Emma & Alistair
Wed, 10 Aug 2011
being new to the village we were delighted with the friendliness of all staff, the superb quality of food and the great decision to have a New Zealand sauvignon on the wine list! we are regulars in the making!
Suzanne
Wed, 22 Jun 2011
What a lovely surprise! Lovely pub, exceptional food & welcoming staff! Big thank you from us all.
Happy Birthday Mark!
The Young's
Sun, 27 Feb 2011
took shelter from the cold & wet as warmed up with a superb roast dinner and a felt welcome with our two children. Great food! Great Pub!
Thank you.
Mark, Kathryn, Lauren & Darcy
cheesy chips
Thur, 21 Oct 2010
a few months ago we wanted to find a nice country pub found the griffin and its friendly people who accepted us straight away so now we just keep coming back and they serve the best cheesy chips ever thank you paul and lesley for making us so welcome
angie and colin
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Chris & Cheryl
Sat, 01 May 2010
Thank you for a fantastic evening, nice and relaxing and beautiful food with friendly service. We'll be back very soon.
Barry & Sandra
Thur, 21 Jan 2010
We enjoyed a meal for our wedding anniversary on 19 December 2009. Food was excellent and plenty of it! Service was top class and the restaurant is a really lovely place to eat. Lesley even produced a lovely chocolate cake for us with a candle on - had to take it home as we were just too full! Thanks Lesley and Paul.
Norbert Dentressangle
Wed, 23 Dec 2009
We booked out Xmas dinner here last wednesday, it was excellant, good food, good wine, great service, great value
Iain
Tue, 29 Sept 2009
Excellent food along with friendly, efficient service.
Nigel Atkins
Fri, 25 Sept 2009
Good web site (work of a local regular?) and good photos, I hardly recognised the place
good choice of beer the other night too with Potbelly Pigs do Fly and Sheila\'s friend Scary-Mary says the food is good.
Katie
Mon, 31 Aug 2009
great pub - superb food, excellent service. will certainly be returning!
Elaine Smith
Tue, 14 July 2009
Marvelous evening, staff were excellent, will be coming back very soon
STEVE HOPPER
Fri, 01 May 2009
Had a fantastic meal here, service is absolutely superb, very warm and welcoming, Would highly recommend it
Sandy
Sun, 12 Apr 2009
Warm welcome, fantastic food and great surroundings. Will certainly be visiting again.
Daniel K.
Tue, 07 Apr 2009
One of the best pubs...anywhere!
Fantastic website- it sure brings back fond memories.
All the best from Western Canada!
Daniel
hemlock
Sat, 28 Mar 2009
Great pub and great website.
Doug
Fri, 27 Mar 2009
Great Website, look forward to coming soon
Jo, Kerrie, Simon and Tony
Fri, 27 Mar 2009
Happy Anniversary !
Enjoy your website -
Jo, Kerrie, Simon and Tony
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NORTHAMPTON CHRONICLE AND ECHO
BOOKING dinner for a landmark family celebration would normally send me heading off to an old favourite where I could be certain we'd all be in safe hands, but on this occasion yours truly went off-piste and booked in at The Griffin, a place none of us had ever visited before. Luckily, we couldn't have asked for more from a night out at Pitsford's excellent, if slightly unassuming (from the outside) hostelry. In fairness, we'd heard just good reports and the fact that we could only get a table for 8.15pm on Saturday was proof enough that plenty of other people did know about the food.
The pub's been there since the 1600s and is a freehouse, which means it stocks a good mix of beers, including IPA, Everards and Potbelly from the county-based micro-brewery We sat in the extremely cosy lounge area where there's load's to look at on the walls while you chat and ponder over the menu before our friendly waitress took the orders.
The dining room area is set at the back and is really well done out. There's a great ambience and although the ceilings are low and the tables were packed you weren't drowned out by noise. Birthday boy Dave and mother-in-law Gret both went for the warm chicken liver and red onion salad, which was beautifully presented and served with a pine nut dressing. They like their chicken livers and both were pleased by both the flavours on the plate. Wife Kate and I also doubled up, going for parma ham, pear and walnut salad. This was excellent too, with nicely dressed leaves peppered with the sweetness of the pear and the wonderfully salty taste of the ham, itself one of the great joys of life.
Other starters included gravadlax, a summer vegetable terrine and field mushrooms topped with goats cheese.
For mains, Dave moved on to pork belly served, intriguingly, on a bed of oriental stir fry. He really enjoyed the pork belly - a great cut of the pig and sensational when cooked well - but he was less convinced by the stir fry Gret. who rarely clears her plate even when she's eating a sandwich, managed to do so on this occasion. She had opted for roasted chump of lamb served with a bacon parmen-tier potato and rounded off with a jus of apricots and sherry. It looked great and tasted great. Kate and I each chose a lOoz prime ribeye. served with chips, mushrooms, onion rings and tomatoes. Mine was a sensational steak, cooked to medium rare perfection and oozing flavour. Kate felt the same and we were both surprised they were only lOoz, because they seemed more.
The wines were quite reasonably priced and we eventually worked our way through two bottles of Argentinian Merlot. Puddings included key lime pie, chocolate and orange cheesecake and peach melba in a brandy snap basket, but none of us had room left to indulge.
What we all liked about the menu was its simplicity. It's not about having pages of offerings, it's about keeping the choices to a manageable number and doing them well.
For starters, mains and desserts. The Griffin's menu did this and delivered. It was also seasonal - a summer vegetable risotto for mains, for example. The pub also has disabled access and although there is no disabled toilet, staff reported that customers were able to access the toilets as they were wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs. The service was friendly and efficient and the overall ambience of the pub was delightful. By the time we'd paid the bill (£124) and headed off. we'd all enjoyed an excellent meal in a hidden gem of a pub. You can't ask for more than that when you turn 60, can you?
