Our last meal out with Lee and Su this year (pending any last minute arrangements) and we ended on a decent one. After a somewhat ponderous journey down the most one-track road this side of Christendom (complete with 176 passing places!) we arrived at the pub and were greeted by a load of 'Country-types' clogging up the bar area with their tweed jackets and farmer shirts.
Thankfully we quickly vacated the bar and took our seats and were told there were some specials (which we weren't the slightest bit interested in) before perusing the menu. At first glance it looked a bit... but then I noticed there was sausages and mash and lamb and steak, so not bad. We didn't want a starter so we had some Hambleton bread, which was brought and 'announced' along with the butter (that's a first, never known butter require announcing before!) which was nice and took the edge off.
Rose and I both had sausage and mash, at first the gravy tasted a bit 'sweet', but once I got used to it it was okay. The sausages were very nice and the mash was extremely creamy (probably 40% cream). And then for pud Rose had orange cheesecake (okay) with blackberry sorbet (excellent), while I had sticky toffee pudding, which was nice but... I think I'm going off sticky toffee pudding as it seems a bit too sweet these days. Must be an age thing...
Pretty good all told and not bad at £40 per head.
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