Pubs for Food along the A458/A491 in Shropshire

Anna to thread surely.

I though so, mark s as well.

I can recommend The Acton Arms. Morville is between Bridgnorth and Much Wenlock.

Also This one with added bonus points for the owner's rock and roll surname.

You are spoilt for choice in Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury.

sorry i'm no expert --- all my recent time spent in my parents' house :(

if i cudgel my memory i can tell you which were grisly shrewsbury pubs to avoid 25 years ago!!

ed there is an amazing old pub just on the welsh side of the border by an old fallen down gorgeous priory (you can climb on it and everything! er, perhaps you shouldn't though) - it's sunk underground a bit so it's down steps on the way in, big old flagstone floor, yummy cider and lovely lovely food. if it's sunny, lying on the grass outside to eat your lunch is heavenly. unfortunately my brain is temporarily shot to fuck and i can't remember the pub's name or exactly where it is. i will fix myself tonight using curry and get back to you if it's relevant.

Fallen down priory by Welsh borders = Tintern Abbey?

(I want to go there, especially if there is good pubbage nearby.)

Tintern is a bit far out of the way I would think.

Ed, this time last year I would have sent you straight to my father and recomended you asked for something steak-based. Sadly (for you, he's having a right time of it) he has now retired.

The Fat Frog in Coalbrookdale does nice grub, but the pub is a bit of an odd shape. There's a gorgeous gastro-pub type place around there that my dad's mate Stuart worked at, but I'm buggered if I can think of the name right now. It will come back to me. Lovely, lovely food, but poss. not the cheapest.
My mum is the Bridgenorth expert - I'll call both parents and ask for recomendations, most of my knowledge is bit out of date.

You may be passing through Much Wenlock on the weekend of the storytelling festival - which is fab and had a really nice red-haired barmaid about nine years ago.

i don't know if i mean tintern abbey or llanthony priory.

Anyway, what are you going to Wales for, Ed? Or is Shropshire where your camp-thing is? (I have such a poor memory.)

Indeed, camp thing. I have managed to recruit someone to poke me/scream if I fall asleep at the wheel so I'm going to be driving. I though, rather than submit to the Little chef I would do some research ahead of time and find a nice spot for dinner and a rest, Shropshire will come up about the right time for dinner.

Any other ideas. I am consolidating now.

Aww, Emsk has just reminded me of happy times in the Brecon Beacons. Llanthony Priory is a bit (okay, a lot) out of the way, but if you've got time for the diversion, the Gospel Pass that goes up the Vale of Ewyas just south of Hay-on-Wye is fucking wonderful (especially by bike, but I would say that). You go up this long wooded valley in the shadow of Offa's Dyke on this tiny little singletrack road and it takes you past the ruins of Llanthony Priory, the *tiny* little church at Capel-y-Ffin, which seriously is about the same size as our kitchen, and also this one other church where the ground has subsided underneath it and has left the whole structure twisted like a corkscrew - the tower points to about 10 o'clock, the nave is flattish and the alter is at 2 o'clock. Uncanny experience walking in there, you feel like you're stood on a boat in a storm. Anyhow, you get to the top of the pass and you're stood on the shoulder of Lord Hereford's Knob, with the north opened up before you and a nice steep descent leading across the moorland, rattling down across the cattle grids past some stone circles and on to Hay-on-Wye. None of which helps you at all, but damn it's nice to remember that road.