Fox

Pub Details

Address
Chetwynd Aston
Shropshire
TF10 9LQ
Telephone
(01952) 815940
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 11 (10.30 Sun)

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Fox, Chetwynd Aston, Shropshire, TF10 9LQ – The Good Pub Guide
Pub Details | Good Pub Guide Recommended | Good Pub Guide Food | Awards | Good Pub Information |  Rating | Comments

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Civilised dining pub with generous helpings of food and a fine array of drinks served by ever-attentive staff
The style of this handsome 1920s Brunning & Price pub, done up a few years ago, will be familiar to anyone who has visited other outposts in this successful chain. Though big and usually busy, it's intimate and friendly, with its welcoming atmosphere, helped along by kindly capable staff. A series of linked areas, one with a broad arched ceiling, has plenty of tables in all shapes and sizes, some quite elegant, and a loosely matching diversity of comfortable chairs, all laid out in a way that's fine for eating but serves equally well for just drinking and chatting. There are masses of attractive prints, three open fires and a few oriental rugs on polished parquet, boards or attractive floor tiling; big windows and careful lighting contribute to the relaxed atmosphere; board games. The handsome bar counter, with a decent complement of bar stools, serves an excellent changing range of about 18 wines by the glass and 50 malt whiskies; Phoenix Brunning & Price Original, Three Tuns XXX, Woods Shropshire Lad and three guests from brewers such as Newmans, Slaters and Titanic, are on handpump. Although highchairs are provided, pushchairs and baby buggies are not allowed; good disabled access. The spreading garden is quite lovely, with a sunny terrace, picnic-sets tucked into the shade of mature trees and extensive views across quiet country fields.

Good Pub Guide Food

As well as sandwiches, well liked food served in generous helpings from a changing menu, might include carrot and coriander soup, grilled mackerel with sundried tomato and basil crème fraîche, grilled trout fillet with confit garlic and sorrel and hazelnut risotto, beef stir fry, mushroom cannelloni, kedgeree, beer-braised ox cheek with parsley and horseradish dumplings, lambs liver and onions, pork belly with apple and sage sauce, battered haddock, and puddings such as chocolate brownie, passion fruit cheesecake, and ginger and rhubarb steamed pudding.

Bar food times: 12 - 10 (9.30 Sun)

Awards

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Bar

Rating

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Rating: 3/5 (607 votes cast)

Reader Comments

keitheastelow

Sunday 12 June 2011 3:34:58 pm

Recently (May 2011) went for dinner. Very well presented menu at reasonable prices.We had steak & kidney pudding & chips. Not very good for the diet but extremely satisfying, my wife had coronation prawn with salad and a large creme brulee which she said was gorgeous. Even though it was a Thursday evening it was packed and we were lucky after a wait to get a table.Good draught beer. Recommend booking if eating.

Liz Bell

Sunday 06 December 2009 6:15:16 pm

This is a well run Brunning & Price pub set in the countryside with ample car park and lovely open views at the rear over their garden. They are building a huge wooden structure in tanalised timber with pitched roof for smokers in the beer garden which will spoil the view. A series of linked dining areas, we picked the one with the only open fire in a huge fireplace with mirror above. Several stripped pine, oak tables and a mix of chairs on a beautifully polished parquet floor with rugs. The friendly staff served our very quick lunch chosen from their light bites menu. I chose a poached egg on roasted root vegetables which looked like yesterday's (Sunday) roast reconstituted! and my partner had pork pie with salad. The barman provided the story behind the unusual arched 'nissen-hut' styled ceiling in the room with the fire. When renovating and extending the house prior to converting into a pub, they stripped back the lowered ceiling to put in the electrics to find this marvelous ceiling and decided to make a feature of it. The pub takes its name from the old Fox pub opposite, (now a house). Well kept ales.

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