Horse & Groom

Pub Details

Address
Bourton-on-the-Hill
Gloucestershire
GL56 9AQ
Telephone
(01386) 700413
Opening Times
Weekdays
11 - 2.30, 6 - 11
Sundays
12 - 3.30
Closed
Sun evening

Location

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Licensee information

Licensee name
Tom Greenstock
Free house

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What have they got?

Beers and drinks the Licensee currently sells

Gloucestershire

Hook Norton
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North Cotswold
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Purity
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Stroud
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Whittingtons
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Wye Valley
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Cotswold Premium Lager, Cotswold Wheat Beer, Battledown Brewery



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  2. The beautiful beer garden
The beautiful beer garden
Pub Details | Licensee information | What have they got? | Beers and drinks the Licensee currently sells | Good Pub Guide Recommended | Good Pub Guide Food | Awards | Good Pub Information |  Rating | Comments

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Handsome Georgian inn with a fine range of drinks, excellent food, friendly staff and lovely views from seats outside; smart bedrooms
‘This lovely pub never fails to delight' and ‘what a gem of a place' are just two comments from our many enthusiastic readers about this particularly well run honey-coloured stone inn. The licensee brothers and their staff are unfailingly polite and friendly and you are made just as welcome if it's only a drink and a chat that you want rather than a leisurely meal (though it would be a pity to miss out on the delicious food). The pubby bar is light and airy with a nice mix of wooden chairs and tables on bare boards, stripped-stone walls, a good log fire, Goffs Jouster and guests like Cotswold Wheat Beer and Premium Lager, Festival Gold or Wye Valley Ruby Ale on handpump, local cider, and 20 wines by the glass. There are plenty of original features throughout. The large back garden has lots of seats under smart umbrellas and fine views over the surrounding countryside. It's best to get here early to be sure of a space in the smallish car park. This is a lovely place to stay. Batsford Arboretum is not far away.

Good Pub Guide Food

Enticing meals might include parmesan and rosemary-crumbed sardine fillets with devilled aioli, rillettes of confit duck with home-made piccalilli, wild mushroom and thyme risotto cakes with smashed roasted squash and parmesan, home-cured glazed tamworth ham with egg, skate wing with cornish mussels and café de paris butter, middlewhite pork and chorizo meatballs with slow-cooked tomato and rosemary sauce and polenta, and puddings such as sticky chocolate pudding with chocolate toffee sauce and spiced apple and pear flapjack crumble.

Bar food times: 12 - 2.30, 7 - 9.30; not Sun evening

Awards

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Rating

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Rating: 3.5/5 (775 votes cast)

Reader Comments

andrewravesax

Monday 28 May 2012 5:26:25 pm

excellent lunch. innovative food. friendly service. very pleasant sitting in the garden. and not too expensive.

mads

Monday 08 August 2011 12:10:41 pm

Stopped for lunch whilst walking in the area. What a treat!! Outstanding welcome,service,presentation and quality of food. We even had sunshine! What a gem of a place, will definitely be visiting again soon. Thank-you, mads

suek

Sunday 23 January 2011 10:15:58 am

Excellent food here and very helpful and friendly. We did not immediately realise that the menu is on the wall and you have to order from the bar. Highly recommended.

Liz Bell

Sunday 06 December 2009 7:39:55 pm

Now run by the Greenstock boys (Tom and Will) we were eager to check it out as we were staying at their parents' previous venture, the Howard Arms over in Ilmington and had heard good reports. We called on a Tuesday for an early evening drink around 5.45 pm on our way back from Chipping Campden, only to find it closed. We had diverted so were not well pleased. The car park too, was empty. Need to review their opening times please.

jwtaylor

Sunday 14 June 2009 5:46:31 pm

Disappointed with this pub - as we never got to try it. One evening we arrived early just as the owner closed the pub to go fishing. When we asked why, we were told "Because it's mine and I feel it." A few days later we passed it at 10pm on a Thursday and it was closed.

Ben1411

Tuesday 09 December 2008 3:23:47 pm

This is a fantastic pub. Tom the owner when around is always inviting and the whole place has a great warm atmosphere. Highly recommended.


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