Best Pubs in the UK

Narrowing down the best pubs in England and Wales is a Sisyphean task. Just as you think you’ve found the best, the rock comes rolling down and you have to start all over again.

Alastair Sawday, writing for the Times (UK) seems to think he’s manhandled the task, however, and apparently has the bollocks to claim he’s found the very best the UK has to offer.

Naturally, every drunk hunched over every pint across this beer-drinkng nation will have their own thoughts on the matter. After reading Sawday’s review, however, I think I’m going to side with his well researched and surpsingly sober opinions.

Take for example the 16th-century Harrow Inn at Hampshire that is “Unspoilt, brick-and-tiled,” and “hides down a country lane that dwindles into a footpath by a little stream.” Sawday notes that the pub’s “timbered walls, brick inglenook fireplace aglow in winter, [and] scrubbed elm tables” is the perfect place to while away the winter–although the fact that the “loos are a quick dash across the lane” slightly detracts from the allure of the place if you ask me.