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The Cricketers, Clavering, nr Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 4QT


Clavering, nr Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 4QT

01799 550442

The Cricketers pub in Clavering Essex is owned by the parents of TV's "The Naked Chef", Jamie Oliver, and this is where he learned his basic cooking skills. It was too busy on a Sunday lunchtime to get a table inside but we found a table outside in the garden which was a veritable sun-trap.

There is a huge menu along with the traditional "blackboard" inside and both Q and I, along with our friend G all plumped for the Steak and Guinness pie - a tower of meat (I counted about eighteen cubes of juicy lean beef) with a perfect crunchy pastry lid. It came with either new potatoes or chips and, once again, real potatoes perfectly cooked. A side salad at the "help yourself" bar was free with the meal and I heaped a collection of fabulously roasted veg with a combination of leaves, tomatoes and coleslaw to accompany.

The most marvellous thing of all about the Cricketers was the kids' meals. Our three junior agents all plumped for burger and chips at £2.50 and, get this, it was a real ground beef patty not one of those awful frozen microwave jobs with fantastic golden brown chips.

The Cricketers has easily the best country pub food I've tasted and we will be back. M