Reviews
Review: Clog and Billycock, Pleasington - This Is Lancashire
What better way than to set the standards for dining out in 2012 than a visit to one of East Lancashire’s premier eating establishments?
Blackburn gastro-pub's £10,000 'carbon neutral' bid
GASTRO pub the Clog and Billycock is aiming to go ‘carbon neutral’ after installing a new eco lighting scheme.
Lancashire Telegraph - Eating Out
By David Magilton.
Bolton News
Delicious Choices At Welcoming Gastro Pub, by David Magilton
Wirral Asparagus Reaches New Heights (235 ft!)
The freshest "asparagus nouveau" has been rushed from farm to forks around the North West region, to Michelin-starred restaurants and to the iconic Big One rollercoaster at Pleasure Beach Resort, Blackpool.
The Clog and Billycock, Pleasington
Michael Taylor travels to Nigel Haworth's (Northcote Manor, The Three Fishes) latest Lancashire foodie pub.
Six East Lancashire inns included in Michelin pub guide
And two inns are featured for the first time in the 2010 edition of the Michelin Eating Out in Pubs book, seen as a major honour for gastro pubs across Britain.
Nigel Haworth and Craig Bancroft - local heroes
They're the kings of regional cuisine, the restaurateurs who were cooking local food 20 years before it became fashionable.
Clog & Billycock
The Clog has been part of Pleasington's history for over 150 years. A place of fond memories, laughter and life. But its real hey day as the heart of the village is yet to come, thanks to a new £1.3m refurbishment.
The Clog and Billycock
Plug in your satnav and search out this attractively converted and atmospheric pub restaurant, part of the excellent Ribble Valley Inns chain in this leafy, well-heeled country village.
Clog & Billycock
The Clog has been part of Pleasington's history for over 150 years. A place of fond memories, laughter and life. But its real hey day as the heart of the village is yet to come, thanks to a new £1.3m refurbishment.
26th February 2009
The third pub from Craig Bancroft and Nigel Haworth's Ribble valley Inns is a very Lancastrian affair. Tom Vaughan checks out a menu of meticulous provenance...
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Blackpool Gazette - Top Eating Chain
The Clog & Billycock joins the the pub and food company's award winning Three Fishes in Mitton and the Highwayman in Kirby Longsdale.
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Caterer and Hotelkeeper - Menu Watch
The third pub from Craig Bancroft and Nigel Haworth's Ribble Valley Inns is a very Lancastrian affair. Tom Vaughan checks out a menu of meticlous provenance.
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Dining Out Review
Having given it a few weeks to settle in, it was off to the transformed Clog and Billycock.
Expecations were high. After all, it's pert of Ribble Valley Inns, the people behind the Three Fishes at Mitton, which is one of the area's finest establishments.
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Guardian Weekend Entertainment Guide - Food & Drink
Familiarity, it’s said, breed contempt. For now, however, growing northern pub company, Ribble Valley Inns, remains the source of much contentment. The Clog, the company’s third pub-restaurant, may be its best yet. Unlike the Three Fishes and The Highwayman, both barn-like buildings whose makeovers felt a little antiseptic the Clog is altogether cosier. It’s a sensitively lit, cleverly subdivided space, with an area where drinkers can sup relatively undisturbed. Food wise the Clog sticks to the RVI formula : superb local ingredients put to work in broadly traditional British dishes, though the menu does include a handful of new additions. These include great stakes, a rustling portion of whitebait, served with a deliciously poky paprika mayo, and a cautiously modernised toad in the hole, in which all elements combine handsomely.
TONY NAYLOR
Lancaster Guardian
Just like her mother used to make it.
Natalia Banks' mother-in-law-to-be was delighted by real chips cooked in dripping at The Clog and Billycock, Pleasington.
