The Maybush is for sale, and someone should buy it. On the bank of the Thames in Oxfordshire, it sits peering at the Rose Revived, its opposite number across a 13th-century bridge. Between them, boats hum and gin is put away.
The Maybush has been here since the 1700s, with a garden that stretches out to the water. It’s had a bit of a time of it — closed between 2011 and 2015, then again between 2018 and 2020. But there is something indefatigable about the place. The food — pub classics, but done particularly well — is the reason to come, alongside the events, such as last month’s sausage and cider festival.
It does a “Roast 2 Go” — the full whack, in a box, to take away. But why would you? The Maybush is somewhere to be a straggler in: another bottle of wine, a missed train, thoughts of buying the place.
