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The Barrel Inn
The Barrel Inn, Bretton, Eyam, S32 5QD



AA Guide Rating
1 AA Rosette: These restaurants achieve standards that stand out in their local area. They serve food prepared with care, understanding and skill, using good quality ingredients. The same expectations apply to hotel restaurants, where guests can eat in with confidence and a sense of anticipation.
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Hathersage (HSG)
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The Barrel Inn guide awards history
Date | Guide | Old Award | New Award |
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November 2024 | AA Guide | Added to Guide | ![]() |
Our review of The Barrel Inn (August 2022)





Believed to date back to 1537, The Barrell Inn, nestled in Bretton in the heart of the Peak District, is an historic pub with a solid reputation for serving good food. It's not a place I'd visited before, nor a place that's featured in any of the major food guides, at least not for many years. But, with the arrival of new head chef Carl Riley in summer 2022 (a chef whose food I've very much enjoyed previously), I decided it was time for a visit and duly rocked up for lunch with my wife and two young children, on a gloriously sunny August Saturday....
The Barrel Inn FAQs
The Barrel Inn is not currently listed in the Michelin Guide.
The Barrel Inn currently holds 1 AA Rosette, which was awarded in November 2024.
The Barrel Inn, Bretton, Eyam, S32 5QD.
01433 630856.
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The nearest train station to The Barrel Inn is Hathersage (HSG), approximately 2.79 miles away (as the crow flies).
No, according to our records The Barrel Inn does not currently serve afternoon tea.
Our last recorded head chef at The Barrel Inn is Carl Riley.
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