Address

The Street

Crudwell

Wiltshire

UK

SN16 9EW

Telephone

01666 577833

Opening Times

Weekdays

11am - midnight (11pm Sun)

Appealing variation on the traditional country tavern theme, a fine choice of drinks, interesting food, and friendly staff Rather than just another pub/restaurant, this highly enjoyable place is a proper country pub where people and dogs are genuinely welcomed by the cheerful young staff – and they have a fantastic range of drinks and often inventive food as well. Low-beamed rooms ramble around the bar with mixed plain tables and chairs on pale flagstones, log fires (one in a big worn stone fireplace, some well worn easy chairs in one corner, and a couple of blacktop daily papers. Four steps take you up into a high-raftered further area with coir carpeting, and there's one separate smaller room ideal for a lunch or dinner party. The rustic decorations are not overdone and quite fun: a garden-fork door handle, garden-tool beer pumps, rather witty big black and white photographs. Bath Ales Gem Bitter, Butcombe Bitter, Timothy Taylors Landlord and St Austell Tribute on handpump, as well as an excellent range of 30 wines and champagne by the glass, home-made seasonal cocktails using local or home-grown fruit, local fruit liqueurs, good coffees and popular winter mulled wine; visiting dogs may meet Barney and Rubbles (the pub dogs) and be offered biscuits. Well chosen piped music and board games. They have summer barbecues on fine Saturdays; there are sturdy teak seats around cask tables as well as picnic-sets out on the side grass among weeping willows.

Licensee name

Laura Sheffield

What they say

Discover great beer, wine and delicious food at Cirencester's foodie public house, The Potting Shed Pub.

The Potting Shed Pub is an exciting venture situated 200 yards across the road from the Rectory Hotel in the village of Crudwell. Our philosophy is to focus on a classic British Menu, accompanied by a selection of quality, well-kept British ales and an extensive choice of wine, champagne and port – all served with a traditional warmth of service. It marks the rebirth of the traditional British Dining Pub, moving away from the 'over done' gastropub, focusing on the things that really matter: namely, a beautiful environment, great beers on tap, a concise and interesting wine list and of course fantastic food.

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Imaginative food, using their own-grown fruit and vegetables and produce from the villagers to whom they've loaned allotments, might include sandwiches, marinated, seared duck with pomegranate seeds, orange and candied ginger, venison burger with onion marmalade, wild mushroom and truffle open lasagne, old spot pork belly and cider casserole, and halibut fillet with mussel broth, crispy leeks and capers.