The Coach House

You'll find The Coach House tucked away on Rother Street, in that lovely stretch where Stratford still feels like a real market town rather than a theme park. It's the kind of place where you can tell regulars from visitors within two seconds—the regulars are the ones who don't need to ask where the loos are. The wood-panelled interior has that comfortable, worn-in quality that only comes from decades of people nursing pints and having proper conversations. It's genuinely local, genuinely friendly, and genuinely good.