Honest Miller, Brookback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
I could complain about the service, but they're under-staffed at the moment -- any qualified jobseekers in the area would be doing us all a favour if they helped this place out.
Food as has been noted is good, they no longer serve sauces in sachets! Doom Bar and Lond. Pride are typically on with a guest ale, often quite interesting. Interestingly royalist decor, lots of coronation memorabilia.
Family friendly, which may as well be a negative point from most visitors' perspectives, as there is also a fenced off area in the garden with a few pets (rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens) that children, I presume, are encouraged to interact with. Not that the pets seemed enthusiastic, and both pets and children are left unsupervised. Perhaps an issue with the clientele rather than the staff -- again, understaffed, and pubs don't generally include childminding in their services. Frankly you'd have to leave tips if they did. Friendly though.
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This is a charming pub in an equally charming village on the foot of the North Downs and some great walking country. The Doombar I had was fine and service pleasant. The interior of the pub and garden were both pleasing.
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The Honest Miller is without a doubt one of the best pub restaurants my girlfriend and I have been to in some time. The locals are friendly, and always talkative when at the bar, the family running the joint are also very warm and welcoming. The food, like the rest of the quiet pub, is outstanding. I usually have a steak, my girlfriend BBQ ribs, both our choices, in our opinion, are the best of any restaurant in the Ashford area. And we eat out a lot! The prices aren't too bad either. The beers on offer range from the common to the less so, with ale from Cornwall and other areas from further a field. Overall this a very friendly, good quality local, welcoming outsiders with open arms
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Having recently moved to the area, my husband and I saw the positive reviews for this pub and decided to go and check it out. It lives up to them, really friendly atmosphere, great landlord and landlady
We'll definitely return!
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Another place that I have been to in the past but not for a number of years. I can't say that it sticks in the memory as an outstanding pub so I was encouraged by the recent comments on here -particulary MankyBadger's which I usually find to be pretty reliable :-).
Vistited on Bank holiday monday and I find myself agreeing with pretty much everything the last couple of reviewers have said. The landlord is a very pleasant Geordie chap and made us feel extremely welcome. Beer was excellent - Doom Bar being on of my favourite ales. The others were London Pride and something called Tit for Tat. I stuck with the Doom Bar on this visit. Food from the bar snacks part of the menu was excellent although as others have noticed, was a little slow in arriving. That's a very minor grumble though as I'm more than happy to wait for food of this quality. Everything was excellent and very well presented. Again a minor gripe but why do pubs that take such obvious pride in their food insist on serving sauces in those awful little sachets? I guess it's just one of those things that bugs me - perhaps I'm just getting old :-)
The main meals on other tables looked awesome and the service was polite throughout. On the way out, the landlady (I guess) was keen to know if everything was ok - we assured her we would be back !
A great pub - highly recommended.
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Popped back - the landlord remembered us from our visit of five months ago. Now has three ales on, and the food also is top notch. And the service is friendly, welcoming. It's the sort of place you want to go back to.
Were this a food-reviewing web site, we'd be talking 11/10. But with only three ales, I can't in all honesty go over 8/10.
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The Honest Miller is a pub I first went to back in 1987 and it hasn�t changed physically on the outside. The car park was a small hard-standing area, although there was additional gravel parking on the other side of the property. The interior is still well kept and the pub is now under new management. The landlord was very friendly and made sure we were welcome.
We ordered food, which took a bit longer than I like to arrive. However, the atmosphere was so pleasant that I, for one, didn�t mind waiting. The delay was certainly compensated by the food when it arrived. I had the Gammon Steak, which was served with some of the best pub chips I have ever tasted (only wished there were a few more of them, as they were delicious). The pub also served a good selection of traditional British favourites, such as Spotted Dick and Jam Roly Poly. Absolutely spot on!! If you ever have the chance to eat here, DO IT!!!!
The soft drinks we had were from a pump, though I was given the choice of pump or bottle. The pumped coke and orange juice tasted fine and was beautifully chilled.
All in all, this was one of the best pubs I�ve been to lately and many of our party are already talking of going back there very soon (maybe to the quiz nights that they hold each week). I only hope I�m with them at the time.
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Now under new management. The landlord seems to be quite a character, and couldn't be more welcoming. A party of seven of us had a smashing meal today. The service was a tad slow - but the food is clearly home made and worth the wait.
It's a village pub and so has a "locals" element, but we were made very welcome. There's a pool table, but it lacks the "youth club" feel that so many pub pool tables have.
Two ales were on - Doom Bar is a regular. Today's guest was Pride of Pendle - the landlord takes pride in rotating his selection of guest ales. This is somewhere I shall be adding to my list of places to recommend.
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Traditional-looking village pub, given something of an interior makeover recently which somehow seems a bit too organised. Pleasant beer garden. Two real ales offered, and the Sharps Doom Bar went down well.
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