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And gets savaged by DM readers in response: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ments-14823757

Big Brother star and food critic Henry Southan savaged Jeremy Clarkson's Farmer's Dog pub in a new TikTok video posted this week.

The TV star and food influencer, 26, decided to take his dad to the pub near Burford in Oxfordshire to celebrate Father's Day on Sunday.

But he wasn't too impressed with the food complaining that the £26 beef and pork roast dinner was dry and moaned that the overflow car park was too far away from the actual restaurant

[arista]

The TV star and food influencer, 26,


A former TV star

Influencer - he wishes.



If if his food was dry
Get a refund......................

[Niamh.]

It looked nice enough from the picture £26 is steep enough for a roast although I suppose if he's supporting everything local it's worth it

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

It looked nice enough from the picture £26 is steep enough for a roast although I suppose if he's supporting everything local it's worth it

Yeah that does add on a lot of cost plus it's a very expensive area of the country and it is a famous venue so you have to expect a bit of a hike in prices

Henry has served his main purpose though of getting himself some extra publicity

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Yeah that does add on a lot of cost plus it's a very expensive area of the country and it is a famous venue so you have to expect a bit of a hike in prices

Henry has served his main purpose though of getting himself some extra publicity

I've been watching the show actually, not a huge fan of Jeremy as a person but I love those farm shows and his is quite good tbf. I would definitely visit the Pub if I were in that area

[Crimson Dynamo]

Still unemployed and still desperate for attention

How dreadfully dull

[rusticgal]

He will get a ban then...

[thesheriff443]

The thing to remember in most of these places
The owners are not the ones doing the cooking

[Beso]

He should have tried the mince

[bots]

if the food is not up to standard, people will just not go back. It doesn't take long for a restaurant to tank if it's not good enough

[Kate!]

Sounds a tad personal.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Imagine taking out you Dad for a meal for Father's day then filming yourself eating and moaning and making the day all about him. Horrific, his poor father.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I've been watching the show actually, not a huge fan of Jeremy as a person but I love those farm shows and his is quite good tbf. I would definitely visit the Pub if I were in that area

Yeah it's a brilliant show, good comfort viewing but also very informative about farming

The pub is only about an hour from me so I'll try and make a trip there this summer

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Yeah it's a brilliant show, good comfort viewing but also very informative about farming



The pub is only about an hour from me so I'll try and make a trip there this summer

You can share your review here

I also really like Fletchers Family Farm with Kelvin Fletcher and his family

[James]

One thing you can say about Jeremy Clarkson is that he really knows how to make entertaining television.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Imagine taking out you Dad for a meal for Father's day then filming yourself eating and moaning and making the day all about him. Horrific, his poor father.

It's the narcissistic society that we all live in today.

Plus I doubt that Henry had any real issue with the food, it's clearly Political.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by James

One thing you can say about Jeremy Clarkson is that he really knows how to make entertaining television.

Unless you see him hosting Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by James

One thing you can say about Jeremy Clarkson is that he really knows how to make entertaining television.

And create characters!

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Yeah it's a brilliant show, good comfort viewing but also very informative about farming

The pub is only about an hour from me so I'll try and make a trip there this summer

It is and can I recommend a good pal of Jezzer's Harry Metcalfe. He has 2 brilliant YouTube channels

Harry's Farm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPjty1kRuek

and

Harry's Garage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng3YKJsoWok

[Ammi]

…strangely I read a different review a few days ago, which was in the Guardian…


…I’ll just pick out the bit from the article about the meal at The Farmers Dog…


Sunday lunch in The Farmer's Dog
A few minutes before our 1pm lunch reservation, we headed back to the pub entrance and were quickly directed to head inside and look for a man called John ("he looks like me but he's bald and he loves Welsh people", said the man who clocked my accent).

Bald man located easily enough, he showed us to our table, possibly the best in the pub, tucked away on its own in a little corner right by the glass doors that opened out on to the large outside terrace. So not only did we have a view of the whole of the inside, we got the breeze and the sunlight of the outdoors too. Perfect.

Much like Clarkson does on his popular Amazon Prime show (I was now starting to realise just how popular it really is), the pub is very keen to show off its credentials as a supporter of local farms. A blackboard on the wall names local farmers Vanessa Hartley and Nick Sinden, as well as Rectory Farm, as sources.

We ordered a pint of the Hawkstone Black stout (£7) and a half of the Hawkstone lager (£3.50). They're great drinks and we sat and waited for our food by watching staff move purposefully through the busy pub, carrying plates loaded with delicious-looking Sunday roasts and stepping over the dogs lying at their owners' feet. There was a pianist playing a grand piano by the front door, a permanent queue at the bar for a pint and a feelgood buzz running through the whole place — everyone just seemed thrilled to be here, me included.

My starter of cold-smoked Bibury trout (£11.50) was fantastic — generous, thickly-sliced trout packed with flavour and possibly better than any smoked salmon I've ever had. I'd been to the Bibury trout farm a short drive away two days earlier, which made it all taste even better somehow, as did the accompanying horseradish cream and watercress salad.

I went for the two-meat main course with beef and pork (£26), which were the only two meat options. It came with roasted whole potatoes (amazing), roasted carrots and parsnips, spring greens, red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire pudding and gravy made from the stout I was drinking. It can be hard to distinguish one well-made Sunday roast from another so I won't try too hard. This one was generous, tasty and largely faultless (I could probably have done with a drop more of the delicous gravy).

We were both too full for pudding but we did see an Eton mess (£10.50) and poached rhubarb crumble cake with Cotswolds ice cream (£10.50) being carried past. Both looked great.

We were pretty much done with our food within the hour and the bill for two main courses, one starter and two drinks came to £80 (including service). Before leaving, I just wanted to soak in a bit more of the venue so took a look upstairs (also full, of course) and spotted the full-size tractor hanging from the ceiling above the pianist, which I'd somehow managed to miss on the way in.

I've talked a lot about how busy the pub (and the whole site) was. Jeremy Clarkson and Amazon Prime have created a phenomenon. But don't let that put you off. The queue for the car park was no more than a few minutes at most and that was the only waiting we did. Thanks to our reservation, we were straight in through the front door and we didn't need to queue at the shop for our beer and honey either. My over-riding impression of the huge crowd was how happy we all were to be there. If you wanted a beer (inside or outside) or something from the butcher, you should probably expect a queue, but that's pretty much it.


At first, I wondered whether I should feel a bit guilty about being one of the hordes of people taking over what was presumably a quiet and anonymous part of Oxfordshire 12 months ago, but reports suggest most people in the area are happy to have the pub so the guilt didn't last long.


I'm glad I went and will remember it for a long time. Pubs aren't only about food, they're about how they make you feel. And I loved every second of this trip. If it had been hammering down with rain, I might feel differently - but that's just Britain, isn't it?



…this is the full article with lots of pics, including one of the lunch menu…I guess that the only critic with food that has any merit is the eater themselves…


…I have to say that I haven’t watched the show at all but we did visit Diddly Squat Farm a while ago because we were doing tourist stuff…plus my son said this is where we’re going today so we did…one thing that can’t be denied with Jeremy Clarkson, love him or not so much etc….he’s really doing something right atm…he built it and they came…and they came…and they came…a business success of the moment…

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...-dog-exclusive

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

You can share your review here

I also really like Fletchers Family Farm with Kelvin Fletcher and his family

LT when I post my review after my pub lunch on a Tuesday

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Still unemployed and still desperate for attention

How dreadfully dull

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

LT when I post my review after my pub lunch on a Tuesday

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…strangely I read a different review a few days ago, which was in the Guardian…


…I’ll just pick out the bit from the article about the meal at The Farmers Dog…


Sunday lunch in The Farmer's Dog
A few minutes before our 1pm lunch reservation, we headed back to the pub entrance and were quickly directed to head inside and look for a man called John ("he looks like me but he's bald and he loves Welsh people", said the man who clocked my accent).

Bald man located easily enough, he showed us to our table, possibly the best in the pub, tucked away on its own in a little corner right by the glass doors that opened out on to the large outside terrace. So not only did we have a view of the whole of the inside, we got the breeze and the sunlight of the outdoors too. Perfect.

Much like Clarkson does on his popular Amazon Prime show (I was now starting to realise just how popular it really is), the pub is very keen to show off its credentials as a supporter of local farms. A blackboard on the wall names local farmers Vanessa Hartley and Nick Sinden, as well as Rectory Farm, as sources.

We ordered a pint of the Hawkstone Black stout (£7) and a half of the Hawkstone lager (£3.50). They're great drinks and we sat and waited for our food by watching staff move purposefully through the busy pub, carrying plates loaded with delicious-looking Sunday roasts and stepping over the dogs lying at their owners' feet. There was a pianist playing a grand piano by the front door, a permanent queue at the bar for a pint and a feelgood buzz running through the whole place — everyone just seemed thrilled to be here, me included.

My starter of cold-smoked Bibury trout (£11.50) was fantastic — generous, thickly-sliced trout packed with flavour and possibly better than any smoked salmon I've ever had. I'd been to the Bibury trout farm a short drive away two days earlier, which made it all taste even better somehow, as did the accompanying horseradish cream and watercress salad.

I went for the two-meat main course with beef and pork (£26), which were the only two meat options. It came with roasted whole potatoes (amazing), roasted carrots and parsnips, spring greens, red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire pudding and gravy made from the stout I was drinking. It can be hard to distinguish one well-made Sunday roast from another so I won't try too hard. This one was generous, tasty and largely faultless (I could probably have done with a drop more of the delicous gravy).

We were both too full for pudding but we did see an Eton mess (£10.50) and poached rhubarb crumble cake with Cotswolds ice cream (£10.50) being carried past. Both looked great.

We were pretty much done with our food within the hour and the bill for two main courses, one starter and two drinks came to £80 (including service). Before leaving, I just wanted to soak in a bit more of the venue so took a look upstairs (also full, of course) and spotted the full-size tractor hanging from the ceiling above the pianist, which I'd somehow managed to miss on the way in.

I've talked a lot about how busy the pub (and the whole site) was. Jeremy Clarkson and Amazon Prime have created a phenomenon. But don't let that put you off. The queue for the car park was no more than a few minutes at most and that was the only waiting we did. Thanks to our reservation, we were straight in through the front door and we didn't need to queue at the shop for our beer and honey either. My over-riding impression of the huge crowd was how happy we all were to be there. If you wanted a beer (inside or outside) or something from the butcher, you should probably expect a queue, but that's pretty much it.


At first, I wondered whether I should feel a bit guilty about being one of the hordes of people taking over what was presumably a quiet and anonymous part of Oxfordshire 12 months ago, but reports suggest most people in the area are happy to have the pub so the guilt didn't last long.


I'm glad I went and will remember it for a long time. Pubs aren't only about food, they're about how they make you feel. And I loved every second of this trip. If it had been hammering down with rain, I might feel differently - but that's just Britain, isn't it?



…this is the full article with lots of pics, including one of the lunch menu…I guess that the only critic with food that has any merit is the eater themselves…


…I have to say that I haven’t watched the show at all but we did visit Diddly Squat Farm a while ago because we were doing tourist stuff…plus my son said this is where we’re going today so we did…one thing that can’t be denied with Jeremy Clarkson, love him or not so much etc….he’s really doing something right atm…he built it and they came…and they came…and they came…a business success of the moment…

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...-dog-exclusive

That's a nice review. I think that's right that people are only going as a one-off and yes it's pricey and maybe a bit busy but everyone has factored that in already and that just adds to the sense of occasion

Clarkson also very deliberately bought a pub that was on a main road and not in a village because he didn't want to piss off any locals so I don't think anyone can complain. As the program showed this was just one of the numerous pubs up for sale in the area and would have probably stayed close otherwise

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by MTVN

That's a nice review. I think that's right that people are only going as a one-off and yes it's pricey and maybe a bit busy but everyone has factored that in already and that just adds to the sense of occasion

Clarkson also very deliberately bought a pub that was on a main road and not in a village because he didn't want to piss off any locals so I don't think anyone can complain. As the program showed this was just one of the numerous pubs up for sale in the area and would have probably stayed close otherwise

…it is of a more top end price but there are now quite a few places that are so it’s not a ridiculous price, either…I think the last bit also is really relevant to what many feel when they decide to go…

Pubs aren't only about food, they're about how they make you feel. And I loved every second of this trip

…in terms of thinking of it as a day out experience, then the cost isn’t so high because day out experiences are very much that and more, aren’t they….anyways, you say that you’re going…?…enjoy!!!…I’m sure you will…