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Where to eat out ?
- - - - - we recommend these excellent local Inns & Restaurants
The Queen Victoria, Priddy
 4 Miles Away!
Situated in Priddy, the highest village in the Mendips, the Queen Vic is a creeper clad , stone built pub just by the village green. A real locals pub , but also attracting a broad spectrum of customers..... from cavers to campers to walkers and mountain bikers...not to mention beer & food aficionados.
3 open fires , flagstone floors
Food served lunch and evening everyday and all day on Sundays
Queen Victoria
Priddy
Wells, BA5 3BA |
Large car park
Featured in "The Mendip Butcombe Brewery Pub Trail"
Priddy Folk Fair in July & Sheep Fair in August
Anton’s Bistrot is named after a local well-known cartoonist whose work regularly appeared in Punch magazine. We serve food all day, every day in Anton's Bistrot and lounge. Choose from an excellent variety of mouth watering dishes, extremely tempting desserts, complimented by our interesting wine list. Our à la carte menu is served in the evening from 6.00pm.
We are vegetarian and child-friendly and happy to accept bookings for private parties/business functions.
Our head chef Nick Hampson is passionate about food and his ethos is to source good, local produce, wherever possible, to provide diners with a fabulous meal at a reasonable price.
To make a reservation telephone: 01749 673457
 
Rugantino Restaurant
20 Sadler Street, Wells Tel: 01749 672049
This award-winning Rugantino Restaurant specialises in authentic Italian cuisine. The restaurant also prepares traditional English table d'hôte menus which can be enhanced by a choice of wines, spirits and beers available from the bar.
A 2-course lunch is available from £8.50, with a special 3 course Sunday lunch served at just £12.50 per person.
In the evening, try our 3-course dinner from £21.50 or our traditional Italian à la carte menu.
Monday - Sunday
Lunch 12pm-2pm Dinner 7pm-10pm
 
Only a mile away !
(Click HERE for directions)
Hartleys Kitchen
Rookery Farm, Binegar, Somerset, BA3 4UL
It’s a café, it’s a food shop, it’s a cookery school' and indeed it is all that, but what makes it special is that it’s the domain of Paul and Lynda Hartley. Most foodies in Somerset will know that Paul Hartley is our very own celebrity; author of The Marmite cookbook which has sold 385,000 copies and it’s sequels Colman's Mustard, Lea & Perrins, Heinz Tomato Ketchup, Lyles Golden Syrup, HP Sauce and the Bovril cookbooks, regular presenter on BBC Somerset and founder of www.breakfastandbrunch.com.
Hartleys Kitchen is open Tues-Sun serving delicious all day breakfasts and lunches made from the best local produce, much sourced from Stables Farm shop next door and others such as Mitchard’s Black Pudding from Radstock and Barber’s Butter from Evercreech. Don’t just think traditional British though, it’s on the menu of course, but there are also fruit croissants, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs and on Sundays a special which could be kedgeree, kippers or scallops and bacon.
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Planning a cosy night in by the fire?
Let Hartleys be your in-house chef for that special meal.
Your meal will be cooked and prepared ready for you to enjoy. Just collect and serve.
Example of a menu for a New Year's Eve meal for two.
King prawn and crab cocktail drenched in our own aurora sauce
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Game liver pate infused with brandy and orange zest served with fresh cranberry sauce and foccacia bread
Venison and wild mushroom casserole in a puff pastry parcel with seasonal vegetables
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Baked salmon fillet stuffed with artichokes, lemon, thyme and bread crumbs with vegetables and baby potatoes
Strawberry and blueberry pavlova
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Chocolate pot with biscotti dunkers
The Slab House Inn 
"- - - - - the best place to eat in the Mendips"
A traditional oldie world pub, displaying many fine antiques. The Slab House was originally named during the time of the Black Death, when a 3 mile quarantine limit was imposed around Wells. Cautious farmers and traders would leave food, drink & other produce on a large slab outside the Inn for locals to come & collect. Many centuries later The Slab House Inn is renowned for its excellent menu.
Only 1 mile away Tel: 01749 840310
Directions from The Beanacre Barn (click here) www.slabhouseinn.co.uk
Set in the enchanting Somerset village of Mells, only 10 miles away, the historic Talbot Inn offers an award-winning restaurant and all the charm of a traditional English inn.
The informal restaurant offers a backdrop of extremes with low oak beams and ceiling hops the alternative to a front room that would grace any country house hotel. Head chef Mark Jones was classically trained via Switzerland and London and previously worked at the internationally renowned Gidleigh Park Hotel.
10 miles away www.talbotinn.com
Directions from The Beanacre Barn (click here)
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