Potting Shed

Pub Details

Address
The Street
Crudwell
Wiltshire
UK
SN16 9EW
Telephone
01666 577833
Opening Times
Weekdays
11am - midnight (11pm Sun)

Location

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Licensee information

Licensee name
Laura Sheffield
What they say
Discover great beer, wine and delicious food at Cirencester's foodie public house, The Potting Shed Pub.

The Potting Shed Pub is an exciting venture situated 200 yards across the road from the Rectory Hotel in the village of Crudwell. Our philosophy is to focus on a classic British Menu, accompanied by a selection of quality, well-kept British ales and an extensive choice of wine, champagne and port – all served with a traditional warmth of service. It marks the rebirth of the traditional British Dining Pub, moving away from the 'over done' gastropub, focusing on the things that really matter: namely, a beautiful environment, great beers on tap, a concise and interesting wine list and of course fantastic food.
Enterprise

What have they got?

Beers and drinks the Licensee currently sells

Bath
Somerset

Butcombe
Somerset

Timothy Taylors
Yorkshire



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Potting Shed - at dusk
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Good Pub Guide Recommended

Appealing variation on the traditional country tavern theme, a fine choice of drinks, interesting food, and friendly staff
Rather than just another pub/restaurant, this highly enjoyable place is a proper country pub where people and dogs are genuinely welcomed by the cheerful young staff – and they have a fantastic range of drinks and often inventive food as well. Low-beamed rooms ramble around the bar with mixed plain tables and chairs on pale flagstones, log fires (one in a big worn stone fireplace, some well worn easy chairs in one corner, and a couple of blacktop daily papers. Four steps take you up into a high-raftered further area with coir carpeting, and there's one separate smaller room ideal for a lunch or dinner party. The rustic decorations are not overdone and quite fun: a garden-fork door handle, garden-tool beer pumps, rather witty big black and white photographs. Bath Ales Gem Bitter, Butcombe Bitter, Timothy Taylors Landlord and St Austell Tribute on handpump, as well as an excellent range of 30 wines and champagne by the glass, home-made seasonal cocktails using local or home-grown fruit, local fruit liqueurs, good coffees and popular winter mulled wine; visiting dogs may meet Barney and Rubbles (the pub dogs) and be offered biscuits. Well chosen piped music and board games. They have summer barbecues on fine Saturdays; there are sturdy teak seats around cask tables as well as picnic-sets out on the side grass among weeping willows.

Good Pub Guide Food

Imaginative food, using their own-grown fruit and vegetables and produce from the villagers to whom they've loaned allotments, might include sandwiches, marinated, seared duck with pomegranate seeds, orange and candied ginger, venison burger with onion marmalade, wild mushroom and truffle open lasagne, old spot pork belly and cider casserole, and halibut fillet with mussel broth, crispy leeks and capers.

Bar food times: 12 - 2.30 (3 Sun) , 7 - 9.30 (9 Sun)

Awards

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Anywhere

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (599 votes cast)

Reader Comments

popolll

Tuesday 15 February 2011 4:19:31 pm

Wonderful food, relaxed atmosphere, attentive staff. Its hard to think what they could do better.

micha&gordon

Sunday 09 January 2011 8:43:12 pm

We recently had lunch at the Potting Shed and absolutely loved everything about the experience from the food to the staff to the atmosphere. We were looking at the Pub as a possible venue for a private event and wanted to try the food and meet the team. I devoured my vegetarian wellington and it was delicious and made with fresh and flavorful ingredients. Needless to say we have booked the Pub for a hog roast this coming summer and we can't wait! I highly recommend this Pub.

mikemoss

Wednesday 13 October 2010 12:44:37 pm

Mmmm...I just hope the food has improved a very great deal indeed since we tried this place a year ago. My crab salad consisted of a napkin-ring sized piece of white crab meat with remarkably little taste and three (or maybe four) leaves of either lettuce or rocket. Sue chose belly pork but received a small lump of very fatty and uncrisp meat and a few go-withs.

At least they had the decency to give me my money back. Overall, a very underwhelming experience in a pub where I got the feeling they were trying too hard and missing the point.

Jenbarc6

Thursday 11 March 2010 11:39:16 am

We visited this pub for lunch in Feb when holidaying in the area. The staff were friendly and prompt to serve us. We took our baby in his pram are were welcomed and given a comfortable table with space for our pram/baby. The food was exceptional. We couldn't find fault with it at all. Good variety of food and real ales (which pleased my husband!). Would recommend this pub to anyone in the area. Beautiful decor, good food, good staff. What more could you ask for? I can see why it's 'Good Pub Guide' rated

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