eating out
The first four are our firm favourites locally -
The Old Dairy Tea Rooms, Harts Barn, Mitcheldean/Longhope border serve traditional teas and cakes, and lunches such as home made Thai Fishcakes. They also do fantastic Sunday Lunches (prior booking necesssary), a monthly Friday night Fish and Chip Supper and the loft room can be privately hired for a Saturday night to accomodate all of The General Stores Guests for dinner, within a stones throw of the house. Ring Joanne or Zoe on 01452 831 221, or click the image to visit their site.
The Ship Inn in Newnham-on-Severn, about five miles away. Contact them on 01594 516283, or click the image to link to their site.
When you eat at The Ship Inn you’ll experience great tasting, well presented food … so good that you’ll want to return again and again like so many of their food loving diners and guests.
All the food is freshly prepared on the premises and sourced from local suppliers. They endeavour to only use foods that are in season and only of the highest quality.
The Red Hart, Blaisdon – a cracking country pub complete with open fire, cats and dogs and old fashioned board games. And a good beer garden with wooden furniture and lots of wooden play equipment to keep kids happy.
Not forgetting great food for which people eagerly await opening time in the car park and some good beers and real ales too.
Pre-booking is essential on 01452 830477 and they have a private dining room if required for lunches or evening meals for large groups.
The Farmer’s Boy in Longhope – a fantastic pub with ever increasingly good reviews. Not contect with improving the menu massively and making their own pies available through their Mad About Pies shop, they now also have a deli on site. A huge garden too, so children can rampage around whilst you eat outside, and they are equallly accepting of children inside the pub (maybe less of the rampaging though) . Contact them on 01452 831300, or click the image to go straight to their site.
The Fountain Inn, Parkend, Near Lydney, The Forest of Dean, GL15 4JD
Take a trip back in time at The Fountain Inn. Built two hundred years ago to serve the local mining population, it was extended to provide refreshment and accommodation for passengers when the Great Western Railway reached the village in 1868. Relax and enjoy a drink in our comfortable bar with its open fire and cozy atmosphere, or choose from the extensive menu of traditional forest fayre. The inn has eight guest rooms, offering a variety of accommodation. The inn also offers a function room which can seat up to 300 people.
The Crown of Crucis is to be found in a picturesque village setting in the beautiful South Cotswolds near the town of Cirencester known as Corinium in its heyday of Ancient Roman times.
Ampney Crucis, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 5RS
Tel: +44(0)1285 851 806
Email: info@thecrownofcrucis.co.uk
Web: www.thecrownofcrucis.co.uk
The Old Passage Inn – Restaurant & Hotel
Arlingham : Gloucestershire : GL2 7JR
Tel : (44) 01452 740 547
Fax: (44) 01452 741 871
The freshest fish is found here with the highest quality cuisine to be found anywhere.
Luxurious bedrooms – all en-suite and air-conditioned offer delightful views across the River Severn.
The Speech House Hotel is a 17th century former hunting lodge set in the heart of the Forest of Dean. Comfortably appointed bedrooms, several with four-poster beds have been tastefully refurbished and offer modern facilities while retaining their original charm.
The beamed Verderer’s Court restaurant reflects the room’s continuing use as a courthouse for the Foresters of Dean, while the more intimate Freeminers Restaurant maintains links with a unique Forest tradition.
Tel: 01594 822 607 – Fax: 01594 823 658 – Email: relax@thespeechhouse.co.uk
Emperor Cantonese Restaurant : High St, Mitcheldean, Gloc. Tel : 01594 544 777
The Forest’s Newest Cantonese Restaurant, is open six days a week from 12.00 noon to 2.00pm, and 5.30pm to 11.00pm and serves as a day-time cafe and lunch venue, and evening restaurant. It specializes in fish, with Steamed Sea Bass, Steamed Scallop in the Shell, Stir Fried Whole Lobster and Stir Fried Crab with Ginger and Spring Onion
Next door is the Golden Kitchen, serving Chinese take-away meals and fish and chips.
The White Horse and The Lamb are the other two pubs in Mitcheldean. The White Horse, next to Mitcheldean Town Hall is an informal, friendly pub – with live coverage of all big games.
White Hart Inn
Broadoak, Newnham, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, GL14 1JB
Tel: 01594 516319
This riverside pub just north of Newnham is popular with young people. Of interest is the well inside the pub.
On leaving Newnham-on-Severn, and heading towards the Mitcheldean and Flaxley turnoff, the White Hart Inn is on the right hand side. It is a fantastic spot for watching the Severn bore, and has outdoor seating for one hundred or so. It is a fantastic spot for stopping and enjoying the River Severn to its best advantage.