Large traditional and historic pub on the Main Street of Castleton. We stopped for Sunday lunch. The rambling interior has a central bar and several different seating areas, including a small seating area at the back. There are flagstone floors and lots of rood panelling. There's an extensive menu with a range of full meals, and hot and cold sandwiches, and a good range of real ales. In our party the £10 Sunday Roast went down very well, with generous portions and huge Yorkshire puddings. The £12 veggie burger (minced mushroom) was very good and also generously portioned and cake with sweet potato chips and coleslaw. For s busy Sunday, service was very quick and friendly. So, not the cheapest venue but good value if you can manage the portions. read more

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Great little B&B in the Peak District.... good drinks and food. Hearty English breakfast!!

My favourite spot in Castleton simply because of their excellent cream teas. This 'pub' does better food than I've had in son restaurants. It is a bit pricey, but it's good quality, and Castleton is a big tourist trap, so kind of expected. Lovely atmosphere, and big leather sofas and a real fire mean it's very hard not to nod off after your dinner, especially when the resident cat comes and plinks on your lap : ) read more

Bull's Head Hotel - Bed & Breakfast Near Me - Castleton, DBY

Nicer than average pub grub and a friendly pub cat! We went here on a Monday evening and was quite busy. The inside is lovely, with big tables and a nice wooden bar. They had a good selection of ales, wines and spirits. I had moules frites and my boyfriend had roast chicken. Good portion sizes (you won't leave hungry!) and the mussels were well cooked and fesh tasting. The chips were big chunky chips, I would have preferred French fries. The chicken looked moist, though only 2 roast potatoes! They had a big specials board which looked to change daily. The staff were friendly and attentive. Go here if like good pub grub in a friendly surrounding. read more

Nice enough pub, but there's nothing particularly special about it. Ate here as part of a large group. The menu is one of those gigantic "we do everything" ones, which I always think is a shame: a pub should stick to doing decent British pub grub. Due to some confusion over us needing to pre-order our food before we got here, I ended up with a slightly weird menu: I had a homely soup (OK, but nothing to write home about) followed by monkfish. This, to my surprise, turned out to be a monkfish curry. The accompanying rice was badly underseasoned, crying out for some salt, and the curry itself was reasonable, but again nothing special. It's not too expensive here (my total with coffee came to 20 quid or so), so it's probably a reasonable option if you're here, but I wouldn't go out of your way. read more

I stayed at this pub last weekend as it was a 10 year reunion of a charity trek to china and a walk was on the cards. I found the lady of the house to be very friendly and the breakfast was fantastic. good quality food cooked with attention. The rooms were cosy and the view was fantastic. read more

Bull's Head Hotel - Bed & Breakfast Near Me - Castleton, DBY

Excellent food, although I've not been for a year or so. I'd strongly recommend the steak 'sandwich' which is filling and comes with a delicious salad. The only issue with this place can be trying to get a seat at busy lunchtimes - we've found that it tends to fill up quite quickly. Prices are not extortionate for the quality offered and I'd have no hesitation in recommending it to others. read more

This weekend my family and I took a visit to the Derbyshire Peak District, only 45 mins to an hour outside Manchester. Getting out of the City, even just for one day over the weekend, is highly beneficial for your mental well bits. Perhaps choosing the windiest day for nigh on a thousand years wasn't the best idea. If you walked against the head wind there was no real need to use any of your bodily muscles. Unfortunately the hill climb to Peveril Castle (formed in 1080 by William Peveril on top of what's known locally as 'The Devil's Arse') had to close due to the high strength winds. A passing Russian family attempted a side skirmish up the hill but soon gave up (we were tempted but beaten also). Still, we had a nice stroll around this ancient village surround by caves and mines (Blue John an example) before stopping outside a nice looking old stone boozer known as the 'Bull's Head Hotel' (I'd actually sourced this place via the intrawap on my Blue John capable cell dish phone on top of a hill as we arrived earlier in the day knowing scant little about the village of Castleton). Archaic and Celtic looking on the outside the interior was all fresh and suitably modern, with a wise wooden nature; durable and pleasing floor tiles; massive leather couches and armchairs; the latest versions of halogen GU10's etc. Usually you enter an old country pub and you can see the tenuous link between 'snug and homely' and 'quite frankly a neglected tip'. But this place had the look of a posh mate's pad in places like Wilmslow etc...but with a ruddy faced charm. Sat on the aforementioned leather titanic I ordered a Cumbrian (not sure why in Derbyshire mind?) ale and light wintry garden water for the girls (i.e. the missus and two daughters). They have a decent menu in this place but we disco'd over that and headed for the specials board. The girls both had the cod and chips (trying to get them to experiment more honest!) but these were about as good as you can get them in a pub: succulent batter and fish and properly cooked chips. We both went for the locally reared lamb cooked in mint sauce (as opposed to spoon fed in clumps over the lamb when served). This was wonderfully cooked and highly flavoursome. It came with a side dish of the usual suspects when it came to vegetables (fat carrots and chubby broccoli) but again these tasted the way our all encompassing maker (whomever that is) purported them to be in their first draft designs (I'd almost forgotten what carrots tasted like). Inside a giant Yorkshire pudding (which resembled, in a good way, Brad Pitt's ironic Northern cap wear) where 3 almost perfect roast spuds...I really couldn't fault this main course at all. For desserts we all shared a hot fudge chocolate (with sphere's of chilled vanilla cream) and apple crumble. Here again they had got this just right. If this place were to be located in a large, metropolitan area then I'm sure this would garner respect as a very fine gastro pub. I'm led to believe this recently changed hands during the past couple of months (and didn't carry a particularly healthy bunch of respect). The new owners are clearly demonstrating their passion and experience in this game - everything ran like clockwork from the attentive staff to the fine cooking and to the ambience. As we were leaving there were a huge tube of humans queuing up to get a table, which cements for me the reputation this pub is now receiving. This is in fact a hotel and I'm sure it won't be long before we're packing out north faces into a backpack and heading here for a stopover. read more

Bull's Head Hotel - Bed & Breakfast Near Me - Castleton, DBY

We had a wonderful meal at The Bulls Head today. Good service, pleasant staff, the food was delicious and reasonably priced. We spent all afternoon at the pub not feeling rushed at all. Thanks for a lovely afternoon. Jeanette Weston. read more