this is a pub?

Although nothing could beat French Living for the amazing food we had a fantastic lunch in what appeared from the outside to be a little local boozer, the Keane’s Head.

Inside the single room bar is light and airy, and the bar maid very friendly, they offer around six changing ales as well as draft Belgian beers and specialist lagers. We entered with no intention to eat but the menu claimed to be a modern mix of Italian and English cooking and the meals we had seen go past persuaded us to give it a go.

We were drinking to recent award winning Pale harvest from local micro brewery Castle Rock, it had just one best bitter at the GBBF 2007. To go with this I chose the sandwich of the day, mortadello with red pesto and mozzarella bake on onion bread, it was served with a generous and interesting side salad with a nice mustard dressing, it has got to be the freshest tasting and most interesting pub sandwich ever offered, it was perfect for lunch light but full of flavour from the red pesto and mortadello. Hubby ordered a made to order scotch egg served with mustard mayonnaise. It came hot sliced in two with a tub of whole grain mustard mayonnaise, the sausage meat was full of flavour and the crust nice and crisp, the only improvement we could suggest it that the egg could be served with a slightly sift yolk, as this yolk had a slight blue to the edges as you often see on boiled eggs that haven’t been rapidly cooled. However, this was an amazing scotch egg and a revelation to eat with a good pint of bitter.

The scotch egg was a reasonable £3.50 ish, and my sandwich was around the same.