Coldham Hall Tavern in South Norfolk - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Beautiful setting; friendly staff...

The food would have had 5 stars but the mixed leaf salad was very gritty it needs to be washed, the staff was lovely and fast and efficient, the views are amazing, would I go again yes definitely and hopefully the salad would be washed

Location is fantastic! Great views in the garden looking over the river, food is fantastic! Only criticism would be staff are a bit slow or clearing tables of empty glass and plates once they are finished with

Gorgeous Sunday lunch with my mum in a lovely location with great service. Thank you.

This is a lovely riverside pub, with really friendly staff, and used to be good food too; however, the last two times that we have been (a year apart) our food hasn't been so good. Food very overcooked and pretty much uneatable. We decided not to complain this time (31/07), but when we tried to pay with cash (£50) it was refused. Unfortunately we will not be going again anytime soon.

Such a lovely location on the river. We sat on one of the canopied tables, which was welcome on a very hot day. BBQ menu only, as it was a Tuesday, but plenty of choice. Food was good quality, 2 had the burgers, one had salt and pepper squid. Plus chips. Good choice of ales and Aspall's cider. Very good outdoor area and plenty of parking.

Outstanding riverside pub! We stopped here on our Norfolk Broad (South Broad) boat trip, as soon as we walked in we were met by two very welcoming bar staff (ladies) they were informative and happy to help. Lovely atmosphere, friendly locals and definitely would recommend you stop here. Easy mooring. We have stopped at many pubs along the board but this one stands out. Traditional, yet fresh and welcoming!

Chicken strips are superb. Joined with some garlic bread makes for a lovely meal.

Beautiful place to go on a warm summer's day. So peaceful & pretty sitting by the river. Good food & service👍, we all felt welcome including the dogs. Will definitely return, very soon I hope!

Three visits during our week stay in Surlingham : Friday lunch - Sunday Roast - Thursday tea time - all AMAZING ! Beautiful location- great food - excellent staff ! Highly recommend .Thank you - look forward to a future visit😊

Lovely spot overlooking the river Yare. Nice bar with decent choice of beer.

Lovely food. Do allow having to go long way round to get to other side of the water but we'll worth it

Amazing food great views good this is a hidden gem not sure I would write how great it is as honestly once found you will want to come back again and again

This traditional country pub is for everyone. Pleasant staff who really put themselves out for you. Foods great, Freindly local atmosphere. Dog, family, boots accepted. Enjoy the truly stunning views. Thanks to Maddie, zoe, and co.

Quaint country pub. The food was good honest pub food, service was good. Would be lovely on a summers evening

Excellent Sunday roast, can’t be faulted. Service good generally except some bar staff ( not all, most excellent) seem to be determined to ignore customers.

Rural Norfolk hideaway, with beautiful peaceful views ❤

Great food and atmosphere! We stopped outside on the moorings which are free if you eat / drink in the pub! Steak was amazing! The ice cream was also the best my little girl had all week!

Food was amazing and the service was fantastic too with such friendly people who work there! Really recommend

The location is great and what made us book for Sunday lunch. Staff were really friendly too. Unfortunately neither made up for the awful food. Roast beef and pork were as tough as old boots. Food from the main menu followed the same pattern too. Would definitely go back for a drink but not for food

The location was great, the venue was beautifully decorated & the drinks were lovely, but if you're looking for a decent meal- go elsewhere. We all had roast dinners and didn't finish our meals as some of it was inedible

Went for Sunday lunch. Bar well stocked and staff were lovely. Food was not good. Beef and chicken were very overcooked as was the burger. Great location by the broad for a drink but I would not eat there again

Beautiful location but unfortunately the food was awful- would recommend for a lovely drink by the river but would eat before going !

Excellent place to eat and drink,

On group outing, enjoyed prearranged cold cuts pub fare in this historic venue. Pub was "watering hole" for many an American from the 467th Bomb Group in nearby Rackheath. Our group was comprised of many descendents of those men.

Great pub. My Mum and I had a couple of drinks and a superb barbeque. Staff were very friendly and professional. " I'll be back!"

We went for an early evening meal and didn't book ahead. Great welcome and we were seated at a very comfortable table with plenty of room and soft seating. The menu was quite limited so three of us chose the lamb cutlets with a bean sauce and some extra chunky chips and our fourth member chose the king prawn linguini. The food came very quickly. Each of us had two small lamb cutlets on our plate which were edible although had very little meat on them and the bean casserole was bland and seemed to be made out of tinned tomatoes and white beans with some herbs but no seasoning or punch. Again the linguini had no taste and the prawns were very small. Apparently there was vodka in the sauce but we couldn't taste it. Even the chunky chips, although a good size, were tasteless so we had to ask for ketchup and mayo. After eating our meals the two men were still hungry as the portions were small, more like starter size. They decided to order more food and the gnocchi and chicken goujons were chosen. The gnocchi was £17:95 but a huge mistake. The plate came covered in a pile of plain rocket and broccoli and was completely tasteless. The goujons were okay once dunked in the barbeque sauce. The skinny fries were also tasteless. We ordered coke which was fine but the ales were poor. Neither had flavour. It was a very expensive meal for the standard of food. However the service was excellent and the atmosphere was friendly but it was a very disappointing and overpriced meal sadly.

The food was genuinely awful, our table had 4 different meals and each one was bland and disappointing. The Barbershop quartet was good tho.

Directed to a table immediately and order taken straight away. From there on, it went downhill. After waiting 1 hour and 15 minutes and having to eventually ask where our food was, it eventually came. What a disappointment. My father, who had ordered roast pork, got a plate with 2 pork slices that looked as though they had been sitting under a heat lamp for a couple of hours and were totally dried out. The roasted potatoes and parsnips were burnt to a crisp, and you were unable to get a fork into. We sent it back and gout a plate of roast pork with slightly better vegetables on. My roast beef was awful as well. I also felt sorry for the people on the table next to us who had 3 young children and experienced the same problem. What was worse was there appeared to be no one in charge who wanted to offer an apology or explanation for the appalling service. Needless to say, I would not recommend anyone to go here.

Excellent food (especially the king prawn linguine). Friendly and efficient service.

Good beer with a great outlook,didn't eat there.

We would highly recommend this pub. A very scenic location. We were very impressed with the food. I am a vegetarian and had the aubergine burger, it was very tasty. The fish and chips was excellent.The staff were friendly. We enjoyed our visit and will definitely visit again.🙂🙂

We booked on a short notice on a Saturday evening ,I now know why it was so easy . The greetings on arrival was good and the bar was well stocked including local beers. What a wonderful venue so close to the broads there the story ends. The food was poor to say the least, what a shame.

Lovely setting, really friendly staff ... But terribly disappointing - and overpriced - food. I ordered the aubergine burger. For £15 you get a a couple of strips of flavourless, undercooked aubergine inside an insipid supermarket white bun, served with cheaply sourced french fries and a (thankfully small) pot of thick, factory mayonnaise smothered raw onions pretending to be coleslaw. To be fair, the fish and chips on a neighbouring table looked a lot better. Perhaps stick with core pub grub rather than anything too 'exotic' next time?

Absolutely lovely venue on the river and delicious food and drink at reasonable process. The service was amazing too!

We moored on our last night of boating with Broom boats. There's plenty of space to park any size boat, but we phoned ahead and booked anyway. We ordered main courses and drinks, everyone enjoyed their dinner. My husband and I both ordered the fish and chips which were declious and the best we've had in a long time, especially the fish which was so crispy in beer batter, yum.

Came here for birthday dinner with family. Service was poor with bad very disinterested attitude from staff. Dinner was very overpriced for what you get. Also we pre ordered desserts as it was a booked birthday meal and then when we asked for them they lied to us and tried to tell us we didn’t order any, even though they still had 1 left, which we were given. They had run out and didn’t want to say so. Overall very overrrated and not impressed at all.

Lovely place great views of the river also very peacful

Unfortunately the food and service let's this pub down. The views are beautiful and it would have been nice to have enjoyed our dinner whilst watching local boats meander up and down the river. When we arrived on a Friday evening, the queue to the bar was incredibly long, with only two members of staff working behind the bar. Later on we realised that the pub was also hosting a large bridal party which I think added to the issues. We ordered the cajun chicken strips to start but they came out after the mains and we ordered the chicken burgers for mains. Whilst the burger was tasty the chips were cold. Also when my partner asked how long food was going to be, the manager snapped at him and said there's obviously a wait due to the larger bridal party they were entertaining and he was struggling with staff shortages. We paid £39 for the food and £16 for our drinks. Not sure we'll be coming back here again when we visit Norfolk in the near future. It's a shame because it has great potential due to it's location, space and character.

Lovely outside seating area right next to the river.

Lovely spot for a beer but the food was horrendous. Took ages to arrive and was so bad we sent it back twice and eventually just got a full refund and left without eating. Bar and wait staff were lovely, apologetic and rightly, embarrassed. Two people ordered roast dinners, both were inedible. Another ordered a blue steak which arrived well done. This was replaced with a raw steak that wasn’t even seared on the outside. Grim.

The girl behind the bar should really have more 'customer service' training. The lack of enthusiasm - to the extent of rudeness - Totally disinterested in us as customers. And then the experience even just got better - our pregnant daughter-in-law got locked in the toilet for 15+mins. To cut a long story short - one of the male staff had to sort by passing a screwdriver through the window - with the comment of 'we have had problems with this door for a while'!!!!! Do you laugh... or do you just laugh??? Or maybe cry!!!

Proprietor took the trouble to fetch me some water on my long walk down the Yare. Thanks.

Fantastic place. Staff wonderful and food wonderful. A fantastic evening. Inside is welcoming and beautifully decorated. Garden and outside beautiful. The children enjoyed playing pool. Something for everyone. Thank you. Highly recommended.

Meal wasn't to bad, just a shame there isn't much choice of a menu to be honest and was a bit pricy for what we had

Lovely setting but dreadful food. I had called to book a table, so was surprised that when we got there we were shoved right in a corner, even though so many other tables never got used. The staff were friendly but over keen … you’re not ready to order food within 1 minute if sitting down. I ordered fish and chips. It was clearly fried in very old oil as it tasted - quite frankly - revolting. For £17 I felt totally robbed. Won’t be eating there again - EVER.

Great place for a drink and good food menu, riverfront location.

Return visit after a poor visit last year i would like to say things had improved but they have not, the setting is lovely the pub refurbished but smelt damp The food was worse than before sadly Will not return to suffer another poor meal

Driving up to Coldham Hall you could be forgiven for thinking your meal would be reflected in the sumptuous English countryside that surrounds you. Indeed if it's a glass of beer and wine that you crave and the weather is clement enough to immerse yourself in the stunning river view then you won't be disappointed. However, don't be tempted to eat anything. The food we were served on Sunday cunningly described as a roast pork loin was probably the worst meal I've ever had. The pork was two slices of thinly slice leather which you could nearly cut and the vegetable were a mishmash over over cooked and undercooked. What a huge disappointment.

It had rained for days, so probably better in the summer.

Great food, friendly staff and dog 🐶 friendly, good moorings for the boat, well worth a visit!!! Great to sit out in the summer 😎

Fantastic Sunday roast in the warm. Lovely service - couldn’t be more helpful - and great food in a snug, traditional pub. Well worth the drive.

This was a wonderful place to stop for lunch, very dog friendly. Will bring going back a lot more now

We have visited this place before and have always been impressed by the friendly service and tasty, generous portions. Therefore we were disappointed this time around to find the food was very different. Not only were the portions smaller, but both the roast potatoes and gravy lacked any flavour. The nut roast was unimpressive and the chicken dry. My husband requested mushy peas with his cod, and had peas served that looked like they'd been pressed with a fork. I had heard that there was a different chef, so maybe it'll take them a while to adjust. However, sadly we won't be back anytime soon.

A nice environment and location with excellent staff. However the food left a lot to be desired. The nut roast was lacking flavour, the stuffing was cold and the servings were disappointingly small compared to other pubs offering roasts.

This was our third visit. We chose to come here to celebrate our son's birthday because of our previous positive experiences. There is always a warm welcome, and the staff are friendly. This time round, the food was disappointing. The portions were smaller and lacked flavour, and the roast potatoes tasted like they'd been cooked from frozen. The veggie options were limited. All I can assume is that there was a different chef.

It was very very nice, lovely and cosy and warm, but staff could have been a lot friendlier

Really great place to visit on the River Yare food is good and staff friendly and very helpful

Great food with generous servings. Lovely service. A beautiful location and dog friendly. What more can you ask.

What an amazing tranquil place to enjoy a coffee in their garden. The dog got treated like royalty too, so he was happy

Fire roaring and friendly staff. Roast beef dinner with home made Yorkshire puds and all the trimmings. What more can I say, just lovely on a cold autumn Sunday!

Roast dinner. Poor, cold and roast potatoes re warmed. When the food was sent back,still like warm. Grav was like water. No staff came back to ask if the meal was okay. Disappointing

Really tasty roast dinner followed by a delicious brownie, staff were really friendly and helpful. Perfect Sunday, couldn’t fault it.

Not even open when we was there

Best steak ever, excellent quality and friendly service.

Food was good. Shame about the very obnoxious customers on the table next to us. Otherwise sure that the atmosphere would be great.

Lovely polite staff, lovely setting on the broad, however avoid the Sunday roast! We visited yesterday (Sunday) we sat in the bar with our dog, we ordered a roast beef and roast pork, the beef was over cooked, the roast potatoes were not really roasted, there was no stuffing, Yorkshire pudding was tiny, you got 1 carrot sliced in half and part roasted and the gravy was bland. (Possibly bought in) very disappointing, such a shame.

This place has the most super setting sad to say that's about the only good thing I can say Food just ok Drinks just ok Service very slow and non attentive Overall impression poor

Great views over the river with a nice beer

Walking the dog locally so stopped here for lunch. Very friendly staff, with some excellent local beers and lovely food at a reasonable price. Lovely location by the river especially on a warm Autumn day. Also very dog friendly.

Great staff but awful food. Rock hard roast potatoes, stuffing balls dry with the dry mix still showing inside, beef over cooked and mash heated in microwave so horrible texture. The gravy was out of a packet. So disappointing. .

Fantastic meal great service, worth the drive to get there.

Our first visit and would happily return Fairly small selection on the menu but the food we chose was delicious

Fab location. Friendly staff, great pub food quickly served.

Lovely pub, reasonably priced drinks and a glorious setting by the river.

There is plentiful parking with views across the river to Brundall , no complaints about the staff or drinks. Will return

Cracking spot on the river, stopped of and had a VERY tasty burger.

Fabulous views and has a really lovely feel. Friendly staff and well price drinks. Definitely recommend!

Great views of the water. Good place to moor your boat for a pub lunch. Great food and beer.

Polite friendly staff, Ordered our drinks and said that we was Moored outside, This was another £10 on top off our bill not free unlike what other people have said in their reviews. Sent my son in to get a menu whilst we sat in the lovely garden, he was told the kitchen was closed. 8.30pm I went and asked if we could have some chips as Food was the whole reason we had Moored and payed the £10 Mooring fee, The lady was nice and polite and turned on the fryer. Really cant believe high season and this pub was so quiet, The previous pub we went passed was the Ferry House this was very busy. Not sure on their Mooring policy. I have no issue in paying for Mooring but feeling taken for a ride when others say that its free to them.

We moored up here for the night . Mooring was free as long as you ate at the Pub . This was no hardship ! We had Steak and chips and coleslaw from the lunchtime barbecue and it was perfect. The next day we also had lunch as we were still moored. Burger and Hot Dog ( again from the barbecue) superb . The Landlord and staff are super lovely . Absolutely faultless. Wish we had a pub like this near us.

A beautiful place right on the river. Good selection of beers and cider

Lovely setting by the river. Staff friendly and polite. Food good reasonable price. I would definitely recommend. Shall return ourselves very soon.

Lovely pub on the river with good food &Ale Staff friendly

Nice pub little changed over last 10 years.

Wonderful visit to Coldham Hall, ordered food and as my partner is Gluten free it's always a struggle eating out. 2options on the main meals GF one being fish and chips. No lite lunches apart from chips and onion rings which I ordered and were delicious. 2 children's meals GF chicken or fish goujons. I mistakenly ordered chicken goujons but was told they were off the children's choices the staff did however make an adult portion at £12. Would have liked this option to have been on main menu too as not in the habit of ordering off the children's menu.

The bar staff are fantastic. Beautiful setting on the river Yare. We moored there for a couple of nights. Electric available if needed and free mooring if you are a customer. We'll see you again in about a week.

Our last night stop at Coldham, thank you to all the staff that have looked after so well, on our ship Dignity, with great food, beverages, top up of water on tap and their lovely cheery pleasant manner towards us over the last 3 days. We will be back as always!

Stopped here for lunch with the family and two dogs. Staff were so welcoming and helpful. Food was fresh and delicious as well as a bit different to the usual offerings of other pubs. Will definitely come back.

We visited on one of the BBQ nights last week. It was completely empty outside. We had a look at the set up and noticed raw uncooked burgers had been left outside, uncovered and unrefrigerated for flies to land on. We turned around and left...

Lovely Fish and Chips on the Broads.

Lovely Riverside pub. Good food, good drink,friendly staff. What more could you ask for?

Lovely refreshing pint and a bag of crisps, by the river, near the end of a long bike ride. Nice prices too. What's not to like.

We came to this pub for the lovely setting by the river,we were very disappointed with the service and the food served! Steaks were all cooked the same,came with one tomato and a leaf of lettuce! The roast came with re-heated roasties and a tiny...

Harry and his team provided a fabulous BBQ for a family birthday celebration, really good food and very obliging!

Very good place to set and have a good time by the water .I had lunch while visiting family . See all the boats going up and down river .was a sight to see and relax ..

What we loved about this pub were the friendly staff. They make tourists and locals feel very welcome and you want to stay, kick back, eat, drink, play pool or sit on the river bank. We tried many pubs out, on our 4-night river holiday...

We were here for the lastnight of are holiday (23/5/22) fantastic place, staff are professional and very welcoming, we had the barbaque menu, had the steak ect it was the best meal i had all week, absolutely fantastic food, call in if your a holiday maker you wont be dissapionted.

Shame about the food and standard of service

A historic building in a beautiful location on the river with a bar and restaurant. There is seating both indoor and outdoors. Coldham Hall has a nice bar/restaurant menu including vegetarian and vegan options and the staff are lovely.