Favourite Hostelries

[kernelbogey]

gurney, I am considerably in your debt.

The above has instantly become one of my favourite pubs. Delicious and good value Thai food for lunch, and a lovely complex of snugs and a larger, skylit dining room in the wonderful conservation area tucked away just west of Waterloo, on a street of authentic early 19thC terraced houses....

Edit for geographic precision: Roupell St is East of Waterloo, i.e. towards the City. kb

Calibs - I managed to track it down on Saturday - I had been once before - despite your east/west confusion! It's worth tracking down!
BW, kb

[mercia]

Down mynneck of the woods

I wonder if BBM knows The Plough & Harrow @ Litlington, nestling in another part of the South Downs

http://www.ploughandharrowlitlington.co.uk/

[Thropplenoggin]

St Albans seems blessed with lots of very welcoming and rather ancient hostelries, many serving good home-cooked food and real ale. I enjoyed a pint in the sun-blessed beer garden of The White Lion near the town centre today; a refreshing pint of Adnam's Ghost Ship and a pork'n'leek sausage sandwich. I'm more of a dark beer 'noggin, but this not-so pale ale went down a treat.

[Nick Armstrong]

gurney, I am considerably in your debt.

The above has instantly become one of my favourite pubs. Delicious and good value Thai food for lunch, and a lovely complex of snugs and a larger, skylit dining room in the wonderful conservation area tucked away just [west] EAST of Waterloo, on a street of authentic early 19thC terraced houses http://www.mylera.org/Local_History.html

And best of all: Old Hooky ale (among 8 ales on offer), one of my very favourites since the early 80s (when I had a personal link with the Hook Norton brewery). So two delicious pints were consumed, nutty, hoppy, beautifully kept

Thanks!

Edit for geographic precision: Roupell St is East of Waterloo, i.e. towards the City. kb

Mea culpa for idiotic misdirection: *DOH* what a moron Thank you, kb Mind you though but, I blame the Old Hooky

kernel thanks for the correction and I'm glad you defeated my unwitting attempts to send you the wrong way!

[Bamig]

Lovely thread. Thanks for all the suggestions. I recently saw the 2014 Good Pub Guide category winners -

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Good-Pub-Guide-The-Olive-Branch-in-Clipsham-Rutland-is-Pub-of-the-Year

Anyone familiar with any of them?

[amateur51]

Lovely thread. Thanks for all the suggestions. I recently saw the 2014 Good Pub Guide category winners -

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Good-Pub-Guide-The-Olive-Branch-in-Clipsham-Rutland-is-Pub-of-the-Year

Anyone familiar with any of them?

I'm surprised not to see The Old Spotted Dog in Willesden as Improved Pub of the Year - it's been turned into flats and a Tesco Express

[Sir Velo]

Lovely thread. Thanks for all the suggestions. I recently saw the 2014 Good Pub Guide category winners -

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Good-Pub-Guide-The-Olive-Branch-in-Clipsham-Rutland-is-Pub-of-the-Year

Anyone familiar with any of them?

Not really your neck of the woods Bamig, most of them but I have some knowledge of the following:

Value pub: Red Lion - Preston, Herts (Nice location)

Unspoilt pub: White Horse, Petersfield (Actually,Priors Dean - very remote on a windswept plateau, adjacent to the Lost Quarter of Hawkley; as about a remote spot as you can get in S. England).

Landlord of the year: Yew Tree, Lr Wield. Another idyllic Hants location, opposite cricket pitch in woodland setting. Fine food and ales. Interesting pub memorabilia (scythes etc)