Greyhound

Pub Details

Address
26 High Street
Sydling St Nicholas
Dorset
DT2 9PD
Telephone
(01300) 341303
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 3, 6 - 11
Sundays
12 - 3
Closed
Sun evening

Location

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Licensee information

Licensee name
martin frizell
What they say
see our website at www.dorsetgreyhound…
Free house

What have they got?



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Pub Details | Licensee information | What have they got? | Good Pub Guide Recommended | Good Pub Guide Food | Awards | Good Pub Information |  Rating | Comments

Good Pub Guide Recommended

New licensees for this charming former coaching inn, country décor, real ales, wines by the glass, and imaginative food; refurbished bedrooms
Enthusiastic new licensees have taken over this charming pub in a pretty streamside village. There's a beamed and flagstoned serving area with plenty of bar stools and a carpeted bar with a comfortable mix of straightforward tables and chairs, some country decorations and a warm fire in a handsome Portland stone fireplace. Butcombe Bitter, Sydling Bitter (brewed for them by St Austell) and a changing guest such as Hop Back Summer Lightning on handpump, a farm cider, around 14 wines by the glass and several malt whiskies. The cosy, smarter dining room has a glass-covered well set into the floor (coachmen used it to pull up buckets of water for the horses during stagecoach stops) and the recently refurbished conservatory has attractive rustic furniture around scrubbed wooden tables and a green leather chesterfield. The small front garden has picnic-sets and a children's play area. The bedrooms have all been upgraded.

Good Pub Guide Food

Using lots of local fish and seafood, baking their own bread and making their own pasta, the imaginative food might include sandwiches, a proper bouillabaisse, rabbit terrine with red onion marmalade, tea-smoked mackerel with horseradish pannacotta, pigeon caesar salad with caramelised chicory and anchovy aioli, blue lobster and maize-fed chicken ravioli with a mussel and saffron broth, and fillet steak with a veal kidney pie and celeriac purée.

Bar food times: 12 - 2 (2.30 Sun) , 6.30 - 9; not Sun evening

Awards

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Bar

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (469 votes cast)

Reader Comments

BrianG

Monday 12 July 2010 2:45:52 pm

Visted 9th July 2010. Excellent pub in a lovely village. Friendly welcome from owner and nothing was too much trouble. Lots of tables both inside and out. Good range of food to choose from including a fresh fish menu (it was a Friday) and the Pollock and chips was perfectly cooked and very tasty. Can't find anyhting to fault !

david.holland4

Sunday 13 September 2009 4:35:13 pm

We had really good beer at this pub, and REALLY good food.
We will certainly pay a return visit. The pigeon breast on an oxtail faggot is one of the best starters I have ever had,
Dave & Ann, Mansfield, Notts.

NClifton

Tuesday 25 August 2009 2:12:35 pm

I suppose the problem with a pub highly rated for food is that expectations are that much higher. Having ordered Bouillabaisse I was hoping for a tasty fish soup. What I had was a small quantity of thin tomato and vegetable stock with a scallop, forkful of salmon and a few mussels. The stock had not thickened as it should, the flavour was wrong (tarragon), no white fish and no rouille. Sacre bleu.

Sherman

Thursday 20 August 2009 1:23:48 pm

Found this pub to be excellent. Exactly how it's described in the book.

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