Editor’s choice: 2016 Gastropubs

gastropubs are welcoming pubs which serve high-quality food – and we’ve picked the best of the bunch plus chosen top places where you can stay over and be assured of luxury hotel standards. food, wine and ambience have been independently reviewed to bring you the uk’s top ten gastropubs.

Editor’s choice: 2016 Gastropubs

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The Sun Inn

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Colchester

‘A convivial local gathering spot’, Piers Baker’s 15th-century, timber-framed inn stands ‘in a prime situation’ in ‘this endearing village of variously coloured houses’ in Constable Country.
  • child_friendly
  • garden
  • wifi
  • parking
  • exceptional_value
  • historic
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The Cat Inn

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West Hoathly

Popular with locals, ramblers and foodies, this comfortably modernised Victorian freehouse-with-rooms welcomes visitors with ‘big smiles’ and a ‘warm-hearted atmosphere’.
  • walking
  • dog_friendly
  • wifi
  • wine
  • wi-fi
  • golf
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The Stagg Inn

The Stagg Inn

Kington

‘We were made so welcome and were well looked after,’ writes a reader, of a stay at this pub-with-rooms at the meeting point of two old drovers’ roads.
  • child_friendly
  • walking
  • garden
  • value
  • dog_friendly
  • wifi
  • parking
  • wi-fi
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The Gurnard’s Head

The Gurnard’s Head

St Ives

‘We cannot praise it too highly,’ says a report this year on brothers Charles and Edmund Inkin’s dining pub with rooms.
  • child_friendly
  • walking
  • garden
  • value
  • dog_friendly
  • wifi
  • seaside
  • wi-fi
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The Feathered Nest

The Feathered Nest

Chipping Norton

Far-reaching views across sheep-spotted countryside spool away from this ‘splendid’ 300-year-old malthouse-turned-restaurant-with-rooms above the Evenlode valley.
  • weddings
  • walking
  • garden
  • wifi
  • tennis
  • gourmet
  • wine
  • wi-fi
  • child_friendly
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The Brownlow Arms

The Brownlow Arms

Hough-on-the-Hill

‘A homely village pub within easy reach of the A1 and well worth the detour,’ writes a trusted Guide reader after a three-night stay at Paul and Lorraine Willoughby’s traditional inn.
  • wifi
  • gourmet
  • walking
  • wi-fi
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The Red Lion Freehouse

The Red Lion Freehouse

East Chisenbury

Readers this year ‘ran out of superlatives’ after a ‘rather splendid visit’ to this thatched gastropub in ‘a delightful village’.
  • child_friendly
  • walking
  • garden
  • dog_friendly
  • wifi
  • gourmet
  • view
  • disabled
  • wi-fi
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The Victoria

The Victoria

London

‘Convenient for Heathrow,’ wrote readers flying from Australia. They so ‘loved the feel’ of this gastropub with rooms half a mile from Richmond Park that they were planning a return visit.
  • child_friendly
  • walking
  • garden
  • value
  • wifi
  • parking
  • wi-fi

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Last updated: October 8, 2018. Information from the 2019 Good Hotel Guide