Dysart Arms

Civilised chatty dining pub attractively filled with good furniture in thoughtfully laid out rooms; very enjoyable food, lovely garden with pretty views.

Readers continue to like this very friendly and delightfully comfortable Brunning & Price country pub. Its knocked-through rooms have an amiable, homely and sociable atmosphere: they are immaculately kept and ramble gently around the pleasantly lit central bar. Cream walls keep it light, clean and airy, with deep venetian red ceilings adding cosiness, and each room (some with good winter fires) is cleverly furnished with an appealing variety of well spaced sturdy wooden tables and chairs, a couple of tall filled bookcases and just the right amount of carefully chosen bric-a-brac, properly lit pictures and plants. Flooring ranges from red and black tiles, to stripped boards and some carpet. Service is efficient and friendly. Thwaites and Weetwood Eastgate and a couple of guests such as Crouch Vale Brewers Gold and Titanic Lifeboat are very well kept on handpump, alongside a good selection of 16 wines by the glass and just over 20 malts. Sturdy wooden tables on the terrace and picnic sets on the lawn in the neatly kept slightly elevated garden are lovely in summer, with views of the splendid church at the end of the pretty village, and the distant Peckforton Hills beyond.

From a changing menu, food is tasty, just imaginative enough, attractively presented, and fairly priced. As well as sandwiches, there might be cheshire cheese patty or potted salt beef starters, lighter dishes like crab and spinach quiche or ‘proper' corned beef hash, and a varied choice of main courses such as slow roasted belly pork, smoked haddock rarebit, roast parsnip and chestnut crumble, and their popular home made steakburger. Puddings could include vanilla and gingerbread cheesecake, bakewell tart or chocolate bread.