Rather different from the other guides here is Johansens Recommended Inns with Restaurants. This is a large, glossy book, priced around £10 (also available on a CD-ROM including companion Hotel and Country House guides at £30). Johansens was recently unfavourably mentioned on BBC TV's Watchdog along with another of other hotel guides that charge the featured businesses a hefty chunk of cash to appear. It was suggested that only limited effort is put into ensuring that the entries are impartial, effectively making it a large advertising supplement. Despite this, I have found Johansens to be reliable, and though it has no information on beer, it does give a clear feel for the atmosphere of a pub in full page entries that include good colour photographs. Directions are good, but details of food often tend to the flowery rather than the specific.