Chiltern Hundreds in Maidstone - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Lovely food, friendly staff. Very helpful

Lovely little business lunch we was given a nice quiet area and Sharon was really helpful and recommended the specials menu to us for our lunch after our meeting lovely atmosphere friendly staff and perfect location for our meet

Lovely restaurant and excellent staff, thank you ☺️

Stopped in for a quick drink on the hottest day of the year. Only there for 30 minutes, but it looks like a nice pub. Big car park with 2 electric car charging bays, nice selection of drinks but no beer garden to speak of. It has some tables outside, but they are on paved area next to car park with a view of a roundabout and road. Might go back and try the food at some point.

awesome little place. we've eaten here a number of times and it's always been great. Really friendly staff too

Served by Gemma who was very polite, courteous and pleasant, as was the restaurant manager.

We visited today and our waitress Shirley was great, very attentive and friendly 10/10 for service. Kids portions were also great sizes for the price.

We're regular diners here. The service is always first class from Kevin and his team. Shirley couldn't have been better!

Good drink choice at the bar. The people visit the pub while weather good. Not bad menu choices.

There are pubs that serve 'pub food', then you have the Chiltern Hundreds in Maidstone. A great pub atmosphere but with the benefit of fabulous food, I mean seriously good food, from a menu offering a diverse range of culinary delights. The service is really good. We have been there a couple of times whilst travelling to and from the ferries, each time really hungry. Each time we have been served by motivated and polite staff who really make you feel comfortable and indeed welcomed! A big shout out goes to Shirley and Gemma, for explaining the specials, making recommendations (that were perfectly on the mark too) and basically cheering us up after a long day of driving. We left feeling relaxed, definitely not hungry but willing to return. Give it a try, the ladies make the experience better with their openness and friendliness. See you soon. DX

We visit here regularly, as always a great atmosphere and meal tonight. Many thanks to Kevin who is a great, and his wider team. A great family pub/restaurant.

Last minute night out, waitress was great and food was amazing.

Inside is nicely decorated. The menu is limited so I assumed all 4 food options would be good. I ordered the grilled sea bass, which came out either boiled or barely baked. I took one bite and spit it out. Planned to just eat the vegetables but the potatoes and other veg were mushy and tasted like nothing. They kindly didn't charge me, since the meal wasn't eaten at all which I appreciated but otherwise yuck.

An ok experience at best. Clearly understaffed but the beer was good.

Our last minute stop as we headed home. Found the pub by chance. Had the warmest of greetings by Kevin who soon put us at ease and guided us through the menu. Great meals and I was pleasantly surprised by my Garden Plot Medley which hit the spot perfectly. Top job and will return if anywhere near again !

The British baked cheese dish was great, kids steak menu option fantastic, service mediocre. The rest was below par for the price, expectation and comparison to other pubs in the area. My burger the bun was hard, fillings poor,chips overcooked. Largecoje zero was majority ice. My wife's seabass was well overcooked, and desert undercooked.

Visited a couple of weeks ago on a Sunday with family to celebrate son's new job, it's local for us and have been a few times previously. Unfortunately on this occasion the food was underwhelming to say the least .. limited menu/items unavailable, measly portions. For those who opted for the roast, once you removed the giant Yorkshire pudding on top the meal underneath was basically a child's portion with 3 tiny overdone roast potatoes! We were met with a frosty tone when we tried to express our disappointment and ask for more. Poor value. Sadly we're unlikely to return.

Came in here because it was close to the hotel in staying at. Ordered the belly pork (my go to favourite pub food) it was outstanding. Everything about it was delicious

Food burnt, Stinks of urine, sticky floors

A nice peaceful pub/ restaurant. I just popped in for a drink and found it a very pleasant pub with a calm atmosphere. There is music but it's in the background,enough to be heard but not obtrusive. There were some diners there and their meals looked good when brought out. If you're just a little peckish there were some small bite bar foods available too! There is an outside area there. The pub has a decent sized car park

We booked in advance for a family get together. Unfortunately all of the veggie options (and there are quite a few which is one of the reasons we chose to eat here), except for one had sold out which left 2 of our party with very little choice. Our server Shirley, who was very obliging tried her best to sort something and eventually got chef to source a vegetable tart for my Daughter. I ended up choosing the seabass as I will eat fish and I have to say I was extremley disappointed and underwelmed with the portion size of my meal when it arrived. My husband thought I had ordered a starter as it was so small and I was thinking that my potatoes and vegetables were arriving separately but alas no ... that was it all sadly sitting in the middle of the plate. To say I begrudgingly paid £18.49 for 7 mouthfuls if that is an understatement. This was all I ordered so thank goodness for the bottle of red wine. I regret not taking a photo now. Sad to say that after previous enjoyable visits to this restaurant I don't think we will be in a hurry to visit again anytime soon. *********** UPDATE *********** So after responding to the owners reply to email so that they could contact me personally, I have sent 3 emails over the period of a month and received NO response whatsoever. Infuriatingly it seems that the owner is quick to reply to a negative review with an offer of contact to appear eager to rectify but dosn't actually follow it through 😡

Nice pub a little quiet but the service was second to none

Wonderful lunch. Great service by Shirley. Thank you

We popped by for a cheeky date night meal last night, and visited Chiltern for the first time. We were sat in the wing to the right of the car park entrance and had a lovely lad and lady servicing this area. We were greeted by the guy, and sat near a young family, at first we didn't realise that the female server was just that, as she was so friendly and interactive with the kids, we thought she was with the family. The little boy spilled his drink, without any fuss or bother, she whipped in quietly tidied it away made sure they were okay and got on with seeing to everyone. Our starter arrived, we both had the mushrooms, and the flavour and quality was amazing. Once we finished the guy took away our plates, and a decent digestion time later our main course arrived, we had the belly pork and mixed grill. We have eaten in a few places where our meal has felt rushed and we have our main course before we have even finished our starter. Not at Chiltern!! We weren't waiting ages, but we definitely were not rushed. The main course was flavourful and well cooked. I can honestly say that this is one of the nicest meals I have had in Maidstone. Everything was fresh, cooked to order and hot on arrival. We will definitely be returning and will see this as the place to go for future family celebrations. Well done guys, you made our night.

Really slow service. Food was overpriced for what it was.

Lovely food. Excellent people serving.

Good menu, good food and excellent service... 12 06 24 We like the Chiltern Hundreds and the menu is very good, food perfectly cooked and presented. The waitress, Shirley, who looked after us was fantastic, very cheerful, lovely smile and her timing for orders was perfect. Really good service. Thoroughly recommended 👌.

Great food. Lovely layout. Very popular. Booking recommended

Fantastic staff and great food!

Called in here on our way back from Folkestone for a quick dinner. The food was mixed: we both really enjoyed our starters (chicken strips) which was a large portion, and were lovely and crispy and piping hot. We both had the salted caramel sundae for dessert which was great. The mains were a let down. The sea bass was OK but the portion was really small, 3 or 4 halves of new potatoes and 2 sprigs of broccoli with a few peas. The steak and ale pie was huge, but mostly very dry pastry with a small amount of filling, and the mash and veg were pretty sad. Our waiter, a young man, was lovely and friendly, and other staff were welcoming.

There's a lovely waitress working here who often accommodates my friend and I for a last minute lunch, always ensuring there is enough room for the pushchair and that we know where the facilities and baby changing etc is. We're always greeted with a warm welcome and a friendly chat, we thoroughly enjoy our lunches when this lady is working.

Went with a friend for lunch. The food was very good and plenty of it. Didn't have to wait ages for our meals to arrive even though they were quite busy. Staff were courteous and friendly. Checked if everything was ok. Nice atmosphere for a lunchtime crowd. No complaints at all and would go back for another meal and recommend to others

Andy was warm, friendly , and very hardworking ; he was the only person serving for the bar and the floor with multiple tables. He made sure everyone was well looked after and was efficient but so lovely to Speak to. We were a table of 10 and he looked after us wonderfully. Thank you Andy!!

We had a lovely family meal last night. The service with a smile was particularly appreciated by the extremely hard working guy called Andy. He was very attentive despite being left on his own to run the whole pub. Thanks so much for being so accommodating.

Think we walked in the start of WW3- service was bad and the atmosphere tense. We left after some kind of ruck started in the kitchen with shouting and staff walking out and swearing.

We came here last night for a family get together, family came down to us that we don’t see often due to distance. The seating they provided for 11 of us was 3 separate booths all back to back. So we was all completely separated and not even able to look at each other. It was explained on the booking it would be over 3 tables but didn’t explain that we would all be back to back in booths. That put a big downer on our evening instantly. Where we was then on separate booths, they treated us as if we wasn’t eating together and bought all our meals out at completely different times. Whilst one table had eaten their mains and being offered their desserts, our table had literally just received our mains, which ruined our opportunity to actually mingle and speak with one another. When we chased up our mains with the waitress, 2 managers came over. The man seemed very apologetic and offered to sort something on our bill at the end. The woman manager gave nothing but attitude to us when we explained that waiting over half hour from our starters was not acceptable whilst the rest of our family had finished their mains. And we was still waiting on ours. She told us they had a full restaurant that night… so basically they cannot cope and run things smoothly when they are fully booked. At the end of the meal when it came to paying, my partner spoke with the manager, who seemed decent to begin with, then got my partners back up by saying “we are not McDonald’s, we don’t provide fast food” which I take that he was insinuating that we only eat in fast food restaurants. The food wasn’t that great at all, very much standard. Nothing to rave about at all. The chips tasted stale and not fresh at all. Barely ate mine. Overall experience was extremely disappointing and will not be returning in future.

Great service. Barman is really good. Totally recommend. Going back again.

Lady serving was very nice, however food was average and wait a little longer than we thought it would be compared to how busy they were.

Unplanned lunch. Food good, well timed and tasty. Staff were outstanding. Friendly, efficient and very helpful. Will definitely come back and recommend to others.

Food was lovely our waitress asher was very nice and checked up on us regularly and very kind and the manager Kevin was very freendly and and hellpful I recommend we will be back

Very disappointed with this place, long wait to be served, long wait for the meal which was extremely small portions. Staff were extremely rude and abrupt I wouldn't recommend this pub at all and I certainly won't be going back!

Use this place fairly often but on this occasion it was a let down. Firstly, the service was a bit chaotic and then, much worse, the mains were served with missing potatoes! Fixed but not a great experience.

We were looked after by Asna and she was extremely attentive and a credit to the staff. Always ready with a smile .

This wasn't a planned supper. We were just passing through, but we're pleased that we popped into the Chiltern Hundreds. I think the last time I visited here was in my teens and that's a loooong time ago now. It benefits from very friendly service and a lovely ambience. What I mean by that is that the place was full, but easy and relaxed. There were no louts at the bar joking too loudly with each other, no "Oi, Sammy-boy, what you drinkin'?" hurled across the room, no foul language and no cackling groups of teens. Instead, there was a nice, mixed crowd who were all keeping themselves to themselves. How joyful on a Thursday evening. The young lady who served us was pleasant, courteous and smiley. We chose a starter and main each. The food was delivered quickly, cooked well and tasted absolutely decent. I wouldn't say it was special, but you don't often get special in a pub. The beer choice was perfect for us; Peroni and Madri. All in all, a good experience. By the way, I think we grabbed the last parking space and I'm not sure if there is overspill parking anywhere.

Felt tired - but i might be out of step as it was very busy

Cant even give service 1 star, manageress was rude and unhelpful in everyway no idea how she still has her job. 7pm on a Saturday and 4 items on menu weren't available which is ridiculous, obviously short staffed and half full so no atmosphere. Will never be returning !!!!

Food is average at best. Staff are always pleasant.

My child ordered the kids pizza which was served cold and clearly not cooked. Even worse is it is quite obvious that it's a Chicago town Pizza! The rest of the food was average. Service was great just a shame about the food.

We visited during the day as a couple and had a lovely meal . The staff were helpful, friendly and the meal came quickly but hot and delicious. Thank you to the chiltern . We will return.

School dinners Probably one of the worst meals I’ve had for a while. The service was great, the young waiter was very polite and friendly. Explained the menu and options. The drinks arrived and it was down hill from there. The sirloin was inedible, I think it was microwaved to reheat.

Good meal, only things would say the crispy chicken burger didn't look anything like the photos advertised. No cheese snap or bacon in it. Chocolate fondant the chocolate sauce didn't actually melt the chocolate dome.

Great venue. Friendly staff. Great food. Awesome atmosphere.

Food was good although some portions a little on the small side but well cooked and tasty. Would have given 5 for service as our waiter was lovely and very apologetic for the slow service as they were very busy and only 2 waiters covering the whole restaurant. Decent atmosphere as very busy. With a few more staff this could be a good restaurant.

Really enjoyed our girly evening last night at the chiltern hundreds! The food was delicious! I’m gluten free and Steve the chef was 10/10 in making my food super yummy, and it looked amazing! The chefs never get enough praise, so thank you Steve! Wine was wonderful and Kevin our waiter was brilliant too! All in all, a great evening and experience.

Disappointing experience understaffed due to poor leadership from the top. My chicken burger was a chicken nugget in a bun, overcooked and dry, my wife's fish was also cold. Had to order my drink twice as they forgot first time and it took about half hour for them to bring drinks orders. There are so many better pubs nearby, would recommend you don't go to this place.

Nice place to have dinner, not far from the local park.

Great food and excellent service. Highly recommended.

Food great.. couldn't fault it. Shirley, our waitress was very attentive and even presented my wife with a Birthday card. Mixed grill was fab. We would visit again.

Had a fantastic time! Great service and excellent food with a superb choice. Would seriously recommend!

The food was very nice and the service was excellent. We booked one of their dog friendly tables in the restaurant and the staff brought a bowl of water and treats for our dog which was a nice touch.

We enjoyed a very nice dinner for 5 people in a sweet ambiance, the food was good and served in generous portions. Also our waitress was very kind.

Ellie who looked after us was amazing, couldn’t have ask for better service. Thank you Ellie 🩷

A lovely family get together (parents and grandchild) at this friendly pub with great food and a nice wine selection. We were lucky enough to try the new menu and it was fantastic! I went for a special of an asparagus and cheddar pie (vegetarian option) and my nephew braved the Lamb Shank Shepherd’s Pie which was pretty sensational! Shirley was a lovely waitress, getting everything right and super efficient! A lovely lunch!

We had a lovely meal at the children hundreds, we were served by Shirley who was very friendly, thank you

Lovely lunch date. Staff were welcoming and the pub had a lovely atmosphere.

We were at The Chiltern Hundreds Maidstone, celebrating Mothers Day. It appeared to be an all male team on the day and they were absolutely brilliant. We couldn't fault anything from the moment we entered until we left. The service and food was gorgeous. ..thank you all

Great pub with friendly staff and nice food very slow service this visit seemed short of staff

Excellent pub & restaurant. Friendly polite staff.

Travelled 40 min journey for my sons 21st birthday because been lovely food in past. Booked table for 7 and was seated next to the door which was draughty all night and people stood there chatting with the door open. Then after selecting menu was told 4 main dishes not available. 2 of which we selected and was looking forward too especially the ale pie and mixed grill. 2 of us asked for sweet potato fries and was told didn't have those either. Been a busy weekend and run out. So chose mash with my steak. Then my steak came up with chips so had to go back. Asked for vinegar and got mustard and 1 of us asked for no ice in coke and came with ice. Overall staff helpfully and polite but was disappointed in general especially on my sons birthday. In the past the pub has been lovely and food good and choices but not last night.

Great stop off for a business lunch. Good dairy free selection

My wife and I have been there two weeks ago and we loved the food, and restaurant in general. The place has a nice and cosy feel about it. The staff were really nice, and the food was just perfect. It was nice to see people coming i with their dogs, it definitely added to the friendliness of this place. We can only recommend it and we hope to be back

Food was ok. I had the burger but the beef rib it was topped with resembled cat food and that just put me off. Otherwise it was fine.

We could not have been better looked after than by Shirley, who was friendly and efficient and went the extra mile to look after us. Food was very good. We'll be back!

Very friendly and welcoming lunch time staff

Sunday roast wasn't great. Small portion, so you went away hungry and the meat wasn't cooked nice. Roast potatoes were sp crunchy, they would be confused with crisps. Service was below average. Cheesecake wasn't baked. Lazy deserts and disgusting.

Had a catch up meal with school friends and it was handy for us all to get to being close to the motorway. Easy to park, lunchtime on a Saturday. Staff were quick to welcome and seat us and leave menus with instructions on placing our orders. Not too long a wait for food once orders taken and all was good. Plenty on the plate! All in all we enjoyed both our meal and our catch up.

Sadly, went mid week, and the food and atmosphere was as lack lustre as the chilly weather outside. Food was lukewarm and not appetising. Service was slow but when it came to coffee and a small desert, the coffee came so quickly, it was drunk before the pudding came. It took 25 minutes for a waiter to appear when requesting the bill and the restaurant was hardly busy would not want to be there on a busy evening

Attended their burns night menu evening , meal was good but service from Ellie and Leon was great, very attentive and wasn't a problem replacing my desert , would recommend this place and their staff

Service from Shirley on New Year’s Day was amazing.

Booked Burns Night menu. Excellent value. It is such a lovely place. Staff are amazing and the food is beautiful. The spiced caramel panna cotta was heavenly

Good food, very busy, service a little slow as people coming in after us were getting served their food before us. Was noticed by the waitress who apologised. Free coffee offered but declined.

Absolutely horrendous experience. First thing we get when we walk through the door is ignored, we were a group of 9, hard to miss. When someone finally decided to come over to us we got told we weren’t allowed to sit together so we could have the table of 8 then one sat on a different table. Or we can have two booths which were back to back of each other. We suggested we’d take the table of 8 and we could pop the chair on the end for the odd one out and we got the inconsiderate response of ‘no you’re not allowed to do that it’s against policy’ We again tried to explain we wanted to sit together as a family but this horrendous duty manager kept telling us no it’s not the policy the chef can only take tables of 8. Then this horrible woman started to walk away and ignore us half way through a sentence of us asking why this was the policy and it would still be on two separate orders. Already upset we just took the two booths, at least we were here and we could enjoy a nice meal….. Most of the starters were gone and the ones that were left were absolutely rubbish when they came out. I asked for the bread and oils starter, ‘nah we have run out of that’ was the response. How on earth you can run out of bread and oil is beyond me, I settled for the soup…which came with bread…go figure. Then the problems started with the main meals, everyone else’s came out at a reasonable portion, I had the sea bass and scallops. This contact lense sized dish came out with the smallest fillets of fish, already upset at the whole night I asked the waitress where my dinner was that I’d paid £19 for?? She said, ‘well that’s how it comes’ She then went and got this god awful woman of a manager again who once again coldly told me that’s how it is. It was at this point I broke down and just cried. This absolute disgrace of a woman who is supposed to be the manager is making her customers CRY. We had already explained it was a tough time for us due to personal circumstances but this didn’t phase this woman at all, she just continues to get her point across with absolutely no compassion at all!! This woman SHOULD NOT be a hospitality manager, she would suit the role of a prison guard with the behaviour she expressed. Even when I had a quiet word with her she just kept telling me ‘she should have to explain herself, this is the policy, you lot have already been told this, I shouldn’t have to tell you again’ No apology for not being able to sit together, no apology for walking way from us when we were trying to get to the bottom of what the damn policy was for. This absolute disgrace of a woman and has sullied the whole gathering, this was supposed to be out Christmas Day celebrated after Christmas and reading the rest of these reviews I have absolutely no idea how this woman still has the job. I’d be appalled and ashamed if she was my deputy manager. I hope she gets the idea soon and sorts her self out and stops ruining peoples outings.

Shirley was very attentive, she noticed that my 2 year old granddaughter was hungry before her meal came and brought her some bread to keep her going. Thank you Shirley 😊

Food was ok, not the best and expensive for what you got ... Not very busy no background music either

Awful Sunday lunch. Beef looked and tasted like it had been very overcooked, left around for a week and then reheated. Ready roasted potatoes and badly cooked veg. Lovely serving personnel. Waited an age for food. Family of four.

Think we got forgotten about when waiters changed shifts. Would have liked to try the venison but jot available, similar to some the roasts. What we had we enjoyed

Food not good but service was good but wouldn't go back

04/01/24, Just turned up ad hoc for lunch and they were able to seat us despite it being busy. This is the first time we have been to this pub and have to say what a find. The staff were very polite and attentive, the young man who served us was great. The food was absolutely delicious and well worth it. Will definitely recommend this eating place to friends and family. We had mains from the specials very very yummy

Lovely meal on new year's eve, special mention for Shirley- Lovely waitress, nothing was too much trouble

Cosy, well located, traditional pub. Good food, wide beer selection, very friendly staff (especially Shirley!)

Great place, great beer and service

Food cooked well, mains portions quite small for the price, service was fairly good as only one person on the floor

Service was awful. Rude waitress from start to finish like she had taken against our table for no reason. Starter was fine but main course not great. Steaks were quite chewy. Normally the service and food is really good but was disappointing and I would seriously consider dining here again

Shirley was a brilliant, friendly waitress. Couldn't fault the service.

Perfect in all areas. Great Atmosphere, friendly service and delicious food

Went for a Xmas work meal for 15 people. I don’t often write reviews as service is few and far between these days. But just have to congratulate Reece on exceptional service and looking after as all. Real credit to your team. He went above and beyond for us all. Not always easy for a large party. Food, drink, little touches on table and atmosphere was spot on. Keep up the good work.

We had a lovely family meal today, before heading to Leeds Castle. Delicious food, great atmosphere, Reece and the rest of the staff were very attentive, couldn’t fault your customer service. Thank you Grandad Frank and family

Atmosphere was okies, service was good, sadly food not so good, mine was burnt but I managed it, but my partners was well over cooked and dry, so sent it back, got a burger instead, this was the same over cooked and very dry, not good people's,pudding was nice though 😥😥😥Update,was sent an email by manager,asking what were the details so sent them back in an email. We was told we would get a 30 pound gift card to spend in the pub to make up for the awful food we had, as of about four months plus now still no sign of food voucher from them so my advice. If u have a complaint don't expect anything back from them, simples peoples 😡😡😡

Great food here, has a very cosy atmosphere. One of those classic pub feels. The choice of food is quite varied and the portions are more than enough. Very accommodating towards children too.

Shirley our waitress was brilliant. Nothing too much for her