The Riverside Inn, Aymestrey

A hard won reputation for good and imaginative food, but a little over-pretentious; when the menu tells you how the chef isn't going to cook lamb properly it indicates someone more concerned with fashion than flavour. Please do good ingredients justice by cooking them a little longer

4 Jul 2011 21:40

The Corners Inn, Kingsland

The owner takes a basil faulty approach to customer service which 90% of customers find very rude, however, the inn stays afloat through good letting rooms, though many guests chose to drink and eat at the Angel down the road. Popular with larger parties, weddings etc. And the cheap steak night still popular. Sadly , we have stopped using the pub after too many instances of rudeness and wrong bills- check your change!

3 Jul 2011 12:15

The Angel, Kingsland

A well run pub that at last has landlords who know what they are doing, and good staff, mondays& wednesdays are cheap steak/ fish nights, fillet steak on wed for fiver is superb, other nights good pub food. Nice log fires in winter and tables outside overlooking village green make this the locals choice. Can get busy and it is a mystery why serving staff take food the long way round the pub to tables when it would be more convenient for everyone if they went the other way to and from kitchen. Bands on last Friday of month only now, so not such a crush, and dining upstairs for larger parties, and T last they have a credit card machine. Only current criticism is that the real ale is very inconsistent, good most of the time though, perhaps too many taps not enough quantity going through each

3 Jul 2011 12:06