Many pubs in Cambridgeshire now have a selection of real cask ales, beers and international wines.

The Chequers Pub in Cambridgeshire is no exception.

Choose from a selection of traditional draught beers & bottled wines to accompany your evening meal or lunch.

The Real Ale & Draft Cask Beers

currently offered by The Chequers Inn Pub include :

 

Adnams Broadside

Woodefords Wherry

Greene King IPA*

Timothy Taylor Landlord

alongside

Generic Lager Beers :

Draught Fosters*, Becks Bier

Kronenberg, Strongbow Cider & Guinness

 

*available as part of Tuesday’s ‘Pie and a Pint Meal’ offer. 12 till 8pm

 

Wines :

( This wine list is not exhaustive and changes with stock availability )

Red Wines include :

( South Africa )

Kumala Pinotage Cinsault

Kumala Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz

Rourkes Drift Cabernet Merlot

( Australia )

Moondara Shiraz

( California )

Flatrock Merlot

( Chile )

Casillero del Diablo Carmenere

White Wines include :

( Australia )

Moondara Semillion Chardonnay

( California )

Echo Falls Pinot Grigio

Blossom Hill White Zinfandel

confirm availability if you have have a favourite

The Chequers Inn

has an underground cellar which helps ensure that the quality of it's beers is maintained, due to a more stable temperature.

Listed in the

2010 Good Beer Guide

There is an extensive wine list which can be seen above the bar with the prices per bottle clearly on view. To help you with your wine choice the country of origin is shown where possible.

Cambridge and District Branch Newsletter of CAMRA

Grubbing Around With Paul & Jane

an extract from the Autumn 2009 edition of the Cambridge edition of Ale

which is one of the more reliable resources for independent opinions to eating out locally

 

“Monday evenings tend to be a quiet time for many pubs with lots not doing food or even opening at all. So when I phoned The Chequers, Pampisford on a Monday afternoon to see if I needed to book for that evening and found there was only one table still available I reckoned they must be doing something right.

 

the current licensees have been at The Chequers for three years now. Early on they completely refurbished the interior of the 15th century building, painting the walls in a bold scheme of reds, greens and blues, tiling the floors and extending into a former storage area to create an L-shaped layout.

(* to compensate for previous landlords’ alterations. *Addition by website editor )

 

Importantly for this article they installed a new kitchen with the aim of providing ‘a la carte food at pub prices’.

 

Thirst things first - get the beer in. Tim Taylor Ladlord, Woodforde’s wherry and Greene King IPA were all on, with Adnams Broadside temporarily off the menu. The Wherry was especially good.

 

The current selection of fifteen main dishes was on the blackboard, most being around the £10 mark. I went fof Lamb Tagine while Jane chose the Wholetail Scampi. Service was friendly and attentive and despite the pub being heaving (with drinkers as well as diners) the food quickly arrived. Now, I love lamb but there is always the chance you’ll get the chewy, fatty variety. Not here - it was melt-in-the-mouth perfect and loads of it too. The tagine sauce featured mushrooms, peppers, olives and apricots and the accompaniments were rice and a selection of perfectly cooked vegetables. If I was being hypercritical I’d have preferred the sauce to be stronger tasting but that really is nit picking.

 

Jane pronounced her scampi superb, the crispy exteriors giving way to succulence inside. The creamy tartar sauce was obviously home made and the salad simple but delightful. The chips were of the skinny kind and Jane likes hers fat by choice - though they tasted fine.

 

Onto the puddings (£4.25). Jane’s pavlova with mango and rasberry coulis was enormous - a great mound of meringue and cream which the coulis struggled a little to cover. If Jane likes her chips fat, she loves her meringue chewy and this really hit the mark. My banofee pie with ice cream was of much more modest proportions; a rich toffee sauce sat on a layer of banana reclining on a biscuity base. This is another dish which so often disappoints and The Chequers showed just how to do it right.

 

Jane summed up the meal with the words ‘a cut above’ - this is pub dining of the highest class. It’s well worth visiting the pub’s website (www.chequerspampisford.com) because they do lots of special nights such as seafood (monthly), curries, pies and puddings.”