Inspired by the success of in the World Darts Championships, star has introduced a new addition to his Oxfordshire .
The watering hole now boasts a dartboard upstairs for customers to use alongside the pool table. A pub spokesperson said: “A new dartboard awaits, as does a cold pint of Hawkstone and a sausage roll.”
Seventeen-year-old darts prodigy Luke , at Alexandra Palace on January 3. He beat his opponent 7-3 in an epic match and made history when he became the youngest player ever to lift the Sid Waddell Trophy.
, with punters queuing for hours to get inside and sample the atmosphere and wares.
The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? host vowed to serve up British-only produce, banning well known staples such as ketchup and Coca-Cola.
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Jeremy Clarkson has made a major change to his pub in recent days (Image: Neil Robinson/PA Wire)
But it wasn’t long before he realised that his patriaotic stance was going to prove expensive to maintain. He wrote in his column for : “Imported black pepper is about £10 a kilogram, whereas the home-grown alternative is ten times more.
“There are other issues too. If I butcher one of my own pigs and turn it into sausages, each one of those sausages will arrive at the pub costing 74p. If I buy imported pig meat then the cost of a sausage is 18p. It was the same story everywhere.
“Now a business-minded person would look at these costs and realise that with British-only rules in place a hotdog was going to be priced at about £45. But I’m not a business-minded person. So I just filled my heart with hope.”
He went on to reveal his stance could be losing him around £10 for every customer who walks into the pub. Jeremy also faced issues with the infrastructure of the bar and was forced to upgrade his electrity system.
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Luke Littler beat Michael van Gerwen of the Netherlands to win the World DartsChampionships (Image: Getty)
“We don’t ever bother thinking about it [electricity]. Until you turn everything on in your new pub and the giant extractor fan above the ovens shuts down, which, for safety reasons, causes the gas supply to go off as well. This made cooking tricky. ‘No, not tricky,’ said the chef we’d hired. ‘It’s impossible.'”
It transpired that the pub needed to install a three-phase system which Jeremy revealed cost a staggering £350,000. “So, we were opening in three days’ time and we had iffy power and a menu that would bankrupt us in a matter of hours. And there was no time to worry about either thing because of the much bigger problems we were having with water.”
The water was filled with pestilence and plague, meaning it had to be shut down. This also affected a nearby farm as it turned off their supply from the mains.
Despite the initial hiccups Jeremy opened on schedule but he has since said he is losing a fortune from the enterprise and claimed the pub is regularly ransacked by