Had an amazing meal here today at the launch of the refurbished Pub, Restaurant & Gardens with our family. Everything was excellent, we all had three courses and could not fault a thing. We received a warm welcome and excellent service from all at The Horse & Groom. John, Jamie, Nikola, Marketa, Joe and a few others who we did not get their names. They were attentive, knowledgable and could not have made our experience any more enjoyable. We shall definitely visit again very soon & would like to wish Good Luck to all concerned for the official opening tomorrow.
katie shotter
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March 23, 2025
We visited today for the first time after having this beautiful pub on our doorstep for over 10 years and we have definitely been missing out!
We was greeted by a buzzing, friendly team of people and taken to our table by Milena. Her service was outstanding throughout our whole dinner where she was quick, helpful for menu advice and couldn’t be more willing to help and please.
We had a beautiful trio roast which was huge and everything was cooked to perfection, lots of fresh vegetables, all your added extras like pigs in blankets and Yorkshire with pork, beef and turkey cooked to perfection. Wine was delicious and cold with a really lovely selection. My children both enjoyed something of the children’s menu where the sizes were so generous with a great selection of your posh pub classics aswell as a roast choice for children. Desserts were BEAUTIFUL and there was lots of clean plates!
The pub has recently been through a massive refurbishment and they have done such a great job, it’s clean, fresh but modern with beautiful country colours but still the buildings original traditional beautie.
We had such a wonderful afternoon and have booked to go again for Mother’s Day, we were really impressed and this place is definitely a new place we will regularly visit.
Thank you to Milena for making our afternoon so special xx
Smilie Sarah
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May 02, 2025
Have visited this pub numerous times and it has always been great, good food and good atmosphere. This was our 1st visit since the work had been carried out and the outside area is lovely (in fairness it was before too with nice views across the fields). More tables now which is a good thing. Unfortunately my husband spent sometime queuing to see if we could get some food having arrived at 7:30pm. There were people pushing in front of him and being served and when he finally spoke to someone we were told there was no food being served outside. That was fine and we had drinks but then we saw food being brought out to tables while we sat there with our drinks so a little confusing. He was also told there were no tables inside for food however when I looked at the online booking there was availability within 15 minutes so again a little confusing and maybe a miss communication with staff. It did seem as though they were overwhelmed and it had been a rare sunny day so I would assume this had something to do with it. It all felt somewhat disappointing but we will visit again as I’m sure it was a case of being one of the 1st sunny days of the year and so many people descending upon them. Hope our next visit is a little more welcoming. On this occasion we left and ate elsewhere.
Colin Salmon
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May 09, 2025
Recent referb adds to the appeal of a relaxed country pub with great staff,good food at fair prices and a nice clean garden area with covered seating.
Danny Webster
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April 26, 2025
Been here twice since the relaunch. The place looks amazing with such a great atmosphere. Staff were brilliant really welcoming and friendly. Now onto the food. The first time we came was at the start of April and it was really busy and could see they were struggling. Starters were fine but weren't exactly hot we had the chefs board and soup. Then the mains weren't great at all unfortunately food was really cold and this was across both couples it just didnt reflect the standard of the service and atmosphere of the pub itself.
Fast forward to tonight and unfortunately the food was still exactly the same quality. I had the fish which the chips were cold and tasted like cardboard and the fish was soggy and again wasn't hot at all.
To boycott and say I wouldn't come back is not the case as the pub itself has such a great atmosphere and the staff are great id just skip the food unfortunately.
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Had an amazing meal here today at the launch of the refurbished Pub, Restaurant & Gardens with our family. Everything was excellent, we all had three courses and could not fault a thing. We received a warm welcome and excellent service from all at The Horse & Groom. John, Jamie, Nikola, Marketa, Joe and a few others who we did not get their names. They were attentive, knowledgable and could not have made our experience any more enjoyable. We shall definitely visit again very soon & would like to wish Good Luck to all concerned for the official opening tomorrow.
We visited today for the first time after having this beautiful pub on our doorstep for over 10 years and we have definitely been missing out! We was greeted by a buzzing, friendly team of people and taken to our table by Milena. Her service was outstanding throughout our whole dinner where she was quick, helpful for menu advice and couldn’t be more willing to help and please. We had a beautiful trio roast which was huge and everything was cooked to perfection, lots of fresh vegetables, all your added extras like pigs in blankets and Yorkshire with pork, beef and turkey cooked to perfection. Wine was delicious and cold with a really lovely selection. My children both enjoyed something of the children’s menu where the sizes were so generous with a great selection of your posh pub classics aswell as a roast choice for children. Desserts were BEAUTIFUL and there was lots of clean plates! The pub has recently been through a massive refurbishment and they have done such a great job, it’s clean, fresh but modern with beautiful country colours but still the buildings original traditional beautie. We had such a wonderful afternoon and have booked to go again for Mother’s Day, we were really impressed and this place is definitely a new place we will regularly visit. Thank you to Milena for making our afternoon so special xx
Have visited this pub numerous times and it has always been great, good food and good atmosphere. This was our 1st visit since the work had been carried out and the outside area is lovely (in fairness it was before too with nice views across the fields). More tables now which is a good thing. Unfortunately my husband spent sometime queuing to see if we could get some food having arrived at 7:30pm. There were people pushing in front of him and being served and when he finally spoke to someone we were told there was no food being served outside. That was fine and we had drinks but then we saw food being brought out to tables while we sat there with our drinks so a little confusing. He was also told there were no tables inside for food however when I looked at the online booking there was availability within 15 minutes so again a little confusing and maybe a miss communication with staff. It did seem as though they were overwhelmed and it had been a rare sunny day so I would assume this had something to do with it. It all felt somewhat disappointing but we will visit again as I’m sure it was a case of being one of the 1st sunny days of the year and so many people descending upon them. Hope our next visit is a little more welcoming. On this occasion we left and ate elsewhere.
Recent referb adds to the appeal of a relaxed country pub with great staff,good food at fair prices and a nice clean garden area with covered seating.
Been here twice since the relaunch. The place looks amazing with such a great atmosphere. Staff were brilliant really welcoming and friendly. Now onto the food. The first time we came was at the start of April and it was really busy and could see they were struggling. Starters were fine but weren't exactly hot we had the chefs board and soup. Then the mains weren't great at all unfortunately food was really cold and this was across both couples it just didnt reflect the standard of the service and atmosphere of the pub itself. Fast forward to tonight and unfortunately the food was still exactly the same quality. I had the fish which the chips were cold and tasted like cardboard and the fish was soggy and again wasn't hot at all. To boycott and say I wouldn't come back is not the case as the pub itself has such a great atmosphere and the staff are great id just skip the food unfortunately.