Forget Designer Pubs - Opt for the Real Thing ; the Food Inspector. This Week, Our Undercover Reviewer Counts the Pennies with a Visit to a Family-Friendly Pub

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Where do you go for a family meal when you're all properly hungry but don't want to spend more than Pounds 10 a head for adults and a fiver on the kids? That was the conundrum facing The Food Inspector's family recently when 23 of us gathered together for a family holiday in East Devon. We'd all taken turns to cook vast communal meals and by day six fancied a break from the mass catering and washing up. But none of us wanted to stump up the several hundred pounds to take us all out for a serious restaurant meal.

Sadly, the all-too-obvious solution would have been a trip to McDonald's. But even though some of the smaller members of the party greeted that idea with enthusiasm, the older ones among us wanted to eat proper food, with a knife and fork. And after a day out with 22 members of your family, wouldn't you prefer to have some alcohol with your meal? I know I would.

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Forget Designer Pubs - Opt for the Real Thing ; the Food Inspector. This Week, Our Undercover Reviewer Counts the Pennies with a Visit to a Family-Friendly Pub

And so we went to The Hare and Hounds at Putts Corner between Sidmouth and Honiton. It's a big, rambling old pub perched on the top of the hill with good views over the Sid Valley and a nice garden with playhouse for kids. It's made even more roomy by a vast permanent ma...

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