Friendly local pub with great staff. Good place to meet the people of Gissing as it is the only pub…read morein the village. Lovely looking old style pub with a great open fire. Pool table and quiz machine also available. Real Ale is very well kept, with normally 2 or 3 on tap at anyone time. Food is excellent, especially the fish on a Friday, large portions, chips and salad and a very reasonable price. Large marquee with lights and heat lamps for those smokers out there.

Looking for a mid-week, working stop over near Norwich. I got a great deal booking through…read morelaterooms.com. £30 a night inc B&B, so I wasn't expecting much. What a find! A superb little coaching Inn with barrels of old world charm throughout. The bar and the restaurant offer a comprehensive selction of real ales and top notch pub food. The services is polite and friendly. But the biggest surprise was the room. I was expecting a single bed in a cramped corner but was offered a very tastefully decorated mini-suite with a very spacious and modern bathroom on the lower level and the huge double bedroom above in a renovated loft space. The only thing to let this place down is that at the time of writing, mobile phone & internet access is very poor and non-existant. If the hotel was to offer Wi-Fi to its mid-week working customers I think I could forgive the lack of mobile reception which is obviously beyond the hotel's control. Highly recommended as both comfortable and affordable with great food and drink. Ideal weekend getaway.

Have been previously and the food has been great. The staff are friendly and the interior of the…read morepub is really cosy. I was so disappointed when I had my last meal there as the quality was poor. I had a burger and I was expecting something which tasted homemade. It was just processed rubbish and it tasted awful. The same can be said for the dessert. To be fair to the manager, he was very apologetic and we didn't pay for any of the food that we complained about.

Lovely food.Fast service. Smallish menu for some of our party.read more

Great food, mixture of pub classics and bistro food at reasonable prices. Owners are welcoming and…read morestaff friendly. Just wish iwe were in walking distance otherwise would be in there all the time

What a cheerful little place. Plenty of odd corners, inside and out; friendly staff; the simple…read morebaguette lunch we had was most acceptable. Open all day for food, which makes it very useful if we need somewhere to go and stay for ages!

A warm and welcoming, family friendly pub. Serving good food at reasonable prices. Closed mondays…read moreexcept bank holidays. Special offers available every thursday ( 2 for £12 ) on selected meals.

If you're looking for a good pub, it doesn't get much better than this…read more Lovingly called simply "The Axe" by locals, this pub is in a different league to most other rural pubs. I'll explain why and try to be concise. The cuisine is exceptional. There's a good selection of quality drinks. The service is excellent. The atmosphere is always friendly and welcoming -- the sort of place where complete strangers tend to strike-up conversation. The location is perfect, overlooking the Village Green, with a big beer garden behind, and a vast playing field behind that. It's a lovely village, nestled in the gently-undulating farming landscape of rural north-east Herts -- no wonder Braughing was recently awarded the prestigious "Village of the Year" accolade. The pub's menu always includes the best of local produce, from locally-reared beef to local pork sausages, alongside popular country pub dishes. (Braughing village is famous for, among other things, the delicious local sausages, and this is a good place to sample them.) Did I mention the pies? A different pie every day it seems, and you won't find better pies than these. I don't make a statement like that lightly.

Great gastro pub. Fab food, atmosphere and really friendly service. Strongly recommended.read more

The Bear has become a good quality gastro pub recently with a nice atmosphere and a good menu and…read moresome great specials. The ambiance is relaxed country pub and the staff are very helpful. There is a reasonable ca park as it gets quite hard to park in the summer. I have visited for lunch and dinner and both were very nicely presented and well cooked. The skate is very tasty and the scampi and Jenga chips are good. The costs can be a little bit higher for lunch but the menu is very similar and therefore for dinner, I thought it was quite reasonable. Peter who used to be at another Billericay restaurant is the restaurant manager and as normal makes sure we get well looked after.

We went out for a roadrun with military vehicles just before Christmas ending in Old Buckenham at…read moreThe Gamekeeper. We had booked in for 11 people at 12pm. Overall everybody was pleased with very decent mains, probably a step up from traditional pub food, as well as desserts. Well worth the stop when in the neighbourhood. They do gluten-free, but you need to be on top to make sure they deliver that.

Delicious food, incredible service, amazing atmosphere and best drinks around! Loved the…read morehospitality and warm welcome. The food couldn't be beat...along with the beer and and the best made Irish coffee for dessert,

Formerly The Sun. It's opposite Superdrug…read more Great views of the Mere. Great for pub grub.

Okay, if I'm finally getting to review in the UK after 2 years of waiting where do I start? How…read moreabout the pub at the end of my street? YESSS Because my local is amazing. Truly. It's got strange live music, a pool table, a beer garden, free newspapers, a small but decent selection of beers, seating on the street, bar billiards (sometimes) and... thousands of pigs. That's right - this dark but warm little pub is brimful of random pig toys, pig posters and pig sculptures. It adds a unique atmosphere to an already well-known atmospheric pub. Being only about 20 houses away, you can trust me that this is a true local gem. After 5 on most nights you'll find this place packed with drinkers who can't be bothered to go home just yet or catch the train home to the villages. Even if it's near-freezing out you'll still see us taking our beers out and sitting on the grass by the BBC next door so that the smokers can smoke away. And on a hot summer night - it's just perfect. No need to go home until I get thrown out.

It's nice enough. A bit on the pretentious side a small English style pub with an intimate manner…read more Good beer but missing the pub classics. Musicians followed poets and etc on the tiny area for performing. None rated above a 'meh' but better than a sports crowd glued to the glowing grinning eye of the government.