"One of the great delights in life is enjoying traditional home cooked food in a proper country pub. The family-run Fox and Hounds is cosy and traditional, yet far from predictable.

This welcoming pub owes much of its success to word-of-mouth recommendation and its plethora of menu options. Choose from the traditional pub menu, the specials blackboard, which takes advantage of freshly available produce and changes in accordance with the seasons, and the locally renowned carvery. Available on Friday and Saturday evenings as well as sunday and Monday lunch times, the carvery offers three different meat choices and a whole host of freshly cooked vegetables. The seasonal blackboard offers starters ranging from warming soup to exotic crab cakes, and calamari that simply melts in the mouth. Mains like sea bass and beef wellington compete with a selection of steaks from the grill.

The pub grub menu offers veterans like whole-tail scampi and chips, gammon and beer-battered cod with chips, mushy peas and homemade tatare sauce. There's also a selection of homemade pies - perfect for a cold winter's day. Whichever menu you choose from, there is an excellent selection of fine and standard wines to complement your meal, and this Cask Marque-awarded pub always pulls at least four real ales.

Never one to shy away from a good old-fashioned knees-up, The Fox and Hounds host various celebratory nights. Whether it's a live music event or a themed evening of classic French cuisine and Gallic Entertainment, The Fox and Hounds knows how to throw a party. A private dining room for parties of up to 40 is ideal for that special occasion, and lots of in-house offers and return-visit vouchers provide further reason to start counting yourself among The Fox and Hounds' many regulars."