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The welcome this visit was as cold as the inside of the pub. Beer was poor as well.Hope this pub isn't sitting on its laurels as use to be good.However, coldest welcome and service in a pub in years !
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Lunch time full of oldies eating brown soup and beef sandwiches which is thier main menu.. main beers included Adnams bitter and Broadside served by gravity at 290p a pint..
Nice old building and the dogs were allowed in the bar.
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New Years Day 2010 after a sunny morning stroll, we gathered around a small table in the rustic Saloon bar, and sampled some excellent Adnams ales and feshly cut sandwiches. A friendly warm gem of a pub with not a red faced hooray Henry in sight. At least, not until I think I caught a glimpse of one in the mirror in the Gents after a couple of pints <grin>.
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Named as one of the top 25 pubs by the Sunday Telegraph yesterday.
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Though not a local, I've known this pub since 1971 and it remains a place I go to whenever I'm in the area (maybe 4-5 times a year). It does the simple things extremely well - the beer is exemplary and they have sensibly maintained a limited (soup and sandwiches) menu which enables them to keep high standards. Other reviewers' comments about the "red-bracered Hooray Henrys" are not entirely misplaced, but the bulk of the clienetele and the welcoming Short family themselves (owners) mean that you'd have to be very unlucky or sensitive to have this spoil what should be a truly relaxing visit
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Absolutely superb pub, probably one of my all-time favourites. Set in a pretty village, lovely building, excellent beer, very tasty simple food and friendly, attentive bar staff. Exactly how a pub should be.
As for the comments about 'hooray Henrys' - I've been to this pub many times (luckily, it's only 4 miles down the road) and I've never experienced these type of people. Even so, I'd rather have to 'put up' with them than drunken oiks and aggressive people.
Olsta - 13 Jun 2009 11:17 |
This is what a village pub should be like. Cosy and friendly. The first thing that you notice when you enter is that its lit by candles rather than bright lights, The saloon bar has an open fire that makes the old wooden beams and furnishings made from chunks of tree's feel really homely.
They have ale served from the cask and if you like Adnams beers then you are in for a treat. Broadside, Explorer and Bitter.
All in all a very enjoyable quiet midweek evening visit.
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Whenever I really want to impress someone I bring them to this lovely pub. It's so atmospheric with the candles, the fire, the fresh wild flowers, the cobwebs, the beer from a real keg and the lovely simple roast beef and bread on Sundays. It's best to go without children so that you can sit in the really nice bit- but even with children you can play wooden pub games and soak up the atmosphere. I even like the toilets!
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Great pub. Had some excellent pints of Adnams Old Ale (4.1%) straight from the barrel the other lunchtime together with some of the best rare roast beef and ripe stilton sandwiches I have had anywhere. Also delicious beef dripping on toast - now where do you ever see that now? My wife had the Crones cider and the soup which she thoroughly enjoyed. Friendly & hospitable staff. Just wish it wasn't seventy miles away - but we will return!
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Quite simply the best pub in the Known Universe. Unchanged for 32 years to my personal knowledge; the previous landlord's son has just taken it over, with the same philosophy, so things are looking good for the next 32. I even recognize some of the cobwebbed corners from my first ever visit...
I agree with an earlier reviewer that it can occasionally get too full of red-bracered Telegraph readers, but that's the only disadvantage I'm aware of.
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A totally traditional village pub, can be a bit cliquey. Recommended in every pub guide in the world so consequently busy weekend lunchtimes, seen at its best at other times. Brilliant beer, so long as you don't mind a completely flat pint poured straight from the barrel (there are no pumps, but then this is how Adnams should be served)
The owners are Cambridge pub aristocracy these days, and hold the licence for the excellent Cambridge Beer Festival, a service which deserves the repayment of a bit of custom and profit for the rest of the year
dodgy - 17 Apr 2006 21:51 |
Has the best sandwiches and soup for many a mile.
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Great Adnams beer, a warm welcome, an olde worlde feel and good (very) simple food make this pub a destination for many kinds of folk. The experience is often spoiled by braying hordes of hooray henrys, rich kids intent on spending their inheritance as quickly as poss. The pub doesn't deserve these brats.
anonymous - 21 Sep 2005 09:16 |
