Eagle & Child

Pub Details

Address
Maltkiln Lane
Bispham Green
Lancashire
L40 3SG
Telephone
(01257) 462297
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 3, 5.30 - 11
Sundays
12 - 10.30

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Successful all-rounder with antiques in stylishly simple interior, great food, interesting range of beers, appealing rustic garden Hitting the nail on the head with unfussy effortless charm, this country pub is largely open-plan and discerningly furnished with a lovely mix of small old oak chairs, an attractive oak coffer, several handsomely carved antique oak settles (the finest apparently made partly from a 16th-c wedding bed-head), old hunting prints and engravings, and low hop-draped beams. There are red walls and coir matting up a step and oriental rugs on ancient flagstones in front of the fine old stone fireplace and counter; the pub's dogs are called Betty and Doris. Friendly young staff serve Thwaites Original alongside five guests from brewers such as Coniston, Phoenix, Prospect, Slaters and Southport, as well as Saxon farm cider, decent wines and around 25 malt whiskies. They hold a popular beer festival over the first May bank holiday weekend. The spacious gently rustic garden has a well tended but unconventional bowling green, and beyond this, a wild area that is home to crested newts and moorhens. Selling interesting wines and pottery, the shop housed in the handsome side barn includes a proper butcher and a deli.

Good Pub Guide Food

There's quite an emphasis on the well cooked food (you need to book). As well as a good choice of wraps and ciabattas, there might be black pudding, potato and bacon salad, moules marinière, game salad, sausage and mash, thai-style vegetable curry, crayfish and lemon risotto, seared bass with saffron and vanilla tiger prawns, chicken breast with green peppercorn and brandy cream sauce, and braised oxtail with red wine sauce.

Bar food times: 12 - 2, 5.30 - 8.30 (9 Fri, Sat) ; 12 - 8.30 Sun

Good Pub Information

Children welcome away from bar
Dogs allowed in: Dogs Anywhere

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (152 votes cast)

Reader Comments

Michael Wadsworth

Tuesday 13 July 2010 11:21:39 pm

Found this pub from the 2007 Guide, the most recent hard copy we possess. Lived up to its entry in every respect. Looked a bit expensive, but worth every penny. £28 bought two well prepared lamb rump steaks plus veg, making a full main meal. Thwaites bitter was good at £2.65.

Quiet when we arrived at about 12.30 on a July Saturday, and plenty of room. Frantic an hour later, and it took 15 minutes just to pay, because of a local festival.

We live in London, but if ever in the vicinity again we know where to go.