Cross Foxes

Pub Details

Address
Overton Bridge
Wales
LL13 0DR
Telephone
(01978) 780380
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 11 (10.30 Sun)

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Cross Foxes, Overton Bridge, Wales, LL13 0DR – The Good Pub Guide
Pub Details | Good Pub Guide Recommended | Good Pub Guide Food | Awards | Good Pub Information |  Rating | Comments

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Terrific river views from well run 18th-c coaching inn with good food and extensive drinks' range
Good oak chairs and tables on a raised terrace and one light and airy dining room with a curved wall of great big sash windows at this beautifully placed Brunning & Price pub have really lovely views over the River Dee sweeping past below; picnic-sets down on a lawn are even closer to the water. The ancient low-beamed bar, with its red tiled floor, dark timbers, a warm fire in the big inglenook and built-in old pews, is more traditional than you'd usually expect from this small chain, though the characteristic turkey rugs and frame-to-frame pictures are present, as they are in the dining areas; newspapers. Friendly competent staff serve Brakspear, Jennings Cumberland and a couple of guests from brewers such as Ringwood and Wychwood from handpumps, a farm cider, 50 malts, an excellent range of armagnacs and a changing choice of around 27 wines by the glass.

Good Pub Guide Food

As well as sandwiches, carefully prepared bar food from a tempting menu might include ploughman's, pressed ham hock and mushroom terrine, home-smoked trout with new potato, red onion and caper salad and mustard dressing, coq au vin with tarragon mash, crab, clam and mussel linguine, pork and sage sausages with champ mash, fried tiger prawn salad with roast peppers and courgettes and orange and chilli dressing, and rump steak with watercress and horseradish butter.

Bar food times: 12 - 9.30 (9 Sun)

Awards

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Bar

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (400 votes cast)

Reader Comments

mpw246pl

Saturday 04 June 2011 6:41:59 pm

Met the rest of the family here for a Saturday lunch and was immediately impressed wioth the surroundings and the view of the river. We were't disappointed inside either, lovely old (but with a modern twist) pub, roomy and was given a large table with a garden/river view.
Food is ordered at the bar. Service was friendly and polite and made us non locals feel welcome.

Food (main course & pudding) was excellent, Fish cakes were humungous but very tasty, Cheese Bacon Burger was very tasty, Rump Steak cooked just right (med rare) and had a lovely buttery taste - the chips with all were clearly home made and delicious.
Chosen puddings were Eaton Mess which was a winner but by far the most popular choice and the winner was the waffles with hot chocolate sauce & vanilla ice-cream.

Highly recommend this pub but beware that the food is priced for the quantity and quality you receive.

pepperst

Thursday 03 September 2009 8:49:08 pm

As big a fan of the Guide as I am, the listing of this pub as a mere lucky dip is a travesty. It is easily one of the better pubs in all of Wales and is of the same standard as its fellow pubs in the Brunning and Price group, all of which are main entries.

Excellent food, wine and beer all of which change regularly and never fail to impress. I cant think of many better places to be when the sun is out then on the banks here by the river with an interesting new local beer in hand, awaiting a locally sourced quality meal.

Just a shame we moved south.

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