Bridge On Wool

What People are saying

A friendly welcoming local pub

Margi456 on 12/04/2017 14:04

Coming off the Camel Trail from Padstow we were hungry and thirsty. Staff at the Bridge on Wool greeted us warmly and gave our dog biscuits and water. The food was excellent but best of all was the friendliness.

First Visit to Cornwall

Mary L on 23/12/2016 02:25

Our first visit to Cornwall and we wanted centrally located lodging - neither of us willing to drive in the UK. Wadebridge is a good location and the Bridge on Wool is both a good pub and place to stay. No lift, but the nice publican and her helper carried our bags up. They were very accommodating, to the point of offering to pick us up from Bodmin Parkway Rail Station. Very friendly, even saw one of the staff at a different pub (!! We were sampling other beverages) and she took the time to visit with us.
Three rooms en suite, ours faced The Platte, but no problem with noise. Clean, basic room. Bus stop really close with good connections. Quirky bus drivers, but we were warned. Spent time in Port Isaac and Tintagel. Overall a very good place to stay and sip and sup.

Nice No Nonsense Pub with Good Grub

Linda C on 12/12/2016 17:51

Wadebridge is at the end of the bus route that serves Tintagel (the southern end--the northern is Bude) and a large town in this quiet country of Cornwall. The Bridge on wood is a good place to stop for some pub grub. Service is good and the food as well. It's a clean and more modern pub and is a great place to stop for lunch while exploring the town. Dining area is bright and modern and foot nicely presented, it's more of a locals place but us visitors are welcome and treated well.

Good food and beer

NicolaLevett on 25/10/2016 21:22

Popped in to the Bridge on wool for a very quick drink and bite to eat at the end of a long day. I was pleasantly surprised as it's looks are deceiving.I had vegetarian lasagne which was delicious. Good range of Sharps beers too. Staff very friendly, I haven't been called 'my lovely" for a good few years! Would recommend in a flash, also very reasonably priced and the locals use it so it must be good.

Don't judge a book by its cover

Katie_wayne on 26/09/2016 09:20

Whilst visiting Wadebridge for the day we asked one of our friends who lives locally to recommend places to eat and she came up with an extensive list of options for us and gave us a rough idea of where to find each individual eatery.

Although they were all very pretty looking places that we had been recommended one glance at the menu at each of them offered no more than a 20th of a slice of Victoria sponge cake and a la-di-da latte for the equivalent of a months salary so we respectfully declined and marched on to the next place on the list.

After not too long we noticed a trend appearing with these la-di-da cappuccino hotspots with their free wifi, there appeared to be a seemingly endless choice of wheat free, dairy free, gluten free, fat free, sugar free, taste free ethnically sourced, organically grown quinoa with a side helping of nutrition free chia seeds originating from a remote village in Papua New Guinea or at least 7 different options of cous cous each served with a free polar bear to demonstrate to the world that you care about about the environment despite driving there in a super charged V10 luxury Range Rover.

So we stumbled upon the Bridge On Wool, I won't lie but from the outside I wasn't expecting much, the stickers in the windows advertising Sky sports and BT sport "shown here" set the alarm bells ringing but I was only too glad to be rid of the sandal wearing beardy wierdo greenpeace hippies supping on their £9.56 cup of decaff made with twice filtered yaks milk.

Anyhow upon entering in and taking a look at the menu it was a revelation to see that they actually served proper food so the Mrs opted for a pork loin with veg and I went for the handmade venison burger and salad.

Who'd have thought that somewhere you could eat would think to serve proper meat from proper animals who once lived on a proper farm in the proper real world !!
This sort of strategy could really take off particularly with hungry diners.

Anyway, my venison was sublime and the Mrs said that her pork loin was easily the best pork joint she'd ever tasted and it even came with vegetables that some clever sole thought to grow in soil. Clearly they weren't presented to us in this way for the thoughtful farmers and kitchen staff came up with a fantastic idea of cleaning them of soil and cooking them before being served.

Forget going to the arty farty pretentious coffee shops, instead come here and be rewarded with actual real tasty food that'll provide you with useful vitamins and minerals aswell as tasting far better than a bowl of freeze dried lentils and being drawn into conversations about blue-sky thinking and whether red lentils or green lentils are better for you.

The service is warm and friendly, the food is cooked to perfection and the staff behind the bar can even pour you a drink to go with your meal whether you prefer alcohol or not.

I opted for a coffee....... not a cappuccino, not a latte, not a chococino or a mochaccino or a frappuccino or even an espresso but a simple, humble, non-complicated coffee with full fat sugar and milk that was produced by a real cow with four legs, a head and a body.

The final nugget of goodness actually came when I was ordering our food. All throughout our holiday I seemed to amass a fine collection of round metal chunks and bits of paper with a picture of the queen on them and the nice lady behind the bar very kindly offered to take some of these metal chunks and bits of paper from me in return for our food. Up until that point I was getting quite concerned about how I was supposed to pay for all this food given that I wasn't able to present any one of my various points cards or stamped collector cards.
Yet another shining example of their clever thinking and warm hospitality to offer such clear, transparent and easy forms of payment.