Meals at the Three Tuns

By chance, both the Christmas meals I've been to this year have been at the Three Tuns, so I had an opportunity to sample two different main courses and sweets - I stuck to the butternut squash soup for starters, because I love butternut squash soup.
At the bar, the real ales are from Wye Valley - I tried the dark Space Hopper, which was very pleasant.
They have a whole menu of different gins on a board on the wall, but I think that's something to sample on a different occasion. They also have a good selection of wines, so we were sharing bottles. I enjoyed the prosecco, and the Malbec (Las Pampas?) was a smooth and tasty red wine which went very well with the beef.
I feel you've got to have at least one traditional meal over Christmas (I'm going to have a very untraditional game casserole on Christmas Day), so for one meal I went for the turkey and Christmas pudding option. There were plenty of vegetables, the meat was tender, and the custard for the pudding was lovely.
For the second meal I went for the beef and plum and apple crumble option. Again, the beef was delicious, and the crumble came in two little pots - one for the crumble itself and the other for ice cream. They also offered a gluten-free pudding option from the ordinary menu.
So I had two very enjoyable meals, and several people I was eating with said that they'd like to come again to sample the ordinary menu - the Three Tuns specialises in Italian food.
There was a conversation over the second meal about how we would probably not want Christmas crackers again, considering the amount of plastic involved, and how much got thrown away. And hardly anybody wanted to wear their party hat anyway.