The Vineyard in Tunbridge Wells

Cuisine: Other european cuisines

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🏠 The Down, Lamberhurst TN3 8EU


Opinions

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An absolute beautiful setting, such an amazing set up with both inside and outside dining. Great beer selection and a delicious cider on tap. We arrived with no booking a party of three and sat outside. Service was okay, seems to be quite a young team with no obvious manager on site reception wasn't very warm from the get go. The food was nice but expected more considering the location. We shared a lot of small dishes, the Halloumi Fries were delicious a real treat. The asparagus dish was disappointing 5 spears thinner than my pinky finger. The chicken wings were pretty good also. All in all it was a lovely afternoon and wouldn't take much to really impress, would happily return would just be a little more picky with the menu selection.

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Lovely split level rooms, spiral staircase, real coffee machine, low ceilings in bedroom. Clean, tidy and great powershower.Excellent food though slightly pricey and a discretionary service charge is added to all bills, no breakfast for guests on week days.That said, lovely place, worth a visit.

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Such a shame the fact that the bedroom is only accessible via a spiral staircase. This fact not given enough prominence is publicity. The pub is lovely and the food excellent focussed on local produce.

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Great place to go for a pint and something to eat. Lovely out door seating area plus and big beer garden.

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I ordered a meal but was just sent a portion of chips because the waitress misheard my order. I then paid for a full meal - the cost of the chips and was served a kebab with cold chips as they came out 30 minutes apart. I wouldn’t be leaving a bad review if I had to fight to not pay for the chips wrongly brought out and my full meal was served hot! You are not a cheap pub so the attitude and solution to the issue was poor!

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Massively overpriced and massively underwhelming food all served by surly and rude staff. I ordered a kids fish and chips and a chicken souvlaki (£14). When I went to the bar to order my food a new group had sat at my table. I explained this to the bar man and asked if he could just stick another table number down but this was in the too difficult box. Instead I was advised that it was my problem and I had to go and tell them to move.The kids meal arrived fairly promptly which I was pleased about but after waiting a further half hour and no sign of my chicken souvlaki I went to chase it up. The bar maid found it sat on the side but assured me it had only just been put there, needless to say I bit into it, it was stone cold. I sent it back and ordered another one but no sign of an apology.Eventually I got two dried out tasteless skewers on top of a pitta the size of a digestive biscuit and a tiny portion of chips, all for £14.In summary, a lovely location but don’t go here. It’s a rip off, the staff are rude. They’re clearly playing on their location but only interested in doing things on the cheap and having your money off you.

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I visited on Mothers Day for a family meal and 50th Birthday Celebration. Its was very busy and service was slow with large gaps between courses, even though we had to pre-order our meals. The staff were very friendly though and there was a lovely atmosphere. We were rushed at the end of the meal, being given a 5 min warning that the next sitting was due in. A 15-20 min reminder would have been good, so we didn't have to rush. Maybe this was because of Mothers Day and being short staffed. However, the food was delicious, and the portions are generous and because of that i would be happy to return.

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Family orientated country pub with huge fadden, outdoor bar, plenty of space for children to.play. Food is locally sourced and very well cooked & presented. Definitely recommend you visit

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the food was okay, although they need to be asking about allergies and adding the allergy specific ingredients onto the menu. the friend i ate dinner with today tried part of my cheesecake thinking it was free from nuts as there was nothing on the menu stating it containing nuts. she’s had a severe allergic reaction seconds after eating it and when she bought it up to a member of staff who seemed to be a manager she said “i think you need to add the ingredients that people are normally allergic too on the menu as i'm having an allergic reaction right now” all she got back was “oh okay, we’ll update the menu. i don’t know who your server was so there’s not a lot i can do”. we then proceeded to leave promptly as my friends allergic reaction was getting worse, she then continued to throw up due to this allergic reaction in the car park and this led to our meal being ruined. the staff were not helpful, apart from the original server who did not ask about allergies beforehand, who provided a glass of water. the member of staff who took payment, clearly saw she was not okay and there was no concern made about her well-being and they allowed us to leave with no aftercare shown about her potentially catastrophic reaction. all restaurants should be checking about allergies, it takes 2 seconds.

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Had a glass of wine and nibbles. Both were excellent. It was late afternoon and before it got busy. Lovely high quality gastro pub. In fact better than that. Almost a high quality restaurant.

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In The Vineyard they specialise in other european cuisines.
875 customers of The Vineyard have given it an average rating of 4,3.