Freemasons at Wiswell take first place in Top 50 Pubs List

Freemasons at Wiswell have continued to show it’s a little pub with big intentions and have become the first ever pub in the history of Good Food Guide to receive 7 out of 10. One of the Ribble Valley’s most sought after destinations for food and drink, The Freemasons also ranked 41st place in the Guide’s Top 50 Restaurants. The Good Food Guide is the UK’s bestselling restaurant guide. Reviewing and writing about restaurants, pubs and cafés since 1951, the Guide brings together the best places to eat out around the country. This is the latest in a long line of accolades achieved by patron Steven Smith and his team, including being the only pub last year to find its way into the top 100 of The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants, in association with Harden’s, finishing in 83rd place, as well as three rosettes in The AA Awards and top 50 in The Budweiser Budwar Gastropub Awards to name but a few. Steven Smith said: “Words can’t explain how proud we are to be the first pub to achieve a 7 out of 10 in The Good Food Guide. We’re a little pub in the Ribble Valley that wants to offer its customers a gastronomic experience second to none and we believe that this achievement proves we’re doing that in spades. “Our ambition is to keep moving up the rankings, and so far, that’s happened every year. We’re seeing customers travel from afar to visit us and there’s no greater feeling than knowing you’ve made their visit worthwhile.”

See the top 50 pubs list below:

1. Freemasons at Wiswell, Lancashire
2. The Hand & Flowers, Buckinghamshire
3. The Red Lion, East Chisenbury, Wiltshire
4. The Royal Oak, Paley Street, Berkshire
5. The Sportsman, Kent
6. The Pipe and Glass Inn, Yorkshire
7. The Gunton Arms, Norfolk
8. The White Oak, Cookham, Berkshire
9. The Butchers Arms, Eldersfield, Gloucestershire
10. The Treby Arms, Devon
11. The Hardwick, Abergavenny
12. The Nut Tree Inn, Oxfordshire
13. The Stagg Inn, Titley, Herefordshire
14. The Star Inn, Harome, Yorkshire
15. The Harwood Arms, Fulham, London
16. The Plough, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire
17. The Plough Inn, Longparish, Hampshire
18. The Hinds Head, Berkshire
19. The Masons Arms, Knowstone, Devon
20. The Broad Chare, Tyne & Wear
21. The Springer Spaniel, Cornwall
22. The Wellington Arms, Baughurst, Hampshire
23. The British Larder, Suffolk
24. The Sir Charles Napier, Oxfordshire
25. The Pony & Trap, Chew Magna, Somerset
26. The Star Inn, Sparsholt, Oxfordshire
27. The Felin Fach Griffin, Powys
28. The Duke of Cumberland Arms, West Sussex
29. The Richmond Arms, West Ashling, West Sussex
30. The Foxhunter, Gwent
31. The White Hart, Lydgate, Greater Manchester
32. The General Tarleton, Yorkshire
33. The Kinmel Arms, Conway
34. The Wheatsheaf, Combe Hay, Somerset
35. The Five Alls, Oxfordshire
36. The Bay Horse, Hurworth on Tees, Durham
37. The Bildeston Crown, Suffolk
38. The Malt House, Fulham, London
39. The Earl of March, West Sussex
40. The Kingham Plough, Oxfordshire
41. The Star @ Sancton, Yorkshire
42. The Black Swan, Oldstead, Yorkshire
43. Beckford Arms, Wiltshire
44. The Wheatsheaf Inn, Northleach, Gloucestershire
45. The Duke of York Inn, Grindleton, Lancashire
46. The Rummer, Bristol
47. Camberwell Arms, Camberwell, London
48. The Crown, Old Basing, Hampshire
49. Smokehouse, Islington, London
50. The White Horse, Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk