Windmill Inn, Wealdback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
What a great pub! 12 (local) real ale beers on. As I was driving I had to limit myself to a pint of Goacher's Fine Light Ale (3.7%) but there were several stronger beers available. Warm, sunny day so we ate outside. Superb menu at reasonable prices. Friendly, efficient service. Highly recommended
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A great little pub, always a friendly welcome. A good choice of beers, always changing, in top condition. Have a look around, the place is immaculate, yet has kept its atmosphere.
Food is quality cuisine at a fair price (for the area) but portions are on the dainty side.
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Recently visited this pub again for the first time in a while, the last time it was still a tied Green King house, with the usual array of OK but unspectacular ales. The food, I recall was OK and some of the clientele a notch or two below that!!!
However, what a transformation! Now a free house with a great range of beers, in terms of strengths, colours (i.e. light to dark) and breweries, also add to that a variety of local ciders.
An excellent menu with many choices available in starter and main course portions, I opted for the Field Mushroom Rarebit to start and the Smoked Mackerel with Potato Terrine as the main, very very good!
Well done the current owners, you've done a great job!
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Not a bad boozer. Recently appeared in obscure real ale magazine read by the bearded and boring. Previously Irish landlady be warned she was a Hitler sympathiser and Nazi bootlicker, but long gone.
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This pub has recently appeared on the radar of local ale drinkers, along with cider and lager lovers. I have visited several times over the last couple of months, either walking from Hildenborough, or catching the bus from Tonbridge. Great selection of local beers and ciders, along with some proper continental lager, Hepworth Conqueror was on offer for those that like something a bit darker. I can also recommend the food, large and small appetites are catered for.
fenix - 10 Jan 2013 17:48 |
I was a regular in the Windmill from the mid eighties until 2012, and was a visitor before and after these times. While it was always the village pub, it suffered from its internal arrangement (long and thin L-shape), its decor, and from landlords/ladies whose skills varied from very good to dire, and from being tied, originally to Courage, and then to Greene King. This pub is now a free house, extremely well-run by its new owners, Matthew & Emma, offering no fewer than 6 hand-pulled beers (eg Larkins, Goachers) and although I did not eat here on this occasion, there were many happy diners, and our friends who live in Weald Village speak highly of it. The internal arrangements have been improved to the optimum for the awkward shape. The decor is way better than it has ever been, although it is rather 'knick-knack central'. The staff are attentive and helpful. Matthew was much in evidence and pleasingly unobtrusive, though observant. The pub has a good range of ciders, including Tim and Heidi Davies' excellent Chiddingstone Ciders. Worth making a detour off the A21 for the Windmill.
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From what I have read below thank god we have a new Landlady at the Windmill in Weald. The place is now a dream, good company, good food, and good beer, and I can take the dog in. Food obviously not frozen rubbish it tastes so good. See you there soon
You cant beat experience when running a pub
Fork
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Pub is clean and friendly great atmosphere. Nice beer garden, great food, fantastic live music. perfectly kept ales and beer. Great night out.
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As only one of the below reviews actually communicates relevant information, I feel some elaboration is needed.
The Windmill is a lovely village pub with a warm and relaxed atmosphere. It's well furnished and the staff are friendly. In short, its a great place to go for a pint of good beer with friends or family. Simple as that.
As to the above news stories (which incidentally are irrelevant to reviewing the pub), well, the fact that they are from the mail and the mirror says it all.
Finally, to anyone who reads the review below by "mrlondon", I hope you find it as impertinent as i did.
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Fairly traditional village pub, which is obviously starting to have a bit money spent on it. Elongated 'L'-shaped bar which looks like it has been opened out at some stage from the previous saloon and lounge plus a side room and an extension of uncertain age. Nice position on the green (although this is not one of Kent's most picturesque). Regular live music and other events advertised on the blackboards. Looks like they are getting a new chef too. A Greene King house with three real ales on - IPA, Ruddles and a respectable Morland Original.
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Perhaps the landlady�s next move will be to announce that she is �totally committed to the poppy process�?
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Police attend pub after poppies row
Associated Press:31st Oct 2009
"A row has erupted in a village over claims a pub landlady refused to sell poppies from a tray on her bar ahead of Remembrance Day. A staff member at The Windmill in the Weald, near Sevenoaks, Kent claimed the pub had received "threatening" phone calls in the wake of the saga and alerted police. Weald parish councillor David Marchant, who went into the pub to hand out the poppy tray while delivering them round the village, told the Sevenoaks Chronicle: "I went into The Windmill and the lady was not at all keen to have them. A lot of the village are upset." Publican and mother-of-two Bernice Walsh gave a different version of events and told the newspaper: "Well, I said they could put the poppies on the bar, and then he took them away."
A Kent Police spokeswoman said: "Officers attended today following a call from a member of the public at the premises reporting nuisance phone calls." Both Mr Marchant and Ms Walsh declined to comment. In a separate incident earlier this week, a Royal British Legion poster in Gillingham, Kent, urging the public to support this year's Poppy Appeal was defaced to attack former prime minister Tony Blair. "
I understand that this Publican comes from Mayo on the West Coast of the Irish Republic. A country that stood back and did nothing between 1939-1945 to stop the many evils of Hitler and his vile allies. A country that saw nothing wrong when Hitler committed suicide, in seeing it's President trot around to the German Embassy to sign the book of condolence. A people that backed murdering terrorists on streets of Britain's cities killing ordinary men, women, childen and British peace keeping soldiers. I would suggest that the good people of Kent respond in that time honoured and democratic way to such an insult by Boycotting this pub and it's brewery. And for that matter, any other pub or bar in Britain that has such like Publicans and staff who wish to insult the brave of this country's past and present fighting forces.
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It's often said that "all publicity is good publicity", but this is the exception that proves the rule. What an absolute disgrace!
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Appears in todays national press for refusing to allow a tray of Remembrance Day poppies to be left on the bar.
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