Greyhound Inn — Restaurant in East Suffolk

Second edit: so good we went back, and it was even better.

This time two things had changed and one had stayed the same.

The same; the food was excellent. I had Partridge which was tasty and succulent. When I've cooked partridge it's always been dry and mean, but the chef at the Greyhound knows his stuff and this was a plump sweet little bird in a strong sauce with some lovely peas and crispy potatoes. My wife & daughter had the belly pork with white beans and loved it. I had what they left of that and also loved it. The beans were wonderfully tender and flavoured with sage and the pork was as piggy as you like. Comfort food to remember. My only quibble is that maybe a steak knife would be useful for people eating the partridge because I wanted to pick lots of little bits off that I couldn't with my table knife.

Wonderful pump street chocolate mousse for pud, wife had a ginger crumble with vanilla set cream which was reported as exceptional.

The wine list is still brilliant, and yet again almost everything on the menu could be had gluten free. I think that there were only three changes (one of which was the ginger crumble so I didn't get to actually try that, not that wifey was for sharing in any case).

What changed? This time the service (which was good last time but a bit confused) was perfect, not a foot wrong. Still friendly and fun, but absolutely on it as well. Second, last night the fire was lit which changed the vibe in the pub a lot. It was like a scene from one of those novels about English villages in the winter which feature a main character based on a younger Bridget Jones with more florid mental health issues, and an author really keen on royalties and a film deal.

Anyway, it was great. We loved it, you will too, go go go.

Here's my first review if you are still reading:

The foods the thing here.

It's a typical village pub, situated in a very quiet spot next to the church. The owners pack in as many diners as practical, but book in advance because it won't take much of a rush to mean you won't get a table.

Service did get a little bit confused, but everyone is really friendly and clearly trying to make sure we all have a good time. We went at "back to uni" time, so maybe the staff were in change over mode. Anyway, needing to ask twice isn't a sin, bringing the wrong thing would be a sin - but the staff swallowed their embarrassment and came and checked so all was well.

I had the Suffolk Coppa (not sure of the spelling) - anyway, it was slices of ham and as good as anything you can get in Spain. Then deviled kidneys which were rich, tasty and tender in an unctuous and silky sauce followed by strong tasting and crispy hogget chops. The hogget came with sweet sqashes, sweetbreads (maybe from the same sheep) and goats cheese. It was brillliant. My wife had the crab bisque and then some wonderful mushrooms. The chef catered for my gluten intolerance allowing me a very good choice of dishes - just a few things were out of bounds due to relying on toast and other unavoidables.

We finished with a raspberry sorbet. I tried one of the strange liqueurs from the menu as well but didn't like it much - I think it tasted like cough medicine. On the brighter side the cocktails are carefully mixed with ingredients chosen as carefully as those on the food menu and the wine list is to win the lottery for. There are reasonable and good options by the glass for folks that might not be in Richard Bransons class when it comes to splashing the cash.

Food is served on eclectic plates, I think that symbolizes the approach, which is a focus on the things that matter, the customers, and the food, and the wine, rather than the table or the uniforms or the fonts on the menu. In terms of price, this is expensive, for Suffolk, but reasonable for London.My goodness though, it's worth it, and we will be coming back. This is heartfelt cooking and a careful curation of all the aspects of a beautiful meal. You would have to travel a very, very, long way to...

Another nail in the coffin of the traditional English pub. There were four of us on the night in question. Three of whom were driving. As result, we had the equivalent of five pints of beer, one pint of lime and soda and one piece of left-over (and rather dry) apple tart. At the end of the evening, our bar tab came to £60! We, as a group, had gone along to show support for a charity pub quiz. There was a small menu of available snacks on each table. The cheapest option being bread and butter at £3. We decided to try the pork scratchings and apple sauce (£7), to be told that this item (on the newly presented menu) was no longer available. Having noted that there were no snacks available to buy at the bar (crisps, nuts, etc), I asked if there was any chance that we could perhaps have something like a bowl of chips for the table. This request was met with a very stern and definite "We don't do chips!". So table snacks were mournfully dismissed for the evening. For those that don't know, the residents of Wickham Market and Pettistree have but one pub within walking distance. The Greyhound. I am also certain that I do not need to tell anyone that the majority of us have sorely missed any sort of community social hub since COVID made prisoners of us all. Now we find, as we start to venture from our doors again, that the only local pub we had has been annexed by the elitist boutique eatery brigade, asking London prices in a small country pub. This is fine if you can afford it, but there a lot of people who cannot. So, if you want to have a quite drink at an affordable price in the Wickham Market/Pettistree area, you will have to do it at home. Alone. If you want to enjoy an affordable drink with friends and strangers in a relaxed and communal atmosphere, well, your guess is as good as mine, because the Greyhound at Pettistree is not the...

Extremely disappointing to book a table for four for Sunday, be told late last night (Friday) that one of the guests is unwell and so needed to cancel table, spend from 8am on Saturday morning on the phone getting through to a FULL answerphone that won’t take a message and then be charged £100 (25 a head) even though they could clearly re-sell the booking. It is not immediately clear on the terms and conditions and there is NO way to cancel out of office hours as you need to call them and it’s extremely inflexible. I understand a charge if cancelling a few hours before but this is really disappointing and as a guest who has had multiple visits I would have hoped for a little more leeway. EDITED AFTER OWNER’S RESPONSE - there is NO way to cancel via the OpenTable app, the app tells you to contact the restaurant directly. I had checked first thing on Saturday morning - well over 30 hours before my booking on the Sunday - secondly after I called to cancel and was told you would try to reallocate the table I constantly checked the OpenTable App to see if the 12.30 booking would appear as available again on the Sunday and it wasn’t. I reiterate that I think being charged ONE HUNDRED POUNDS well over a day before a Sunday lunchtime booking needed to be cancelled due to illness is outrageous and to suggest that you had already prebought what was going to be eaten is absurd given that you had no idea what we would have been ordering….it’s frankly outrageous and extremely disappointing and, as I have already mentioned, having eaten at the restaurant a number of times before I would have hoped to have been given a bit...