“A wine merchant and his fashionable interior decorator wife - émigrés from London - have transformed this Victorian pub, adding a wine shop (where you can buy more bottles like the one you enjoyed at dinner) and five bedrooms, each with a luxurious en-suite bathroom. The style is urbane and modern; you are more likely to sit next to a TV commercial director than a ploughman in the bar. The walls are decorated with large photographs of people enjoying field sports. The menu is (sensibly) quite limited to local meat, fish and game, cooked and presented to a very high standard. The little village of Tollard Royal has struck lucky; villagers now have a fine restaurant in their midst and a good place to put up extra visitors for shoots, weddings, etc.”
Written by George Pownall
