Review as listed in the
Good Pub Guide 2010

Attractive, neatly kept country pub, beams and huge flagstones, country décor, real ales, popular food and seats in back garden with ducks; bedrooms

Beside an old church and tucked away in lovely countryside, this is an attractive and neatly kept beamed country inn with friendly licensees. There' s a bar with huge flagstones, wheelback chairs and wooden tables, old tools on lemon walls, lots of hops and a woodburning stove, and a snug liked by locals with a couple of leather sofas close to an open fire, darts, juke box, games machine and board games; skittle alley The attractive dining room has more wheelback chairs around pale wooden tables on stripped floorboards, fresh flowers and linen napkins, and a small open fire. Otter Bitter and Sharps Doom Bar and a couple of guest beers like Dorset Piddle and Greene King Abbot on handpump. There are picnic-sets in the back garden (where they keep ducks) and a few out in front.

Using their own duck eggs and local produce, the well liked bar food includes lunchtime sandwiches, a good ploughman' s, soup, beef carpaccio with a beetroot and red onion salad, tiger prawns with a sweet chilli dip, a tapas plate, ham and eggs, sausages with red onion gravy, blue cheese and tomato tart, slow-roast pork belly with pork and sage jus, chicken breast with pancetta in a creamy leek and thyme sauce, lambs liver with crispy bacon, spring onion mash and a merlot wine jus, skate wing with brown caper butter, and puddings like chocolate brownie with cherry ice-cream and chocolate sauce and pannacotta with summer berries.