Quiz & Curry Night

Monday 6th of July we will be having our first quiz night at the pub, teams of 4, £7.50/head, booking essential!

Should be a lot of fun with great prizes and an authentic vegetarian or meat curry to round of the evening....yum!

Wi-Fi

Broadband Wi-Fi has now been established at the pub and the illy coffee has arrived too

Real pub food

If you haven't visited us for lunch or dinner yet here are a few photo's of our delicious food:

B&B Rooms finally ready

We have finally got the letting rooms finished and Saturday our first guests stayed the night, it was a close shave getting the room ready in time but apparently they enjoyed their stay and particularly the comfy beds!

Whats new this week!

We have two new real ales arriving this week:

Bob Wall 4.2% a.b.v from Timsbury brewery and

Hidden Pint 3.8% a.b.v from Hidden brewery in Salisbury.

Also Wednesday we will now be stocking Grolsch lager, Westons Organic cider, Budvar Czech lager, Tanqueray gin, Havana club Cuban rums and Fentimans Cola, Dandelion & Burdock and Ginger beer.

On the food side of things, fresh Devon crab, Timsboro Goat's cheese and marinated olives.

We would also like to remind our lunch time locals that we are now open all day on Sundays. You know who you are!

Food Specials

Great new produce arriving daily now, this week we have:

Kentucky fried rabbit with garlic mayo.

Roast leg of lamb, haricot beans & mint sauce.

Linguine carbonara.

Free range chicken, chorizo picante & roast pepper salad

* Wednesday we hope to have the first batch of gorgeous Jersey Royal potatoes

News

Well one week in and it has been great. The support from the locals has exceeded all expectations and right now it feels like the best pub in the world!

Food update: We're now getting lots of exciting local products into the kitchen including:

English lop Pork from Timsbury, free range chicken and duck eggs from the village, the most amazing local venison and excellent beef from Walter Rose and Hugh.

May day at the pub is going to feature a special outside bar sponsored hopefully by Bath Ales, more news on that soon.

We have also got plans for lots of good stuff for all the locals who have shown such an interest in the continued success of the pub, thanks from us both!

Children

We welcome children but don't believe they should have a 'children's' menu, these usually have horrible frozen foods worse than you'd give them at home!

Instead they can pick from the same menu and have a children's size portion.

For Sunday lunches if you want to bring the whole family we will be doing whole roasts to share, so if your children aren't big eaters then you will be able to have a whole roast free range chicken and share it between 2, 3 or 4, it's upto you....

Local Breweries

We believe strongly that if you can get excellent products on your doorstep then you should use them in your pub. Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire have some of the best micro breweries in the country and we are planning to use guest ales from the best of these.

Breweries signed up so far include: Blindmans in Frome and Stroud brewery which has just won awards for its organic real ales. If you have any suggestions let us know.

 

Here's a list of the real ales we would like to serve, of course this is a contentious issue so here's your chance to have your say...

Wadworths 'I.P.A'

Abbey Ales 'Bellringer'

Blindmans 'Buff'

Stroud Brewery 'Budding'

and cider:

Stowford press

Westons organic

Richs organic scrumpy

as for lagers:

Amstel

Staropramen

Budvar

Heineken

Becks Vier

Sunday Lunch Menu

Homemade soup & bread £4.00

Rabbit Pate £4.50

Smoked sea trout with horseradish £5.50

Goats cheese & beetroot salad £5.00



Roast sirloin, (21 day aged british Dexter beef) Yorkshire pudding, duck fat roasties,
savoy cabbage, roast carrots,celeriac gratin & veal stock gravy £14.00

Roast free range chicken, lemon & thyme stuffing, duck fat roasties,
savoy cabbage, roast carrots, celeriac gratin & veal stock gravy half £11.00
whole chicken to share £22.00

Line caught Cornish cod, beer batter, hand cut chips & tartare sauce £10.00

Keenes extra mature cheddar ploughman’s, home made pickles £ 9.00

Wiltshire ham egg & chips £ 8.00

Leek & cheddar tart with green salad £ 8.00



Chocolate & hazelnut brownie £3.50

Rhubarb crumble & custard £3.50

Strawberry Eton mess £3.50

Lemon & passion fruit Posset £3.50

English cheese & chutney £5.50