awards & media

OpenTable.com Diner's Choice Winner 2012

We are proud to be announced as winners in the OpenTable Diner's Choice for 2012.

camra good beer guide 2012

"This large town pub backs onto the historic Abbey Gardens. The pub dates from the 1480's and was previously known as The Bull... It has recently been modernised and now consists of an open plan interior with large bar, lounge and restaurant areas. Real ales include beers from Adnams..and (owner's correction) Brewshed. A comprehensive menu both lunchtimes and evenings with locally sourced ingredients."

pub wine list of the year 2011

Having won the pub wine list of the year award in 2010, we were delighted to be included in the shortlist of just 35 nationwide for the 2011 awards (awards are made in 8 different categories).

We went to the awards ceremony on Tuesday 13th September and whilst it wasn't our night to win, we had a fantastic time.

Here are the judge's comments on our wine list:

"Winner of last year’s 'Best Pub List' is back – and why not? Fifty wines is a bijou selection, but perfect for a town-centre gastropub. Everything but fizz and fortified is available by the glass – at excellent prices and handily separated out by style, not country. In a great touch, each stylistic group is available as a wine flight."

Roll on the 2012 awards...

pub wine list of the year 2010

We were very excited to be shortlisted for on-trade drinks magazine Imbibe’s first annual Wine List of the Year awards in 2010.

We went to the awards ceremony in London on Tuesday 14th September and are delighted to tell you that we won the award for Pub Wine List of the Year. When presenting the award, Imbibe’s editor, Chris Losh, complimented us for the way in which our list is presented (by style rather than by country) and for the wine flights that we offer.

Here are the judges comments on our wine list:

"So many pub wine lists are ugly, feculent things, that when our judges found this one there was something of a collective Hallelujah Chorus. Back in the first round of judging, Christine Parkinson said that if she went into a pub and found a list like this, she’d be ‘overjoyed’, and these sentiments were echoed again this time around.

With just over 50 ‘standard’ wines on the list and ten ‘fine wines’, it’s impressively compact. But within that it offers excellent choice, with every single wine available in serves of 125ml, 175ml and 250ml as well as by the bottle.

The wines on the list are split up into six helpful stylistic groups, such as ‘dry, crisp, fresh’ or ‘full-flavoured, full, big’ which in itself is impressive, particularly for the pub’s likely customers. But in a real point-scoring extra, the pub also offers ‘tasting flights’ for each section. The idea here is that customers can try 50ml samples of all six of the ‘aromatic and herbaceous’ whites, for instance, for £9.

‘It’s encouraging you to taste all the wines – it works really well,’ said Stuart Alder.

Many fussier, fancier wine lists with serious pretensions could learn from the clear, easy-to-navigate way in which The One Bull lays out its compact, but eminently well-targeted selection."

the telegraph

"After visiting The One Bull (and I would also give it an award for its sandwich menu, which is short and almost perfect), I can’t help but think we’d all know a lot more about wine if others took this approach, too.

The beauty of this list isn’t so much the wines on it as the way it’s written, offering the opportunity for play and experimentation. Wines are arranged by style, so a white might be, 'dry, crisp, fresh', or 'aromatic & herbaceous' or 'full flavoured, fruity, big' (which sounds a bit like something from a Carry On film but I presume is intended to cover new world chardonnays and the like)."

other awards & media

We received an Open Table Diner's Choice Award in 2010.

We were delighted to receive the Best Restaurant in Bury St Edmunds Award as voted for by the Best of Bury St Edmunds members in September 2009 and again in 2010.

The Independent on Sunday did a local feature in October 2008 and named us as one of three places to eat in Bury St Edmunds.