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The UK's top ten pubs for grub

The Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropubs awards for 2012 have just been announced. Have you been to any of these, the top ten?



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Now in its fourth year, The Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropubs awards, in association with industry trade magazine The Publican's Morning Advertiser, ranks the UK's best food-led pubs as voted for by 750 chefs, food writers and critics. Here we reveal the top 10. How many have you visited?

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11/04/2012 17:31
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It would put the meals in perspective if we were told the average price for a meal in these places.
08/03/2012 11:01
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Try The Teddington Hands just outside Cheltenham, best Sunday Roast in the Country.
16/02/2012 09:17
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Well the top ten pubs in the UK all In England that is not all the Uk what Happend to Wales Ireland And Bonnie Scotland I think your chippie pundits should cast a wider net dont you think so !!!

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The Sportsman, Whitstable. Great pub, great food. We had an Xmas party there and the food was one of the main topics of conversation. Well recommended by us.
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 Have to disagree with our frustrated Northener. 20% of the pubs quoted are in Yorkshire. None are where I live. Rightly or wrongly, Scotland has none. Some pub grub is perfectly acceptable and/or reasonably priced, but the majority of the natives back pubs purely for bevvying in!! Food is a takeaway on the way home, with the bonus of a potential religious or racial square-go on the way. Pure quality!
07/02/2012 22:22
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See AWT pub did not make the list.............short on produce I expect. 
07/02/2012 22:03
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Only one entry from the north of England. Hm very strange.
07/02/2012 18:48
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Carol mac, how often do you go to a pub, I doubt its as often as the people that no longer go to the pub, since this insane smoking ban came into force.

 

It was those customers who gave the traditional English boozer its world wide reputation

 

The whole world falling apart and the pub locals, who can still afford an evening’s drinking, have to go out in the cold for a fag.

 

Stick to mambie pambie wine bars and health clubs, with the rest of the new lower lower middle class.

07/02/2012 17:43
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carol mac

 

Thats the problem, " some of you "  until we have a level playing field in the Pub and Club Industry the Closures will continue, a closed down local Pub is no good to anyone. Separate rooms or venues would give Everyone a choice once again, both non smoker and smoker alike, who but the most Intolerant could complain about everyone having the same choice.

07/02/2012 17:08
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WHY DO WE HAVE TO HAVE SUCH FILTHY COMMENTS BY THESE PEOPLE TALK ABOUT LOW CLASS!!!!!
07/02/2012 15:54
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coogie, some of us like a drink or a meal now and then without getting choked with other people's filthy pollution !  it doesn't affect many of the pub attendance where i live just outside glasgow !
07/02/2012 15:30
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The Majority of Pub goers never went to their "Local" for a meal, they went to meet up with friends and have a social life, then we had the Smoking Ban forced onto the country, it was a no-brainer really, Ban the Majority of your customers and you Will go out of Business, hence the massive closure rate of our Pub and Club Industry. Time to Reform the ill thought out ban and save what is left of our once Great British Pubs.
07/02/2012 15:16
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the hinds head a pub ?

75 pounds for a meal on Valentines day

not my definition of a pub at those prices

07/02/2012 14:24
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IMHO the best English-style pub grub in the world can be found in Fidel Murphy's Irish Pub and Restaurant just outside George Town in Grand Cayman.

 

I haven't found anywhere round where I live in the UK that comes close to matching the quality or the prices. UK pub food is over-priced rubbish.

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