BITE user comments - jdawks
Comments by jdawks
I kind of disagree with previous posts. Yes this is unashamedly a gastropub, very big old roadside inn that for years needed some TLC and now has had it.
We found the welcome to be friendly, they couldn;t have been more helpful digging out the highchair for our littl'un. The food is on the pricey side but al the dishes our party had were interesting and really well cooked - which I don;t mind paying a bit more for. And the beer was excellent too - good local fayre.
29 Aug 2009 21:57
We stopped for a meal and a few pints here after a lovely stroll down from Watersmeet.
The beer selection was excellent and the pints of Fox and Gold I had (both Exmoor Brewery) both were fab.
THe food was lovely too - in particular the puddings which were the best pub puddings i can remember having.
Service generally excellent too, with really friendly helful waiting staff.
BUT - we went to pay the bill and despite it not being at all busy, and there being an itemised bill, the landlord refused to split the bill - we even offered to work it out for him but not a bit of it. I found him rude and unhelpful.
This is a real shame as we'd had a great time here and this really clouded our visit. It was such a simple request, and must be made so very often in such a tourist spot. More customer focussed service required please
30 May 2009 22:22
This is getting better and better. Beer choice varies from week to week which is good to see. Food is good quality and well priced - with bar food or more fancy restaurant fayre. Puddings we had were wonderful! The atmosphere's great too - a nice buzz with a lovely welcome.
15 Mar 2009 23:00
Really friendly and great service alongside well kept beers and good quality pub grubby food - my homemade burger was spectacular. This feels like a village local despite being in the town. Wish it was my local.
2 Mar 2009 20:54
Had Sunday lunch here at the weekend.
Pub itself is magnificent - a cracking building with comfy chairs, great furniture, proper towels in the loos - all very smart. Beer choice was excellent. I had a great pint of TEA and companions had pints of two different Cornish ales - both excellent.
We were disappointed with the food though. It is pricey, which we expected in this area, but it just wasn't all that good. The meat was fine - my pork had a pathetic amount of crackling though which i was gutted about. The Roast spuds were just horrid though - very old and rubbery. Others had fishcakes, which were very average.
Lovely building, great beer but food needs to be better in this county of gastropubs
2 Mar 2009 20:51
Had a chilled out Saturday lunch here.
Building is old and crooked but has a light and bright interior and feels clean - hooray!
Beer is standard GK stuff, but the IPA was really good - yes it's GKIPA but it is a really drinkable beer when well kept and served, which this was.
Food great - a really interesting menu (we had a Moroccon Lamb, Honey and Prune Tagine which was really excellent) on the pricey side for this area BUT it's fine to spend a bit more than pub grub prices when you get more than pub grub food - which this is.
Service was great too - the only shame was that it wasn;t busier - there are so few good food pubs around here and towards Bury - this should be heaving!
18 Oct 2008 09:27
Returned on Sunday - and as usual was impressed by this place. it does get busy but the food is good quality and local, there's an excellent and well kept beer selection and I have never found any service problems as reported by others. From reviews thsi seems to be a love it or hate it kind of place....and I love it.
1 Jul 2008 23:21
This pub is currently boarded up. A sad sight - it's a lovely building and on a busy road it should be a success.
9 Jun 2008 22:57
Saturday night - popped in on the offchance of getting fed and watered. Very pleasantly surprised. Very good beer choice - Ossett Brewery Silver King was delicious - and the food was hearty, plentiful and very cheap. Proper pub grub at proper pub grub prices. A nice bustling atmosphere too - this is well worth stopping off at
9 Mar 2008 20:32
We had a really good Sunday lunch here this week. 2 Gk beers and one unusual one from the Black Country - all very well kept and served. A good start. Menu printed each day which gets a big thumbs up from me - not nasty old laminated ones or old-looking blackboards. Food very reasonably priced (12.95 for 2 courses or 15.95 for three) and all 6 of us were delighted with what we had. Beautifully cooked and interesting. Service lovely too - very friendly and welcoming and you felt like you were being looked after. We'll definitely come here again - why can't more country pubs round here be like this?
18 Feb 2008 21:24
This isn't bad. The beer selection is usually GKIPA, Adnams + 1 interesting other. The interesting other is often a locally sourced microbrewery beer and the ones i've had have been excellent. Food is pub grub - very well priced and you get plenty of it but you're going to struggle if you're a vegi! Staff are friendlyish and a big improvment on the last incumbent but I've known a better welcome. It's a fab building with a great garden in a beautiful village that you can't help but feel could be doing rather better.
14 Jan 2008 22:39
The Moon and Mushroom, Swilland
Had a good winter warmer meal here on a very wet Saturday lunchtime. Good gamey menu with lots of casseroley type dishes, rather less good for any veggies you may have. Beer is spectacularly good - very well kept and excellent interesting selection of localish brews. Very welcoming feel with log fire and bright, clean and fresh feel to the building. If this was my local I'd be there every day so its lucky that it's not! Go out of your way to find this place - it's a bit special.
10 Dec 2007 23:08
The Three Horseshoes, Cockfield
Agree with other comment. It's the wrong side of ok. We popped in for a quick bite to eat and a beer. Beer tasted on the flat side, food order was wrong despite being very very empty, salad limp.
We won;t bother going here again - suggest you do the same.
12 Nov 2007 21:48
Had fantastic fish and chips here followed by rice pudding. yum yum yum yum yum. Some excellent beers too - some from near and others from far, plus an amazing array of bottled belgians. This is a great pub - highly recommended
28 Oct 2007 16:47
This is one of the best pubs in Bury if you like a nice meal and a good pint to go with it. Food we had was great (particularly the puddings which were magnificent!), lovely beer (all GK based but some of their more interesting ones) and the service really is excellent. Very friendly and helpful service and well situated for a stroll in the Abbey gardens to work off that pudding afterwards. Highly recommended.
14 Oct 2007 13:27
I just don't get why this pub gets bad reviews. I was there for Sunday lunch. I found the staff very likeable and friendly, the food always impresses. The pub has an "artisan charcuterie" because it's in that part of Surrey when lots of the pub visitors (not me though)can afford it (look at cars in car park) and use it . So why not? If you don't want to buy from the deli, then don't. It's a good pub serving great local food and excellent beer. It couldn't be further removed from a Harvester
2 Oct 2007 22:26
The Scillies are really wonderful and Tresco and its pub aren't the reason why. Tresco is the tidy. well trimmed and fake Scilly Isle. Its a holiday resort. Everything on Tresco appears to have had a Tresco Tax added - the beer is monumentally expensive even for Scilly and the food, though tasty is very overpriced for what you get. The beer was tasty though, and local so a few bonus points.
3 Sep 2007 22:23
This pub has a spectacular location on a wonderfully relaxing island and I really want to love it (and did on last visit) BUT I have gripes!
1) Food reputed to be the best on all the island pubs but it really wasn't great at all - the fish and chips was obviously frozen and from a packet which is a crime in such a place.
2) Service very obviously biased to locals. i know this is something that happens everywhere, but to be told by the landlady that our curry didn't come with all the trimmings and wasn't as big as that on the next table because "She's one of the locals" is not on at all.
Yes it is wasy better generally than New Inn on Tresco (which is a holiday resort really, not a pub) but not nearly as good as it ought to be.
2 Sep 2007 21:03
Great little bar (not really a pub) on Bryher in the Isles of Scilly. Had some fairly iffy Doombar on draught but the general conviviality, friendliness, fish and chips on a Friday night and great chocolate Ice Cream made up for it.
2 Sep 2007 20:57
The food and beer are really good - you just have to have the seafood broth as a starter. Soup of the century. Pub a bit drafty in winter and furniture not the most comfortable, but these are minor complaints. Stroll down to the Crowns Mine which is awe inspiring.
17 Jun 2007 20:38
This is just a great place. It's got the most amazing beer selection but there's more to it than that. It's got really friendly staff and a huge mix of ages and types of customer. Worth hunting out, and if its your first time you'll probably get lost trying. Worth it when you arrive though - fab.
17 Jun 2007 20:20
Lived here for 8 years - pub never failed to disappoint. Beer always substandard, food pub grub at restaurant prices (mum and brother got food poisoning),garden could be good but is just too big and plain. Worst of all is the smell of the place - however short a time your visit, you and all your clothes smell of a deep fat fryer. Don't go here - every village in the locality has a pub that's better.
10 Jun 2007 23:46
Good food and good beer and open all day, which many round here aren't. Sitting outside on a summer's evening, with a pint of Fursty Ferret is a pleasure. Also funny cause folk with braces of pheasants over their shoulders wander in from time to time.
10 Jun 2007 23:42
We had our wedding reception here, and unlike a lot of the other reviews here - we found it completely brilliant. Linda was an attentive and calm hostess, the staff were all friendly, the food was absoloutely exceptional (and is from their farm just down the road) and the beer is marvellous too. We've been here many times since and have never been disappointed. A proper, modern, village pub.
10 Jun 2007 23:40
Although it's a beautiful spot, and handy for Ickworth, we felt the food was very very overpriced - and we've moved from Surrey so that's not just us being provincial. It was good, but the sizes of the portions were meagre and we paid through the nose for it. Not sure we'd bother again.
3 Jun 2007 07:25
Had our Christmas meal here and it was really rather rubbish - not recommended
23 May 2007 22:05
The Dartmouth Arms, Forest Hill
We really liked it here. Popped out of the Horniman for lunch. Back room was booked out for a function but front bar was great. Good atmosphere, Very quick and friendly service, very amenable to having small babies there (I can see how this might put some punters off but this is really good for us) and really nice food and beers - Broadside and Landlord + 1 more i can;t remember. Tim Taylor Landlord was really excellent.
26 Oct 2009 20:18