Winning tip: The Free Trade Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Perched above a bend inside the Tyne is this no-nonsense Geordie boozer with fantastic actual ales. Its beer lawn has a great view of the Tyne Bridges, with the Baltic Art Gallery and the Millennium Bridge in the foreground – if you’re lucky, you may see it open to let boats pass upstream. Sunsets here can be fantastic, particularly around the equinoxes, while the sun appears to sink into the river, and the entire Tyneside turns a warm red.
A right pub lawn is an unprecedented treasure within the center of Norwich, but The Plough on St Benedict Street is a haven. The cobbled courtyard is full of high-quality scents of Mediterranean herbs and plants. When the sun shines, the lawn fills with lovers of Grain Brewery’s beers and connoisseurs of the exciting shelf of tequilas inside the lower back bar. Peer up via the foliage to the roofs of 15th-century merchants’ homes and sprawl over a picnic bench on the lawn to catch the last evening rays before the bats begin their dusk flittings overhead.
Sitting within the garden of this pub in Southwell, you’d be forgiven for awaiting an express teach to hurry via. The pub is in the former station, and its right ales and tremendous pork pies and cheese boards can be enjoyed on the “platform” beer garden, which capabilities track, symptoms, and station canopy, all adorned with striking baskets. Trains can be behind schedule.
On the highest point of the North Downs Way, it’s no marvel that the views from this United States hotel’s beer garden close to Biggin Hill are extraordinary, made even greater. Hence, in case you’re fortunate enough to be there on a summer’s nighttime, glass in hand, taking within the sunset. The menu is regionally sourced, with a few ingredients very neighborhood – the delicious burgers are made with pork from just over the fence at the Titsey Estate, which is likewise domestic to Titsey Brewing Co., in which the craft ales on faucet comes. Popular with walkers and cyclists.
The walled lawn on the White Hart in colorful Widcombe (a leafy neighborhood at the back of Bath Spa station) has its microclimate. Filled with a tropical array of shrubs and flowers, such as a rare ginkgo tree and a fruit-generating passionflower cover, it’s a foodie haven with a local pub environment. For the creative bods from Bath Comedy Festival and the thesps from the Natural Theatre Company, primarily based next door, it’s an alfresco living room all summer. A Jane Austen-free zone inside the history of insanity, this is Bath.
The verdant palm-filled lawn of the Old Coastguard in Mousehole (closed for summer 2019 because of a hearth) has lush lawns that slope lightly down to the ocean. Sip Cornish cider and gaze over at St Michael’s Mount because the light adjustments keep with weather and time; the aggregate of beer, vegetation, and sea breezes is heady. Even on a gray autumn day, the lawn has an environment: when the clouds clear, tiny St Clement’s Isle magically appears in the distance.
An hour north of Glasgow, shimmy beyond Loch Lomond, then take the High Road (A83) over the Rest and Be Thankful splendor spot to one of the oldest Highland hostelries: the Cairndow Stagecoach Inn tucked away at the pinnacle of Loch Fyne. Enjoy craft brews (Fyne ales) and exquisite food within the adorable gardens leading to the loch shore. Magnificent views north of the mountains and the tranquil waterside location make this spot an ideal retreat. Catch one of the superb Loch Fyne sunsets; you’ll never want to depart.
