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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

The Olive Branch and Beech House

79/100
  • Clipsham, Rutland
  • British gastropub
  • ££
  • Beta
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The Olive Branch is a polished Rutland gastropub whose seasonal modern-British cooking is matched by one of the most thoughtfully built wine lists you will find in a village pub. The programme reads and buys like a serious independent — curated by style, strong on England and grower fizz, generous through the middle and all the way to a proper dessert page — held back for the wine-lover only by pricing every wine by the bottle, with nothing by the glass. It will most reward the table happy to commit to a bottle or two and to explore the lesser-known corners of a genuinely characterful list.

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