Mundy Bois, Pluckleyback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
The Rose & Crown was our penultimate pub of the day in Kent (the last was the Queen's Arms in Egerton Forstal which is not listed on here and not worth adding). We gathered something was going on when we arrived, as cars were parked all along the lane. We initially thought there was a band playing. There was, but it was as part of the entertainment for a beer festival. I ordered a spirit from the bar for my wife, where they told me there were more real ales outside. I then went outside to order a beer only for somebody who'd just arrived at the bar to jump the queue and get served ahead of me. Then I was told I needed to buy vouchers inside at the bar (why didn't the bar staff tell me that in the first place?). Back at the bar, I was about to be served when somebody else wandered up to the bar and I was ignored again in favour of presumably somebody else the staff knew. After an order involving a Guinness which required the obligatory top-up and a spirit with a mixer and then an enquiry about what chocolate they sold(?), I finally managed to get the required voucher to go back to the outside bar and join the queue again!! The whole process took 15 minutes - not too satisfactory. There were plenty of people outside, with a marquee hosting the band and also a food stall. Ales were Whitstable Native Bitter & Pearl Of Kent, Harveys Sussex Best Bitter, Nelson's Trafalgar, Friggin' in the Riggin' & Nelson's Blood, Musket Fife & Drum & Flintlock & Dartford Wobbler Curiously Dark. Cider was Biddendens Bushells. I tried the Curiously Dark, which wasn't the best beer in the world. Nice to see a beer festival. But service was lacking and beer quality was questionable.
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Great little local. Sunday Lunch is lovely. All the food I have had at this pub has been good. I especially like the homemade beans with poached egg on toast. Well worth a try. I am not a beer drinker - Gin and Tonic for my sins but loved the Brandy and Lovage during the Christmas Period. However, my husband does tell me that all the beers he has tried has been very good.
I have always felt very welcome by Donna and Dave - keep the good work going!
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My husband and I, recently visited the mundy bois and the staff were very friendly, the food was excellent, especially the fish and chips and the steak and guinness pie. With a lovely open fire which gave a cosy feeling, we will definitely be back.
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Great little pub with history, character and a a lovely garden. Loos are clean and the food is superb. Worth a visiton a sunny afternoon or a winter evening when there is a fire lit.
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I have known this pub for nearly 17 years. It used to be a welcoming enough drinking pub without being in any way exceptional but the food was. It has unfortunatley gone down hill in a big way. the retaurant is shabby, the food dire and the service worse. It is just possible that if you have a young family and are looking for a pretty refreshment spot in the summer that having a drink the garden is OK but that I am afraid is it. Terrible shame.
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Havng lived within five miles of the place for twenty years, I had no idea it was there until a week ago. Friends who live nearby tell us it's known as "the wrinklies pub" as during the week it's frequesnted by the older diners. Me & "Mrs Badger" were taken there for a meal today by friends to celebrate our wedding anniversary. At the risk of disagreeing with a previous reviewer of the place, I think that today's dinner was the best meal I've ever eaten in a pub. The waitress was polite, attentive and helpful, and teh chef was taking care to swee that all was going well. As a resturant, top marks 11/10.
However, this is "BEER in the evening", not food. Only two ales, one of which is the ubiquitous MasterBrew which seems to appear in most Kent pubs these days regardless of who owns the pub. Much as it pains me to say anything against this place, as a pub, it's no great shakes and in that regard I can't go higher than 7/10.
If you're planning to be in the area and eat, this is THE place to go. But if you want a pint, try somewhere else. It's a top restaurant with a half-way decent bar.
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Happyeaterkent:1.This is a pub, so I would think that the "head waitress's" action was showing best practice.
2. Your experience is diametrically opposed to ours: I suggest that you have strayed fro a parallel universe.
3. This site's name is Beer In The Evening.Not a mention of beer in your post:say no more...
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We personally found this to be a shockingly poor experience. We went last week to try it out as we have been to most restaurants in the Tenterden area.
To start with, the head waitress had asked us what we were going to drink before we had even sat down or seen the drinks menu.
When the food arrived, my husband had ordered lamb, and after trying several pieces of the meat found that the dish featured a mix of both lamb and beef. It was covered in such thick bisto gravy though, it was hard to discern. The lasagne was a slab of dark burnt brown pasta, with cheap mince and no white sauce, the roast chicken was acceptable, but again covered in thick beef bisto gravy.
Then it was time for desert - sitting next to the kitchen we watched as a plastic penguin with ice cream in it, obviously bound for some unsuspecting child, fell of the plate it was being served on onto the floor, and was immediately put back on the plate and taken off to the diner's table. They didn't even bother to take it back to the kitchen to dust or wipe it off!
When we asked the waitress to describe the peach melba tart, the best should could offer was 'well it's a sort of spongey thing, with some cream stuff on it. i can't really explain it better than that.' When asked if there were peaches in it, he response was 'oh yeah. but they're not fresh, though.' we opted for the ice cream, in the hope that it was not homemade.
We felt that the waitresses could not have been more indifferent to our dining experience and that the food could not have been more poorly produced. It was quite a depressing experience, really.
We were so disappointed as we had really looked forward to going out for a lovely lunch. One thing to be said for it, though, is that the countryside around here is idyllic. Also, this pub would be the ideal contender for Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares!
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It�s suddenly struck me that I�ve used this pub since the mid seventies, and haven�t commented on it on BITE. I�ve always enjoyed it, being somewhat �on the edge�, but the ghosts of former times need not detain us for too long. We came here on a Saturday night to celebrate our son�s GCSE results: the first warm day for seeming weeks ensured that a good number of customers were out in the garden, but the pub itself was remarkably quiet.Service was welcoming and efficient.
The beer was well kept, though I was disappointed by the Wells and Youngs Youngs Bitter, which had no relation to Youngs Ordinary of former times: perfectly good beer, but bland. I don�t usually drink Shep�s beers in freehouses: I love most of their beers, but do like something a bit more exciting when in a non Shep�s pub. The Masterbrew was refreshingly bittersweet: two session bitters, one of which would have bored me to an early grave, the other I could have happily drunk all evening. I�d like to see a Westerham beer on the counter, as I understand that the pub was once tied to the original Westerham Brewery.
As this was a celebration evening, mention should be made of the food: all the meat is locally produced, and our daughter�s steak was tasty, though not as good as it would be had it come from a well matured Sussex steer. I enjoyed my Pork belly, though the apple sauce wasn�t sweet enough- no cloves either. I resisted the pies, out of respect for the former incumbents, who produced a mean pie.
This pub, which sits where the Weald joins the Greensand Ridge, has been sympathetically looked after, and maintains a public bar, together with a recently converted games room. Food is of necessity at the heart of the business, but not at the expense of its traditional constituency.
8/10
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returned for a lunchtime meal and as expected from our previous visit, it was excellent value for money.
Generous portions of obviously homemade food. The restaurant was full and it's not hard to see why. Will definitely return
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Visited on a Sunday lunchtime. The main bar was busy with locals and was a little smokey so we went next door into the smaller bar adjacent to the resataurant. Service was friendly, beer (Wadworth's 6X) was well kept and it gave us a chance to look at the menu. Although we didn't try the food, the menu looked extremely good value and we will definitely be back to check it out.
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NICE PUB GREAT GARDEN GOOD STAFF
FOOD WAS VERY NICE
TOM BROADBEST - 29 Aug 2006 16:34 |
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