The Cock and Bull

We have found over the last couple of years that the food & experience here has gone up & down dramatically. Not my first choice of places to eat anymore unfortunately but we had guests staying who wanted to go, so we attended on a Friday evening. Of course we did book as there were a few of us, but it wasn’t busy at 1930. The menu has changed since we were there a month or so ago, and the food was absolutely wonderful! The new dishes sound great and we did have a few between us. My gripe there was that my pork dish had a very small slice of pork with was clearly reheated as it was dry as heck and the pork fat way too chewy. The jus with it was so watery, it was pointless dipping anything in. Fondant potato was nice. Kale was fine. All the starters were great (I’d double down on the trio of puddings and the scallops !) although the tomato soup was way too peppery for the kid that chose it. Steaks were all perfect. Desserts definitely won over the Dutch guests! The biggest disappointment was how slow the service was. We sat there wondering if they’d forgotten about us between courses and then after asking twice for the bill, we gave up and went to the bar to pay instead. The restaurant was nowhere near busy enough to excuse service that slow.

Robert f Great place to stay and very welcoming as always.

We stayed for a wedding over a weekend in July 2024. The hotel is small with rooms separate from the main restaurant. The room we had was a decent size, and comfortable enough. We had bed and breakfast. The breakfast was plentiful but let down by the use of pretty cheap ingredients. Staff were all very young but very polite if a bit shy. Overall service was good. What let things down for us were two things. Firstly, the room wasn’t serviced in the 3 days we stayed over. This meant no clean towels of cups to have a hot drink from. Secondly, we were asked daily what time we wanted breakfast the next day. We were out on the Sunday and the hotel rang me whilst driving to ask again about breakfast time. We found that very odd indeed.