Bell

Pub Details

Address: Sapperton

Gloucestershire

GL7 6LE

Telephone: (01285) 760298

Opening Times: Weekdays
11 - 2.30, 6.30 - 11
Sundays
12 - 10.30
Closed
Sun evening mid - Nov to mid - March

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Super pub with beamed cosy rooms, a really good mix of customers, delicious food, local ales, and a very pretty courtyard Carefully run with great thought for their wide mix of customers, the hard-working licensees of this smashing pub are as hands-on as ever. And although many people are here to enjoy the particularly good food, they do keep Bath Ales Gem, Otter Bitter, St Austell Tribute and Uley Old Spot on handpump, 20 wines by the glass and carafe from a large and diverse wine list with very helpful notes, 20 malt whiskies, two farm ciders and local soft drinks. Harry's Bar has big cushion-strewn sofas, benches and armchairs where you can read the daily papers with a pint in front of the woodburning stove or simply have a pre-dinner drink. The two other cosy rooms have beams, a nice mix of wooden tables and chairs, country prints and modern art on stripped-stone walls, one or two attractive rugs on the flagstones, fresh flowers and open fires. The gents' has schoolboy humour cartoons on the walls. Their new young springer spaniel is called William. There are tables out on a small front lawn and in a partly covered and very pretty courtyard, for eating outside. Horses have their own tethering rail (and bucket of water).

Licensee information

Licensee name: Paul Davidson and Pat LeJeune

Free house

Good Pub Guide Food

Using rare-breed beef and pork and other carefully sourced local produce, the imaginative food includes lunchtime sandwiches, ham hock terrine with apple and thyme chutney, pigeon breast with a beetroot and orange salad, beer-battered pollack with home-made tartare sauce, caramelised red onion, spinach and tomato risotto, prime burger with smoked bacon, cheese and dill pickles, and free-range slow-roasted pork belly with wholegrain mustard sauce; Wednesdays are for curries.