The Carpenters Arms, Limpsfield Chart

This pub is well worth the trek. Went there on Tuesday and was immediately impressed by the lovely feel to it and the setting. The staff were lovely, really friendly, nice and helpful. Food was fantastic, top notch, good size portions.. this chef deserves 10 stars for his cooking skills. The food is much better here than in many good restaurants I've been to up town. Atmosphere is very warm and welcoming, a pub you can really relax in and enjoy a wonderful evening. Everyone was extremely friendly and the staff went out of their way to make us feel at home, they couldn't have been more helpful and friendly than they were. It really is a beautiful pub in every way, best I've been to in years. I spotted a very well known celeb in there having dinner too....well chuffed to have found such a gorgeous pub and will def be back soon!!!

19 Oct 2012 09:09

The Bull, Limpsfield

I never give reviews but in the case of The Bull I felt obliged to just so other people don't waste their money in this god awful pub - if you can call it a pub. Normally most pubs have a welcoming feel to them but the staff in The Bull and - who I presume is the manager/landlord - are the unfriendliest, rudest and most arrogant people you can find. We were a group of 4 , all over 35 years old, and tried it in there for the first time last week. The bar staff were rude and arrogant (god knows who they think they are) and it didn't help when we noticed we'd been shortchanged too on our 3rd round of drinks.....they did rectify it when we told them they'd shortchanged us, but it seemed stange they didn't give us too much change lol and they didn't even apologise. My wife was drinking white wine which wasn't cold enough and to make matters worse the first glass had a lipstick stain on - so that had to be changed too. The food we had seemed as though it had come out of a readymade frozen packet from a cheapO supermaket & been microwaved, it was vile and it wasn't heated up properly so we all had to leave our food on the plates. It was very expensive too for such a bad cheap tasting meal that my dog would turn his nose up at. Portion size was a big rip off too but as we couldn't eat the muck that didn't matter... wished we'd bought a hot dog from a van instead. I did tell the barstaff about the bad food but the bloke just turned his nose up and then walked off to serve a customer. Talk about rude! Such a horrible miserable pub with lukewarm wine and beer, lousy food and rude arrogant staff. Unpleasant smell in the toilets too... One to drive past even if you're gasping.

19 Oct 2012 08:47