Pensford Restaurant Guide

This former private home eight miles from Bath features a “restaurant with a great vibe” and a “really diverse wine list” – making it “perfect for a night away”. The famous ‘25-mile menu’ is a doddle here: the property has its own 30-acre deer park, the largest kitchen garden in the group, an orchard, a smoke house, and even its own mushroom house with a viewing window.

“There’s lots more room in the new restaurant, but it’s lost the pub feel” according to first reports on siblings Josh & Holly Eggleton’s relaunched operation: reopening after a five-year refurbishment and now billing itself as a ‘produce-led restaurant, event venue, cookery school, and kitchen garden’. Beautiful views over the eponymous valley accompany a trip to the new, 60-cover, orangery-style space. Lunch is à la carte early in the week – later and in the evenings there’s a fixed menu (which at night is £60 per person). Top Menu Tip – “Marmite carrots side dish a revelation”.

2022 Review: Opened in June 2021, this tastefully revamped old pub is the work of the Eggleton family – the team behind The Pony & Trap (now known as The Pony Chew Magna). The offering, realised by chef Jordan Meagher, “centres around proper ‘pub classics’”.

At the heart of a very picturesque village in the Mendips, this refurbed inn relaunched in November 2024 as a recent addition to the West Country empire of Josh & Holly Eggleton and Josh & Lottie Bryant. No reports as yet on its simple fare, which ranges from all-day breakfasts to burgers, ploughmans and steak.