The Wheatsheaf
Northeast Somerset, United Kingdom [view map]
- Style
- Gastro-hub with rooms
- Setting
- Somerset’s farmland fields
The really big draw at boutique gastropub the Wheatsheaf is the phenomenal cooking; you'll lurch from meal to meal in a delirium of pastoral astonishment. When you're not eating (the times will be few), Bath and Somerset are on your doorstep
Need to know
- Rooms
- Three.
- Rates
- £105–£140, including full English breakfast.
- Check-out
- 11am, but flexible. Earliest check-in, midday.
- Facilities
- Terrace, gardens, boules pitch, outdoor table tennis. In rooms, flatscreen TV, tea/coffee, White Company toiletries.
- Children
- Embraced; cots and extra beds available, and nannies can be drafted in.
- Hotel closed
- 24 December to 16 January.
- Also
- Dogs welcome. Horse riding can be arranged nearby, as can a day at the races (in the season).
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- All three double rooms have state-of-the-art bathroom fittings, kingsize beds and neutral, contemporary decor. They're simple, uncluttered, and comfortable (so important after a large, delicious meal).
- Packing tips
- Leave whites at home: you’re bound to miss your mouth a few times in your haste to get delicious food into it. Bring your swimwear if you're planning to venture into Bath to visit the Thermae Spa for treatments.
- Also
- In-room massages and beauty treatments can be arranged on request.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Everything that emanates from chef Lee Evans’ kitchen at the Wheatsheaf is a pure, unbridled joy. His eclectic menu marries British flavours with French élan. Just reading it will make you drool: dishes include seared scallops with boudin noir.
- Dress code
- Jeans and jumpers all round: comfy clothes are de rigueur – you don't want any tight waistbands or belts hindering your maximum capacity.
- Top table
- Outside, at a scrubbed wooden table on the terrace (which has stunning, soothing rural views); indoors, in the brighter room to the right.
- Last orders
- 11pm. At lunchtime (noon–2.30pm), the à la carte menu is joined by a Garden Menu of grown-up gastropub offerings, including a Ploughman’s to die for, with plank-thick hunks of ham and wedges of tangy cheese, and fresh, home-made breads and rolls.
- Room service
- None, but drinks are still available to residents after the barman has rung last orders.
- Hotel bar
- This stylishly above-par pub has cider, local real ales and beers, plus a substantial cellar of European wines.
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The Wheatsheaf
Combe Hay, Bath, Avon
