The White Horse Inn

A fabulous lunch with our friends from Devon today. This is a gorgeous pub which was very welcoming and cool on a day of 35 degrees C. Our lunch and desserts were excellent and the lady who served us was very friendly. We feel very lucky to be moving to this pretty village in September and have this as our local pub 😊. We look forward to many more meals.

We enjoyed a lovely stay at the White Horse. It was our second time staying here with friends, and to our surprise a gorgeous breakfast included. Staff were exceptional and couldn’t do enough for us. Would recommend highly for anybody looking for someone to stay in this area!

My husband and I had travelled from Bristol to meet up with friends for a birthday get together. I had no knowledge of the Inn except from previous reviews we had read on the website and due to the excellent reviews we pre-booked this Inn for lunch. The pub had 2 fire places (that we could see) and only the one closest to the pub was lit which was a shame as there were only 2 tables that customers could sit at by this fire and unfortunately both were reserved. The majority of the diners had to sit in a dimly lit dinning room with unlit fireplace lacking warmth or atmosphere. It was a wet cold day and a bit of warmth would have been appreciated. My husband and our friends sat with their coats on. We all ordered the roast (3 belly pork & 1 roast beef). My roast beef was tough & chewy and the vegetables were nothing to write home about. The roast potatoes were rather hard. The veg was a mixture of boiled veg, no roast parsnips or cauliflower cheese. Cost for my roast beef was £24 and the belly pork was £22. My husband said his belly pork consisted mainly of fat. We all ordered a pudding (3 apple crumble and one sticky toffee pudding). The puddings arrived in small serving dishes. A spoon of ice cream was plopped on the top of the dish which made eating the pudding difficult as there was no room for the ice cream to mix with the pudding. You were left with a choice of eating the ice cream before you could tuck into the crumble or to try to spread the ice cream over the whole pudding to let it melt a little so you could eat a bit of apple crumble with the ice cream. The Apple was quite tart and once again in my opinion it was overpriced at £8!! My husband & I usually go to Toby Carvery in Bristol & we pay a third of the price for a wonderful roast, tender meats with all the trimmings and the most delicious roast potatoes & dauphinois potatoes you will ever eat. The waitress asked us if the food was OK, however as my friend insisted on paying for the meal as a birthday treat, I said everything was fine. The staff were friendly and the ladies toilets were bright and clean with good quality toiletries. Maybe we have been spoilt here in Bristol with an excellent pub that serves delicious roasts, but I feel that this Inn is nothing more than a bog standard pub that sadly (through its online reviews) has been dressed up to be a silk purse when it’s just a sow’s ear. It’s time to call a spade a spade, this Inn is nothing more than a standard pub but it charges high prices for bog standard (food).