Crown

Pub Details

Address: The Green

East Rudham

Norfolk

England

PE31 8RD

Telephone: 01485 528530

Opening Times: Weekdays
11am - 11.30pm

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Stylish open-plan seating areas, cosy back sitting room, first-class contemporary cooking, and a friendly atmosphere; bedrooms Beside the village green, this is a neatly kept and rather civilised place with friendly staff. The contemporary open-plan bar has several distinct seating areas with brown leather and wood dining chairs around a mix of tables (including a huge round one), a log fire in a modern brick fireplace (with a grandfather clock and bookshelves on either side) and rugs on the stripped floorboards. High bar chairs beside the handsomely slate-topped counter are popular and they keep their own-brewed JoC's Norfolk Ale plus Adnams Bitter and Broadside on handpump and several wines by the glass. The other end of the room is slightly more informal with a mix of leather-seated dining chairs around all sorts of tables, a couple of built-in wall seats, another bookshelf beside a second fireplace and 1950s and 1960s actor prints in Shakespearean costume on the walls. There's also more of a pubby part with planked and cushioned white-painted built-in seats and nice photographs on the pink walls, and a cosy lower area to the back of the building with comfortable leather sofas and armchairs and a flatscreen TV; newspapers to read. Upstairs is yet another dining room with a high-pitched ceiling. There are neat picnic-sets under parasols on the front gravel. This pub is in the growing Flying Kiwi Inns group.

Good Pub Guide Food

Imaginative modern food includes sandwiches, pork rillettes with red onion marmalade, smoked mackerel, saffron potato and beetroot terrine with vanilla aioli, open lasagne of pepper, aubergine caviar and herb béchamel, keralan spiced pollock en papillote with orange and sultanas and lime pickle, and seared calves liver with sage mash and onion purée.