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The Peacock Inn

The Peacock, in the ancient Suffolk village of Chelsworth, is a 14th century timber-framed inn that was recently "rescued from oblivion" and given a loving restoration, said William Sitwell in The Telegraph. It seems fitting that such a place should "name a pie after the local squire". And so it was that the "magnificent centrepiece" of my meal was "Sir Gerald's pie" – Herefordshire beef stewed in ale, housed in a "beef fat pastry", and served with Bordelaise sauce and pomme purée. It was "staggeringly good, literally the finest pie I can remember eating". But it was just one of the excellent dishes that came out of Sam Clover's kitchen. Other highlights of our meal included a "beautifully presented" sea bream ceviche – the "roundel" of fish hiding under a linseed cracker "cleverly" made to look like fish skin – and a perfectly cooked mushroom and truffle raviolo. At times, Clover's cooking verged on the overly cheffy – and he could "hold back on the flouncy menu writing" – but overall, The Peacock is "joyous".

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