Historical version 1 of Sugar Loaf Inn, HP7 9PN (view current version)
- Station Road, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, HP7 9PN (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
- thesugarloafinn.com
- See website.
Pub in Little Chalfont, very close to Chalfont and Latimer Station. A little bit posh but not pretentious. Pretty much empty apart from a few locals when I was there (mid-afternoon on a Tuesday). Comfortable seating, including a couple of leather sofas in the front bit. Proper pepper and salt grinders on the tables; thick (albeit paper) napkins; nice cutlery. The music was unobtrusive.
The food's pretty good, if not cheap; main course prices are around £10–12 (as of March 2007). I had the fish pie, which was full of large chunks of tasty salmon and white fish, along with some prawns. Unlike most pub fish pies, it wasn't oversalted, it didn't have too much sauce, and it was served at just the right temperature, hot but not scalding. Good stuff. The herb buttered carrots on the side were a bit disappointing (slightly overcooked, and not very flavourful). Lunch was supposed to end at 3pm, and I was nearly half an hour late, but they fed me anyway, hurrah!
Beers on were Landlord (Timothy Taylor), Broadside (Adnams), and something else Adnams that I forget.
GPS data collected by Kake on a Garmin eTrex, 6 March 2007, and released into the public domain: OSGB 499530, 197527, outside the entrance