The Hand & Flowers
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Inspector comments
"Pub food reimagined to impress."
Overview
Tom Kerridge’s motivation has always been to create food that people want to eat, rather than messing about with baffling peculiarities they feel they ought to try. In Tom’s words, ‘brilliant ingredients, cooked simply to let the flavours shine’. The nerve-centre of his culinary empire remains The Hand & Flowers – a whitewashed country pub with its hanging baskets, where an atmosphere of friendly enthusiasm prevails amid the bare tables and half-boarded walls. The menu might start with braised pearl barley with smoked chicken, pickled pear and wild garlic, or mackerel, tomato and olive on toast, and follow on with roasted hake, rosemary potato, caper and artichoke purée, hazelnuts and Banyuls butter sauce, or tenderloin of Wiltshire pork, pickled cabbage, garlic sausage, malted cheek beignet and mustard mayonnaise.
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Ratings & awards
4 Rosette Award for Culinary Excellence
AA Notable Wine List
Our inspector loves...
Comfortable accommodation - High quality rooms ideal for a dine and stay experience.
Private dining - The Shed, with its live kitchen, is ideal for intimate and bespoke occasions.
High quality food - Only the best of ingredients are used here; an exceptional experience.
Rich wine list - The award-winning wine has a glass for everyone.
Parking - Ample parking area, with electric vehicle charge points.
Features
- Facilities
- Seats: 54
- Private dining available
- On-site parking available
- Food and Drink
- Wines under £30: 10
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About the area
Buckinghamshire is a land of glorious beech trees, wide views and imposing country houses, such as Stowe and Waddesdon Manor, set amid sumptuous gardens and dignified parkland. The Vale of Aylesbury is a vast playground for leisure seekers, and rising above it are the Chiltern Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty where you can also find the woodland rides of Burnham Beeches
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