Harden's survey result
Summary
This “lovely old pub” in the Chilterns, handy for the Harry Potter antics at Warner Bros Studio nearby, built up quite a reputation for its Anglo-French cooking over nearly two decades under husband-and-wife team Sally & Alvin Michaels. The 18th-century venue is now managed by Alvin’s former protégé Matt Jackson (and part of the growing RedCat pub company) but, on limited feedback this year, its “exceptional pub dining” still makes it a local magnet.
Summary
A “very pleasant country pub” helmed by Sally & Alvin Michaels for two decades, and whose “good food” of Anglo-French bent (including home-smoked fish and meat, and local game) “attracts diners from well beyond its area”; indeed, one reporter who took far-flung American visitors found that they “loved the location and quaintness” of this attractive Georgian locale – also handy for the Harry Potter experience at Warner Bros Studio nearby.
Summary
Emphatically “not your most ordinary pub” – this ivy-clad Georgian boozer in a “lovely countryside setting” has been well run by Sally & Alvin Michaels for twenty-odd years, and boasts a “good menu of delicious food”.
Summary
This “fantastic gastropub in the middle of nowhere” – if that’s possible in the thickly populated Chilterns, just a few miles from the M25 – was built 300 years ago, became a pub 190 years ago, and is approaching 20 years under the ownership of Sally & Alvin Michaels. The food – courtesy of chef Claude Paillet – is “always reliably good” and “full of flavour”. There are beams, log fires, ivy-clad walls and “plenty of outside seating” – not to mention the “lovely countryside”.
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Hogpits Bottom, Flaunden, HP3 0PH
Restaurant details
Prices
 Drinks |
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| Wine per bottle | £21.50 |
| Filter Coffee | £4.00 |
 Extras |
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| Bread | £0.00 |
| Service | 12.50% |
Hogpits Bottom, Flaunden, HP3 0PH
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Opening hours
| Monday | 9 am‑11 pm |
| Tuesday | 9 am‑11 pm |
| Wednesday | 9 am‑11 pm |
| Thursday | 9 am‑11 pm |
| Friday | 9 am‑7 pm |
| Saturday | 9 am‑7 pm |
| Sunday | 9 am‑7:30 pm |
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