Cool Place of the Day: The Angel at Larling, Norfolk

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Martin Dunford
Sunday 29 May 2016 13:09 BST
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The Angel at Larling, Norfolk

We’ve always liked this pub, but today we’ve picked it for a specific reason, because at just 10 miles or so south of Norwich it’s a Norwich City pub through-and-through and we couldn’t think of a nicer place to drown your sorrows on Saturday evening than here with all the other disgruntled Canaries. Voted Norfolk’s ‘Pub of the Year’ a few years back, this 17th-century coaching inn gets all the essentials right: it’s not big, not clever, but just a great family-run country pub with rooms run by passionate folk who couldn't make you feel more at home. They rent comfy upstairs guest rooms while serving hearty and wholesome pub grub in the bar and dining room, and managing to maintain the function and feel of a proper village local at the same time (though as a village Larling was somewhat messed up 12 years ago by the dualling of the A11). It's been in the Stammers family on and off since 1913, and is now run by his son Andrew and daughter Lorraine, and they haven't deviated too far from Dad’s original formula – good food and drink for the locals, and a welcoming safe haven for the weary traveller. It’s a popular place, and they’re planning to enlarge it at some point. But we hope they don't change its essential, friendly atmosphere, which is at its best during their annual summer beer festival – in itself another excellent opportunity to forget about the football.

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