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Western Telegraph
03-05-2025
- Western Telegraph
Manorbier Inn that cannot stop getting five-star reviews
Manorbier Castle Inn has over 400 reviews on Tripadvisor and an average rating of four stars out of five. Reviews express how the pub serves delightful food and real ale along with outstanding service and a quirky interior design. Plenty of reviews recommend the pub's food. (Image: Google Maps) A review from last month (April 2025) said: 'We visited the inn whilst on holiday in Saundersfoot. What a great pub. Very quirky inside with excellent real ale and delicious food. We liked it so much we went back again the following night!' Another review from the same month added: 'We visited Castle Inn today for lunch (two adults and two teenagers). 'The food was great. We had the Welsh beef burgers, chicken fried dumplings and chips. Great good. Great service. Lovely, quirky decoration. Really glad we visited this pub today.' Some locals like the quirky interior. (Image: Google Maps) Furthermore, a review from March 2025 wrote: 'Ate here whilst on holiday staying in Manorbier. Couldn't fault it, everything we had was great. Well cooked and full of flavour. 'The staff were all really good and able to tell us about the beers on offer and what was in the various items on the menu. I would have liked to look at all of the photos and quirky items around the pub, but it was always so full that I couldn't get anywhere near! 'It is dog friendly in a couple of the rooms. I would advise booking because each time we went in it was packed!' The pub has multiple five-star reviews in the last couple of months. (Image: Google Maps) Meanwhile, one review from February 2025 said: 'Lovely quirky pub. Seven of us booked for an evening meal and we had a great table in the little bar area. Lovely, varied menu and the food quality and portion size was excellent. A really enjoyable evening!' The pub is also located around a ten-minute walk from Manorbier beach.
BBC News
27-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Shropshire pub nominated for award six months after reopening
The manager of a Shropshire pub has said she was left "gobsmacked" when it was nominated for a regional award six months after Castle Inn in Bletchley, near Market Drayton, was closed until local farmer and long-term pub regular Adrian Marsh bought the building last initially tried to run it himself but realised he was too busy with other commitments, so he enlisted the help of Davina Warmer and her husband, was closed again for refurbishment before it reopened in August, and it has since been nominated in the best Midlands pub category in the 2025 Countryside Alliance Awards. Mrs Warmer told BBC Radio Shropshire: "We were gobsmacked. A lot of the contenders have been running for 10, 15 or 20 years, and we're very new to the game after opening six months ago."All of the staff have worked so hard since day one to get to where we are now. It's really very difficult to make a good reputation in this industry when you bring something back that's been closed for a long period of time." The refurbishment involved £45,000 worth of improvements to the interior, including new flooring, repainted walls and new furniture."It's a beautiful building, architecturally very nice, and it catches people's eyes as they go past," Mrs Warmer said."It obviously needed quite a bit of work to get it up to a nice standard, but we're getting there."Mr Marsh said he had been going to The Castle Inn for 31 years and had a lot of happy memories."It used to be a tremendous drinking hole for people going to the sea," he added."It's been a really, really good place, and Davina and Dan are getting it back to being a really good place."The award winners will be decided by a public vote which is being run on the Countryside Alliance website until 6 April. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
