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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

The Corner House

58/100
  • Stroud, Gloucestershire
  • European bistro and sharing plates
  • By the glass
  • Mid-range
  • Beta
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The Corner House is a Mediterranean-leaning bistro in the centre of Stroud, cooking sharing platters, seafood and grills from a seasonally changing card. Its wine programme is short, commercial and genuinely accessible — Italian- and Mediterranean-led, honestly priced, broad by the glass across the everyday tier — but shallow above the house wines, with no Sherry for its own smoked-fish and artichoke plates and only a single dessert wine to close. It will most reward the diner who wants an easy, well-priced glass alongside a relaxed dinner, rather than the wine lover in search of a cellar to explore.

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77/100 Beta

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Seafood-led modern British

Purslane is a chef-led Cheltenham restaurant built on day-boat Cornish fish and a bi-monthly seasonal menu. Its compact, wide-ranging list is shaped around that cooking — strongest in the high-acid, unoaked and sparkling whites the fish asks for, and complete right through to a proper sweet and fortified finish. It will most reward a diner who loves precise seafood and white wine and is happy to be steered towards the freshest, most mineral corners of the list.

  • By the glass
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72/100 Beta

The Old Butchers

Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire

Seafood and charcoal grill

The Old Butchers is a long-standing Cotswolds seafood and charcoal-grill restaurant with a cellar far more serious than its village setting suggests. The wine programme earns its standing on classic, well-bought Bordeaux and Burgundy, Champagne by the glass and an unusually generous three-size by-the-glass offer that serves both the raw seafood and the charcoal grill, held back only by thin dessert and fortified choices and a list that leaves the pairing to the diner. It will most reward the diner who drinks a high-acid white with the seafood and a claret with the grill, and who treats the floor team as the guide to a genuinely good cellar.

  • By the glass
  • upper mid-range
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59/100 Beta

Sorrento Restaurant and Pizzeria

Stroud, Gloucestershire

Italian trattoria and pizzeria

Sorrento is a long-standing Italian trattoria and pizzeria in the centre of Stroud, cooking the full repertoire of antipasti, pizza, pasta and grills. Its wine programme is all-Italian and sensibly matched to the food — coherent by cuisine, honestly priced, helpfully annotated, and reaching from house pours by the glass to a genuine Barolo-and-Brunello top tier with a Champagne ladder above — but it stays with convention, offers no Sherry for its own oily-fish plates and no dedicated glass for the chilli, and closes on an unnamed dessert wine. It will most reward the diner who wants a well-priced Italian glass to go with a relaxed trattoria dinner, rather than the wine lover after a list to explore in depth.

  • By the glass
  • Mid-range
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