Greyhound

Address

26 High Street

Sydling St Nicholas

Dorset

DT2 9PD

Telephone

(01300) 341303

Opening Times

Weekdays

12 - 3, 6 - 11

Sundays

12 - 3

Closed

Sun evening

New licensees for this charming former coaching inn, country décor, real ales, wines by the glass, and imaginative food; refurbished bedrooms Enthusiastic new licensees have taken over this charming pub in a pretty streamside village. There's a beamed and flagstoned serving area with plenty of bar stools and a carpeted bar with a comfortable mix of straightforward tables and chairs, some country decorations and a warm fire in a handsome Portland stone fireplace. Butcombe Bitter, Sydling Bitter (brewed for them by St Austell) and a changing guest such as Hop Back Summer Lightning on handpump, a farm cider, around 14 wines by the glass and several malt whiskies. The cosy, smarter dining room has a glass-covered well set into the floor (coachmen used it to pull up buckets of water for the horses during stagecoach stops) and the recently refurbished conservatory has attractive rustic furniture around scrubbed wooden tables and a green leather chesterfield. The small front garden has picnic-sets and a children's play area. The bedrooms have all been upgraded.

Licensee name

martin frizell

What they say

see our website at www.dorsetgreyhound.co.uk

Free house

Using lots of local fish and seafood, baking their own bread and making their own pasta, the imaginative food might include sandwiches, a proper bouillabaisse, rabbit terrine with red onion marmalade, tea-smoked mackerel with horseradish pannacotta, pigeon caesar salad with caramelised chicory and anchovy aioli, blue lobster and maize-fed chicken ravioli with a mussel and saffron broth, and fillet steak with a veal kidney pie and celeriac purée.