Hare & Hounds

Pub Details

Address
The Village
Old Warden
Bedfordshire
SG18 9HQ
Telephone
(01767) 627225
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 3, 6 - 11
Sundays
12 - 10.30
Closed
Mon (except bank hol lunchtime)

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Comfortably elegant dining pub with emphasis on good food served by welcoming well turned-out staff; lovely gardens This carefully run dining pub is part of the swiss-styled Shuttleworth Estate, and the glorious sloping garden (with tables on a terrace) which stretches up to pine woods behind the pub dates back to the same period and was designed in the same style. Inside, four beautifully kept beamed rooms, with dark standing timbers, work their way around the central servery. Cleverly blending contemporary styling with the attractive old structure, décor is in cosy reds and creams, with upholstered armchairs and sofas and coffee tables on stripped flooring, light wood tables, a woodburning stove in an inglenook fireplace and fresh flowers on the bar. Prints and photographs depict historic aircraft in the famous Shuttleworth Collection just up the road. Wells & Youngs Eagle IPA and Youngs Bitter are on handpump, with a dozen or so wines by the glass including some from a local vineyard; piped music. Though there's an ample car park, you may need to use the village hall parking as an overflow. There are some substantial walks nearby.

Good Pub Guide Food

Food here is thoughtfully prepared and presented. Breads and ice-cream are home-made and they make an effort to use local and organic ingredients. The changing menus might include chicken liver parfait, tempura king prawns and squid with soy, lime and chilli dressing, chickpea, tomato and potato curry, roast bass with grilled courgettes, aubergine, red pepper and fennel, ploughman's, pie of the day, rump burger, thai green curry, and well hung steak.

Bar food times: till 3.30 Sun, not Sun evening

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Bar

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (364 votes cast)

Reader Comments

Alicat65

Monday 09 January 2012 12:08:25 pm

Heard good things about this pub and we were visiting family on the run up to Christmas so thought we'd give it a go. Now we wish we hadn't. The food was at best average and quite salty. At one stage the mature women behind the bar screamed at one of the drinkers to f*** off at the top of her voice only to be called in by her daughter (who must be the manager/owner). Not the sort of thing you'd expect to happen whilst you are eating dinner and not the sort of ambience that you'd actually expect from a pub that is in the Good Pub Guide. Beer is expensive, wine is expensive and all in all really not worth it. We'll head somewhere else the next time we are in that neck of the woods

Phillyman

Thursday 09 June 2011 11:39:40 am

This pub does indeed do some great food but everytime we've been in there the male toilets smell awful: This is not the kind of smell you want from a so called "award winning pub"
The staff seem to be put out that you are actually eating in their pub and a smile wouldn't go amiss when being read a menu or being served.
There are far more friendlier pubs in Bedfordshire than this and we and our friends shan't be eating in the Hare and Hounds again.

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