Cock

Pub Details

Address
47 High Street
Hemingford Grey
Cambridgeshire
PE28 9BJ
Telephone
(01480) 463609
Opening Times
Weekdays
11.30 - 3, 6 - 11
Sundays
12 - 10.30 summer
Winter
closed between 3 and 6 Sat and between 4 and 6.30 Sun in

Location

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Licensee information

Licensee name
Oliver Thain
Free house


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Good Pub Guide Recommended

Imaginative food in pretty pub, extensive wine list, four interesting beers, a bustling atmosphere, and smart restaurant
Cleverly, this well run place manages to be a pub as well as a restaurant – and you can be sure of a genuinely friendly welcome wherever you choose to sit and whether you are dining or just popping in for a drink. The bar rooms have dark or white-painted beams, lots of contemporary pale yellow and cream paintwork, artwork here and there, fresh flowers and church candles, and throughout a really attractive mix of old wooden dining chairs, settles and tables. They've sensibly kept the traditional public bar on the left for drinkers only: an open woodburning stove on the raised hearth, bar stools, wall seats and a carver, steps that lead down to more seating, Brewsters Hophead, Great Oakley Wagtail, Nethergate IPA and Tydd Steam Barn Ale on handpump, 17 wines by the glass and local farm cider. In marked contrast, the stylishly simple spotless restaurant on the right - you must book to be sure of a table – is set for dining with flowers on each table, pale wooden floorboards and another woodburning stove. There are seats and tables among stone troughs and flowers in the neat garden and lovely hanging baskets.

Good Pub Guide Food

As well as a two-and-three-course set lunch menu (not Sunday), the excellent food might include lunchtime sandwiches, celeriac, potato and chive rösti with marinated mushrooms, spinach and a poached egg, duck parcel with sweet and sour cucumber, cauliflower and chestnut toad in the hole with braised onions and stilton, pork cheeks with lamb sweetbreads, parsnip purée and ale gravy, and chicken breast with jerusalem artichoke and herb gratin, crème fraiche and truffle oil.

Bar food times: 12 - 2.30 (3 Sun) , 6.30 - 9 (6 - 9.30 Fri and Sat; 6.30 - 8.30 Sun)

Awards

Good Pub Information

Children allowed in: Childrens Indoors Rest
Children allowed lunchtime only
Dogs allowed in: Dogs Bar

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (441 votes cast)

Reader Comments

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Saturday 16 October 2010 6:04:24 pm

Love this place. Beer always in great nick, food great, interesting but not over complex, and the service is soooo friendly. My only complaint is we can't always get in...worth booking...

casualdiner

Friday 15 October 2010 9:23:41 pm

A regular haunt for my wife and I friendly service and good food. A nice bar as well if you just fancy a drink.

ThePubInspector

Tuesday 12 October 2010 10:08:52 pm

This really should be the perfect pub ... and the bar is certainly atmospheric in a perfect village way. The restaurant part of the pub is a bit pretentious though and thinks it's better than it really is. I've been here a couple of times now and have really wanted to have a good time but I've come away a disappointed. The food is OK but you get a sense the management take it all very seriously and don't particularly like their customers. The last time I was there one of the staff was cleaning cutlery, throwing it into a cutlery drawer just behind my head. When I asked her to stop she said she had a job to do - fair enough I guess - but the noise was unbearable. When I mentioned it to the manager he practically threw me out! It wasn't a great experience. Was I being unreasonable? I don't think so. Clattering cutlery isn't condusive to a relaxing country pub afternoon. I've tried to like this pub but I won't be spending £100 again there as there are loads of other good pubs in the area.

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