Preston Bagot Restaurant Guide

2021 Review: “Much improved by a change of owners” (the all-conquering Brunning & Price), this seventeenth century pub in “beautiful surroundings” – a hamlet “out in Warwickshire’s lush countryside” – wins applause for “upmarket pub food at a reasonable price point”, and which comes “allied to lovely service” to boot.

2022 Review: “A real gem in our local area” – this branch in the stylish, seven-strong Warwickshire-based 'Lovely Pubs' group has a lot to recommend it: “service is on the right side of friendly and very attentive”, they serve “great pub food, but restaurant quality” (including “fantastic seafood platters”), and if you stick to the main bar downstairs, there's plenty of atmosphere too.

This year-old operation in a 200-year-old High Street building from the ‘Yummy Brummie’ chef serves “typically delicious Glynn Purnell food” – “well-cooked, high-quality versions of (often) familiar pub dishes” – and is already tipped as “the place to go to in Henley”. Several reporters point out that “the garden (weather permitting) and pub areas are preferable to the main dining room”, which “can be noisy”.