The society plans to serve food, but not turn it into a gastro-pub, and is considering having a shop attached to the pub.

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Across the road, the Chophouse is a large-windowed gastro pub that serves a menu of comfort food classics like fish and chips, and an exemplary Charolais Rib Eye steak, which has been dry-aged for 32 days.

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So does the Sandy Park Inn, a 17th-century pub with a gastro menu of its own, on the road into Chagford.

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