Fox & Badger in Bath and North East Somerset

Today I ordered drinks and some food for lunch at the bar. I was given the drinks at the bar, my food later was brought to my table. I later went to the bar to pay. Only later when I checked my receipt did I notice I was charged a discretionary 10% service charge on my bill. I was not informed of this at the time and was given my receipt after I paid. This is downright underhand, I should have been informed before payment. When I order drinks and food from the bar and pay for it at the bar there is no need to impose a service charge, that is literally their job. Beware if you go there. Personally I won't be returning.

Simply the best country pub you can imagine.

Just great!! Amazing food and very friendly!! Dogs welcome

We have just enjoyed another wonderful meal at the Fox and Badger - four adults, one baby, two dogs. The service, the food and the atmosphere are first-class. Looking forward to another visit very soon.

Popped in for lunch after a long walk. This place is so welcoming. They found us a table straight away even though we hadn't booked. The food was restaurant quality. We will definitely be back. Amended Review Feb 2025. Oh how the place has changed. Regrettably the food has gone downhill in a very big fashion. The fish chips and mushy peas were not good. I could taste nothing but grease and my fish was overcooked on one side. The mushy peas were awful and the tartar sauce didn't taste like it was home made. Unfortunately we will not be back.

Service was impeccable, and the food was restaurant quality, I would highly recommend. Returned to this pub today and wish we hadn't bothered. Ordered chicken strip's and fish and chips with mushy peas and tartar sauce. Batter was soaked in grease, nothing was seasoned, not even a hint of salt and pepper let alone any other kind of seasoning. Atmosphere was non existent didn't even feel friendly. Won't be going back.

The landlord and staff are always welcoming. The food is good, as is the selection of drinks.

Very friendly and welcoming staff

Excellent pub. Great beers and ciders, good food, warm service and a great, unpretentious atmosphere

Really gutted as was excited to try this pub after a 2 hour walk. The roast was appalling, I’ve genuinely never had such flavourless food. The gravy was pure coloured water, even bisto is better than this. The potatoes were rocks and no flavour or herbs, the vegetables came in a bowl and was like my granny serving me boiled slop from 30 years ago, no effort or taste. We were so hungry after a 2hr walk with our baby and had to wait 45mins for the food (which we were fine with) that we ate it, otherwise I’d have left and not paid after one bite. I genuinely don’t know how the food could be so tasteless. My husband eats everything and he was mortified we had to pay £25 per roast for it!!! I never season my food with salt and I used it 3 times as tasting salt was better than watery nothing. He also ordered cauliflower cheese as a side and the portion was for 2 and tiny and low and behold tasteless. Very shocked as there are clearly good reviews for this place but it’s shocking tasteless food (roast) especially for the price! Admittedly the pub is small but there was no baby changing station and we had to use a dining table around the corner to change my 1 1/2yr old. The pub is clearly popular and friendly nice staff and atmosphere so I’m gutted to leave this review but I feel for the price I had to say something.

What a fabulous pub. Service was attentive, polite and efficient. Food was delicious and we didn't have to wait long. Good food and drink with brilliant service. What more could you ask for, especially in a local pub. Highly recommend a visit.

After a 7 mile walk with friends a warm welcome and great 🍺 the burger with blue cheese and goodly portion of golden chips hard to beat. Others chose the fish and chips and seemed to agree 👍. Currently thinking when I might return with family

Best view in the county, great food and drinks. Keep on going

Great country pub, busy at the weekend so book a table if you want lunch or dinner. Plenty of walks around the village if you need to build your appetite… and just up the hill from the Two Tunnels cycle path.

A very smart Pub and a great welcome from the staff. My Roast Beef lunch was delicious, amazing Roast potatoes and nice selection of veg.

Amazing pub with delicious food and super friendly service. Highly recommend

Can't comment on food as didn't eat. Friendly rustic pub. Nice to sit outside on a sunny day. Will return.

A fun little pub near Bath with a lovely atmosphere. The publican was friendly and accommodating, and the service was lovely. The Sunday Roast chicken was good, although the potatoes were a bit chewy of the outside and the cauliflower cheese was a bit stodgy. Can’t wait to come back and try the Sunday Lunch bream with chorizo, which looked delicious.

Lovely welcome from the landlord, warming open fire and the most delicious Sunday roast; every item was so flavoursome and absolutely delicious.

Wonderful, traditional village pub with the most welcoming landlord possible. Didn’t get to eat but the menu looked delicious! Will be back soon….

Delicious food 🍽️ and local beer 🍻, nice family atmosphere, dog friendly. A place worth recommending.

We visited on Good Friday and enjoyed a vegan burger and a pint in the sunshine - friendly staff and lovely pub 🍺 So nice to have a vegan option available at the pop up BBQ! Really appreciated that 🍔

Steak and chips plus a couple of pints of Butcombe bitter and good company, the perfect pub meal

The best pub in the area by far - always a lovely atmosphere and with incredible food.

The fox and badger is a very nice little village pub good food nice atmosphere and the food is competatively priced .

Gate crashed a fancy dress party at the weekend, with many opting for tweeds. Even the kids were dressed up for the occasion. The menu was so fresh one of the regulars was no doubt supplying the game on demand.

An amazing village pub. The food was superb.

This is a great country pub. Excellent food, very reasonably priced and very friendly service.

Good beer and chat and a cracking Sunday roast!

Great cask beer and fish& chips

Superb. Nicest arancini ever. Delicious rare beef, lovely fresh vegetables plus cauliflower cheese and decent roasties. Friendly and welcoming staff and lovely atmosphere. Manages to be a proper local with dogs and wellies and people watching rugby, avoiding the designer gastro pub feel. Can’t wait to go back. (Great local cider too.)

Fantastic food, great service and wonderful pub. Always have great times here and wonderful memories. More to come!

Lovelly place to vusit in the heart of wellow villiage

Very decent country pub with excellent food. Well cooked a d presented.

A lovely place to stop for a bite and a pint.

Very nice unspoiled village pub.

Good food & beer and in a lovely location. Service could have been much better (young chap, glasses). Arrived at 150pm and abruptly told we needed to order asap as kitchen closed at 2. A couple arriving behind us were told no more orders! Food served to just one of our tables as the group split and seemed like the same young chap didn't want to walk a few extra paces and place the food where it should have been. Hospitality has been hard hit over the last few years, you would expect them to be more welcoming and not turning away business!

Great atmosphere and very good food. Do recommend.

Pleasant location. Well kept beer. Disappointing, fat-heavy, menu.

First pint of cider I've had in years, and it was great. A lovely local

Last night I had the best hamburger I have had in 20 years - with all the trimmings - it was perfect. My husband, who is a vegetarian, thought his Gnocchi was 'knock out good - and he is a Chef. The Fox and Badger is a great local pub. It even has a separate bar for locals to drink, which is so unusual these days, which was full of local people who clearly value this asset to the community. The atmosphere was amazing. Two weeks ago I took two elderly gentlemen to luncheon, which informed my decision to visit again, because they loved their fish & chips (both of them fishermen who know what 'fresh' means), as well as the proper old-fashioned pub atmosphere - with lovely flashes redolent of the history of this pub, which meant to much to them. The young and friendly staff could not have been more accommodating (moving us to a larger table near the huge fireplace), more attentive in their service, or kinder. The Fox & Badger is also great value. I wish I could give it more stars.

Nice atmosphere friendly staff good food.

Such an amazing pub. A proper quaint English country pub. The food is all homemade and delicious. Cosy fireplace to warm up after a chilly winters walk. Best homemade pesto on the planet

Excellent food & beer! Highly recommended!

Lovely welcome, warm atmosphere.

Just cycled from Bath to Wellow. Stopped at the Fox and Badger for a drink. Lovely setting and very friendly. Warning to cyclist! :- don't secure your bike to the sign post in the green centre (near the public phone box). The owner of the land expects you to read her mind as there is no signage to say its private and not only stuck a note on the bike but also came and threatened us by informing us that she would cut the bike locks and dispose of the bikes! Despite apologising she refused to 'get off her high horse'. Best avoid this patch of land!

Classic pub. Superb fish finger sandwich for lunch, and great service. Essential stop if you're cycling route 24

Friendly local pub serving good food

Good food & drink. Very good service

Real country pub with warm friendly atmosphere and good food.

Just eaten a gorgeous roast meal and it’s not even Sunday. I could have drank the gravy! The service was also impeccable.

Really great food and great staff in a lovely pub

Gorgeous pub in a gorgeous village that does incredible food. The roasts were some of the best we've had! Staff lovely and really attentive with a really nice local vibe. Will definitely be visiting again and this time bringing more people!

Small village pub, food (I didn't eat), pleasant atmosphere. Popular with cyclists.

Food was good but they add a service charge which you pay when when you order. First time I,ve come across this. Normally you would expect to pay the service charge at the end of your meal and perhaps pay less if you thought the service hadn't been good.

This is always an agreeable experience when visiting. Wife and I had been heading for an alternative venue, but missing the turning we find ourselves approaching the F&B. Not a problem - even less so when we discover this is a Steak & Red Wine night - 2 steak meals and a bottle of plonk for just over £30 - bullseye. An added bonus was meeting again one of the most efficient and professional bar staff we've ever had the pleasure to encounter.

Tasty ale, historical atmosphere

Great little pub with real fire and great ales. Serves food too.

Delicious Sunday roast and friendly service 😋

Great atmosphere, excellent food and service.

Thank you so much Belle for making us so welcome. The pub is fab. Great food. See you next week! Thank you

Great beer, great fire, out of town. Great pub. Unfortunately no beer garden.

I enjoyed the atmosphere of the place. It's very welcoming, you feel like you're visiting a family member in the countryside. Very kind and friendly staff. Unfortunately the kitchen was already closed when I arrived, a tempting reason to come back and visit.

Excellent food however over priced. Went for a Sunday lunch and I would definitely recommend the beef however the experience was spoilt by the portion size. We were a party of three and were given one small bowl of vegetables between us. For £20 each you would think you would be given a better helping of veg. Further the waitress refused to take the optional service charge off considering we were disappointed with portion size. Sadly we will not be visiting again.

Went for a Sunday roast, good food however portion size was on the small side. For a group of 3 only a small bowl of vegetables was provided. Service charge was added on despite there being very little service given and when I challenged the charge and asked for it to be removed it was refused. Left with a sour taste in our mouths and significantly out of pocket for a small meal and next to nothing service. If looking for a welcoming, friendly and good value Sunday pub meal I'd look elsewhere - you will find none of those things here

It's my favourite pub ,owner is amazing and staff. Good food and drinks selection

Great food. Lively atmosphere although does go quiet a little early

Proper country pub. Good food and drink 🔝

Pub that has been around for a while and is popular with cyclists and walkers. It has seating outside at the front by the road Prices for drinks are reasonable The do food and it is popular and you will need to book for this

The best food I can recall for a long time thanks to Charles and the gang

Cider very welcome on Colliers Trail, and good price. Lovely looking place.

Very good atmosphere food fantastic

Brilliant pub. A proper village pub with great staff

Dropped in for a pint which was good one but a bit pricey.

Best pub food I’ve ever eaten. There’s a reason this place is so popular with the locals. The food is beyond the general pub standard, up there with restaurant standard - food possibly more expensive than the average pub, but well worth the money. Great atmosphere and always a local who’s up for a chat.

Good local pub good drinks and food

Wonderful village pub atmosphere.

Great Food, Friendly and attentive staff. All round good place to eat and drink.

Good service, local people obviously well looked after by the landlord, yet newcomers welcome

Friendly pub in a beautiful village. Good food and worth a visit

Found the pub by accident today, tucked away in a picturesque village. We both opted for the burgers & chips (one with cheese and one without) and we were pleasantly surprised to be honest. Firstly, the staff... not only friendly but also competent.... the order came exactly as we had asked. The burgers were big and chunky and perfectly cooked (enough pink in the burger and some juice when sqeezed), very tasty too, with onion/pickle etc. 👍👍👍👍

Great service good social distancing!!

Great little pub social distancing handled very well.

Very friendly and cosy local pub. Food was delicious. We cycled up to Wellow and the landlady was very helpful with securing our bikes to allow us to sit inside.

Great village pub, good food and loads of atmosphere.

Meeting friends at a great welcoming village pub on a sunny Friday evening. What's not to like? Didn't notice a garden, however everyone stood outside on the pavement.

Lovely Sunday lunch in a cosy little venue. I had a very nice roast lamb, with tasty veg and slightly over cooked (to my taste and only slightly) Yorkshire puddings. Most of the service was excellent, although one bar staff was very hard to communicate with. Slightly cramped table although I think this was due to the rugby being on.

Great atmosphere, lovely wood burner. Lunch ok.

Nice little pub as a stop off whilst out for a Sunday walk. Barman was rather rude though.

Lovely country pub with fine beers & great food. Highly recommended!

Lovely pub, with great atmosphere, good selection on taps, nice wine selection. Staff swift and polite

Very nice pub with good selection of beer. The food looks good and will try soon.

Lovely pub. Small portions of food and very expensive!

Lovely atmosphere and great food, very dog friendly

Small cosy place food is good and very reasonably priced it's the only pub in the village but well worth a visit

Wonderful sunday lunch. Really well looked after. Lovely fire and good wine. What mire could you want?

Very nice food but a bit expensive, but that's maybe down to location.

The perfect British pub. Great food, good beer and really friendly staff.

Very good accommodation. Great staff

Very good food and great value. Squash, goats cheese and sage risotto was delicious. Welcome could have been a touch warmer but all in all a fantastic end/middle of walk/cycle destination.