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Anchor

Pub Details

Address
1 Court Street
Nayland
Suffolk
CO6 4JL
Telephone
(01206) 262313
Opening Times
Weekdays
11 - 11 (10.30 Sun)
Winter
11 - 3, 5 - 11 weekdays in

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Anchor, Nayland, Suffolk, CO6 4JL – The Good Pub Guide
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Good Pub Guide Recommended

Friendly well run pub with interesting food using home farm and smokehouse produce, wines from own vineyard and riverside terrace

Keeping lots of traditional character, this well run pub is light and sunny, with a enjoyable mix of customers, from regulars gathering for a pint and a chat, to diners here for the very good food. The bare-boards bar has interesting old photographs of pipe-smoking customers and village characters on its pale yellow walls, farmhouse chairs around a mix of tables, and coal and log fires each end. Another room behind has similar furniture and an open fire, and leads into a small carpeted sun room. Up some quite steep stairs is the stylish restaurant. Adnams Bitter, Greene King IPA and an interesting guest or two from brewers such as Harwich Town and Mill Green are on handpump alongside several wines by the glass, some from their own vineyard; piped music. This is a lovely spot in summer, when you can sit out on the back terrace and look across to the peaceful River Stour and its quacking ducks. Next door, their farmland is worked by suffolk punch horses - visitors are welcome to watch these magnificent animals or try their hands at the reins.

Good Pub Guide Food

From their Heritage Farm next door they produce the free-range eggs, vegetables, lamb, pork and beef used here, and they have their own smokehouse. Dishes tend to be simpler, relying on the good produce for flavour. As well as lunchtime home-baked bread sandwiches, the imaginative food might include starters such as herb soup with cheese and croûtons, rabbit and lentil terrine with dates and apricots, fried squid and chorizo with spinach tagliatelle, main courses such as cottage pie, smoked platter, tomato, courgette and pepper frittata, ploughman's, lamb fillet with marjoram sauce and steak, and puddings such as lemon cheesecake and sticky toffee pudding. To be sure of a table, you must book.

Bar food times: 12 - 2 (2.30 Sat) , 6.30 - 9 (9.30 Sat) ; 12 - 3, 5 - 8.30 Sun

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Rating: 3/5 (123 votes cast)

Reader Comments

paulhu

Sunday 29 November 2009 1:59:04 pm


Had two dinners there this w/e - we were staying in a nearby B+B in the charming village. We felt as we had two consecutive excellent meals that this is a special place and deserves the recognition it has achieved.

It is clearly a place for locals and visitors - both sets of customers are enjoying the excellent food and drink and service.

The first day we had the Anchor Inn Smoked platter - the small size @ six pounds. It was a nice mixture of meat and fish and a side salad.

My wife then had the fish and chips with 'fat' chips and mushy peas. The fish was moist and the batter perfect. Ten pounds.

I had a fantastic steak and kidney pudding with savoy cabbage. I need not have ordered the skinny fries @ two pounds fifty pence. The gravy was brilliant and the whole dish very enjoyable.

As we were so full we did not have a dessert.

The following night we had a garlic bread starter - a huffer type of bread again very nice - two pounds. My wife had the burger ( there were two in the bap ) with jalapeno and cheese with a sweet chilli sauce fries and salad. At nine pounds fifty pence a very good value meal and very tasty.

I had the duck with mixed vegetables gratin potatoes bread sauce and port jus - twelve pounds fifty pence. Very good duck , lovely sauce and vegetables. We had the profiteroles for dessert with hazelnut cream and chocolate five pounds fifty pence.

All the other meals we saw looked very good.

I tried two of their beers - the IPA and the Adnams both kept very well. The wine list was good and reasonably priced. We tried a glass of the 'local' white wine.


The staff on both nights were very helpful and looked after us well. If they did not know the answer to something they went out of their way to find out.

The pub has several neat ideas to attract customers like a loyalty card - spend ten pounds and get one back. Our B+B also had a voucher entitling us to a free drink each. The pub's smokehouse burnt down on November 5th but will be rebuilt at some point.

Excellent place!

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