White Hart Restaurant and Bar

For many a visit to the White Hart, with or without eating, would be to experience a typical old English pub, unspoiled and richly redolent of the past. One could start with the Malaysian chicken with cashew nut and red pepper salad or a White Hart salad of dressed leaves, crayfish, pine nuts, sun blushed tomatoes, blue cheese and pancetta lardons. Following the more exotic angle consider the braised lamb shoulder with rosemary roasted butternut squash, sweet potato and a red wine jus.

To round off one could do little better than the slow roasted peaches with a rum and orange syrup, except possibly the vanilla pannacotta With roasted spiced pineapple. House wines start from £12.95 with a wide and reasonably priced selection. There are also interesting clarets of a certain age, which repay close attention and will still leave you solvent.