Potting Shed
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Discover great beer, wine and delicious food at Cirencester's foodie public house, The Potting Shed Pub.
The Potting Shed Pub is an exciting venture situated 200 yards across the road from the Rectory Hotel in the village of Crudwell. Our philosophy is to focus on a classic British Menu, accompanied by a selection of quality, well-kept British ales and an extensive choice of wine, champagne and port – all served with a traditional warmth of service. It marks the rebirth of the traditional British Dining Pub, moving away from the 'over done' gastropub, focusing on the things that really matter: namely, a beautiful environment, great beers on tap, a concise and interesting wine list and of course fantastic food.
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Good Pub Guide Recommended
Appealing new variation on the Traditional Country Tavern theme, good beers, wines and country cooking
Opened at the end of 2007 after complete reworking by the owners of the nearby Rectory Hotel, this friendly place comes straight into the [I]Guide[I] with a star; one of the nicest places we've come across recently. It is very much a proper country pub rather than just another pub/restaurant, with cheerful and interested young staff, well kept Butcombe, Timothy Taylors Landlord and Bath Gem or Theakstons Best on handpump as well as an excellent range of over two dozen wines by the glass, interesting drinks of the day such as wild damson brandy bubbly, good coffees, log fires, one in a big worn stone fireplace, and very mixed plain tables and chairs on pale flagstones in the low-beamed rooms that ramble around the bar; visiting dogs may meet Barney and Rubbles (the owners') and be offered biscuits. There are well worn easy chairs in one corner, and a couple of blacktop daily papers. Four steps take you up into a high-raftered further area, with coir carpeting, and there's one separate smaller room ideal for a lunch or dinner party. The rustic decorations are not overdone, and quite fun: a garden-fork door handle, garden-tool beer pumps, rather witty big black and white photographs. And if you must have piped music (here it masks traffic noise that might otherwise intrude at quiet times), at least let it be well chosen, like theirs; board games. They have summer barbecues on fine Saturdays; there are sturdy teak seats around cask tables as well as picnic-sets out on the side grass, among weeping willows.Good Pub Guide Food
Growing some of their own fruit and veg in workmanlike plots beyond the car park, and getting other supplies as freshly and locally as possible (and they hope from the villagers to whom they've loaned allotments), they punctuate their shortish lunchtime menu with good old country dishes such as oxtail terrine, ploughman's, fish and chips, chip butty, sweetbreads or bubble and squeak. The evening menu includes seasonally changing dishes such as citrus-marinated salmon with shaved fennel and melba toast, mussels in cider and smoked bacon sauce, roasted cod loin with orange and mint, roast chicken breast with fennel and chorizo risotto with lemon and thyme dressing, rump steak, and puddings such as lemon posset and dark chocolate cheesecake and raspberry milkshake.
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Thursday 11 March 2010 11:39:16 am
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