Holly Bush

Neat pub with gleaming furniture, well kept Fullers beers, good value food and an attractive garden

Features

Speciality beers
Cask ales
Sandwiches
Garden
  • Sandwiches sold

Bar food times: 12-2 Mon-Weds; 12-2, 6-9 Thurs-Sat; 12-2.30 Sun

Typical main dish: steak in ale pie

Typical main dish price: £13.50

Average two course evening meal price: £20.00

  • Speciality beers
  • Cask ales

Price of cheapest bitter: £4.30

Name of cheapest bitter: Seafarers

Child restrictions: Until 7.30pm

The good pub guide review

This attractive, tranquil 17th-c pub is tucked away in an idyllic hamlet ' it's the ideal escape from the traffic-laden M25. The long, stepped bar has particularly well kept Fullers ESB, London Pride and Seafarers on handpump and several wines by the glass. There are quite a few antique dressers (several filled with plates), a number of comfortably cushioned settles, a fox's mask, some antlers, a fine old clock with a lovely chime, daily papers and (on the right as you enter) a big fireplace. In the evening, neatly placed candles cast glimmering light over darkly varnished tables, all sporting fresh flowers. The fenced-off back garden (the only place where dogs are allowed) has plenty of sturdy picnic-sets on a lawn surrounded by handsome trees.

The good pub guide food review

Rewarding food includes sandwiches and platters, halloumi bites with sweet dipping sauce, smoked salmon with lemon crème fraîche, lamb koftas with tzatziki, chicken breast or beef burger with toppings, coleslaw and chips, cumberland sausages with mashed potatoes and gravy, smoked haddock fishcakes with roasted vine tomatoes, chilli con carne, and puddings such as cherry and almond tartlet and cinnamon-dusted Belgian waffle with maple syrup.

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Contact Details

Holly Bush, Potters Crouch, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL2 3NN

(01727) 851792

Pub Group: Fullers

Opening Hours

Weekdays: 12-2.30, 6-11

Saturday: 12-11

Sunday: 12-5