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11th August 2011

The Bush Inn, Ovington, Hampshire

Just a quick big-up to this fabulous little country pub that we found on the way to Boomtown Fair festival last week. After our pleasantly short mini-convoy journey from London, we stopped off here for a quick bite of lunch. It's not far from Winchester, just outside the little village of New Alresford. Turning off up a tiny wee country road, framed with trees, one comes upon this charming little country pub at the road's end. It really reminded me of something you'd see in an epsoide of 'Midsommer Murders'.

There was a really friendly and helpful bar man, and apart from us, there were 2 groups of people also heading to the fair. Inside was all dark wood, fireplaces and low ceilings and on the back wall there were black boards with the evening menu. It looked really interesting, but it was only cold food at lunch time, so three of us got a ploughman's of which they had a variety. I got brie and 2 others of our party got gammon and trout mousse. All of these came with chuntneys, sticks of celery, grapes, beetroot, coleslaw and a doorstop of a wedge of brown bread and an excellent pat of butter. I haven't had a ploughman's in years and forgot how delicious something this simple can be when prepared with good ingredients. My brie was gorgeous, oozy and spreadable with a lovely bumpy, mouldy rind. I washed it down with an excellent pint of local scrumpy which wasn't too tart, but fresh and apple-y. Stupidly I didn't think about the camera or blog till all the grub had been woolfed down as I didn't expect to get something as good here, and I should have taken more note of what was on the inside menu, but here's some photos of the lovely pub to tempt you down there.