Crown & Punchbowl

Impressive food and thoughtful drinks choice in carefully refurbished old inn with seats outside; bedrooms

Features

Accommodation available
Speciality beers
Cask ales
Separate restaurant
  • Separate restaurant

Bar food times: 12-2.30, 6.30-9 (9.30 Fri, Sat); 12-3, 6.30-8.30 Sun

Typical main dish: pan-fried sea bass fillet with courgette and basil purée and flageolet beans

Typical main dish price: £17.00

Average two course evening meal price: £25.00

  • Speciality beers
  • Cask ales

Price of cheapest bitter: £3.80

Name of cheapest bitter: Brewsters Hophead

Maximum price of a bedrooms costs £0.00

  • Children allowed in the bar
  • Children allowed in the restaurant
  • Dogs allowed in the bar

The good pub guide review

This characterful 17th-c former coaching inn retains plenty of original features and character, and many of our readers love it. The beamed bar has a woodburning stove in a brick fireplace, leather banquettes and rustic old chairs, stripped boards, terracotta walls and an attractively carved counter where they serve freshly carved ham and home-made pickles. Behind the bar they keep Adnams Southwold and Brewsters Hophead tapped from the cask and more than 20 wines by the glass (with a focus on the Languedoc-Roussillon region), home-made punches (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and local cider. The timbered dining room has leather cushioned chairs around wooden tables on pale boards, wall panelling and candlelight. Another conservatory-style room has large windows and ceramic light fittings (a nod to the village's history as a centre for Roman pottery). There are country seats out in front of the pub, while the five guest bedrooms upstairs are well equipped, light and comfortable. Sister pubs are the Cock at Hemingford Grey, Three Horseshoes in Madingley and Tickell Arms in Whittlesford (all in Cambridgeshire).

The good pub guide food review

Delicious food includes sandwiches, salmon pastrami with kohlrabi and samphire slaw, glazed pork cheek with pork bonbon, apple and caramelised onion purée, salt and pepper squid with shaved fennel and mayonnaise, squash ricotta torte with fennel and potato gratin, lamb, mint and cumin sausages, egg pappardelle with courgettes, peas, basil and hazelnut crumb, jerk tofu skewer with mixed bean salad and pineapple salsa, sirloin steak with a choice of sauce and chips, and puddings such as damson parfait with honeycomb and apple and quince sponge and vegan chocolate délice with passion fruit and mango salsa and coconut brittle; they also offer a two- and three-course weekday set lunch.

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Contact Details

Crown & Punchbowl, High Street, Horningsea, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9JG

(01223) 860643

Opening Hours

Weekdays: 12-3, 6-11; 12-3, 5-11 Fri

Saturday: 12-11

Sunday: 12-10.30