Great Restormel Roast Review: The Hewas Inn: GRRR#9

As pub names go the Hewas Inn is up there with the best. Most people think that it is called the Hewas Inn because of its original owner. He was so used to explaining to mining wives about their errant husbands, ergo, "He was in," that to save time and boost productivity the pub became known as the "He was inn." This was supposedly shortened, in 1932, to "The Hewas Inn".

Myth or Legend?

This is a myth that doesn't seem to be able to be laid to rest. Regular readers of this blog will know to expect top-notch investigative local journalism and, yes, we have done it again in this case. Abandon your falsehoods, here is the truth: near to Sticker, where the Hewas Inn is located, is a small hamlet/car dealership called "Hewaswater" and the name of the Hewas Inn comes from that. You heard it here first.

But enough of this pub etymology, the question on everyone's lips, the buzz on the streets of Sticker is "Just how good are the roasts at the Hewas Inn?"

The Roasts

Asking around, as so often we do before donning our "we are just a bunch of folk out for a casual Sunday lunch" disguises, the consensus is that the Hewas Inn is a good pub that serves good food. Nonetheless, we needed to infiltrate.

Six adults, 5 kids and one imaginary friend went. We booked in the morning and arrived for 12. The initial welcome was great and the service remained really good and prompt throughout the luncheon experience.

Pros:

• Roasts with the Most - When historians come to right about the best pub roast potatoes in Restormel and its environs, the Hewas Inn should get at least a paragraph, perhaps even an entire section
• Beef - the beef was good. Perhaps a tad dry but very tasty.
• The Gravy - Since starting these reviews we have all gone through a transcendental, nay, ephiphanic, metamorphosis when it comes to our understanding of gravy. To most people gravy is a brown meaty liquid of a certain viscosity. But to us, to those who have wandered in the wilderness of roasts, gravy is more, so much more. It is the unifying substrate that gels that which was sentient with that which was vegetable. And the gravy at the Hewas Inn, was super-double-duper.
• Mushy peas - a true outsider in the GRRR field, but the inclusion of mushy peas that were really yummy was a winner all round.
  

Cons:

• The Pork consumers felt that thought delightful, the crackling was not as crackling it could be.
  

Conclusion and Scores


All of us eating there had eaten at the current best roast pub, The Western Inn, as well as a number of other GRRR pubs. While the kids were playing the fruit machines we did have a discussion about what was best between the two pubs. There was no point of unanimous agreement and, at the end of the day, its a close close call, but on the scores alone the Hewas comes out second to The Western.


The Hewas Inn is a very friendly pub with great service and great roasts. Respect.



GRRR Score: 7.9/10 (7,7.5,7,8,7.5)

1^st The Western Inn, St Austell – 8/10

2^nd The Hewas Inn, Sticker – 7.9/10

3^rd The Dolphin, St Austell – 7.5/10

4^th The Britannia Inn, St Austell – 7/10

5^th The Polgooth Inn, Polgooth – 6/10

6^th The Royal Oak, Lostwithiel - 5.5/10

7^th The Ship Inn, Pentewan - 5/10

8^th The White Pyramid, Trewoon - 4.5/10

9^th The Ship Inn, Leryn – 4/10

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