The Crown in the media, reviews and awards
The Independent - Saturday 13 August 2011 - UK 50 Best Gastro Pubs list
On Saturday 13 August edition in their nationwide benchmark list of the UK’s 50 Best Gastro Pubs, The Independent newspaper raised "a glass to the best places in Britain to wash down fine food with choice ales, scrumptious ciders
and world-class wines”. Compiled with the help of an authoritative panel from The AA Pub Guide, CAMRA (The Campaign
for Real Ale), Alastair Sawday’s Guide to Pubs and Inns and The Good Pub Guide.
Surprisingly considering the strength and appeal of Suffolk's inns and pubs, The Independent’s list of the great and the good only featured one Suffolk establishment - The Crown at Woodbridge and only four across the whole of East Anglia.
The Independent described The Crown At Woodbridge as “a classy inn with great food, urbane bedrooms
and a cosmopolitan air... A chic East Anglian bolthole - unmissable.” Read the whole feature here
The Times – Saturday 16 October 2010 – Tom Chesshyre's 'Cool Hotel Guide' review:
"The Crown has been transformed... into a chic retreat... captivating as though it might belong in a trendy contemporary art gallery... a stylish setting...Overall, it felt extremely comfortable... superb food in a secret Suffolk hideaway under two hours away from London". The full review can be read at www.thetimes.co.uk
Some recommendations and awards for The Crown: Alastair Sawday 'Pub with Rooms' national award 2010;
Good Food Guide 2011 - new entry with cooking score of 3 - the second highest in Suffolk;
2AA Rosettes in the AA Restaurant Guide 2011 - second highest in the county; listed in both of Michelin's UK guides
Michelin Red Great Britain and Ireland and Michelin Eating Out in Pubs 2011; recommended in two Alastair Sawday Guides
- British Hotels and Inns and Pubs and Inns of England & Wales 2010; finalist UK 2010 Restaurant and Bar Design Awards;
finalist in the 2010 Top 50 Gastropubs Awards; East Anglian winner at the LABC Building Excellence Awards 2010.
