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By far the best pub in Chipping Campden (and I've spent today testing each one) - not saying much as the rest are piss-poor rip-off tourist joints (I've spent today testing every one, remember - how bloody depressing..)
However, to be clear, this isn't the least worst of a bad bunch - it's a genuinely impressive pub that keeps 4+ real ales extremely well; 3 from within 30 miles and every single one served very well and at around �3 a pint max - Mad Goose being the perectly kept pick.
I've eaten here a few times with my family and guests and it's always been beautiful - though expensive - food; It's also a dog friendly pub in the proper country sense so it stands a chance of overhauling the Bakers Arms.Which is a better pub, but bizarrely imagines that in the Cotswolds, it alone should be able to banish the constant companion (dog) of most of us natives, to the garden
30 Dec 2011 23:26
Appalled at the decline of this once magnificent pub - not that tourists would notice and therein lies the crux with Cotswold pubs.
This was my local 5 years ago, it used to keep several decent ales well and served decent food at reasonable prices.
Today I find that it has Hooky at near �4 a pint and Hobgoblin at �4 a pint and a bacon sandwich on offer at �5.
I am embarrassed to have recommended this once fine pub to others - and distressed that this pub survives untroubled even charging stupid money, whilst far better local pubs are dieing of being off a bus route or away from a railway station.
30 Dec 2011 23:12
The Bakers Arms, Broad Campden
A marvellous pub in every respect. 5 real ales, all beautifully kept, the best of which is Stanway Bitter, served beautifully at a perfect temperature and at �2.30 a pint.
Stupidly my party and I went on to Mickleton and Chipping Campden and didn't find a pint to compare with the Stanway or a price within a �1 of it.
Pick of the afternoon was certainly the Kings Arms in Mickleton who attempted to charge us �3.50 for a pint of Hook Norton ordinary. That's more than a �1 a pint more for a vastly inferior (by the admission of the Hooky head brewer) pint.
Today has been a salutary reminder, even though I live here, that one avoids the tourist centre pubs (Moreton, Stow, Chipping Campden) like the plague and heads for the outlying pubs that actually have to try to attract client�le.
The Baker's Arms is a prime example.
30 Dec 2011 22:59
Ebrington Arms, Chipping Camden
This pub is a gem. An eclectic mix of upper crust and working class locals, cracking food and 4 ales on tap of which the Uley Bitter is the pick for me. Its not very big inside but the garden is spacious, pretty and fully enclosed. Dogs can trot around in it off the lead which adds to the already impressive dog friendliness of the place.
31 Jul 2010 14:28
The George and Dragon, Leyburn
Can't add much to alexale's review other than to wholeheartedly endorse it. Passed this pub many times walking round the Dales with the dog for four days, stopped on each occasion for an excellent pint of Theakston's Best and a warm welcome for us both. One of the few in the area that is open all day as well.
25 Sep 2009 15:01
Dogs are welcome - gave mine a big bowl of water unasked. She enjoyed it every bit as much as I enjoyed my Black-Sheep, sat in the sun after a 10-miler. Couldn't have asked for more really.
22 Jun 2009 14:09
Surprised this is only rated a 7, guess it must have been bad in the past - it certainly isn't now. 7 Well kept, varied and knowledgeably served real ales (pleasantly served as well in fact, very impressed with the bar-staff). A Thursday night visit and although it was busy, it wasn't packed. Background music un-obtrusive and of my (40-something) era, so all in all a great night out.
22 Jun 2009 14:04
Pick of the pubs on Kingly St - but since the Blue Posts got Greene Kinged and the Red Lion put everything on gas, that's not saying much. A reasonable pint of Landlord for under 3 quid, Pride and Sly Fox also on and working at 5.30. I got served by the one human bar-tender, the rest were 'droids, so although I had a good time, I can see why others haven't. Clientele part-tourist, part-Soho-creatives, neither my type, but its a few yards from Regent St so what could one expect? All in all, a decent experience, and if I was in doubt of that, the fact that The Dog and Trumpet is now an O'Neill's was a sobering reminder of what could have been.
11 Mar 2009 19:03
Sat in the Dover Castle right now, stumbled across it on a shortcut from Oxford Circus to Paddington. This is a pub as pubs were before chains intervened - its like my village local yet I'm less than quarter of a mile from Oxford Circus. I have just been served an excellent pint of Sam Smith's for the gobsmacking sum of �1.89. I will be back. Often!
11 Mar 2009 18:43
The Shoulder of Mutton Inn, Kirby Hill
Stayed here, had an excellent meal and enjoyed the landlady's bonhomie tremendously - but not as much as the four beautifully-kept cask ales. Black Sheep and Daleside are regulars and star guest on my visit was a lovely pint of Askrigg Ale, brewed down the road. Fun and welcoming locals. Breathtaking views. Only black mark is no dogs other than Mondays or Tuesdays.
28 Feb 2009 02:06
The Pilot Inn, North Greenwich
An oasis of traditional pub in a moderb wasteland. Good selection of well-kept Fullers (Pride and Chiswick always on, others seasonal). Just over the river from Canary Wharf but mercifully free of city-types. Excellent and superb value accomodation when nothing on at the O2, which is a short walk away.
4 Oct 2008 12:50
The Inn on the Marsh, Moreton in Marsh
Far and away the best beer pub in Moreton-in-Marsh - tied to Marstons and a well kept pedigree and best are always on as well as at least one well thought through and excellently kept best. Friendliest landlord (Wayne) in Moreton but a one man band, so "country" hours - closed between 3 and 6pm.
Worst pub food of the seven pubs in Moreton-in-Marsh, though still not bad - the stirfry has let many down before and since ALLSORTS review below however.
10 Jun 2008 19:27
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The Norman Knight, Whichford
The brewery is now The Patriot Brewery - and a fine one it is as well. The Kiwi is superb, the Nelson excellent and the Mild magnificent.
The guests where Reverend James and a Hooky Best - flash a CAMRA membership card and you'll get 10% off the cost; a CAMRA benefit I've never sen before.
All in all - and I checked this with my wife and teen-aged kids - this is the best pub we've been in for years.
11 Nov 2012 00:35