Lamb Inn in Vale of White Horse

Just got back from the lamb. We had a lovely lunch time drink the owner and staff were so welcoming and the roast potatoes were a great. We live on Swanley and would definitely go back regularly.

Great food, friendly staff. Made us feel welcome from the start.

Lovely pub Land lady and bar staff are all very welcoming. Does not take long to feel comfortable here or like a regular.

Lovely little pub, great atmosphere. Friendly staff Parking is limited, no car park.

We have only been twice since the Lamb changed hands last year. We were very impressed with our Sunday lunches.

Our first visit since the change in ownership and we were delighted. Our lunch was delicious and the service efficient and friendly.

Friendly and cosy , great food. Highly recommended

Initial greeting was polite enough, but a bit distant. The building is well presented and we were given complimentary bread and water. The menu was good, although the mains don't generally come with any vegetables and you need to pay extra, so the fixed 2 or 3 course price is better value. We both had the pork belly. It was a little bit dry and one piece of the crackling was so hard as to be inedible. I like my veg al dente but the broccoli was rock hard and I left it. Puddings didn't really inspire us, so we stuck to one course. Bill was over £60 for 2 drinks and one course each, so a bit pricey for me - I've eaten better, cheaper with warmer service staff.

Friendly atmosphere and good food made welcome

This is a small village pub rather than a travellers refreshment stop. If you can see past the worn interior and are not expecting gourmet food you will find a warm welcome and very good basic pub food. My wife and I enjoyed getting off the motorway and the fact that we very much enjoyed our visit here probably says more about us than the pub itself.

Lovely old country pub can't wait to try the food. Friendly staff reasonable prices would definitely recommend

Best pub ever ! Live music and staff and locals made us feel so welcome x

Friendly and welcoming. Shepherd Neame ales on tap. Nice garden area to the rear too.

Quaint pub in country village. Home from home and nice food

Fantastic little country pub Landlady and staff were so friendly Dropped in for lunch a couple of times whilst working nearby Very nice food, and a good drink selection both alcoholic and non alcoholic I’d recommend the ploughman’s lunch, very nice! Friendly regulars and a nice quiet little beer garden Well recommended!

This weekend, myself and Vinnie were booked to DJ at a Wedding Reception here at The Lamb Inn in Swanley Village. We thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a breath of fresh air escaping London for the day to visit this intimate but charming Inn. The staff were very accomodating despite being run off their feet and the locals most welcoming and appreciative of our work. We very much hope to return to The Lamb Inn again in the future be it for work or leisure and cannot wait to also sample the menu. Thank you Lamb Inn and Mr Hart for having us along to entertain you at your wedding reception.

Good traditional pub. Great ales. Good pub food. Friendly and welcoming staff

Great little country pub lovely landlady and her staff

Great garden and always cosy inside with fireplace a blase .

Friendly staff great food excellent Sunday roast

Great food, excellent service fully recommend. The inn is very clean and the features make the place look special

An out of the way but proper pub. Hospitable people run it with real ale and decent albeit basic food on offer. The ham with the ham ,egg and chips was very good, as was the real ale and red wine. The wood fire very welcoming. Not sure of the parking possibilities but otherwise a pleasant experience which I hope that I will be able to experience again.

Saturday lunch. Busy but not too busy. Really nice food well presented. Excellent staff, excellent service. You have to use WiFi to download a menu to your mobile which is, unfortunately, a pain !! The screen is obviously small. Just laminate some menus !!! It's easier & quicker and makes reading and glancing through so much quicker & better. I have no problem reading through a menu on a tablet provided but cannot be bothered with the hassle of logging on, downloading, scrolling back & forth and again back & forth etc etc multiple times. But overall enjoyable.

Great beer, I had Ham, egg and chips which was fantastic

Great little pub fairly cheap and great enviroment

Great meals a very friendly staff and place.

Great food and great value, very friendly staff.

Delightful weekend away at the Lamb and what a gem this place is. We found our room spot on, beautiful food, comfortable outside sitting areas and wonderful staff. Emily was the perfect hostess and made our stay so enjoyable - thank you. We hope to return with more of our family.

Quaint village pub. Friendly welcoming staff.

Great village pub atmosphere. Wonderful service. Lovely food.

Wonderful atmosphere, great location, family and dog friendly, superb hosts, Lisa is brilliant and looked after all so very well. Great British pub!

First time at Lamb Inn and not disappointed booked for lunch a great choice of food we all cleaned our plates very satisfied Staff friendly and welcoming, service great above and beyond Definitely be back for more Give the Lamb Inn Swanley a try I'm sure you will be very pleased

We booked The Lamb for a birthday dinner and overnight stay, everything was excellent. The staff couldn't do enough for you, the food was first class and local produce used, the rooms were beautifully decorated, comfortable and couldn't have been cleaner. Will definitely use again if we are over that way, it was also just a short drive from Oxford which was great after a day sight seeing

Great day at the Lamb. Very good Service from all the staff.

Very friendly staff a lovely pub

Great village pub. Very friendly and lovely views from the beer garden.

It is closed due to the lock down.

Lovely food and staff. Will definitely be going back.

Whilst during a two night stay we ate at the restaurant one evening. I started with the mussels in a Thai green sauce. The good portion of mussels were cooked to perfection although the sauce was a little too hot for my taste. However, if like my partner, who couldn't stop pinching them,you like that kick, you'll love them. We then had the steak deal for two. Steak, chips, salad & a side of onions rings were also perfect. The friendliness of our hosts made for a very enjoyable stay.

Had a really good time Saturday listening to live entertainment

The Lamb is a lovley little country pub. There really is nothing more to say.

First evening open after Lockdown & what a great experience. Usual warm welcome from all the staff to a gleaming, newly painted & spotless pub. Even with social distancing measures in place, there was a great atmosphere both in the main building & newly opened “bar marquee”. The management team have ensured all the staff are aware of, & work to the COVID guidelines, but still retain the friendly atmosphere that is always so much part of a visit to The Lamb, along with the fantastic food & creative menu. Thankyou Richard,Shelley,Emily & all your team; wishing you continued success as you go forward.

A beautiful location to spend the weekend to get away from the busy 9-5 life. The room was nicely furnished, comfortable and homely. We had dinner downstairs in the restaurant which was delicious. Plenty of choice on the menu and the atmosphere was very friendly. Breakfast was again great with a large selection of items you could select as many as you wish. Would definitely recommend 😊

Excellent steaks served here together with a very interesting menu, the food and service is second to none and would highly recommend...

Excellent venue run by fantastic hosts.

Off the beaten track pub with tables in attractive bar area less formal than the main dining room. Good menu choice.

Staff very friendly and nothing too much trouble. Food was excellent. Will definitely be going again.

Good selection of dishes. Tasty and well cooked in the case of our choices. Single item on the specials board was particularly tasty. Apple crumble and ice cream was delicious. Minor gripes: Almond tart was probably not home made and a bit expensive. Crumble and beef pie served in the dish they had been cooked in as seems to be popular these days. A bit fiddly for the customer but less hassle for the restaurant. Would prefer them to be served in/on a proper dish/plate. Some of the prices are a little 'adventurous' Service was prompt and polite at all times. Overall a pleasant enough experience. Will probably return

Friendly atmosphere. Great food. Petanque posted in the garden. Frequent events

Lovely little country pub, great people, amazing character and just recently refurbished

Great food and friendly staff. Had lunch stop during our ramble and was very pleasantly surprised. Bit squashed as 27 of us but still very enjoyable.

A relatively busy Sunday lunchtime. Superb Cornish mussels and crayfish starters, Fabulous roast beef, bream and risotto. All followed up with poached pears and a good sharing cheese board. Nothing more to add!

A group of us visited for lunch last week. Richard and Shelley and their Staff all looked after us and served excellent food. Richard catered for my food allergies and my meal could not have been better. I have visited the Lamb several times and each time the food and the service has been excellent. We will go again!

Today they had a lunch function for 24Unfortunately what my wife and i had did not come up to standard which for the past seven years was always very high.Probably because of the special event. The fish and chips batter was limp, the rocket salad was not fresh and there were one or two other criticisms. We complained to the landlady, who was very gracious and refused payment except for the drinks.

Really good service and great steaks all reasonably price. Good value for money. Nice setting and ambience in pretty village.

Our first trip to The Lamb, we visited with family who live locally. Love the place and exquisite dinner!

If you like great steak, chips, onion rings, salad, mushrooms and wine then this is the place for you! Better than any ‘steak night’ deals I’ve seen and had before. You can opt out of the wine and they will deduct the cost from the bill if you are driving.

Having eaten in the restaurant before and enjoyed it greatly, we made a booking for this last Saturday evening. The booking was confirmed. Imagine our surprise therefore to turn up and find a rude notice on a blackboard saying no food as the team were all "off site". Off site indeed! Then why was our booking accepted? This arrogant and off-hand treatment has only served to make us determined never to go there again - so if you are wise you will avoid this sort of treatment and choose the Trout at Tadpole Bridge or anywhere else nearby for that matter.

A good old fashioned village pub, make to feel welcome by friendly staff

Great pub to visit . Very friendly staff. Had a great time.

What a wonderful place, truly a comfortable place to be. Food is outstanding the service is excellent. A real gem, believe me I eat out because of work most nights. This is worth a visit

Good food in great portions - the interior decor is dated and tired, but the staff are bright, cheerful and attentive

Shepherd Neame pub with well kept beer but very much a local for regulars.

Took my teenage son for lunch after a game of cricket locally and we enjoyed a great meal after making a late booking. We both had perfectly cooked rare roast beef with very good Yorkshire pudding and a first rate selection of vegetables- spinach broccoli and carrots.Good desert selection and I had a really good cheeseboard. The pub was full and would definitely recommend booking ahead and certainly on a weekend.

Popped in for Saturday lunch, greeted by two extremely smiling girls/ladies, always a good start. Lunch was excellent and very tasty. .Good food, good beer and sensible price in a comfy pup in a quaint village.

Lovely Sunday lunch. Just like mum makes!!! Highly recommended!!

We booked just to go out for supper and unexpectedly hit steak night (Wednesdays). The place was busy and so it should have been. We opted for the sirloin and it was tender, cooked the way we asked for it and the chips were really good. An interesting salad and the bottle of wine that was included in the deal washed it all down well. The sausage and mash was good too.

Had a very enjoyable lunch with a friend. The welcome and service we received was great. Good choice of food - either from the main menu and/or lighter bites/sandwiches (we had food from both menus).The food was delicious. Thank you

Very nice people on both sides of the bar

Knowing that the reputation of the Lamb preceded itself, I booked ahead to ensure we could be fit in. We arrived 5 mins early to find an empty car park, which was surprising at half 12 on a Sunday.

Lovely people a proper family pub pet friendly also the drink is good and cheap and the food is also good lovely bar staff always chirpy

Where to start? What a pub, I still miss Margaret but this remains a fine pub to frequent. If they have Late Red on I stay in here all day! Food is good, not as great as it used to be but it really is still good. This pub is at the centre of village life and so it should be. Pétanque outside, darts inside as well as music and live sport. Parking is almost non existent but who cares!? A great pub, a true Kentish gem.

Frantic search for lunch for 13 people was proving very difficult and then I found this place on the Tinternet. Shelley, the proprietor was very helpful and nothing was any trouble. Table booked and a good lunch and catch up had by all.

Regular lunchtime visits to the same venue generally means a smile or at least a little warmth from the host and staff. Not here. After so many visits, the last visit was simply awful on a number of counts.

We had an amazing dinner at The Lamb. The mussels in white wine & garlic were delicious. The pie was outstanding, lots of tasty tender steak. My husband loved the sole. Very friendly and efficient service.

Real local, great Sunday roast, warm welcome/excellent service: all locals (no tourists) apart from us.

Lovely couple running it looked after my furbabies that means the world to me clean happy atmosphere

Every Wednesday evening at The Lamb Inn at Buckland is Steak Night. From £28.50 two people can have steak, with chips, salad and a bottle of house wine. My wife and I went last Wednesday evening and chose to have the fillet steak. As you can imagine this is somewhat more expensive than the other steaks but well worth the price. The service was excellent so I can really recommend a visit.

Great Sunday lunch, lovely staff

Amazing service, friendly as always. My husband and I had the sirloin steak with extra onion rings!! Yes add them as they are well worth it! Washed down with a bottle of lovely white wine. Thank you again for a lovely relaxing evening.

Lovely cosy pub amazing food and really friendly landlord and landlady..

A delightful pub set on edge of village in beautiful Oxfordshire countryside yet near a main route between Oxford and Faringdon. Pleasant welcome by staff for lunch - fish and chips and curry - for teenager and family.

A really relaxing evening was required at the end of a very warm April day. I was catching up with an old friend so we took a while to look at the menu and decide on a meal - no pressure to do so at all from staff. Eventually we both decided one of the specials on the board - my friend went for a homemade pie and seasonal veg and I had the lamb dish - I suspected Moroccan style from the name - what arrived was quite delicious - served with cous- cous, pomegranate seeds, wilted spinach (I think) and a lovely yoghurt sauce.

Nice food and nice room to eat in. Generally quite cosy. But not a nice welcome at all. Didn’t feel like welcome guests, more like a nuisance. It’s usually very nice in here but it really wasn’t this time.

This is our go to place for a special occasion and we visit as often as we can. The steaks are my husbands go to food and they are always cooked to his specification including the additional eggs on top. I'm a little more adventurous and often try out different offerings on their menus. The fish and chips is the best around for miles and you can order it to take out too! Whether you are in the restaurant or in the bar.... this is a warm, cosy and friendly place to have a good bit of dinner and socialise with friends and family.

Steak and a bottle of wine/couple amended for a non drinker. Good rumps with excellent crumble to follow. Good Sicilian red wine according to the rest of the table!

Visited the Lamb at Buckland, Oxfordshire on a cold snowy day and was warmly welcomed with a great pint of bitter and excellent fish and chips. The lunch room is informal with large flagstones, a roaring fire and large wooden tables. Staff were attentive (though quite young) and lunch appeared in timely fashion without fuss. Highly recommended for a casual and cosy lunch. The menu was attractive and varied with lots a favourites including pies, sausages, steaks, vegetarian, etc.

Not been to this pub before, although our friends had when they lived a few miles away.

Nice atmosphere, friendly people

Great friendly atmosphere good pub food. .and little garden x

There's a friendly atmosphere, the service was prompt and attentive, and the menu offered a good variety. Verdict: just about the best fish and chips in years! Thoroughly recommended!

This is the second time we've eaten here over the past six months or so - the first time with a mixed group and mixed tastes in the summer, and last week with our own family on steak night (Wednesdays) and both visits have been really enjoyable with lovely food.

Lovely Sunday roast with excellent service. Many thanks - we'll be coming back for more 😁

We have been 3 times in the last few weeks - on each occasion nothing has been too much trouble and food has been beyond anything but a top-flight restaurant. We are vegetarian and the effort put into ensuring we have had a decent choice of menu on each occasion has been immense. I'm sorry but I can't come up with any 'buts'.

Beautiful surroundings and efficiently served tasty lunch. Good customer service - arrived early and made welcome

We came a longish way to get here and it was certainly worth it! Lunchtime, not busy, but a super menu with charming staff. Proper home cooking, some seriously good dishes (Gnocci was very good) and prices which were very reasonable.

We all opted for the daily special, the home made beef and vegetable pie. It was delicious. This was followed by lovely rhubarb crumble, I think it was the best I have ever had.

Fuimos a este lugar un par de veces. El almuerzo de los domingos es genial. Carne cocinada a la perfección! . Probamos un par de sus platos de pescado (abadejo ahumado y la merluza) y no pude hallar nada. Bien hecho chicos. Sigan con el buen trabajo, servicio increíble y la comida genial.

Visitamos el cordero en Buckland, para una celebración de cumpleaños con amigos. Todos nuestros campos eran deliciosos y el servicio era correcto. Recomiendo encarecidamente!

Queremos el cordero, mientras que en un viaje de camping a cerca Standlake. Era un poco difícil de encontrar, pero nos pareció que al final. La señalización es sólo visible desde una dirección en la calle, y el edificio se encuentra detrás de otro, un pequeño trayecto en coche. Quizás esto debería ser más claro en la web.