The Plough and Sail Pub Snape, Suffolk

The Plough and Sail is a Victorian Pub building that is located at the Snape Maltings. While the exterior of the building is certainly true to its roots, the interior is exceptionally light and bright. A separate dedicated dining room where you can have a well-priced and delicious meal is available. It is family-friendly as well.

Lunch and dinner are served daily and on Sundays, they have the typical Sunday lunch with a choice of beef or lamb roast. The roast is served with Yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes and gravy. A bowl of vegetables, carrots, new potatoes and snap peas are also served for the table.

The dining room is large and has plenty of blond wood tables. You can sit in the dining room and order or you can call ahead as the locals do and when you arrive they will seat and serve you. The menu changes but can offer such great things as very tender steak with cheese sauce, fish and chips, a delicious bread plate with dipping oil, aubergine and pesto. A soup of the day is offered and was potato and leek when I was there.

The menu offers plenty of starters to choose from including pate which comes on a plate with lots of bread and is a very generous serving, enough for a meal when combined with the soup.

A nice selection of desserts is available to choose from. The apple and blackberry crumble can be served with cream, custard or ice cream. It is a homey dessert, reminiscent of something your mother might make.

The staff and the management at the Plough and Sail are very friendly and welcoming. You may come in a stranger but you will leave as a friend. Specials are not kept secret; you will be given the coupons with your bill. Both the manager and the waitresses were very solicitous and made several stops at the table to be sure that everything was going well. Leftover bread and butter were wrapped so that it could be taken away which provided breakfast the next morning.

Pubs are non-smoking now so you may have to walk through the smokers, who tend to congregate out front at the picnic tables but that is certainly the only downside. You don’t have to order alcohol to feel welcome. They do, however; have a few lagers if you want a cold American type beer, including Carlsberg.

The Snape Maltings is a very interesting place to do some shopping. The Plough and Sail is an excellent addition to the offerings. For good food, a warm welcome and a comfortable place to relax, the Plough and Sail Pub, Snape will provide everything you could possibly want. The location is less than half a mile from the Iken Barns if you are looking for self-catering in the neighborhood.