Ferry Boat Inn in Bassetlaw

March 9th 2025, 5 of us enjoyed a delicious roast Sunday lunch in celebration of my dad's 79th birthday. The meal was absolutely delicious, cooked beautifully. Well done chef! I have to comment on the roast potatoes- absolutely the best! The service was fast, friendly and very accomodating, allowing for helium filled balloons and a fancy table cloth. Bethany Fletcher and Cerys Willams, you made sure we had everything we needed and the 5 of us thank you for helping my dad to really enjoy his day. Highly recommend.

We booked a table for 7 adults and a baby high chair for 13.00pm. On arrival we were sat at our reserved table. The waitress was friendly and swiftly took our order after we'd got our drinks. We were informed that the meal may take some time. At no point did the staff apologise or keep us updated with the progress. It finally came out at 14.30pm!!!! The reason for booking at 13.00pm was purely because we would be eating at lunchtime with our granddaughter. She was starving at this point. There were no condiments on the table then we had to wait for an omelette which was ordered. We couldn't eat together for this reason. When we paid the bill we stressed that the waiting time was unacceptable and this let the venue down. We were offered 4 slices of cake as an apology. We spent £120.00 and quite frankly did not get the service or quality for this amount of money.

Visited for a New Year's Day family meal. Tasty, homemade, quality food. The roast dinner was beautiful and other family members said the pie and chips were great too. Friendly service particularly from the lady who I assume is the owner - she made us feel right at home. Thank you - would definitely recommend and come back again!

The experience we had this time was not as good as our previous visit. We had to wait ages for our starters. I ordered the Wild Mushrooms Linguine, I was expecting different kinds of mushrooms and only got chestnuts, the linguine tasted like it had been sat in water for a long period of time. One of our party asked for not a lot of chips and got more than they wanted which was such a waste. As we were here for a special occasion it felt like it was spoiled the occasion.

Brilliant weekend live entertainment great food great staff 💯 recommend this pub really enjoyed it! Will be back soon!

Absolutely beautiful food and service was the best I’ve known, everyone should try this pub, it’s traditional good pub grub, Beth, Gen and the chef Jay were absolutely excellent, so accommodating thank you everyone, we had a fabulous meal and time in a beautiful setting

Sadly venue now closed. I had previously eaten here & was really pleased last tome, around 2 years ago, but in July 2019 venue was found all locked up.

Really terrible meal tonight at the Ferry Boat. Not only was it massively overpriced but the service was rude - finished by being stood waiting to be served while the bar staff threw nuts at a man at the end of the bar.

The food is very good value for money. Nice presented and plentiful. The pub and park are nice places to visit to have a chill out holiday, shopping at nearby Lincoln. You can even take the dog, good place to stay if you on a budget. Definitely recommend!

I’ve had a few meals here now, so thought it best to make a comment.

We have been here before for Sunday lunch and couldn't understand the five star rating and questioned what people were rating it against but as it was late Saturday afternoon and everywhere else was closed until 5pm we thought we would give it another go. There was only one other table in the restaurant but we still waited 40 minutes for our pate (no cooking) and a mini Camembert round (10mins max in the oven) starters. This was not a major issue but when you are going to charge high end prices for meals they should be cooked correctly! Beef bourgignon meat was dry yet sinewy like it had been on high heat rather than slow cooked to break down the meat. The duck was overlooked by about 20 minutes and was grey and tough.. it was supposed to be pan fried but the skin was just dry like it had been thrown in the oven and forgot about. I'm not sure it had seen a frying pan. (I can end a photo of the duck) I discreetly asked the waitress to ask the chef what his opinion of the food but we were simply offered a free pudding which is not what we were looking for. Neither did we ask for anything off the bill but at £55 was ridiculous for a pub meal of this quality. We were simply bringing the quality of the food to the attention of the chef as it was poor to say the least and we would not recommend the ferry to others at this point and would not take the risk of hoping that this was a one off

Worsed Sunday lunch ever , roast potatoes so hard they couldn't be eaten , it said rib of beef and it wasn't.

Absolutely faultless...Food, service, ambience. .. just lovely!Highly recommend ... especially welcoming to the pooches!

Popped in The Ferry Boat Only to find out the place has changed hands yet again, Disappointed in the Hand pull ,Bar service was average. Seems like there trying to turn a Local Pub into some sort of Gastro Bar... Not in keeping with the Deco and Dogs and Kids running about...

Third visit to the Ferryboat Inn this bank holiday weekend.Great food tried the famous FBI burger, What a challenge lovely burgers though.Pleasant friendly staff good choice of well kept beers and lagers.Then watched local band Marshall Law a great start to my 2015 camping season. 10/10.

Second visit to the ferryboat, had a great pub meal in a great little country pub good range of local ales to choose from at a very reasonable price.Plus a live band on will certainly be visiting again soon! Top Night!