Good Pub Guide Recommended
Tucked-away pub with lots to look at, several real ales, many wines by the glass and highly thought-of food; pretty bedrooms
With so much to see and do in the town and nearby, why not stay in the lovely bedrooms here; some have four-posters and the two-level suite has its own sitting room, and breakfasts are first class. A series of bustling rooms have all sorts of interesting collections and three log fires, as well as 19th-c oak desks retired from Winchester College, kitchen chairs, deal tables with candles and big windows with swagged curtains. A snug room at the back, known as the Jameson Room (after the late landlord, Graeme Jameson), is decorated with a set of Ronald Searle 'Winespeak' prints. A second room is panelled. Fullers HSB, London Pride and Spring Sprinter, Gales Seafarers and a guest such as Flowepots Goodens Gold on handpump, 25 wines by the glass, 29 malt whiskies, a couple of farm ciders and quite a few ports and sherries; the tea list is pretty special. There are tables on a covered back terrace and in a small courtyard.
Bar food times: 12-3, 6-9.30; 12-8 Sun
Excellent food includes sandwiches, chicken terrine with sweetcorn purée and bacon granola, cured salmon, crab and avocado mousse with pickled beetroot, potato gnocchi with carrot purée, salted baked beetroot, celeriac and parsnip, beer-battered haddock with triple-cooked chips, haggis, neeps and tatties with peppercorn sauce, lemon sole with mussel velouté, samphire and jerusalem artichoke, 24oz dry-aged sirloin steak with peppercorn sauce, and puddings such as dark chocolate torte with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice-cream and popcorn cheesecake with dulce de leche and salted caramel ice-cream.
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Good Pub Guide Recommended
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Dogs in the bedrooms
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