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- <font size=5>The Good Pub Guide</font> probably provides the widest choice.
- A fat, packed volume from Ebury Press that isn't cheap at around
- £15, it covers over 5,000 pubs. The guide combines main entries
- and 'lucky dips' - establishments that have been recommended but
- haven't been fully checked out. Symbols pick out highlights like
- exceptional food or wine, while a detailed entry gives a description
- of the pub, a good feel for the food available (including prices)
- and useful details like the attitude to children and the opening
- hours.
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- About the only thing wrong with The Good Pub Guide is the
- directions. If I had a pound for each time I've got lost following
- these brisk and rarely illuminating remarks I'd be able to go
- to pub more frequently than I do. Still, the maps are good and
- it's invariably worth the search. Take, for example, The Good
- Pub Guide's unspoilt pub of the year, the Harrow at Steep (Hampshire).
- Finding this place is a treasure hunt in its own right, but you've
- only got to see the remarkably old fashioned rooms, or taste the
- huge bowls of soup and mind-blowing meatloaf to know that it was
- all worthwhile.
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