Used to come years ago but came back recently to find it was under new management: huge improvement! Really friendly bar staff, great ales and the atmosphere is really welcoming. Would recommend to anyone as the best country pub for miles around.
Just had a brilliant meal at the brookside, delicious home cooked Indian food, highly recommend it. Lovely friendly staff.
We went there this afternoon after a lovely walk with our dogs, and what a great place this is. New management is absolutely lovely, drinks are great and priced well and the CUTEST dog is in there too which always helps! Great beer garden to sit in too. Would definitely return, lovely village pub���
Great service, great beer...and some superb authentic Indian cooking. Tuesday night, curry night is the place to be.
One of the most welcoming pubs I've been to! Friendly staff and good drinks - well worth a visit!
Great little pub, friendly atmosphere and customer service excellent, beer garden at the back is nice too 👌
Popped in after hearing good reviews about the food. We were not disappointed, the curries are simply exquisite. It's a quaint country pub tucked away and might be hard for people to find but if you like a curry it's well worth the drive. Staff are pleasant and the chef comes out to see you personally.
A lovely old pub set I'm a beautiful tiny village! From the amazing smell of the kitchen il be back! Just been for a curry today 21 June. The curry is really, really good. All fresh cooked and highly recommended 👌🏻
Lovely country pub with small beer garden out back and a couple picnic tables out front. Lager wasn't that nice out pump (may have just been a one off) and no slim line tonic for my gin. We did eat there. Indian food. Cooked by Harry (lovely friendly Indian chap) who was also Manning the bar at the time, but we didn't have to wait along time for the food. It was rather good! The mogo chips were lovely and spicy, sauces were thick and tasty. The lamb curry was excellent.
Great range of drinks on tap, great traditional pub feel. We went in after a cider festival (gutted that we missed it!!) The staff were 'recovering' from their evening of merriment... were very friendly and let me taste a couple of the ciders that were on from the night before.
Planning to go again and again, and my calendar is filling up with other festivals that they arrange fairly regularly by the looks...
Really nice little village pub,we had a curry on Sunday and it was lovely so going back for another on Wednesday...friendly atmosphere,Harry the landord and Sophie the barmaid are both polite and friendly
First time in for couple of years & it's now Asian run,very nice & helpful & had the best spicy fried fish & chicken Balti - now we know where to go for a laid back good Indian meal!
Fantastic place to visit especially in the summer. Really great events with live music and a real friendly bunch of people. We went to the cider festival and couldn't have enjiyed it more. Service was friendly and fantastic, live music was even better. All round a really great british pub.
Just dropped in for a pint after Sunday morning shooting.
Harry always has a warm welcome and not bad beer.
I keep going back so it ain't too shabby 🍺🍺🥃🥃
Loverly pub if you can find it..
Staff are lovely and nice to see Amy caring for the place so the owners can have some time off ✅👍a welcome friendly pub
Lovely little pub. Friendly landlord. Planning to go back for a meal very soon.
Customer service was absolutely great, food was made according to taste required and loved their food! I highly recommend them!
I came here as it was included on the Mild Trail. I found that it's hard to find being at the end of a tortuous twisting often one car wide route. Having said that it has a large car park and, on a hot and sunny afternoon, it is in a glorious location adjacent to and overlooking Barkby Brook (where beer barrels used to be cooled in past times - the tracks where they were held can still be seen and there's a plaque on the wall explaining about it).
It is a Free House now. I was quickly served with Anstey Ales's Oatmeal Mild. It was quite quiet in the Pub with only a handful of people there but it was mid-afternoon so probably busier later?
The owner was very hospitable and informative. He explained they have signed-up with Anstey Ales to carry their ales in future.
Very friendly bar, excellent Indian food. It would be great to have more atmosphere in the restaurant.
Pub was in a lovely place. You can sit outside. Service is prompt and good food with generous portions.
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Defining Moment-The Brookside
The sun swelled up in clearing sky as he stared out the window,
At the emerald grass beyond the stream, along the hedgerow,
After a long motorcycle ride North in drenching rain from London,
To the ancient Midland field and village off the M-1.
On the back of the one-lunger engine, a long wet gray afternoon,
Heart reaching through the misty downpour to the next adventure,
With firm resolve to keep leaving, keep surging into twilight,
Finally meeting a welcome crowd in the pub downstairs last night.
With the window slung wide open, his breath filled with moist air
“I am truly home,” beyond the rain to the marrow soaking,
More home than home, adopting or being adopted by the land,
Once strode by unknown ancestors who could only think of leaving.
Coming of age does not even begin to describe what it means,
To possess the self for the first time, on your own dime,
A more apt thought: “I am alive now and always, without time,”
How can this, why should this, instant ever have to end?
There in the moment hanging bare chested over the street,
This moment has returned again and again, every September,
Looking back, longing again, to be naïve, innocent, and free,
Trying anxiously not to believe it is a curse to remember.
Time is now, build new memory, then try to forget,
The “you” then, is the “you” now, the future “you,”
Open a window, breathing deeply in, peel off the longing, the regret,
Soaring, alive, the seeker, the finder… forever is true.
Robert Billingsley 10/23/2014
Amazing authentic curry. The chicken/paneer tikka masala amazing !
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