79 Frant Road, Royal Tunbridge Wells
Kent TN2 5LH 01892 536526
With its blackboard and scrubbed wooden tables, The Bull might want you to think its a gastropub, but do not be fooled. This is simply a nicely done out pub which does a really nice line in good quality pub food. It's nice, light and airy on the inside, but this being a hot balmy day, we took out beers out back to the rather pleasant walled garden.
I went for the steak and ale pie, which was actually more of a pudding. Lovely beef and rib-sticking gravy on a thick, spongy suet base, and a side dish of honest, unmucked about boiled veggies. Despite the summer's day, I couldn't bear to leave a scrap, and found room to try the wife's heavenly chunky chips - none of your poncy frites here. Her burger was a real bells-and-whistles extravaganza: beetroot, relish, mozzarella, ham, and somewhere amongst all that razamatazz a rather nice burger.
A concise but good choice of draught beers, I went for the Japanese lager and the wife went for the Dutch. A nice touch.
At £25 quid for one course each and a couple of lagers it definitely costs more than your average pub grub, but then again, you're definitely paying for what you get. And the location in perfect as you will need the walk into town to recover!
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