Originally a Victorian ‘steak and ale chop house’, now a refreshingly straightforward Bath Ales pub at street level and a cosy supper room on the first floor. While many Bath pubs in similar locations (John Street is one of Bath’s most ancient thoroughfares, doncha know) have chalk boards on the cobbled street outside bragging about their roots, this welcoming, traditional boozer is refreshingly tourist free, and there’s nowt but a thoroughly decent bar and kitchen to distract you from the main event: a proper, pucker watering hole without pretensions to being anything else. The locally-sourced menu selection runs from BLTs, burgers and ciabattas to ham and eggs or fish and chips, on to the giddy heights of pan-seared sea bass or breast of guinea fowl enjoyed in the supper room. But for The Pig, the bar menu is where it’s at: if you don’t adore the massive homemade burgers here, you simply don’t like burgers.

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