It was Daughter’s birthday this week, so last night we decided to go out for a meal, to celebrate.
We pondered for some time as to where to go. “How about The Chequers?”, suggested Mrs M, referring to the pub in the next village. We’d not been there before, but had heard good things, so I gave them a call and booked a table.
We arrived at 7:30pm to find the place was empty, save for three women in one corner who were just finishing their coffee. By the time we had got ourselves seated and looking at the menu, they had gone. We had the entire pub/restaurant to ourselves.
Whilst there was a range of foods on the menu, pies seemed to be the speciality.
I started with Root Vegetable Soup, which was quite obviously homemade and was bloody delicious. I followed that up with a Chicken & Wild Mushroom Pie.
With chips and peas.
And gravy.
That too was homemade and was also bloody delicious. In fact, the four of us each had different meals but we all enjoyed them immensely… the food was really good.
The barmaid who served us our drinks and meals was most pleasant and very attentive to our needs.
Contemporary music played out of some loudspeakers fixed to the walls, but it was set at a perfect volume: loud enough to enjoy, but not so loud that you had to raise your voice to be heard.
The bill at the end of the evening was also most reasonable, I thought… certainly for the fare and service that we’d enjoyed.
And yet, we were there for just over two hours and, in that time, not a single person came into the pub.
We’ve made a promise to ourselves to go there again sometime soon… hopefully before they close down due to a lack of trade.