The Yew Tree Inn

Another dining trip and another good experience. J and N had bought us a gift voucher for Marco Pierre White's Yew Tree Inn for our silver wedding and we still owed them a promised meal out for their tenth anniversary, five years ago - time flies. We combined the two and headed for Newbury last Saturday.
This was an experience more grounded in the normal than Blumenthal's Fat Duck and mercifully nowhere near as expensive. Nonetheless it was bloody good. As the name suggests this is a traditional pub building and I suppose that means it is what one would term a gastro-pub. Reasonable prices for recognisable food and a good wine list.
Captain Greedy here had a pre-starter (the waitress entrapped me) of gulls' eggs. For my proper starter I had potted shrimps and then belly pork Marco Polo (slow cooked and honey glazed) - both terrific. To finish, a very good rice pudding.
Not that you will care but I would recommend this place. It is definitely beyond the ordinary in terms of the food and the atmosphere. A bit special. And no Marco himself was not there but we were assured he had dined there the night before. He had a chip butty and mushy peas.