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  • Best pub in Coniston for beer and food
  • higgo
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    I want to stroll in to a pub in Coniston, eat some nice food, wash it down with a pint or three of good beer and read my book.

    Any recommendations?

    woody2000
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    Black bull 🙂

    fubar
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    The Sun is my favourite. (up the hill). Last couple of times I’ve been to Conisiston I thought the Black Bull fine for a pint but the food average.

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    davidtaylforth
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    Books are banned in Coniston

    alaslas
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    Sun has been ‘re-vamped’ – food more expensive, tree cut down from the beer garden, dining room extended unsympathetically. Went to Black Bull – on balance now has the better (more generous, cheaper) food, lots of ale selection. Could have all changed by now though.

    Torch and blanket required for reading – be careful out there.

    higgo
    Free Member

    Books are banned in Coniston

    Is this actively policed?
    Will I be told off by a village bobby or be beaten to a pulp by a pack of rabid Cumbers?

    piemonster
    Full Member

    The 2nd of those options

    higgo
    Free Member

    Would it help if I hid the book in a copy of Razzle?

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    Wander along to torver and grab a pew in the pub there, church inn. Nice old bar, good food, great beer, and a buxom wench pulling pints. Mmmmm…..

    davidtaylforth
    Free Member

    Would it help if I hid the book in a copy of Razzle?

    😀

    Top shelf material that.

    higgo
    Free Member

    The issue with Torver is the hour+ walk home.
    (as I can’t be absolutely certain I’d pull the buxom wench)

    doodlebug
    Free Member

    Don’t forget the best cafe in Coniston :

    http://www.thebluebirdcafe.co.uk/

    But you will have to earn that stop first 😉

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    walk? take the bike.

    Capt.Kronos
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    Food at the Ship Inn out near the Old Hall campsite, then into Coniston for beer at the Black Bull.

    Job done 😉

    (Alas the Ship is a Robinson’s pub and the beer is, as a result, deeply average)

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    And she absolutely loved my scots accent, just do yer best Sean Connery, you’ll be in there.

    Capt.Kronos
    Free Member

    (And yes, the Church Inn in wonderful and I try to pop in every so often… keep thinking I should move to Torver infact!)

    higgo
    Free Member

    Black Bull.
    Bowl Of Homemade Chilli washed down with a two pints of Bluebird XB.
    Super – just what I needed after riding over Broughton Moor to Seathwaite and coming back over Walna Scar.

    stufive
    Free Member

    +1 for church inn

    zokes
    Free Member

    In the past would also have said the Sun, but last time I was there the “change” as is being discussed was in progress, and I wasn’t impressed (price up, atmosphere and quality down).

    Agree with either the Bull or the one in Torver being the better option.

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