The Duncombe Arms

Excellent hotel and restaurant. We had a deluxe double, well worth the extra. Spacious, warm, and a lovely bed, needed better pillows, though. The room overlooked a beautiful landscape. Dinner was great. We both had the cheese souffle, delicate and delicious. Followed by Plaice in butter with brown shrimp and samphire. Dessert needed to be reordered. We had an apple tart with caramel and orange ice cream. Good wine list, we stayed on Procecco for the night. Service was polite, friendly, and efficient. Lovely breakfast, smoked salmon, and scrambled eggs delicious.

Beautiful pub with good food, well placed in a tranquil location near to some really nice walking routes. Our room was really well done and spacious. The only small let down was the breakfast arrangements - you have to book a 15 minute slot to arrive in and so kind of kills your flexibility in the morning. Amazing breakfast though

Visited recently. Very disappointing, to be fair the lobster Arnold Bennett was nice, not much lobster in it but it was very tasty, however, that’s the end of the good part! The fish with a stew type sauce with octopus sounded great on the menu, not so good on the plate! Way overcooked fish, and over seasoned with salt, the stew had very little octopus in it although that was cooked nicely but sadly everything other than the overcooked fish was cool at best! A friend of mine went there a while ago and took the time to email them with a glowing report, she had no response, not even a thank you, and I note from looking at the reviews, good or bad, they never respond, this is unacceptable in 2024, it’s like they really don’t care about the paying customers, I’m pleased for them that they obviously have enough money and are busy enough to not even bother to reply to emails and reviews! I won’t recommend and I won’t be going back, I hope this helps people decide whether to go there or not, my advice - there are better places not far from there, and many of them are far better value for money