readers’ favorite UK pubs for food

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pork belly at the Packhorse, Peak District

Last November, a group of us took a trip to the Peak District for my father’s 60th. We booked the Packhorse Inn in Little Longstone for the celebratory dinner, just off the famous Monsal Trail. The pub sources all its produce locally and its menu changes monthly. When we arrived, we were greeted with roaring fires and delights on the menu such as pork belly with black pudding and mustard mash, game pie, and top tier sticky toffee pudding. It was worth it, even though we had a muddy walk home afterwards through cow fields and total darkness.
Eloise

Guinness and seafood, Co. Antrim

O'Connor's Bar, Castletown

O’Connor’s Bar, Castletown

O’Connors Bar in Castletown is a traditional low-ceilinged Irish bar, with a welcoming open fire and excellent food and drink. The menu is wide ranging, using local produce, with fantastic fish and seafood in season and the freshest of daily specials. The Guinness, too, is just perfect. Local tipplers, family groups, visitors and international tourists fill the bar and snuggle up. Food, drink, service and atmosphere combine to make this my favorite pub to eat at.
Aileen

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A game of pool and a cheeky cocktail, Perth and Kinross

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Muir’s Inn

The Muirs Inn, Kinross, between Edinburgh and Perth, close to Loch Leman, was the setting for a two-and-a-half evening. First, a warm and inviting conservatory extended dining room with lots of light hosted us for exquisite courses including flip cod, crispy on Mediterranean tomato and capers stew, and beer battered North Sea haddock, and shortbread with finish. The second half featured a game of pool and a cheeky cocktail next door in the traditional part of the pub. Great landlord, sharp service and sharp prices.
Sophie

Free Polish sausage and pudding, Wolverhampton

It’s almost impossible to pick a favorite pub, but the Stile Inn on Harrow Street stands out in a crowd. Local Bank beer on tap and a unique menu of authentic Polish food: home made pierogi, sausage, goulash, barbecued pork steak … you don’t find this everywhere. If there are more than four of you, you get free pudding, and the portions are huge – it’s standard takeaway boxes. It may be on a back street in Wolverhampton but they’ll make you feel welcome: they run regular charity nights and offer a special lunch on Christmas Day so no one has to spend it alone.
Sarah Collings

Eclectic menu, Staffordshire

The Black Lion Inn in the Staffordshire Peak District serves an absolutely delicious and eclectic menu in the beautiful “twice grateful” village of Butterton. Hannah and Matt’s local menu is delightful and the Sunday lunch (£16) is particularly memorable (I’ll be thinking about the celeriac puree for a long time!), as is the delicious beetroot and tofu burger ( £13.50). ). Think cozy tables, room, flagged floors, whitewashed walls and cozy wood burners that make it hard to leave the old inn, but luckily there are rooms upstairs to relax a while too.
Steph Woodhouse

Flood of taste, Bosham, West Sussex

The Bleu AnchorThe Bleu Anchor

The Bleu Anchor

After a brisk walk along the Chichester harbor shoreline, fill up on excellent food at the Anchor Bleu in Bosham, overlooking the beach and tidal flow. Relax in the cozy downstairs room with its open fire or the airy upstairs space for great views of the bay’s birds. Enjoy comfortable pub food, Sunday lunch and fresh local fish. After your meal, explore the pretty village of Bosham with its Holy Trinity church, pictured in the Bayeux Tapestry, but park wisely, or you’ll find your car swamped by the tide, which floods the bay front road twice a year day.
Cathy Robinson

Perfect for dark nights, Llanarmon, Wrexham

The Hand at Llanarmon in Glencheriog has all the makings of a great pub to eat at especially as the dark nights draw in. There are great old jumps, a roaring fire and mismatched solid wood furniture, and it feels like you’re a million. miles away from anywhere with the wind howling outside. Specials change regularly and include delicious roasted and marinated Welsh lamb rump with red wine dates, grilled bass with samphire and leek and blue cheese risotto.
Marking

Next on the ferry, Isle of Wight

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the wheat inn

The Wheatsheaf has a design style that takes pride of place, with lights made from vintage diving helmets and a wooden parrot above the bar (mind your head!), among many others. The regularly changing menu features Isle of Wight produce cooked by chefs who know what they’re doing. Mains include slow pan-fried Isle of Wight beef shin and a wonderful sweet potato, chickpea and spinach curry. Evening mains are almost under £20, or go at lunchtime and get a big homemade fish finger roll for a tenner. The pub is handily right at the ferry terminal that connects the island to Lymington, Hampshire.
Cat

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Moor please, south Devon

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Warren House Inn, Postbridge. Photo: geophotos/Alamy

Walking into Dartmoor in the frosty mists of New Year’s Day, my companions and I, with muddy boots and cold noses, turned into the Warren House Inn. While our Chartreuse’s pie (soft, supple and delicious rabbit – £16.50) was cooking, we thawed out by the fire – said to have been burning since 1845. Moorland farms provide much of their produce; his Dartmoor beef is rich and silky, and ale from the pumps. Later, once again on the empty meadow now shrouded in tube fog, we fought the temptation to go back through the Warren door to the warmth and welcome inside.
Harriet

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Blacksmiths Arms.Blacksmiths Arms.

Blacksmiths Arms.

The 300-year-old Blacksmiths Arms, near Broughton Mills in the south Lakes, feels like one of the last of a dying breed, a pub that lives up to a collective image of what a pub should be. : stone floors, rough wood tables, low beamed ceilings, open fire burning, locals chatting at the bar. Nothing extra, no twee decoration, just an overwhelming sense of familiarity and likeness. Delicious home-cooked food with a contemporary edge – but unpretentious – at reasonable prices. I spent an afternoon there – the autumn light streaming in, a dog sleeping under our feet – extremely grateful that such a place still exists. Evening mains are good value: aubergine tagine with salad and new potatoes for £12.95, for example.
Clare

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