The Royal Standard of England pub, located in the Beaconsfield area of Forty Green (Buckinghamshire), is considered to be England's oldest pub. The history of the site of the pub, which is detailed from Roman times to the modern day, is located on the backs of menus and on the pub's website. The pub was an inn where visitors travelling across the country would stay for the night, and dangers back then were the highwaymen who terrorised the roads to steal from travellers. I visited the pub on my birthday, but my camera had run out of battery, so I had to use my phone to take the photographs, and it doesn't do it any justice.
This pub is comprised of many small rooms or areas with quirky shapes and features.
We were sat at the back of the pub where we enjoyed a birthday drink. There's so much to see in the pub - all sorts of quirky ornaments and the original features of the building, including the fireplace that I was sat next to.
The bloke had whitebait to start, and I had cheesey garlic bread.
I had the chicken pie, and the bloke had sausages.
For dessert, I had the eton mess, and the bloke had ice cream.
The food was ok, but the atmosphere and quirkiness of the pub was the real enjoyment here. The chicken pie was mainly pastry and a little too cooked. It was served with a lot of gravy to add flavour to the mash potatoes and pie. The eton mess was ok, but I make a better eton mess. It needed more fruit and coulis. (The 'coulis' used appeared to be strawberry syrup.) It seems that places do not make anything special anymore, since the pandemic, for birthdays. Gone seem to be the days when they'd give a candle or write "happy birthday" on the plate in syrup.
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