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Ring O'Bells, Bristol
Hinton Blewitt
Postal town: Bristol
BS39 5AN
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Ring O'Bells
Lovely village pub that overlooks a small village green. There is a patio area as you enter, which has been fenced off since the photographs from 2015. Outdoor toilets are in a block to the left of the patio.
From the main entrance door, the bar can be found against the left wall. From the main bar, a doorway leads to a dining room and a garden.
Butcombe Original is the regular beer. A guest was Butcombe Pacifica. There were 4 ciders - Thatcher's Stan's Cheddar Valley, Weston's Rosie's Pig & Abrahall's Cuckoo Penny & Celtic Tiger.
In a beautiful location, this was our favourite Somerset pub of the day.
On 16th May 2022
- rating: 8
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Blackthorn _ left this review about Ring O'Bells
A traditional and attractive looking stone built country pub in a rather remote but very pleasant setting with great views across rolling fields, the pub building forms a U-shape around an entrance courtyard that is also used as a seating area, and there is also a further beer garden off to the right.
Internally, it consists of one room in the main part of the pub that is split in to two halves, with a further restaurant area off to the right. The left hand half housed the bar counter and had a flagstone floor with plain wood panelling on the lower part of the walls and rough cream plasterwork elsewhere. A few beer mats were pinned to the ceiling, but not as extensive a selection as you get in some pubs, whilst a small selection of games were on a shelf at the rear. This part seemed very much geared for vertical drinking, with just one high chair at the bar, and three more clustered around a beer barrel. The right half was a little cosier, with plenty of beams on the ceiling that had fairly light string on them, carpet on the floor and several tables and chairs. A large stone fireplace completely filled one wall, with a wood burning stove and a pile of logs stacked up ready for the colder weather. A small TV was up in one corner, but fortunately this was not in use, whilst a number of random pieces of artwork were on the walls, many seeming to have a feline theme.
The menu offered a decent enough selection of pub grub dishes and my smoky fishcakes were a decent dish and a very generous portion. That said, at £16 before you’ve even added a side order of chips it’s certainly at the top end of pub pricing, but to be fair that was one of the more expensive options. Across the table a mushroom and goat’s cheese burger with pesto and red onion was also well received.
Beers on tap were Doom Bar, Butcombe Original and Timothy Taylor landlord, whilst a fourth pump appeared unused. Ciders meanwhile were Thatcher’s Dry, Thatcher’s Haze and Ashton Press. All in all, a great pub and well worth taking the trouble to track it down.
On 23rd May 2018
- rating: 8
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