Excellent food. Friendly staff. Value for money. Highly recommended.
Good selection of beer food good for a pub
Fantastic fry up and great beer. Friendly and relaxing atmosphere.
Fab pub, great staff and atmosphere. Awesome garden!
Absolutely delicious food, and nice decor and atmosphere too. All our starters were exceptional. Last night was too wet to eat outside unfortunately but the garden looked so pretty, we will be back!
What a hidden gem π lovely local pub, great beer garden, fantastic value for money. The food was lovely, soo enjoyed my Sunday afternoon here π
Nice dogs friendly countryside pub, sports on couple of screens, big garden with space for kids to play. Wide selection of vintage beer from all over the world, only as a decor unfortunately π
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A grand pub well worth the trip out of St Albans. Let's be sure we keep it out of the hands of Mitchell's & Butler or it will become a blooming 'vintage inn' or something else awful.
2021 December update (actually it's not quite December, it is in four days though) still as lively as ever. Grand, friendly bunch of folk and cheerful, quick and helpful staff. Absolutely a favourite.
It's like a pub Morse and Lewis used to go to at the end of that programme they were in. I can't quite remember the name of it though, 'The Professionals***' or something similar, I think.
***Note for people also of an age: the theme tune of 'The Professionals' was by Laurie Johnson, who also wrote (among many other things) the theme for The Avengers and - more importantly - Animal Magic.
I am not 100 per cent sure who the the drummer on The Professionals theme was, but he worked with Phil Seaman a lot. Any updates / amends welcome.
Amazingly, Laurie Johnson is - at time of writing - (December-ish 2021) still with us! 94 years old. I might seek him out and ask who the drummer on The Professionals theme tune was.
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Fantastic pub, cosy welcoming atmosphere, Cheerful friendly staff
Great pub located in a local village with big garden out back, wide range of real ales and largers
Great Pub. Nice garden, great service.
Brilliant when they are open. Limited opening but worth getting there at the weekend.
Lovely drinks, lovely back garden, great local place to visit on a sunny day!
Nice friendly pub , decent choice of Beers, food not great !
Proper pub. Perfect for a Sunday drink
Dog friendly pub. Big screen to watch sports events. Attentive stuff. Nice meals. Parking available
We came here for a quick drinky mid bike ride. There's a bike rack and there was plenty of seating. Ordering was easy using the QR code with good service. Lovely garden area for the children to play with swings and a slide. Will defo be back. I hope they start serving food again.
Another pub I hadn't been to for some time and had first used in 1977, like so many pubs from then had changed and perhaps had been altered thirty years ago from a two bar pub to one large, the pub still is very cosy especially with the coal fire.
My mum used to talk to me when I was a kid in the 60s about Tyttenhanger and the treacle mine that used to be in the village, she said when she was a school girl they would tell the American soldiers billeted around St. Albans during WWII about it. Can imagine this pub would have been busy with the miners each evening in those days having a pint after a day's work chipping away at that sticky gold. Alas I've never seen any evidence of the mine works or its whereabouts? If you go to the Plough for a meal with the family the children could always ask the staff about the treacle mine, perhaps they know? Lovely pub. Have fun!
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This is a great real ale drinkers free house with 8 real ales available from various breweries and very well kept and served. The garden and front terrace are lovely and the pub is in a charming setting. A group of us (11) ate Sunday Dinner here today and it was OK but just OK. Nobody in the group said they were not happy, but nobody said their meal was great either. Although the food is not at all expensive, I didn't feel I had just eaten a bargain. The gravy tasted like Bovril. Rubbery Broccoli and blunt knives which couldn't get through the meat. Meals came out slowly in ones and twos so we were all at different stages of eating. The pub charges the diners at the bar at the time of ordering the meal, rather than bringing a bill at the end of the meal. I didn't expect that and I prefer paying at the end. We were expecting a staff member to show at the table with a pad to take our orders as that is what I've become used to, but it didn't happen so we asked at the bar and was then informed we order at the bar. This pub has no pretentions of being a restaurant. It is a pub with food. A good pub! but a pub through and through. Excellent real ales and the food is good enough for the money.
Food was good and tasty, however not a great deal of choice for a weekday lunchtime. Food and drinks also seem relatively cheap compared to other pubs in the area.
Classic British pub decor, and very cozy. Friendly staff, would definitely recommend and will probably return.
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