The Anchor

Reasonable food steak was a bit chewy but nice flavour to the sauce. Monkfish was good but order sides or you’ll be hungry. Sort out the skinny fries guys they are laden with grease! Some home made chips would be much better.

Here is yet another English pub situated in a small town attempting to serve gastronomic food. It’s possible that given its location, the pub might be one of the best places in which to eat, but overall, I can’t say I loved it.
The pub doesn’t actually feel like a pub but a restaurant. The bar is located in its own small room so people who want to stand around and drink are confined and roped off from the rest of the restaurant. The entire restaurant feels fresh with white painted walls and clean lines for furnishing.
There is a pretty little garden in the back where people can bring their drinks and sit in a gazebo with couches made of straw (a bit cabana like, which is odd, but pretty). They do have heaters but they weren’t on because not enough people were occupying the space.
In the dining room, I started with a garlic soup, which was lukewarm and tasted more like an onion soup. It was okay.
Unfortunately the menu on their website does not reflect what I ate (it does look like they have their summer menu on now and I was there in May so perhaps I still had a winter menu?), so I can only vaguely tell you that I had fish (I believe it was hake) and it was good. Not memorably good, but good.
I had dessert, and I remember it being an incredibly tangy cheesecake (lim?) that I was okay eating for the first few bites but couldn’t take much more.
Again, it’s likely a good restaurant for its location.