Lamplighter in Cornwall, Isles of Scilly

Ever so friendly staff, banging BLT 😋... ...Update Now a New chef so new menu and no BLT 😢

Just dropped in for a beer, the girl serving at the bar was friendly, we sat outside lovely day, lots of seats and tables.

Had a lovely meal sat out in their garden. One fish amd chips and a Hunters chicken. The the chicken was really succulent, the chips the best in a while, and the, salad dressing was very nice too. Prices were good too. Thank you 😊

Very friendly and relaxed staff, simple and delicious menu, wonderful fried sweet potato chips, more food than I could finish!

Both me and my wife wanted to eat out and the Lamplighters was the only place close by. It was 8:50 and we made it in time to order our meal before 9pm, last food orders. It was nice that they were willing to cater for us at that time.

OMG, expensive!!! 1 Guinness, a double rum and coke and 1 packet of crisps - over £17. What the heck. Never have we paid that amount other than London. The ladies had no lock and the seat on the loo wasn't attached so came off. Used to go there every weekend years ago. It's a NOPE now I'm afraid.

Great pub, nice location especially on a summer day!

I just paid £4.25 for a Diet Coke. In a dirty glass.

Came here as our local pub, the girl has black long hair was quite unfriendly. No smile or any extra words at all. Keep looking at her phone and doesn't care about any customers who here. Won't come here again just because of her. LJ

Nice place to go for a drink locally. However the skinny girl wearing black usually is really rude with customers that are not English and customers that are non English women particularly. She is the only reason we don’t want to visit this pub or order more drinks. It would be good if this can be improved.

Great Sunday roast! Very tasty, complements to the chef. Friendly bar staff, a nice local pub. Highly recommend

Called in for lunch with a group of friends on a weekday after doing a short walk from Portway Park & Ride - and we went a lunch time and we were able to sit outside which was nice for an October day - they do full meals and sandwiches

Quality local pub. Lovely setting, good outdoor space with good food.

Was ok for lunch good quality food fair price would go again

Went to the Lamplighters for Sunday Roast. Good choice of mains, had the beef. I must say the food was served piping hot( plate was also hot which I like), the portions are very generous and the whole meal was very tasty. At a bargain price of £12.95 I would thoroughly recommend.

Popped in for a drink, had a beautiful hot chocolate and the staff were very welcoming.

I mostly go there for a beer, (not cheap), and to chill out looking at the view across the Avon towards Pill. Great place for that. Always has been. Nice walk along cycle path and banks of the Avon from under the M5 bridge to the pub.

Just stopped for drinks. Dog friendly pub on a walk. We will co.e again.

Lovely listed building pub set by the river with lots of outdoor seating and sunset spots. Interior needs an update but the local atmosphere and friendly staff make up for it 10 fold. Food is decent. Very bright lights over seating areas, could do with dimming as the evening goes on. Beer selection is great. Wine selection bad. Overall, much appreciated local river pub with lovely staff.

Very expensive £3.95 for a coke robbery

Went for a drink with my partner, great atmosphere, lovely pub, live band.

Lovely place to drink on a sunny day but they kept me waiting 40 mins for a sandwich and it really wasn't busy. Good beer and friendly barmaid.

Great classic pub food easy going atmosphere

Just paid £1.20 for orange squash with tap water.

Really good selection of beer and cider, lots of space and lovely large outside area overlooking the River Avon. Friendly staff.

We stopped here for fish and chips, curry and fried chicken. All of which were just about acceptable. What you'd expect from a chain pub in this location. The fish was not overcooked, but the batter was undercooked in places. Peas were cooked properly. Chips were mushy oven chips. Sauce bottles had little tiny nozzles so that the end came off when using. Curry was ok. Fairly bland and not spicy but nothing terrible. Chicken bites and sweet potato fries were cooked correctly. Still tasted like they came out of a packet, but at least they hadn't been burned. If you're coming here you probably know what kind of food you're getting anyway. I didn't go by choice the first time and I wouldn't return.

Nice atmosphere and great position overlooking the River Avon. Visited on a sunny bank holiday so the garden was full with a happy holiday feel. Nice old fashioned pub I believe built in the 1700's. Food was classic pub grub and priced accordingly.

Good old quality pub, recently taken over aswell

Myself and my family booked a table for a Mothers day meal at the Lamplighters, we were very impressed, the food was amazing, the staff were friendly and we had a really nice time.

First time I have been there! It had a lovely atmosphere and nice views of the River Avon! The food and service were good too! Will be going again soon!

Absolutely delicious Beef roast with all the trimmings.

Brilliant place and staff. Had Xmas party here and food, service, staff were all brilliant. Highly recommend

Cosy and friendly. Great Sunday lunch served.

Been there a few times while visiting family. Nice pub, good beer and good food.

Enjoyed a lovely roast lunch, generous portions and nice quality food. Staff were attentive and friendly. Good selection of gins too.

What a great find while doing a river Avon walk. Lovely inside, great garden and friendly staff. Had the best sunday roast (beef) I have had for years, and only £11!

Lovely atmosphere enjoyed a couple of hours with friends place was packed 😁but service good and quick

Great pub, great history lovely open space and views over the river.

First visit there lovely outside space and lots of cosy rooms inside. Food was good and service was pleasant

My Elderly Parents had a lovely time there yesterday and said how great the staff are there . Mum Managed To Leave Her Purse Behind And did not Even notice until the manager (Paula )Delivered It To Her House ! Many,many thanks

Lovely place and quite big split on ground and upper floors. Very nice food served promptly even though there were a lot of customers. Not too far from the water... just a short walk across car park and banking. Water available to fill up your bottles from the bar.

Foarte frumos deosebit de curat, preț ok priveliștea excepțional, invit pe toți să viziteze locația

Very disappointing burger. I was having lunch with friends for a short time only so didn't waste time and ruin the mood by complaining in person, plus I was hungry and it was edible. The website describes the cheeseburger as "6oz beef burger, cheese, lettuce, beef tomato and burger sauce £10.95...in a sesame topped bun". What I got was a burger covered with burger sauce in a brioche bun, no lettuce or tomato, and the price was £12.95. Overpriced and underwhelming. Nice pint though.

Great value Sunday Roasts, the staff are friendly and helpful,great location

Really nice dog friendly pub, with nice outside space.

Lovely setting, OK beer (well kept just st Austell/bath core range of pj/korev/gem), mediocre food. Prices about £2 more than menu on website, meagre portion of soggy scampi, tasteless peas and undercooked chips for £13 was very disappointing. Similar feedback re food from other members of the party

Lloc apartat i tranquil, per fer una cervesa. Sol o acompanyat, hi ha una terrassa molt gran amb força taules i bancs per seure. Fins i tot, els infants poden passar una bona estona jugant al sobre el vaixell que hi ha a l'exterior del pub. El servei és correcte. No he provat el menjar.

Very welcoming and friendly pub sat on the river Avon. Nice views. Very busy pub. Plenty of tables inside and outside. Toilets are clean. The pub is well kept, clean and tidy. Service is quick. Staff are friendly and welcoming.

Lovely place great food & very friendly 😋

Brilliant boozer. Loved it. Fantastic service and great food

Delightful garden on a sunny day

Stopped for a drink at this lovely pub while on a bike ride. Friendly service, nice atmosphere. We didn't order food, but the roast dinners looked delicious and we'll definitely visit again for meals.

Great place for a meal and a quiet pint.excellent value great service and good beer.Garden for the kids.

Great location. Dog friendly (ground floor). Friendly staff. Menu choice poor (6 mains) Food is below Wetherspoons quality in my opinion. Outdoor and indoor seating. Limited parking (only a problem in summer/peak).

A nice Sunday lunch in the beer garden in March!

Very entertaining as pernormal, as the group's of entertainment I professional 👌👌👌

Great local pub, lovely tucked away location overlooking the river, food is good and staff very helpful and friendly.

Well priced delicious Sunday roast

Brilliant place staff are so friendly

What a beautiful pub. Bar staff was lovely good selection of drinks and the food was nice. Would fantastic in warmer months when you could sit outside and see the lovely views.

Came here for evening meal with my daughter. Booked in advance for early evening and found we needed to since most tables were taken by people ha I guess an evening drink. The menu is rather limited and basic with a couple of ‘specials’ which were nothing special. There was a good choice of beers and they tasted good. The quality of the food was good and the service very good apart from the fact that you couldn’t have a tab and had to pay for everything each time you ordered, which is frustrating. We had a calamari starter with a chicken burger and sausage and mash with a wine and 2 beers which came to £45 which is pretty good value for money

Called in today for lunch. Been there many times before so I thought I knew what to expect. Went to the bar, served straight away, my wife and mother sat down. The surface of the table was sticky all over. The whole place smelt of toilet cleaning fluid. So strong! We looked at the menu expecting there to be the usual choice. Under MAINS there were 3 things, sausage and mash, curry or a salad. There were several different types of burger but that was it. Previous

A nice Sunday lunch at a reasonable price. An interesting mix of veg and tasty meat

Went to park with grandchildren, cold but kids enjoyed facilities. Swings, climbing frames pyramid roundabout and sand pit. Sat at bench to keep a eye on them.

Wonderful place to stop for a drink. Enormous beer garden with incredible view over the river. Plenty of choice of drinks as well. Pets and children also seem perfectly welcome

Friendly service and pleasant atmosphere. Great garden dining. Very efficient online ordering

Place is a bit run down but clearly loved. Staff are lovely and food is great!! Definitely worth a visit :)

Lovely pub and great surroundings, Good view of the river severn and Pill, great selections of alcoholic and soft drinks fairly priced. Food is also served which is of a fairly good standard, service can be a little slow at times it can take the servers a little while to get to you to take your order and then drink delivery to your table can be slow also but this is understandable at the moment with covid restrictions and when it is busy.

Lovely pub with a great view and large outdoor seating area.

Lovely pub. Varied menu with great drinks selection. Excellent service and outside area is wonderful on a sunny day. Covid secure. Highly recommend.

Nice pub, lovely garden good service

Had a fantastic afternoon. Food spot on,hospitality spot on .Went ubove and beyond to accommodate us as my grandson is in a wheelchair, couldn't recommend enough.Will definitely be back soon.Well deserved rating.

Expensive for the area, but a very clean and tidy pub

I have just had what I thought was a very tasty Red Thai Curry with chicken. Veggie version was available too. I am in no way a Thai curry expert but was very! tasty with nice rice, I thought and gave a tip as I left for overall real cheer from my visit. Last one several years back being from another corner of Bristol Northwest. - Very content indeed I was and finding the pub getting back on its feet, a great historic local down by the Avon fishing quarters of centuries past and looking over to Pill Creek with boats tied up ... over the other side of the Avon. Nice pot of tea plus biscoff biscuit for £2.45. Other cheaper and kids meals options available than the curry. Sunday visit open until 6 pm all afternoon. Seating outside, before 17th next week.... in nice quiet corner of the city and suburbs, as it is here much of the time quiet and away from things I think it is for a quiet trip here. And further along a green park area to walk and for kids to play etc. Walk by the Avon River banks with views.

I regret not causing more of a fuss last year about this. Ordered a cottage pie, it arrived and looked great......but found a piece of chipped of ceramic plate inside the pie. I told the staff who brought me a new meal......but that was it, they didn't seem that concerned about it. It's a shame as I liked going here with people, after the poor treatment I will never eat out here again. If they had actually offered the meal for free or apologised I wouldn't have felt so mugged off. Considering the serious health and safety issue I raised they did little to rectify the issue. While I still drink occasionally here I don't want to risk eating again, such a shame as like I said before the quality of the food itself is fine.

I took my kids for a walk the other day and came across the Lamplighters pub. We went in for some refreshments, the place was very busy, but we were served quickly. It looked fresh and tidy with a nicely painted outside area. The member of staff that served us was called Sophie, she was very friendly, helpful and informative. I could see that the staff were rushed off their feet, but never the less, I was very happy with the service I received.

Slow service canny drink up me cider if there's no cider

The worst service I’ve ever experienced. Over an hour wait for drinks with no apology/explanation

Good service with good food. Effective covid measures in place

Nice place to enjoy a pint with a good view

Service was extremely slow even for our drinks, due to covid you have to order from our tables. We waited over an hour for our food, was not to by staff when we came in and he certainly did not look like in was packed at all. When we asked how long our food would be, we just got food is extremely slow with no explanation really. But when it finally arrived it was very nice, the only thing I would say is the cutlery was served in a wooden box which they looked slung in there with sauces on top. Looked abit dingy really feel that should be looked at especially cause of covid and being able to clean them properly. Some of the waitresses was really nice and quite helpful but one tall girl with ripped jeans was quite rude. Was not pleasant when we asked to order some more drinks and I heard be very rude to another table. Which I felt was really out of order. Not sure I would rush back which seems a shame as food was quite nice when we finally got it. Staff could do with being more polite and better customer service.

Beautiful pub, lovely garden, friendly staff and delicious food! Just check out the starter Nachos! 😀

gorgeous local pub. could do with heaters in the booths and some lights outside (especially now that the nights are drawing in), but otherwise a lovely peaceful place to drink by the river.

Great location next to the estuary. Visit was for the government eat out deal. Understandably the menu was small. Fish and chips were good.

Still a nice roast but only half as good as it used to be. Bring back stacking the individual plates bring back the slabs of meat this was by far one of Bristol’s best roasts but as soon as the chef (Rico?) left the food went downhill the staff are still brilliant and always feel welcomed but I now go here about 75-90% less than I used too and almost as a last resort whereas it was the one I went out of my way to go too. Hope things go back to how they were.

No dry cider at all, could do with a traditional as well ,with St Austel taking over you would of thought they would known the taste of the locals!!!

Really enjoyed my evening at The Lamplighters. A good atmosphere and food. Particularly enjoyed the tasty Steak and Doombar Pie with my pint. Would recommend.

The Lamps is no doubt the best pub in Shire, let’s face it, there’s not much competition. The Lamps roast used to be one of the best roasts around, then they changed owners and it went down hill massively. We returned last week after we noticed they had a new menu and I must say the roast dinner was a lot better. My only criticism would be that we only had 4 small roasties each, but a huge improvement non the less. Overall It’s a great place to go to socialise and enjoy a few beers and pub food. It’s great that they swap their ales over every week or so also. I just wish one day they’ll go back to the incredible pies they used to do!

Recently changed hands and nice food

Had Sunday roast here today & honestly not great value for money. £10.95 for a single course sunday lunch is not the cheapest & sorry to say the price tag did not live up to the quality of food. I had roast beef & it was as tough as old shoe leather despite the chief bigging up the mustard & red wine glaze it was cooked in, but the rest of the meal was piping hot. Drinks are expensive & overall a disappointment from previous meals I have had there. For a Sunday roast I would not recommend due to the poor quality of the meat & poor value for money. Really sad as the setting is perfect for a lovely meal, but very disappointing food from a chief who could not say enough how good his food was. Sorry guys won't be be back due to the poor quality of the food & that's such a shame.

Father’s Day lunch, 8 of us. 4* food, 1* service. Massive wait to get served, confusion with what food was available, confusion with order when delivered to table etc. Really basic stuff has let you down. Left me no choice

I am writing this not to insult the pub. I googled this pub and thought the location was great. nice story behind how the pub reopened after a long closure. I arrived with my gf and thought wow it's going to be our go to pub. Nice seating area and views. to be honest I just wanted to support local pubs. We both ordered guinness and thought that they're bit pricey at £4.30. But it's ok because the pub looks great and thought we would spend loads of time there. Then we ordered fish and chips which I thought was very expensive over £10. I thought this must be an amazing fish and chips. To be honest I have never paid so much for fish and chips. It took about 45mins to come, fair enough. I was just so shocked on how small the fish was. it was funny because we both ordered fish and it seemed like the chef has cut the fish into half and serve into 2 plates. The chips was great but I guess they got them from Lidl. Such a small portion for £10 worth of fish and chips. Really nothing special at all. We left right after the meal still feeling hungry. I actually ordered takeaway on the way back. I don't see this pub doing great in the future considering George Inn at shirehampton is so much better and with sport TV. Bad experience, dissapointed. No wonder they don't get good reviews. Just genuine opinion..

Great views. A bit out of the way if your not local. Friendly barmaid. Ordered food, one steak pie, the other chicken, both good, piping hot and tasty. Chips were good but few of them. Gravy in boat was like coloured water. Ceiliacs beware: The tomato sauce on the table was labelled Heinz however we were 100% certain that it was not, very runny and acidic, the bottle label clearly looking uniformly stained, the contents open and full! (Note, I'm not a ceiliac myself however 'acutely aware due to family members who are).

Food was poor. Part was raw and part burnt. Place was grubby. Think they were short staffed. Staff that were there were very nice. Food was good on previous visits.

It is now the most expensive pub in the area. They raise the price for a pint of Guinness from £4.00 to 4.30. when they reopen the pub the prices was slightly higher than other pubs in the area but now they charge average £0.70 more than other local pubs for a Guinness. The portions of the food was good when they just started. Now you have to get fish and chips to get yòur belly filled after you had a meal. It is better to have a meal in town. prices are the same. Really a shame. and you get the feeling that nobody care what the outside of the pub look like. Overfilled ashtrays and cigarette buts everywhere outside. If you have a dog or small children do not go there. They really could keep it clean. Really a shame.

Good location. Pleasant staff. We had a roast, which was n't the best. Veg was too salty for our taste.

Lovely pub, traditional in a nice setting on the river, food was excellent, friendly staff.

Excellent little pub with great food and friendly service

This place is great.only one thing is to make the portions a little bit smaller please?🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Great food and great atmosphere. Ended up eating 2 mains because it was that good :) I've had a table booked 5 times but this was the first time we've been there as something always comes up and we've had to reschedule but it was certainly worth the wait. Will be coming back