on the steep grass behind the pub. Good service and also dog friendly.
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Really cosy, 17th century village pub with restaurant area. 3 ales, including Butcombe and Moles. Has a great fish nights on Wednesday. Bar even has a heated foot rest!
Don't be afraid of the several ghosts reported to haunt the pub. The interesting carved pub sign is apparently one of the most photographed in the country. Once a butchers shop, butchering is said to have been here when Henry VIII hunted deer in the valley. Staggering views from the tables on the steep grass behind the pub. Good service and also dog friendly.
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Last visited on New Year's Eve for lunch as part of a walk. Beautifully located with a deserved reputation for food. A good mix of well-heeled clientele and walkers packed both sides of the pub. We were in the well-heated, homely bar and enjoyed both food (superb beef sandwiches and a turkey curry) and beers. I'm not a fan of Otter but it was well kept - better, for me, was the equally well kept Jouster. Service was attentive, polite and, given how busy they were, prompt. You can walk here in about an hour from Painswick or Cranham and less than two hours from Slad.
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Sadly, this is another example of a pub that has forgotten what customer service is all about and has the luxury of being able to trade on its amazingly beautiful location and collection of incredibly well healed local(ish) clientele. I echo other comments on here and elsewhere about this pub, (the eye watering rudeness of the manager and his ill trained staff are simply incredible) Avoid. If you want quality food, beer, and service to match, an are coming to sample cotswold beauty then The Bell at Sapperton is a far better bet.
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I would not bother visiting this pub unless you plan to eat. They ignored my wife standing at the bar for 10 minutes whilst settling bills for diners who came to the bar. When I remarked how rude I thought it was that they had ignored my wife and served people out of turn, the young man serving told me "No, we're very busy,it wasn't rude and don't come back here again".
I don't know if this means I have been barred from a pub for the first time in my life. I have taken it as friendly advice.
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More of a restauarant, you can sit by the fire at the bar end of the place, though no bar stools. Food was good and service excellent when we visited. Beer was good - three changing ales, with Donningtons BB a regular. Visit during daylight to appreciate the marvellous view.
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Fine traditional Cotswold village pub, a bit out of the way and difficult to find, but worth the effort.
Like many pubs of its ilk, its food-orientated.
I had a very enjoyable ploughmans lunch and pint of Otter sitting outside in the sunshine watching the locals manoeuvre their 4x4's in and out of the car park
Note the unusual pub sign - a farmer with a pig tied to his leg, well its a bit difficult to miss really
Good views from the high grassy seating area at the side of the pub
Worth finding if you're in the area
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Pub is in a great location. Eaten there several times this year and each time we have enjoyed the good food, beer and atmosphere. Well worth a visit!
anonymous - 26 Apr 2007 15:04 |
The Butchers Arms changed hands in mid January. We have eaten there twice since then and found both the service and the food was excellent. Now selling Hooky Bitter as well which is a plus!
anonymous - 21 Mar 2007 17:01 |
Yes, I went there with some friends just after Christmas, and I have to agree with the previous reviewer about dirty tables, dirty cutlery etc. When I complained about it, the waitress looked at me as if I was asking for the moon rather than a clean knife and fork.
I've just realised that the earlier reviewer could actually be one of the friends I was with. Still that does not invalidate either his or my complaints
anonymous - 4 Jan 2007 17:32 |
Can't say that I agree with previous comments. Yes the pub and the setting are wonderful, but it stops there.
Food was expensive and nothing special, and some clean cuttlery wouldn't go amiss. The seemed to be more food on the table (left over from earlier users) than there was on my plate, although I could not be sure that some of the food on my plate had also been there for some time.
Since the average age of the customers was in excess of 70, perhaps the staff there assumed their eyesight was up to noticing such shortcomings. Probably right since the place was reasonably full, but I'll not be back.
anonymous - 29 Dec 2006 14:29 |
Very warm and friendly pub.Lovely home cooked food and puddings!Excellent service.Children were welcomed.
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This is one of the best pubs in all of gloustershire. Simon the bartender is amazing and the real ale is always flowing. Try their chips and a ploughman's lunch... never let down. This pub is well worth the drive from Cheltenham, etc.
Tell them the Lane's sent you.
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Great pub nice food, very all you can expect from a cotswold pub.
anonymous - 10 Dec 2005 22:22 |
This is one of a series of Gloucestershire pubs owned by Johnnie Johnston - along with The Falcon, Painswick, and the pub in Andoversford. They all serve great food sourced locally and keep a fine range of well-kept real ales.
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