Brace of Pheasants

Pub Details

Address
Plush
Dorset
DT2 7RQ
Telephone
(01300) 348357
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 3, 7 - 11 (10.30 Sun)

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

16th-c thatched pub with friendly service, three real ales, lots of wines by the glass, well liked food and a decent garden; good nearby walks; comfortable bedrooms Once the village smithy and two cottages, this handsome thatched place is tucked away in a pretty village. The beamed bar has a mix of locals (and maybe their dogs) and visitors, windsor chairs around good solid tables on the patterned carpet, a few standing timbers, a huge heavy-beamed inglenook at one end with cosy seating inside, and a good warming log fire at the other. Flack Manor Double Drop, Sharps Doom Bar and a guest like Palmers Copper tapped from the cask, a fine choice of wines with 18 by the glass and proper farm cider; friendly service. A decent-sized garden includes a terrace and a lawn sloping up towards a rockery. The pub is well placed for walks in beautifully folded countryside - an attractive bridleway behind goes to the left of the woods and over to Church Hill. The ensuite bedrooms are nicely fitted out and comfortable.

Good Pub Guide Food

A shortish choice of bar food includes sandwiches, lambs kidneys with a mustard cream sauce, battered fish of the day, local faggots with onion gravy, portabello mushrooms with cream cheese and herb stuffing and red pepper yoghurt dressing, and baked hake in tomatoes, white wine and paprika.

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Bar

Rating

  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3.5/5 (360 votes cast)

Reader Comments

madmountainman

Tuesday 10 April 2012 11:50:19 am

We stopped here for a bite to eat recently and it was superb. you'll wonder where you're going to get here, it's down some narrow, winding country lanes, and it's a little bit of an adventure to get there.
The Landlord was very welcoming and friendly and, although we hadn't booked and many tables showed reserved signs, he found us a table. The menu was interesting, and more extensive than the guide indicates, with a specials board at the end of the bar. We had a superb venison dish for main, and i wish we'd also gone for the beer battered Pigeon Breasts and Special Garlic Mushroom starters. Pud involved warm lemon polenta cake with lemon sauce and lime sorbet, and vanilla panacotta with caramelised figs. Some very well kept real ales and nice wines by the glass complemented our meal. They do rooms, which looked nice on the photos, and the location makes for a lovely, quiet break away. We will certainly be heading back.