Secret Drinker reviews The Adam & Eve in Wragby
The first thing that strikes you about the Adam & Eve is the attention to detail.
Even before you’re inside you know a brain-busting amount of thought has gone into creating this place.
From the giant statue of the first man and his rib sharing a passionate embrace which towers over the beer garden to the monogrammed ‘Ae’ initials inside an apple which hangs over the archway on your arrival, the owners have gone all in on the theme.
Through that archway a row of outdoor tables greets you before you’re in through the door and welcomed by a beautiful, bright modern open-plan country pub which leads through to an attractive restaurant area.
A long wooden, well-stocked bar catches your eye first. The comfy sofas, open brick wall, even the neat herringbone flooring, follow soon after.
The it’s the little bits you spot; the seasonal mini pumpkins on the bar, the what’s on board relaying upcoming events such as the veterans breakfast, pie night, cocktail offers and two Halloween parties, one for kids and one for adults.
Even the gents in this place has been given some TLC in this place, and you can’t take that for granted in many boozers.
Therefore, you won’t be surprised to hear the place was pretty full already when I walked in at the unpopular time of 5pm on a Monday.
Groups lounged on the sofas, a guy propped up the bar talking to the barmaid, someone in the corner tapped away on a, fittingly-named, Apple Mac.
Early evening diners placed their orders in the restaurant, a family at a bar table tucked into some humongous steak pies, someone checked into one of the rooms upstairs and a middle-aged woman perhaps tellingly sung along to The Arctic Monkeys’ Fluorescent Adolescent which provided the background music. Until her husband returned from the gents, at least.
With a nice few options at the bar I went for a White Rat, a hoppy pale ale I’d enjoyed at Stamford’s Paten & Co at some point in the past. Perhaps Ossett Brewery favour sticking their booze in pubs with ampersands in their name?
Either way, it’s a good tipple and only added to my pleasant mood.
On my first pub visit to Wragby, I enthused about The Ivy nearby being used heartily by its locals, even if the artwork was the sort of stuff that’d make the marquis de Sade blush.
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But I got that same feeling of the pub being a focal point of the community at the Adam & Eve. Yeah, there were no fetish photographs, but there was a subtle nod courtesy of the pampas table decorations.
Perhaps this was just more attention to detail?
The Adam & Eve may not quite be the Garden of Eden, but it feels reasonably close to pub utopia.
THE ADAM & EVE, MARKET PLACE, WRAGBY, LN8 5QU
DECOR: A stunning looking pub with nice attention to detail and clever nods to its name. 4/5
DRINK: A pint of White Rat (ABV 4.0%), a pale ale by Ossett Brewery. 4/5
PRICE: I’m not moaning at £4. 4/5
ATMOSPHERE: Plenty going on, especially for an unfashionable time of day. 3/5
STAFF: A very fleeting exchange with the young barmaid who was very smiley. 3/5
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