The Pot Kiln

A pub first and foremost, The Pot Kiln is the kind of pub every village deserves: one which serves a proper pint, grows its own vegetables, and sources the rest of the produce used with a good deal of care. And the fact it has a penchant for game, well, that's just a bonus. Of course, it is not the red-brick pub that is doing all this, but the owners, Mike and Katie Robinson. Mike is on the telly a fair bit, usually spreading the good word in support of British game, and he practices what he preaches. So seated at unadorned wooden tables in a thoroughly pubby atmosphere, you might tuck into a salad of Berkshire wood pigeon with black pudding, bacon and Jerusalem artichoke purée, or go your own way with cider-steamed River Fowey mussels. Pavé of Lockinge fallow deer is hard to ignore in this company, but everything is cooked with care and attention and presented with a contemporary touch or two. There's a bar menu too, serving up a cracking ploughman's, sandwiches and the like.