Harden's survey result
Summary
“Exquisite cooking” using “quality ingredients” are the watchwords at this “thoroughly professional outfit” – a converted village forge from former Savoy chef Danny Jimminson and his wife Sandra. (This year’s biggest complaint? “We left feeling uncomfortably full. We think it‘s our age. The cooking is exquisite but for younger folks with bigger appetites!”)
Summary
Now a restaurant with rooms, thanks to two bedrooms added during the covid-enforced closure, this former village forge has offered “consistently good, high-quality” cuisine for more than 20 years under the ownership of former Savoy chef Danny Jimminson and his wife Sandra. It’s a “relaxed, really enjoyable” venue, with a range of menus from two to seven courses.
Summary
“High standards and consistently delicious, creative food” have been the hallmarks of Savoy-trained chef-patron Danny Jimminson and his wife Sandra’s former village forge for two decades. With its ambitious 8-course tasting menus, it is very much a “gastropub pressing towards purely restaurant status” and provided some local reporters’ best meal of the year.
Summary
“Exceptional food in a relaxed and down-to-earth setting” has established chef-patron Danny Jimminson and his wife Sandra’s beamed gastropub as a foodie destination for almost two decades. The “innovative and very well executed” menu runs to an eight-course ‘grazing’ option.
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Have you eaten at The Hammer & Pincers?
5 East Rd, Loughborough, LE12 6ST
Restaurant details
Prices
| Availability | 2 courses | 3 courses |  |
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| Lunch | £38.00 | £45.00 |  |
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| Dinner | £55.00 | £65.00 | |
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Traditional European menu
| Veggies | Pudding |
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| £0.00 | £0.00 |
| Drinks |
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| Wine per bottle | £19.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £3.00 |
| Extras |
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| Bread | £0.00 |
| Service | 10.00% |
5 East Rd, Loughborough, LE12 6ST
Opening hours
| Monday | CLOSED |
| Tuesday | 12 pm‑4 pm, 6:15 pm‑7:30 pm |
| Wednesday | 12:30 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:15 pm‑7:30 pm |
| Thursday | 12:30 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:15 pm‑7:30 pm |
| Friday | 12:30 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:15 pm‑7:30 pm |
| Saturday | 12:30 pm‑1:30 pm, 6:30 pm‑7:30 pm |
| Sunday | CLOSED |
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