The Lock Inn's assistant manager Rachel Brown and general manager Clare Mizen (21600)
AS summer and hopefully warmer weather approach, The Lock Inn in Bradford on Avon comes into its own with its canal-side location and relaxed outdoor eating area.
Owned and run by the same couple since 1990, Dick and Jane Barrow have turned the pub into a popular venue with locals and tourists alike.
It is tucked away beside the Kennet and Avon Canal with its picturesque towpath and next to TT Cycles, which hires out bikes and canoes, so you can enjoy a relaxing stroll or work up an appetite cycling or canoeing along the canal before enjoying a satisfying lunch.
Manager Clare Mizen, 26, said: "It is really popular here in the summer. Breakfast is the thing we are most famous for, but the menu is huge."
The famous Boatman's Breakfast is £5.95, but there is a smaller version for just £4.
The lunch menu also features jacket potatoes, curry, steaks, burgers, fish, pies, baguettes and children's meals all for between £3.50-£6.
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In the evening, the menu moves up-market and there is table service with dishes for between £8-£12 and delicious homemade desserts.
The bar also serves lagers, 6X, Guinness and bottled beer along with a recently extended wine list.
Guests can either enjoy their lunch in the outside seating area next to the canal, in a canal boat moored alongside the pub or in one of three summer houses in the grounds.
The boat and the summer houses are also available to hire out for larger parties and the pub has a marquee in the grounds too during the summer.
The Lock Inn opens at 8.30am every morning and usually does not close until the last customer has left, apart from Sundays and Mondays, when it shuts at 6pm.
Miss Mizen said: "Most of the time we stay open until the last customer leaves, which can be pretty late sometimes.
"But I've been here three years and it's so much fun, time flies."
Parking can be found nearby but many people leave their cars at home and walk to the pub along the towpath.
FACT FILE:
The Lock Inn, Frome Road, Bradford on Avon, (01225) 868086.
Open 8.30am-late every day except Sunday and Monday when it shuts at 6pm.
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