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The Quantock Pub & Carvery

Pub review They say: "Very nice pint good head chilled meals hot roll on eating inside I'd recommend this pub and it's getting lots of outdoor seating under cover with heating be rally romantic come autumn children's play area safe flooring plenty of parking." --Blackthorn Twigs 5/5 I say: All it took to normalise the hitherto luxurious exoticism of table service in bars and pubs was a worldwide pandemic. It does feel a little off and somehow not proper in a pub but then my fantastical image of the perfect pub is crystallising (or fossilising) in my mind, aided not a little by these reviews. If I should become irresponsibly wealthy one day and escape my life of quiet desperation then I can see myself building such a pub. Touring reclamation yards for great slabs of aged dark wood that would glower over slate floors insulated by faded persian rugs. Unfussy open fireplaces stoked by urchins on uneconomic wages. Armchairs. Pewter mugs on hooks and not a single di