Inn at West End
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Gerry Price
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We are a dining pub, but still a pub! We have Fullers London Pride as our pouring bitter and another ale such as Black Sheep, Timothy Taylor Landlors, Adnams Bitter, Greene King IPA etc. It tends to be a sub 4% beer as many of our customers drive to us.
We have about twenty Malt whiskies - not a huge collection but worth dipping into all the same.
Our wine list is huge and we tend to have a lot from Portugal as we have got to know them pretty well and they are under represented in the UK.
Our food is all fresh. We must be mad but we have just bought our own pigs - a Sow, a Gilt and eleven weaners. They are eating us out of house and home and are pretty demanding but great fun. You can just stand and chat to them for hours - make more sense than most people I speak to!
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Good Pub Guide Recommended
Enjoyable fresh-feeling dining pub, with prompt friendly service; excellent food, good wines, and terrace
This is a beautifully run pub, polished and well organised, but with an enjoyably relaxed feel throughout. The charming licensee is a wine merchant, so the thoughtfully created food is well complemented by the knowledgeably chosen wines (with around a dozen by the glass), several sherries and dessert wines that lean particularly towards Spain and Portugal. He holds wine tastings and can supply by the case. The pub is open-plan, with bare boards, attractive modern prints on canary yellow walls above a red dado, and a line of dining tables with crisp white linen over pale yellow tablecloths on the left. The bar counter (Fullers London Pride and a guest such as Black Sheep on handpump), straight ahead as you come in, is quite a focus, with chatting regulars perched on the comfortable bar stools. The area on the right has a pleasant relaxed atmosphere, with blue-cushioned wall benches and dining chairs around solid pale wood tables, broadsheet daily papers, magazines and a row of reference books on the brick chimneybreast above a woodburning stove. This opens into a garden room, which in turn leads to a grape and clematis pergola-covered terrace and very pleasant garden; boules.Good Pub Guide Food
Skilfully prepared using carefully sourced ingredients (some of the herbs and vegetables are grown here, they pluck their own game and use organic meat), not cheap but very good bar food might include smoked fish platter, fried chicken livers with black pudding and croutons, chicken caesar salad, kedgeree, cumberland sausage and mash, vegetable cottage pie, well hung sirloin steak, roast chicken breast with garlic and herb sauce, and puddings such as crème brûlée with cranberry shortbread, south african vinegar pudding and toffee, banana, apple and pecan crumble pie with toffee sauce.
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Sunday 06 December 2009 8:14:26 pm
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