The Wig and Pen
19 St Giles Street, Northampton
Needed to do a spot of birthday shopping this week so combined a mooch around the shops and lunch with a friend. The Wig and Pen is one of a handful of freehouse pubs left in Northampton town centre and it’s concentration on a wide selection of beers and good quality food are just two reasons why they seem to be thriving in terms of customer numbers during a difficult time for many food and drink retailers.
It’s a historic and interesting building, what my mum would call 'a proper pub' with a good sized outside space, lovely for summer eating, drinking and enjoying the live music sometimes on.
Anyway, on to the food. The menu is varied from simple sandwiches, classics like fish and chips, pies to tasty deli boards strewn with delicious cheese and meats. The simplicity of the menu belies the actual dishes appearing from the kitchen, having eaten here several times before I have been impressed by the consistency and quality from a quick snack to a more substantial meal.
An excellent example of this is the sausage and mash ordered on this visit. The locally made sausages are enormous, full of meaty herby flavour, served on a generous portion of well-seasoned mashed potato, surrounded by a moat of light but flavourful onion gravy, then topped with a mass of parsnip crisps. Okay, enough description as I am now salivating as we near tea-time, here’s the picture.
My friend’s choice was a beef sandwich, once again a simple description of a much tastier meal and she has written her own comments below.
Very nice hot beef sarnie with a little pot of gravy... yum!
The Beef inside was very generous in terms of amount and of superb quality. You can tell that this place prides itself on its food, I have never had a bad meal and the place is always busy! Real ales brilliant here too.
In conclusion, a lovely place to eat but it does get very busy and retreating to the outside area may not be an option as the weather turns cooler. They have a very popular and reasonably priced steak night on a Wednesday that I haven’t yet had a chance to try but intend to very soon.
Highly recommended
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