The Carden Arms

Another fantastic evening in our local pub. Great service as usual we’re so lucky to have our own mini diddly squat locally.

Absolutely Fabulous Sunday lunch and great value for money. Visited 2nd February and already booked for another visit, two of us had the pork and two the braised beef, both were beautifully cooked and presented with a superb selection of veg, kale (which is unusual), creamed carrots, roasted parsnips and potatoes. There other menu was also available but we were recommended to try the roasts. You won't be disappointed, highly recommended beautiful surroundings too with a lovely atmosphere and very helpful and attentive staff.

How very disappointing! We were asked to pre order our lunch time meal and book a time to eat due to being part of a larger party - 9 people in total. As instructed we all sent our menu choices via email 2 days before attending. On arrival we were greeted by a lady explaining that they had a new person working in the kitchen and our orders had not been passed on in preparation for our arrival? We were then told that that menu we had all chosen from is now not on offer today, but we do have another menu! Having been shown to our dining table at 1.45pm we were issued with a totally different menu to choose from, and then told two choices were not available on that one! We then all proceeded to order our food, and finally ate about 45 mins later! The beef was reported to be very tough on the sandwich, the fish finger butty was a very strange mix of fish, cod fried, salmon fried pieces and the cheese toastie reported to be rather sickly. On paying for our meal we were quite shocked that the bill came to over £30 for a toastie, a fish finger butty, one portion of chips and 4 onion rings!!! Sadly, more of a drinking pub than an eating pub!