“Run with real heart” – “with ambition and cooking skills to match” – this “small”, “intimate” and “professional” inn (“more restaurant than pub”) is widely hailed by reporters as a “gem”; “much of the produce is home-grown or very local”.
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The critic visits a rural inn, that turns out to be one of those “labour-of-love joints that have you cooing with pleasure”.
Giles Coren (17th July 2007)
Meat/fish: 10/10 points; Cooking: 8/10 points; Caring: 10/10 points; Water: 8/10 points (tap offered first, Hildon if you ask); Score: 9/10 points
In his campervan, Giles visits a gastrpub that ticks all his eco-ethical boxes. But that’s not the only reason “the place had 10/10 written all over it”. Successes include “fantastic” steaks, a “best-ever” sticky toffee pudding with “unforgettable Devonshire clotted cream”. This place is “really, really special.”
Matthew Norman (4th May 2009)
Giles Coren (17th July 2007)
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