The Best Pubs Near Beach House, by the Record
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A former village post office, the Pyne Arms sits deep in Devon's Exmoor National Park and has landed on the Top 50 Gastropubs list. It's a proper pub with rooms, the kind where the kitchen traces ingredients to within a few dozen miles and means it. Expect seasonal menus, Sunday roasts, good local ales, and an extensive gin list, all served in a building that looks like it has seen a few centuries pass without much fuss.
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Rank 2. Hare & Hounds
Gastropub British Pub
The pub runs its own smallholding, kitchen garden, and bakery, so when the menu changes twice a day at this Welsh gastropub, it's because something was just harvested. Tom Watts-Jones trained at London's Anchor & Hope and brought that ethos to the Vale of Glamorgan, making everything from cultured butter to fresh pasta in-house. Sit in the bar, dining room, or garden for cooking that's unfussy but clearly serious about its ingredients.
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Rank 3. Heathcock
Contemporary British Pub
A champagne and oyster bar tucked into a century-old Llandaff pub is a choice that takes confidence, and the Heathcock pulls it off without blinking. The menu changes twice daily, leans hard into nose-to-tail Welsh cooking, and shares a kitchen philosophy with sibling pub the Hare & Hounds in Aberthin. Sharing plates are the move here. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, and the kitchen garden out back keeps things seasonal whether you like it or not.