Old Barn Free House

Sah sehr nett aus. Gab aber an dem Abend an dem wir kamen kein Essen. Wir erhielten daraufhin den Tipp in «The Fox» zu gehen.

Arrived on a quiet Saturday night, very early. The pub itself is very nice, not too trendy or too old style. Perhaps though, you wouldn’t expect the quality of food by looking at the outside of the pub. Never has the phrase, «don’t judge a book by its cover,» been more true.
What is generally nice about this place is that they do a few things really well, rather than having huge selections of mediocre tat. This starts with the beer — a choice of four very nice ales, we went for the Dark Star «Hophead» a golden pale ale, which has a lovely full flavour with a hint of honey and elder-​flower.
The menu here changes often, almost daily, depending on what is available and the chef decides to make. Our starters were ham and apple terrine with a lovely pickle, chicken and liver paté with sourdough bread & homemade chutney, Selsy crab and salmon cakes. All fantastic. Not only did it all taste fantastic but the presentation is worth the price alone.
You can see the menu in the photos I’ve added.
For mains I had hanger steak with purple sprouting broccoli — incredible melt in the mouth texture that worked so well with the broccoli and a tasty sauce. Everyone else had fish was being at the coast is a great choice. My youngest daughter had hake in a beer batter which was so, so light and crispy. My wife and eldest daughter had pan fried fish (trout and turbot) with mash. Seriously, I could have eaten all the mains myself — I’ve not seen my wife finish a meal so quick, ok I kept stealing bits of her plate because it was rather yummy. I couldn’t reach my daughters plate so easily.
Desserts were equally well presented and equally tasty. The highlight was the chocolate brownie that was rich and gooey it the right proportions. The rummed raisins in my sable biscuit chocolate cake were fantastic. These lovely fruits just kept popping in my mouth. My eldest had the raspberry meringue which thankfully wasn’t too sweet, although the meringue was a little harder than I expect it was obviously made in the kitchen as it had a lovely chewy inside rather than being all air.
Overall, a brilliant meal. If you were eating this in London you would be paying twice as much as you are here. While you would probably only get half of the meal in London too. This is top quality food with portions you can live on.
Go here now before the word gets out.