The Bedingfeld Arms

Went on the off chance after visiting Oxburgh Hall to see if we could get a table for lunch, started off positive with a nice girl who said she don’t think they had any tables but would check, mid speaking to her another man came charging over and said very abruptly and aggressively, can I help you, I explained that we were just seeing if there were any tables available but had already spoken to the girl, to which he replied again very abruptly, no! I was shocked, I felt as if I was being thrown out I’ve never had someone be so rude to me in a restaurant! Very disappointed because I had been looking forward to trying The Bedingfield Arms but I will never ever go there again, I appreciate they were busy and we had not booked and I hadn’t expected to be able to get in, but I never expected to be treated so rudely absolutely no excuse for it especially as we were already being dealt with by the young girl.

A fabulous inn located in Norfolk in a picturesque village. We stayed for one night with breakfast, excellent presented room with a comfortable bed, clean and well-appointment bathroom. Breakfast was delicious. Andy and the staff were very accommodating, friendly and the service was great. We’ll definitely be returning!

Sadly I wouldn’t recommend a stay here. I had received a voucher from family to stay for my birthday weekend and had noted this on the phone when making the booking but somehow they still charged me in full in advance without factoring in the voucher. When checking in I was told that the manager was away that weekend and basically no one knew how to issue a refund, but that they could take some money off the dinner bill etc (and luckily we were planning to eat there that night). Staff were friendly but seemed inexperienced and repeatedly came over during our stay with different ideas of how to take off the voucher money from our dinner and breakfast etc, and the voucher would have been more than both, and they seemed very confused as to how to do this on their system. Staff had good intentions but talking about the cost of the stay continually rather spoils a birthday! It really was made into quite an ordeal and they seemed really unsure of the maths, which is not very reassuring. We stayed in one of the outside rooms (in a sort of annexe), which was very scruffy and loud. You could hear every word and movement from the room next door and people and staff walking past the door. The rooms in the main building look much nicer. The dinner was disappointing. Our mains were fine but not great and the sticky toffee pudding was inedible and I had to leave most of it for the first time in my life! There weren’t enough waiters and we were left trying to order more drinks for a long time before we could get any attention. We noticed a similar thing for other tables. The restaurant itself and bar area are beautiful and have a nice atmosphere and decor, so hopefully we just got unlucky.

Mmmmmm…very mixed experience. Lovely setting…we went for Sunday lunch…very disappointed. My partner ordered the fish ,I ordered the pork. The fish was under cooked and sent back. I asked for apple sauce and that came with my last mouthful of pork. We did complain and the cost of my partners fish and drink was deducted from the bill. Would we go again…..no. 3/10.

Just had a wonderful lunch there and the food was lovely and the welcome warm. Friendly and attentive staff and an inviting cosy atmosphere, thoroughly recommended. We have been before and it is usually busy, which speaks for itself. Today, we were the first in and it was nice to have it to ourselves. I had the salmon starter, followed by beef bourginon, mash and vegetables. It was superb. My wife skipped a starter and went straight for the sausage and mash, again superb. We then both had treacle tart for pudding. We will be back!

Lovely spacious clean room in beautiful character building. Sadly arrived too late to eat dinner but breakfast certainly made up for it. Andrew was a great host for breakfast and the food was really tasty and very good quality. Certainly hope to return and have dinner next time as menu looks great.