After the Wistman's Wood, we had dinner at the Tavistock Inn in Poundsgate. A perfect, chilly twilight was just setting in as we pulled into the car park and saw this sign. I can tell you, we made sure to be very formal as we parked.
You may remember me talking about the Tavistock Inn in my entry on Widecombe-in-the-Moor. Tavistock was the first stop of the Black Rider (the devil) who was on his way to Widecombe to claim the soul of a man he'd made a deal with in Widecombe.
And yes, the ring burnt into the bar when the devil replaced his red-hot mug on the bar that October afternoon in 1683 is still there!!! I know it's a fairytale and all, but it was great fun to visit and get a picture of it :)
I had a lovely dish of Yorkshire Pudding with beans and sausage. Yorkshire pudding is kind of a cross between a Pizza Hut pan pizza crust and those tube biscuits you'd buy at the grocery store. It's crispy, buttery, chewy, and elastic. It's made from a batter that's poured into a hot tin with smoking-hot, rendered beef fat that's put back in the oven to quickly bake and rise. So yummy with the smokey pork sausages that are made here in Dartmoor.
A fun location and a great dinner!
That place is adorable. Love the fairytale aspect and the history! I can't imagine I've ever been inside a building even close to that old!? As for Yorkshire Pudding...I was intrigued until you compared it to Pizza Hut....ewww!
ReplyDeleteHey, back in the olden days, pizza hut pan pizza crust was amazing. Now it's crappy. But if you head out to a small town pizza hut, and i mean a REALLY small town pizza hut, it's still good. The people there take the job more seriously than the teenagers who are running the ones in urban centers.
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