The Crown Inn at Burnham Beeches

You're heading out past Farnham Royal, away from the trading estates and ring roads, when the Crown Inn appears like a reward for leaving central Slough behind. It's the kind of place where the car park's full of Range Rovers and Barbours, but nobody's pretentious about it. The food's straightforward and done well—the sort of menu that doesn't apologise for having pies and proper chips alongside something vaguely aspirational. It's got that comfortable, worn-in feel of a pub that's been doing this for years without needing to reinvent itself.