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Good Pub Guide Recommended
Enjoyable and well run, this is a bustling old pub with attentive, friendly staff and a lot of character and atmosphere.The public bar has a good mix of locals and visitors and the other rambling rooms have beams, standing timbers and flagstones, pews, settles and country-kitchen chairs around a mix of tables, armchairs and sofas, and roaring fires. Bath Ales Gem Bitter, St Austell Tribute and Wells & Youngs Bitter on handpump and 14 wines by the glass. Piped music, board games, TV and games machine. Outside there's a skittle alley, two boules pitches, often in use by one of the many pub teams, a boules festival in July and mangold hurling (cattle turnip throwing). The two pretty gardens include an extended terrace where they hold barbecues and spit roasts. The pub is named after its ghost the Saxon warrior John Rattlebone. They have wheelchair access.
Good Pub Guide Food
Good bar food includes sandwiches, scallops with pea purée and crispy serrano ham, home-cooked ham with free-range eggs, goats cheese and roast vegetables en croûte with horseradish and beetroot relish, home-made burger with stilton and onion marmalade, rump of lamb with cucumber and olive salsa and tomato olive oil, and duck breast on spring onion mash with chilli, coriander and soy dressing.
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