Pinnacle PAT Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 Thank you people. Think Red Lion @ Litton is the winning so far , need to decide for tomorrow night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs grissom Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Will second the Devonshire Arms in Middle Handley. We went there this Christmas with our grown up kids and their partners and it was lovely. So cosy and inviting. We had a fantastic meal while the ice cold wind howled outside. Only bug bear was they had run out of American dry ginger for some reason so didn't get my fave Jameson and dry ginger and had to make do with Amerreto and Coke (shame) but it didn't spoil the night . Worth a visit if you can find it in the middle of Nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nubile Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Thank you people. Think Red Lion @ Litton is the winning so far , need to decide for tomorrow night Do you mean the red lion at Birchover. ? Can only see one vote for the one at Litton. Btw mate, don't be tempted by the druid just down from the red lion, it's excrement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinnacle PAT Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 I know it might sound a bit daft but a big fire is essential.....ive kinda promised Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nubile Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I know it might sound a bit daft but a big fire is essential.....ive kinda promised Give em a ring mate, i'm sure i can remember one in their, in the room to the right, but i wouldn't like to say for definite, though i've been in many a time, usually after a hard days walk and before heading back to my tent slightly sloshed, hence the lack of memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly_ Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Try The Packhorse in Little Lingstone. It's a quirky pub with great beer and awsome food. A real find . It's also just off the monsal trail if you want to get a walk in too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly_ Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Little Longstone even!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly_ Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Also Red lion at Litton and at birchover are both great. I had a good meal at the Druid not so long back. I think it had recently changed hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagel Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I just thought of another one, the amazing Barley Mow at Kirk Ireton. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there it's like stepping back in time to 1900. This from the Daily Telegraph review: "The Barley Mow is the antacid to the gastropub. The simple hostelry in the Derbyshire Dales has no necessity for modern paintings or pastel Farrow & Ball paint and no requirement for restrained cream menus or wide-rimmed white plates. It is as plain as a Baptist chapel, with less nourishment than the Lord's supper. The listed 17th-century Jacobean building in the pretty hill village of Kirk Ireton has not changed in centuries. The small dark green and brown bar-room is beamed, with tiled floors and wall seats softened with faded floral cushions. Its four tables are made from the black slate of a reclaimed billiards table and its compact coal fire is set in a bare wooden surround without a knick-knack in the vicinity to vulgarise it. Racked behind the tiny bar opening are four cask beers, which are all guest brews that change according to which independent brewer happens to be motoring through the dales that day. There is one keg lager on offer and one cider. Soda is in a siphon, tonic is poured from a plastic supermarket bottle and water comes from the tap. The crisps are limited to ready salted and the choice from the oral menu is a brown roll filled with cheese or a brown roll filled with cheese and pickle. I splash out on the cheese and pickle, and ask for a pint of the local Whim Hartington IPA. It is poured from a jug pulled from the barrel by the snowy-haired Mary Short, who has run the pub for the past three decades. Her only nod to modernisation is accepting that decimal coinage is now legal tender, which her predecessor, Mrs Ford, did not. However, Mary's pared-down philosophy to hosting a pub has not eased her worries about the commercial pressures of the licensed trade. ''Customers don't understand the financial problems of a pub such as this,'' she says, as she pulls open the elderly wooden drawer that makes do as a cash register and drops in the 85p she charges me for the cheese and pickle butty. I assure her that if she increases the price of this signature dish to £1 The Barley Mow will not transmogrify into a gastropub." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinnacle PAT Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Has anybody been in The Old Pump, Barlow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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