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A highly acclaimed restaurant and traditional pub in the delightful village of Hemingford Grey, offering English and European cooking, it has been transformed from the former village pub into a place where the regular village lads are as much at home as those who come from further afield to enjoy the full range of facilities. Conveniently The Cock is open seven days a week.

The Cock is listed in The Good Food Guide, The Good Beer Guide, Michelin Guide, Hardens, Alistair Sawdays and Good Pub Guide. It has also achieved further recognition when it was made 'County Dining Pub of the Year' five times in the last six years. The Times have named The Cock as their 'favourite gastropub in England and Wales'.

On dull winter days the décor is bright enough, perhaps helped by wood burning fires, to encourage thoughts of summer days not far away, when the spacious garden also comes into its own. Sunday lunches are a speciality, with the meat sourced from local suppliers.

An á la carte menu makes a strong play for the fish eaters of this world with a daily board offering the best the market has to offer for starters and main courses. Pressed ham hock, beetroot and tarragon terrine with Cumberland sauce, and duck parcels with sweet and sour cucumber are regular attendees amongst other starters, along with roasted fig, walnut and Stilton salad with green peppercorn dressing.

The Cock is renowned for its selection of homemade sausages, notably the beef and porter variety, redolent of a lost age when quality had not been superseded by mass production. Sirloin steak, chips, roasted parsnips, braised onions and sauce off the boards offers excellent value.

Puddings kick off with a Pimms and raspberry crème brûlée, there's the Cock's take on sticky toffee pudding and strawberry and orange tartlet, crème fraîche and caramel sauce. British and Irish cheeses make a welcome appearance to round off a meal that carries the hallmark of quiet excellence.

An extremely informative Website, as you would naturally expect from such a well run place, will tell you much more about what you are going to experience.