'The Gastro Pub Cookbook'
The Burgesses want to offer their food to the widest
range of people and believe a pub is the best place to do
that. They’re as happy to serve you fish and chips
with half a pint of ale as they are to bring on a three
course dinner and a forty pound bottle of wine. And they
don’t just want to feed you; they want you to taste
the countryside and to be surrounded by pictures and artefacts
that will help you enjoy the food even more. It works: there
are few places, anywhere, with as much heart and soul as
the Dartmoor Inn.
Extract from Diana
Henry - food critic for the Sunday Telegraph,
published by Mitchell Beazley
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‘Are you wild about the West?’
‘Five Best…..Country Pubs’
‘Mmm, dinner’ Our
Top Tables
Eating and Drinking -
A Red Star awarded for being one of the best restaurants
in the area
AWARDS
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‘Are you wild about the
West?’
The Dartmoor Inn on the Moors’ western edge at Lydford,
should be at the top of your list. Rooms were added to its
award-winning restaurant earlier this year, so you can now
slip upstairs after a truly exceptional meal (potted-pork
with butter beans and crab–apple jelly; casserole
of sea bass and monkfish with mussels and freshwater crayfish)
and hole up in good-value luxury. There are three doubles
in this road-side Inn which are all ensuite. Their décor
owes something to French country chic: one room is in black
and white toile de jouy, with a white-painted bed and a
duck-egg-blue bathroom; another is in rose-pink with a French
damask sofa; and the third has a chandelier and a powder-blue
bedspread with white flowers. You are looked after by the
chef-proprietor Philip Burgess and his wife Karen. There
are no TVs, but you can dream of breakfast instead: scallop
of beef fillet with free-range fried egg and crisp bacon
lardons; herb-crusted goat’s cheese with black pudding
and bacon; or scrambled eggs with wild-garlic cream.
Conde Nast Traveller
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‘Five Best…..Country Pubs’
The Dartmoor Inn has picked up all sorts of accolades including
two AA Rosettes and local chef Michael Caines has named
it his favourite pub. The menu focuses on local produce
– all beef is reared within a twenty mile radius and
fish is from Looe in Cornwall. But, the real joy of this
Inn is its location on the edge of the National Park which
means fantastic walks all year round. Three rooms, added
earlier this year, offer good value luxury bed and breakfast
– and what a feast it is with scallop of beef fillet,
fried egg and crisp bacon lardons or herb-crusted goats
cheese with black pudding and bacon instead of the usual
continental.
Saturday Guardian - Travel
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‘Mmm, dinner’ Our
Top Tables
The roaring log fire at The Dartmoor Inn is just the job
after a wind-whipped trek across the tors. There’s
the delicious scent of homecooking, a specials-board that
lists not only suppliers (all local), but even the potato
variety used for the chips, and a bar-counter bristling
with the region’s finest beers – all certain
signs that you can snuggle in for some excellent gastropubbery.
The casserole of sea bass and monkfish was so fresh I could
almost hear the seagulls.
Sunday Times – Food Britain
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Eating and Drinking
A Red Star awarded for being one of the best restaurants
in the area
Owners Karen and Philip Burgess seem amazingly pro-active
in getting people to come to The Dartmoor Inn – a
dining club, numerous special offers, jazz nights and art
events are just some of the tactics they employ. Every element
is in place to allow you to enjoy excellent food in comfortable
surroundings throughout the five or so interconnecting rooms.
A starter of crab mayonnaise glowed with freshness, while
a sauté of chicken with new season garlic and courgettes
elevated simple ingredients to lofty heights. This is probably
Devon’s most accomplished and consistent pub-restaurant.
Time Out
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Awards
Dartmoor Newcomer – Good Food Guide
Newcomer of the Year – Les Routiers
Restaurant of the Year – Les Routiers
Country Restaurant of the Year – Good Food
Guide
Devon Dining Pub of the Year – Good Pub Guide
Dining Pub of the Year – Good Pub Guide
Dining Pub of the Year – Taste of the West
Dining Pub of the Year – Devon Life
Winner of the Catey Award
‘Bib Gourmande’ – Michelin Guide
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Recommended by:
The Good Food Guide
The Good Pub Guide
The AA Restaurant Guide
The AA Pub Guide
The Which Guide to Pubs
The Michelin Hotel and Restaurant Guide
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