The Gardeners Arms, Ardingly - pub details
Address: Selsfield Road, Ardingly, West Sussex, RH17 6TJ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 12152) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Balcombe (2.4 miles), Haywards Heath (4.1 miles)
Brewery: Hall and Woodhouse
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
- Outside seating, Credit cards accepted, Car park, Function room for hire
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> Current user rating: 5.0/10 (rated by 12 users)
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other pubs nearby:
Oak Inn, Ardingly (0.8 miles), Ardingly Inn, Ardingly (0.8 miles), Cat Inn, West Hoathly (1.7 miles), White Hart Inn, West Hoathly (1.7 miles)
user reviews of the Gardeners Arms, Ardingly
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| I agree with previous posters that say that this is more of a restaurant than a pub. Called in for a quick bite while walking around Ardingly. This was New Years Day holiday so I expected pubs to be busy. However it was table service only and we would have had at least a 20 minute wait for a table at 1:30 so headed for Wakehurst Tea room instead as it was on our route. metcas - 2 Jan 2012 18:11 |
| First time visit , not so much a pub as a restaurant with bar. They seem to rerfer you not to go to the bar but order from your table., don't like that, prefer to pay for a drink at the bar then look at the menu so can walk out if we dont like it . Efficient waitress service at tables, our food - massive chicken & ham pie in an enamel pie dish with side dishes of mash & leeks, my lemon chicken in vegetable broth was good but 3 tiny pieces of new potato was a bit mean, there were some other veg but I was glad to have ordered an extra side of veg Weird shaped bowl meant that every time I put down my knife to pick up my drink the knife slipped in and the handle dunked in the broth. Treacle tart & custard as good as my granny used to make. Having to have a pee with Alan Tichmarsh & Monty Don's pictures in the cubicle was just plain creepy. Gent's are watched over by Charlie Dimmock. c_and_j - 18 Aug 2011 17:41 |
| Having enjoyed lots of meals over many years at this pub, we were hugely dissapointed recently, it seems new management have made changes, our meal increased by 50% since we were last there in march, the tasty fresh vegetables had gone and now consisted of two leaves of we believe cabbage, difficult to tell as they were not cooked, the size of them about 3" round, which was the size of the dish they were served in. very nice new potatoes served in a dish and steak and ale pie again served in its own dish. I havnt mentioned a plate as you are not given one, how pretentious is that, on calling the waitress over and requesting plates, we were told there had been complaints. This pub has gone downhill so far it is now out of sight, certainly to me, The brewery are totally disinterested in my comments, offering to post some vouchers ,which is not my reason to comment, nor are they wanted. A very dissapointed ex customer of 20 years at this pub. classicsjohn - 20 Jul 2011 11:34 |
| nice setting nice looking pub order food wait one hour get pissd off and go home hungry.cant comment on food as it never arrives.didnt see anyone eating all just waiting.do yourself a favor and dont go! pogle - 27 Sep 2009 16:23 |
| Given the pub's proximity to the South of England Showground and Wakehurst Place it's probably fair to say that it relies on ever changing passing trade rather than regulars. Perhaps that would explain their lack of interest in keeping customers happy. A couple of days before Christmas I visited the pub with my parents to have a drink and some lunch before going to Wakehurst Place. I can't fault the beer or the cosy ambiance. However, after completing our starters we must have been waiting an hour since originally ordering. We enquired at the bar and an undertaking was made to find out what was happening. Five minutess later we asked a passing, different member of staff and they said we would receive a discount (is that all?) and that the meals were been "plated up" (how long does it take to "plate up" three basic meals?). I think a certain amount of economy with the truth was being taken as five to ten minutes later we still didn't have our main courses. We asked for our money back for them at the bar and left. The kitchen staff had presumably lost or thrown the slip with our order on it away after the starters were served, and bar staff were hardly bending over backwards to apologise or offer appropriate recompense. What a shambles. We won't be visting again. We have written to complain and await a response. KeithR - 5 Jan 2009 14:28 |
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