Food and Drink

Pubs throughout the UK offer delicious food and drink making them the perfect base for a Gastro Break. The food is often locally sourced with fresh and seasonal ingredients. Ranging from Michelin-starred restaurants to those offering home-cooked hearty favourites – there are gastro pubs to suit every taste.

Set up in 2009, the Estrella Damm Top 100 Gastropubs list features the best dining pubs in the UK. You can find out about a selection that also have rooms in our article on the awards right here. Not only do these awards recognise the hard work and talent in the pub industry but is a great go-to source for the best gastropubs in the UK.

We love to celebrate excellent food and many of our pubs have superb restaurants and are listed in the AA Restaurant Guide and the prestigious Michelin Guide. We have selected a ten of our favourites, all bookable through Stay in a Pub, who have won/been nominated for various gastro pub awards:

• The Black Swan, Ravenstondale, Cumbria
• The Three Hills, Cambridgeshire
• The Thomas Lord, Hampshire
• The Bonnie Badger, East Lothian
• The Cotley Inn, Somerset
• The Castle Inn, Wiltshire
• The Kingham Plough, Oxfordshire
• The Greyhound on the Test, Hampshire
• The Charlton Arms, Shropshire
• The Ship, Fife

Cask ale is synonymous with the Great British pub and with hundreds of breweries across the country, you are guaranteed a range of refreshing local ales. Stay in a Pub’s sister company, Cask Marque, is the official accreditation for cask ale. Look out for the logo on our pub listings and when you visit a pub. Many breweries offer fascinating Brewery Tours and tastings which make an excellent excursion on your gastro break.

From sleek city boutique pubs to quintessentially British countryside inns, there is a pub that is perfect for all tastes offering delicious British food and drink. To search by county, region or location go to pub search.