The Lounge Cafe Bar in South Northamptonshire

Little pub (like a 70's house really).. no longer doing food.. friendly staff .. Nice larger at a good price.. no car park

Really friendly local village pub, well patronised by locals and some from surrounding villages. Excellent cask ales with a weekly guest ale. Although this is not a food pub, it does sell heated sausage rolls, cornish pasties, and pizza twirls along with the usual crisps, peanuts, etc. There are regular events such as Live singers, Karaoke, Bingo, and a,weekly meat raffle on a Sunday at 4.00pm followed by 'Play your cards right'. Still very much the hub of the Community. Nothing has altered, a brilliant Village pub serving excellent beverages to the Community along with a venue for friends and families to meet together. Unfortunately, the current Landlord has had to serve notice due to price rises across the board. Hopefully, the owner will try to maintain it as a community asset. Only 5 weeks remaining as a pub in its own right. I believe it will be closed for a few weeks and reopen as an Indian restaurant under a new name and management. I will have to wait and see if it will retain any 'wet' trade for locals. The pub closed and has now re opened as a bar and grill Bangladeshi restaurant. Moocha Wala.

I know some people like their chips to be dark brown in colour, but probably more prefer a lighter golden brown. My mum always used to do dark brown. However, is there a preference for the colour of the fish batter? I haven't heard that there is. For me the important thing is that the batter should be golden brown and crispy not soggy. Read on to find out why I started with this introduction to my review. Last night I had fish and chips in the Butchers Arms and the fish batter was a bit too dark/overcooked, although it wasn't as bad as it looked. A friend asked if I needed a chisel to eat it, but no I didn't. It was very crispy, in fact a bit too crispy. I personally prefer mushy to garden peas with fish and chips. The chips and tartare sauce were nice. A slice of lemon would have been a nice finishing touch. The price was £17. The service was a bit slow for the main course, but to be fair there was a large private birthday party upstairs. If they had brought my meal out a bit quicker, maybe the batter would have been just right😆. The deserts are a bit pricey, but this seems to be normal these days. I had cheese cake, which was £8. The menu is a bit limited, but after COVID this seems to have happened in several pubs. I did fancy the steak, but could not afford the price of £30. There was a vegan option on the menu which suited my wife. She enjoyed her chickpea ragout, although thought her meal was lacking carbs. Normally this dish would be served with something like pasta. On this, my first visit to the Butchers Arms, I can only give a rating of 3/5 because the fish batter was overcooked and the service was a bit slow. The Ragout also could do with being served with pasta (preference), or rice or bread for some carbohydrates or at least have this as an option. Despite all of the above, the Butchers is certainly still worth 3 stars because it is a nice friendly pub, including dogs being allowed in the bar and garden, and the ales I drank were all in excellent condition and 2 out of the 3 were local ones and below £5, which is good to see. I would certainly recommend to drinkers of real ales, and would give them another try for food.

Cute little pub, cosy atmosphere, as a vegetarian not many choices, there was a mistake on our order but the staff were attentive and quickly fixed it, overall a lovely visit

Dropped on for a quick breakfast - Jenny’s is a bit of a gem … both for the cafe and with a garden/ play area at the back .