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Bell Inn, Leominster
Yarpole
Postal town: Leominster
HR6 0BD
Served areas
The Bell at Yarpole
Our first quiz night is on Tuesday 5th March at 7:30pm... teams of all sizes very welcome...
12:28 PM Mar 1st 2019 from Twitter Web Client
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Ian Mapp left this review about Bell Inn
Currently closed (from 31/10/21) - lack of staff. Looking for new tenants, so may come back.
On 29th November 2021
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hondo . left this review about The Bell Inn
a 220-strong community group clubbed together to buy the premises due to open next month
On 27th September 2018
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Tris C left this review about The Bell Inn
Indeed as Richard points out, this is a devil of a place to find - not The Bell, rather Yarpole which isn't visible from the road; the pub itself is on a wide main road in the centre of a village of architecture, old and new.
Obviously it's hard to give a rating for a pub which I've not visited for 11 years, and one which I visited frequently in the early 1970s when John Smith was the guvnor and long summer afternoons were spent in the garden. I recall it in the late 1980s when it was run by Cyril and his 'brother' and Balti (Hindi for bucket) curry was on the menu with covers that read 'Welcome to the World of Balti'. Then there was a young American landlord with his Japanese wife. In 1995 hollandaise sauce was on the menu and later still, it certainly tried to be a gastropub, garnering 8/10 when reviewed by Shaun Hill in The Guardian back in 2006: '...poached cod fillet with courgette and coriander purée and glazed spring vegetables...The cod was poached perfectly, still moist and shining mother-of-pearl, and the vegetables were fresh and crunchy in a chlorophyll sauce of green herbs and oil'; this probably explained the presence of large BMWs in the car park and a meal for two that cost £60, so if it is now a locals' pub then it must have reverted to this state of affairs.
As I recall it, there was a two-room format: one was pretty basic, the other traditional with black painted beams and décor along the likes of soft furnishings, hanging plates and Toby jugs. To the right of the main entrance was the long dining room, once the cider mill rather than barn which still had the huge stone wheel press on show.
I hope to be returning very soon so an update is on the cards.
On 15th February 2018
- rating: 5
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- Accommodation : No last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 05 November 2023 by Tris C
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Car Park : Yes last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : No last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : No last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
- WiFi : Yes last updated 27 March 2021 by ROB Camra
