The Sportsmans Rest, Summit, Littleborough

Marked as closed

This is a fearsomely upmarket pub but then it's a fearsomely upmarket area. The locals will try to maintain the fiction that it's a genuine country pub in a genuinely rural setting. It was once but now it's in that semi-rural semi-suburbia that persists for thirty odd miles around London. Anyway it's been reasonably sympathetically, though of course needlessly, refurbished by Fuller's, who can be as dreadful as any when they set their minds to it. So there's a touch of the leather sofa disease but it isn't too annoying. And a touch of the gastro pretensions too, they like that round here, but that's reasonably low key and you can, remarkably these days, get a sandwich on a Sunday. The beer? Well it's a GBG pub so it's fine, usual Fuller's/Gale's suspects but no Chiswick annoyingly. Not a destination pub but if you are passing or staying in the area it certainly deserves a look.

All Pub signs have been removed. Light on inside ,curtains drawn, but front door closed, Appears to have ceased trading ! [Admin edit: Marked as closed 6/3/10]