The Olive, Market Rasen

This pub is more of a restaurant nowadays, with a smallish bar to the left as you enter and bare brick behind, but the rest of the establishment with modern decor in gastro pastel shades. To the right are the main seating areas, with a warm fire in the middle, and behind the bar is an open kitchen where you can see the food being prepared. Like most gastropubs it has lost its bar billiards table, but it has retained three ale pumps, on our visit serving Fulstow Northway IPA (a good pint I thought), Fulstow Common and Tom Wood’s Lincoln Gold. It was very quiet on our visit, and didn’t really inspire us very much.

A brilliant transformation from the old pub. Open fires and quality beers. Amazing to see such an array of continental lager, wheat beer and fruit beers on draught in such a small town. Certainly a jewel in Market Rasen.