Blacksmiths Arms

Pub Details

Address
Talkin
Cumbria
CA8 1LE
Telephone
(016977) 3452
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 3, 6 - 11

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Blacksmiths Arms, Talkin, Cumbria, CA8 1LE – The Good Pub Guide
Pub Details | Good Pub Guide Recommended | Good Pub Guide Food | Awards | Good Pub Information |  Rating | Comments

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Neatly kept and welcoming with tasty bar food, several real ales and good surrounding walks; bedrooms
Run by genuinely friendly licensees, this former blacksmith's has plenty of walks from the door or just a short drive away; it's a quiet and comfortable place to stay. There are several neatly kept, traditionally furnished rooms and the warm lounge on the right has a log fire, upholstered banquettes and wheelback chairs around dark wooden tables on the patterned red carpeting, and country prints and other pictures on the walls. The restaurant is to the left, there's a long lounge opposite the bar, and another room up a couple of steps at the back. Cumberland Corby Ale, Geltsdale Brampton Bitter and Cold Fell and Yates Bitter on handpump, 20 wines by the glass and 30 malt whiskies; piped music, darts and board games. There are a couple of picnic-sets outside the front door with more in the back garden.

Good Pub Guide Food

Reliable, pubby food includes lunchtime sandwiches, creamy garlic mushrooms, vegetable curry, lasagne, sweet and sour chicken, beer-battered haddock, beef stroganoff, and specials like black pudding topped with wholegrain mustard, bacon and cheese sauce, liver, bacon and onion casserole, and duck breast in a port and plum sauce.

Bar food times: 12 - 2, 6 - 9

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Rating

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Rating: 3/5 (75 votes cast)

Reader Comments

pdearing

Wednesday 27 April 2011 9:01:07 pm

Stayed here for three nights over Easter 2011. The warm welcome on our arrival was just as warm on our third day. The landlord and landlady are real people with a genuine friendliness that wears well. Very good food. Excellent service even when very busy as it was over Easter. Well kept cask beers. Rooms are comfortable and quiet. Lots of delightful walks out your door or a short drive away. Highly recommended.

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