Food Glorious Food.

Sitting in the Lamb last night, watching the friday night diners, reminded me of the old days when pub food usually meant a packet of crisps and a pickled egg. Until the early seventies none of the Silverton pubs provided anything more advanced then that and it weas a \big day when the Three Tuns first aquired a microwave. The Tuns of course rapidly then developed its food output both in quantity and quality and by the mid eighties had developed a considerable reputation for its cuisine under a sucession of different owners. As far as I recall the New Inn (now the Silverton Inn) was the next to follow with a more basic menu from the early eighties, but had a full resteraunt attached for a while in the late eighties- early nineties. The Lamb was the last into the field from the mid eighties but really developed a major reputation as a food outlet under the current owers, Alan and Jane Isaac.

All the Silverton pubs now feature menues containing a wide range of good food at reasonable prices and it is a sign of the changing nature of the village that eating out has now become a regular feature of the lives of many. Another changed feature of life is that all the pubs are to a greater or lesser extent family friendly. I think its a major ytribute to all the pubs in the village that they have moved with the changes in the social composition of the clientele of their establishments without destroying entirely the traditional nature of the village pub.