The Kings Arms

This establishment is truly shocking. The staff are rude, offensive and disrespectful. We were attending a family event in a private function room but met in the bar and bought drinks before heading up to our party. We had the misfortune to be served by teenagers who clearly had had no training in customer service or indeed manners. In our family group of around 20 people we had a couple of 18-20 year olds (who frankly appeared older than the ‘staff’) and whilst we were catching up in the bar before heading upstairs to the private function those ‘staff’ aggressively confronted our family group asking for ID. As we were attending a family party and it had not occurred to us that ID would be required. And although they were old enough to enjoy their drinks we accepted that (however bizarre it seemed) they would not drink their glasses of wine. However I would not be bothering to write this had the ‘staff’ not continued to bother us throughout the evening. Frankly the wine on offer was so abysmal that it really was no hardship to drink water or soft drinks anyway. This is truly an awful establishment and perhaps those in charge should think about employing adults who have some ability to exercise some judgment rather than teenagers who are simply rude and offensive. Avoid if possible…

avoid this place. I went there with my partner and our children to have an evening meal. We sat down in the bar's dining area and were completely ignored (probably due to the customers and bar staff watching the football). After 15 minutes of being ignored we duly left the premises. (that's over £100.00 we would have spend). Two weeks later I got a parking fine for £100.00. I contested and went in to see the manageress who did nothing about it. Would not go near this place again. An absolute disgrace to the area I grew up in.

We went to 20 at The Kings today for their carvery, for a 60th birthday. We used to come regularly a few years back so we had high hopes, but unfortunately we were disappointed. We booked here because of the larger rooms they have at the back for larger parties, we were given one of these but the tables had been arranged in 2 rows so we had to rearrange these. I’m sure no family wants to sit as 2 separate groups for a family birthday meal! We had 2 vegans as part of our group, and I had pre booked their meals (in this day and age that shouldn’t be necessary, vegan options should be available!). We reminded staff about the vegan meals, and then had to do so 5 times more before their meals eventually arrived - 45 minutes after first asking. They had ordered a meatless roast and a cauliflower steak, 2 cauliflower steaks arrived, but they were so hungry by this point they just accepted it. We were told that they had 2 new chefs in the kitchen, and the usual ‘excellent’ chef, had taken the day off. On a day when you’ve got more than 150 covers in (so staff told us), surely you make sure you’ve got a good chef in! For the rest of us, the carvery was luke warm and the veg wasn’t the best. The meat was also fatty. And it was painful to watch the chef carve it with the wrong kind of knife! The service was also poor, apart from waiting so long for the vegan meals, it took a long time for someone to take our drink orders, and then no one checked on us for the rest of the meal. It’s a shame as their rooms for larger groups are good, but we won’t be returning.