Brace of Pheasants

Pub Details

Address: Plush

Dorset

DT2 7RQ
Telephone: (01300) 348357

Opening Times: Weekdays
12 - 3, 7 - 11 (10.30 Sun)

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

16th-c thatched pub with friendly service, three real ales, lots of wines by the glass, well liked food and a decent garden; good nearby walks; comfortable bedrooms

Once the village smithy and two cottages, this handsome thatched place is tucked away in a pretty village. The beamed bar has a mix of locals (and maybe their dogs) and visitors, windsor chairs around good solid tables on the patterned carpet, a few standing timbers, a huge heavy-beamed inglenook at one end with cosy seating inside, and a good warming log fire at the other. Flack Manor Double Drop, Sharps Doom Bar and a guest like Palmers Copper tapped from the cask, a fine choice of wines with 18 by the glass and proper farm cider; friendly service. A decent-sized garden includes a terrace and a lawn sloping up towards a rockery. The pub is well placed for walks in beautifully folded countryside - an attractive bridleway behind goes to the left of the woods and over to Church Hill. The ensuite bedrooms are nicely fitted out and comfortable.

Good Pub Guide Food

A shortish choice of bar food includes sandwiches, lambs kidneys with a mustard cream sauce, battered fish of the day, local faggots with onion gravy, portabello mushrooms with cream cheese and herb stuffing and red pepper yoghurt dressing, and baked hake in tomatoes, white wine and paprika.