Food & Drink

Walk First, Crumble Later: Ten South West Pub Roasts With a Trail Attached

A Sunday roast tastes better when you have earned it. These ten South West pubs pair proper gravy with short winter walks — coast path, riverbank, common or moor — plus the unwritten rules for booking, boots and leaving room for crumble.

Nov 8, 2026

Pip, Pip, Hooray: The Small Orchards Putting Flavour Back Into South West Cider

Across Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, a new generation of growers and makers is treating cider as an orchard product rather than a volume business. The result is drier, stranger and more interesting – and it is changing the way rural pubs and young drinkers think about the West Country’s oldest tipple.

Nov 8, 2026