Wheatsheaf

Friendly stone pub with interesting food, real ales, a dozen wines and seats in front and back gardens

Features

Speciality beers
Cask ales
Separate restaurant
Sandwiches
  • Separate restaurant
  • Sandwiches sold

Bar food times: 12-2 (2.15 Sat), 6.30-9; 12-2.45 Sun

Typical main dish: Tiger Prawns with homemade chips

Typical main dish price: £17.50

Average two course evening meal price: £24.00

  • Speciality beers
  • Cask ales

Name of cheapest bitter: Greene King

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

The good pub guide review

Customers are welcomed to this stone pub by the friendly, hands-on and long-serving owners, the Craddocks. A pretty front garden, fenced off from the road, leads into the inviting interior with linked L-shaped rooms furnished with traditional settles and cushioned captain's chairs around tables of varying sizes, and wood-burning stoves. Brewsters Hophead, Grainstore Steelback IPA and Greene King IPA are served on handpump, alongside 17 wines by the glass (including fizz and pudding wines), 30 gins and home-made cordials. It's best to book a table in advance for the popular restaurant. The games room has a TV, darts, pool, board games and background music. The pub dogs are a dachshund and a labradoodle, and visiting pooches are welcome in the bar. There are chunky picnic-sets on the front lawn and more seats on a back terrace by a pretty stream with a duck house; pétanque. You can buy the pub's own-made pickles, chutneys and chocolates. There's a ramp for wheelchairs.

The good pub guide food review

The chef-landlady cooks the imaginative seasonal food, including fresh bread daily. As well as lunchtime sandwiches, dishes might include grilled quail with potato pancake, mussels, baked snails with garlic and parsley butter, wild mushroom and leek lasagne, fillet of sea bream with new potatoes and samphire, roast Gressingham duck breast with girolles and potato dauphinoise, crispy pork belly with spring onion mash and hispi cabbage, and puddings such lemon verbena crème brûlée and boozy cherries with vanilla ice-cream and chocolate sauce.

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Contact Details

Wheatsheaf, 1 Stretton Road, Greetham, Oakham, Leicestershire, LE15 7NP

(01572) 812325

Pub Group: Punch

Opening Hours

Weekdays: 12-3, 6-11; closed Mon except bank holidays

Saturday: 12-11 Fri

Sunday: 12-10 (8 in winter)