Baskerville Arms: County Dining Pub of the Year
My local, The Baskerville Arms, has been awarded the Good Pub Guide’s County Dining Pub of the Year. The pub has always had a local reputation for excellent food but I have never eaten there. I know… the shame…
It all feels quite homely, but in a smart way, with some chintzy touches such as a shelf of china dogs. Bar food is extremely good with absolutely nothing that is not made on the premises: home-made soup (£4.50; their stilton soup is much liked, £5.50), muffins with toppings like their own organic gravadlax, pickled quail eggs, marinated anchovies and mustard sauce (from £6.50), open omelettes (from £6.50), open sandwiches made with their own bread (from £6.95), salad such as thai-style tiger prawns with a lime and coconut dressing or niçoise with fresh tuna and fresh anchovies (from £6.95), herbed sausages with rich onion gravy (£7.90), honey-baked gammon with two free range eggs (£8.50), steak and kidney pie (£8.90), and hand-made burger (£8.95); also, more elaborate choices like tomato, basil and shallot summer pudding with crème fraîche (£6)…
The Baskerville Arms
7 Station Road, Lower Shiplake, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire RG9 3NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1189 403332
The pub is right next to the railway station.
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by Andrew I have had a lunchtime meal there - which was very good and plan to go this coming Saturday evening with a foodie-blogging friend; I’m looking forward to it. Have drunk here several times, being the local an all, quality of the beer has always been good although I go for the London Pride typically.
If you walked along the Thames Path you passed my house!
by STEFFI ARNOTT No wonder. What a great find and via your pages, just a sensational meal everything just perfect, in facy my partner said he would not have found better presentation and cooked food in london and really he’s been to most. Scallops with chorizo sausage and butter nut squash as a brochette, it really works. I went all fish and followed with a hand chopped Tuna Burger that had fresh coconut, coriander, sesame and a touch of chilli, fantastic. Have been back three times now and always the same
Looked this pub up on the internet after visiting on Saturday, just went for a walk along the river from Henley and finished here. Lunchtime service clealy excellent though we only had a drink, Lodden Hobbit bitter very well kept by excellent barman, a real pub armosphere. We returned in evening for a stunningly good meal. Seafood and meat both perfectly cooked and each with something a little different.
Discreet but attentive service clearly catering for regular local customers but as visitors we could not have felt more welcome
What a shame we live so far away.