The Bush Inn, Cowbridge

David Walton left this review about The Bush Inn

Visited 17/06/26

Four hand pumps, but only one clipped for Bass but sadly it had run out! The keg offering was meagre and offered Neck Oil as if it was a close substitute, and then Murphy's Irish stout, Moretti, Cruz, Inch's and berries & cherries Old Mount cider.

Old venue in the small village of St Hilary in the Vale of Glamorgan. Some picnic bench seating at the front. The bar counter and indeed bar area is just inside an ancient heavy front door and is original flagstones with a barrel table on the right-hand side with tall stools and a regular table on the left-hand side with a bench along the wall and regular tables the other side thereof. To the left of the bar area is a small dining area also with original flagstones with regular tables and chairs laid for diners and a small offshoot of the bar counter providing bar service in that area. To the right of the bar area is a larger room, bare boarded with more tables laid for diners and a sofa array around a low table in front of the open fire grate. Up a small flight of steps at the far-right hand corner of this area is another dining room, this one carpeted with more tables laid for diners. No screens and a very poppy soundtrack that felt a bit out of place in such an old establishment. There is an attractive beer garden out the rear, partly paved partly grassed with picnic style benches and other typical patio furniture. Some of the tables are covered, useful on a wet day like today. Characterful venue, but more of a dining destination and let down by the beer offering.

On 6^th July 2026 - rating: 5
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