Rather different from the other guides here is Johansens Recommended Inns with Restaurants. This is a large, glossy book, priced around ú10 (also available on a CD-ROM including companion Hotel and Country House guides at ú30). Johansens was recently unfavourably mentioned on BBC TV's Watchdog along with another of other hotel guides that charge the featured businesses a hefty chunk of cash to appear. It was suggested that only limited effort is put into ensuring that the entries are impartial, effectively making it a large advertising supplement. Despite this, I have found Johansens to be reliable, and though it has no information on beer, it does give a clear feel for the atmosphere of a pub in full page entries that include good colour photographs. Directions are good, but details of food often tend to the flowery rather than the specific.