Qype: The Alvanley Arms Inn in Tarporley

Tarporley - Pubs & Bars - Pubs

Picturesque Cheshire pub just outside Eaton village on a bad bend on the A49, a popular stop for the traveling trade. It's a cracking looking building, and there is a big shire horse connection - the inside is decorated with hundreds of photos and rosettes, and there is a shire horse centre nextdoor.

It's got an olde-world feeling to it - not in a 17th century way, but it looks like not much has changed for about 30 years inside. Which is nice. Sadly, I'm only going to give it 3 stars. I had a decided average ploughmans lunch here yesterday, which at 9.95 was super-expensive. For that sort of money, it would have to right, and it wasn't all there. The ham was good, but there wasn't much of it. The cheese was pretty standard mild supermarket fayre, and the salad wasn't up to much either.

Robinsons is on tap, but again my first pint of bitter in about 4 weeks was a touch on the ropey side.

Worth a look, but don't order the ploughmans. I should have had the gammon.

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