Bear

Pub Details

Address
Alderwasley
Derbyshire
DE56 2RD
Telephone
(01629) 822585
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 11 (10.30 Sun)

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Bear, Alderwasley, Derbyshire, DE56 2RD – The Good Pub Guide
Pub Details | Good Pub Guide Recommended | Good Pub Guide Food | Awards | Good Pub Information |  Rating | Comments

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Unspoilt country inn with low-beamed cottagey rooms, good range of real ales, and a peaceful garden; bedrooms
Readers can't heap enough praise on this terrific all-rounder. Justifiably popular, this happy characterful tavern has lovely dark low-beamed rooms with warming open fires and a cheerful miscellany of antique furniture including high-backed settles and locally made antique oak chairs with derbyshire motifs. One little room is filled right to its built-in wall seats by a single vast table. Other décor includes staffordshire china ornaments, old paintings and engravings. There's no obvious front door - you get in through the plain back entrance by the car park, and as it can get busy you may need to book. Bass, Derby Blue Bear, Hartington IPA, Thornbridge Jaipur and Timothy Taylors Landlord are on handpump alongside a guest or two, and they do several wines by the glass from a decent list, as well as malt whiskies. Well spaced picnic-sets out on the side grass have peaceful country views.

Good Pub Guide Food

As well as sandwiches and home-made crusty rolls (afternoons only), bar food might include smoked haddock fishcakes with citrus mayonnaise, whitebait, chicken breast with tomato, onion and chorizo, pork medallions with wholegrain mustard and cider sauce, duck breast with orange and brandy sauce, scallops on warm pancetta and black pudding salad, battered haddock, spinach and ricotta tortellini, and steaks.

Bar food times: 12 - 3, 6 - 9; 12 - 9 Fri - Sun

Awards

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Bar

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (185 votes cast)

Reader Comments

donmitchell

Monday 21 September 2009 8:51:46 pm

Highly recommended. While en route Dorset to Scotland we stayed one night in one of the cottages adjacent to the pub. Very comfortable and couldn't fault it. Food in pub excellent, great atmosphere, staff very helpful, friendly and eager to please. Good hearty breakfast and quantity just right.

ericanddiana

Tuesday 14 April 2009 8:05:00 pm

Lives up to its recommendation. Bass and TT Landlord well kept. Menu imaginative; food very good and not too expensive. Licensees very friendly and welcoming.

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