Lamb

Pub Details

Address: Sheep Street

Burford

Oxfordshire

OX18 4LR

Telephone: (01993) 823155

Opening Times: Weekdays
12 - 11 (midnight weekends)

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Proper pubby bar in civilised inn, real ales and an extensive wine list, interesting bar and restaurant food, and pretty gardens; bedrooms This is a lovely 15th-c inn, very much enjoyed by our readers for its civilised but friendly and relaxed atmosphere and its genuine mix of customers hotel guests, diners and chatty locals. The cosy bar remains the heart of the place with high-backed settles and old chairs on flagstones in front of the log fire, Hook Norton Bitter and Old Hooky on handpump and an extensive wine list with 16 by the glass; board games. The roomy beamed main lounge is charmingly traditional, with distinguished old seats including a chintzy high-winged settle, ancient cushioned wooden armchairs, seats built into its stone-mullioned windows and fresh flowers on polished oak and elm tables; also, rugs on the wide flagstones and polished oak floorboards, a winter log fire under its fine mantelpiece and plenty of antiques and other decorations including a grandfather clock. Service is impeccable. A pretty terrace with teak furniture leads down to small neatly kept lawns surrounded by flowers, shrubs and small trees, and the garden itself is a real suntrap, enclosed as it is by the warm stone of the surrounding buildings.

Good Pub Guide Food

Under the new licensee, the good, often interesting food might include open sandwiches, sharing deli boards (charcuterie, fish or antipasti), crayfish and chive risotto, lamb burger with mint sauce and chips, confit duck leg with plum chutney, braised pig's trotter with ham and morels with potato truffle purée and apple and black pudding salad, and salmon and scallops with aubergine caviar, sundried tomato purée and pesto dressing; they offer a two and three-course set evening menu.