Anthony and Anne Gernon’s almost-waterside restaurant has attracted a following disproportionate to its size over the years and, although it has been extended at the back to include a high-ceilinged conservatory style room which opens on to a garden patio, it is still basically carved out of the lower half of a family home that is by no means huge.
The atmosphere is very much a “proper restaurant” – yet with all the warmth of welcome that the family situation implies. There’s a reception room with an open fire, comfy chairs, interesting things to read and look at (Anthony’s a dab hand at wood carving) – and aperitifs served in generous wine glasses, while you read a menu that promises good things to come in the adjoining dining room and conservatory.
Guests arriving in daylight will notice hens clucking around a garden well-stocked with fruit and vegetables – promising the best of all possible beginnings for your dinner.