The Bell in Aylesbury Vale

Excellent Sunday Roast, friendly efficient service Lovely venue & atmosphere . Tip - worth booking people turned away at 4.30pm

Our first visit, and recommended by our AirBnB Hostess. We weren't disappointed. The seating, lighting and atmosphere made it a relaxing time for us after a day travelling. The food was beautifully presented, and very tasty - we had the lamb, followed by viola desserts. Our Server was Sienna, and she was cheerful and attentive. As we left, we felt well fed, relaxed, and loved the walk through the lit up bower. Ample car parking opposite, so no stress trying to find a space to park. We WILL return.

Really lovely Lunch, Prime cheese burger was insane. I will defiantly be back.

Great food, great service. Served by Lucy

Room a little tired and a slightly disappointing bathroom. Otherwise, clean and very good value for money. Excellent breakfasts and service with a smile from Lucy 😊

wonderful atmosphere, food and service by Elease. Food was excellent and with a cheeky cocktail on the side what could be better!

Went for a family meal , when ordering our meal, we had everything explained clearly and expertly by our waitress Amelia, and I was able to change my order from the menu, she could not do enough to help us and I appreciated this as I am hard of hearing so often have trouble in restaurants. The food was well presented and tasty but the customer service will bring me back.

Fabulous dinner, wonderful venue, all topped off by the incredible Amelia, we were greeted with a smile, and looked after like royalty, food was superb, and nothing was too much trouble for our brilliant host Amelia, can't recommend highly enough

Lovely place! Very happy with the staff and service provided especially from Amelia and Lucy they go above and beyond and ensure everything to satisfaction❤️

I took the Grandchildren here for a meal and have to say the service was excellent, one member of staff -Amelia went out of her way to make it a special evening for us, helping with the menu choices for the children who needed more time and lots of explanations,she was friendly and understanding and a credit to your team. Food was good, promptly served and as ordered. We will be back.

Very good food and a reasonable price, the staff were attentive and friendly.

Came here as we were passing through, Not many quality vegetarian options, so I went for the fig&Dolcelatte roast. The food was priced high but a low standard. Soggy greens / roast potatoes, and overly salted nut roast. The pub is beautiful inside but that is all you are paying for. Very dissatisfied.

£16 for a feeble vegan burger with no fries. Just a small burger on its own, deeply regret not taking a photo to show how comedic it was. Miserable customer service but really impressive pub interior

Really pleasant service, well presented rooms inside for private gatherings, plenty of parking.

Had to wait at the bar to be served with one person serving, a big queue had formed and other stuff standing around chatting to friends

Good was alright, it was a bit cold but the meat was lovely.

Food was expensive and a little disappointing.

Beautiful building and very nice atmosphere. We really enjoyed the good food and drinks. Nice experience all in all. Would visit again.

We booked for dinner on a Saturday night. It was a lovely atmosphere, the staff were really helpful and friendly. The food was amazing, very tasty, large portions and freshly cooked. We'll definitely be going again!

Nice and cool in hot weather. Wide ranging menu

Food was excellent and plentiful. Service was very good. It was a 60th birthday and I requested a quiet location. We were next to two tables both with young noisy babies, far from ideal.

8 old friends met for dinner and an overnight stay. We had a fabulous time and the place was the perfect venue. We were lucky to have the private dining space so we could laugh and chat without disturbing the other patrons. The food was really good and exactly what you would expect from pub grub. The staff (especially Ollie) were very attentive and patient with a rather roudy , fun loving group. The accommodation was perfectly fine and breakfast was crackerjack. The only really minor (really minor) oddity was the DJ who started his set at about 5pm, built himself into a frenzy by 8pm and then was gone by 9pm! Thanks to everyone at the Bell for a great time.

Good food and service were delivered in very nice surroundings

I visited the bell with some friends on Saturday afternoon for bottomless brunch, what a great afternoon, the food was amazing and the waitress Aisha was very attentive, we had plenty of drinks in the timescale and could order whenever we wanted more.

The bottomless brunch was such good value for money...lovely cocktails and delicious food. Staff were brilliant. Highly recommend

Bottomless brunch excellent value for money. Food was amazing and so were the drinks! We were served by Aisha who was brilliant, lovely afternoon thank you!

Bottomless brunch the first for the bell. We had a great time service was excellent from aisha the drinks were flowing and the food was excellent. 2 courses great value for money only thing is they should add a house beer because someone might like that. But great service just needs advertising more ladies love a bottomless brunch.

A lovely village pub with a great homely feel. Great for meals in the garden or drinks inside infront of live music.

Had a great meal with my wife on her birthday. The fillet steak was amazing and her duck salad was perfect. Thanks to Bo for her friendly and efficient service. The bell never disappoints. Thanks. The Guinness 1

This is a really chique pub. Fabulous garden and fabulous interior design. Very reliable service. I have been many times. Roast Beef excellent.

Had a lovely dinner and stay at the bell. Great service and breakfast. Lovely room. Thanks to tracey and Lucy for the friendly and professional service.

This used to be a very popular & high end pub/restaurant. It’s now virtually fast food. Order yourself at the bar. Disappointing.

Food and service were exemplary. We were a party of 7. Not always easy to time food for such a group. Server was polite, smiling and nothing seemed too much trouble to her. My only reservation was about the area where we were seated. While I could see it could be curtained off for a more private small party, it was rather gloomy.

Every Wednesday I take an elderly gentleman who is in a care home out for lunch. We have been to about 8 or 9 pubs in the Wendover / Aylesbury area, and this is the first time that I have been very disappointed. I had high expectations as the car park was very busy. We had to eat in the bar as the restaurant was full, which was fine. I ordered the Rotisserie chicken, and my friend had the fish and chips. My chicken was an incredibly small half, and it was very very dry and over cooked. The word Rotisserie conjures up a juicy moist affair, but alas I would have done better to go to Kentucky fried chicken. It was also billed as coming with skin on fries, but what came was the usual frozen McCain type of cardboard fries, all of which made the price of £17.95 quite ridiculous. To be fair, my friends fish and chips looked good, and he enjoyed it. Finally, at no point did anyone show us any welcoming phrases like enjoy your meal, or when I came to pay, I was not asked if everything was ok, and neither the girls or the boy behind the bar said goodbye when we left. I just felt the whole experience was just a money making exercise with no love or care to be found. It would do well for the owner/manager to reflect that the customer does have a choice, and I know I will be exercising mine.

We had a very tasty lunch at The Bell & our waitress Aisha was very helpful & friendly. Looking forward to a return visit soon.

This is the first time very happy, will be back sometime soon

Been here a number of times but the food on our last visit was just very poor for the price! Garlic Pizza bread said “drizzle of Pesto” and was covered in bland grass tasting green gloop, it was oily and quite frankly inedible! The dirty burger was ok but a £16 burger should be better than this surely!! Margarita pizza was ok! The service was spot on as always but for £90 meal for 3 people ….. not worth it for the price! The toilets were very dirty (stalls) appreciate you can’t clean after every fella has a dump but both stalls were unacceptable. Sad because it’s a lovley building and the service staff seem to care but the food was well below par! Friday evening at 6.15 wasn’t that busy so felt like there was no care taken tbh!

This is a lovely pub and restaurant, we have been here many times with various friends and family members and everybody always loves it as much as we do! The staff are friendly and efficient and the service has always been perfect - we've never felt rushed or forgotten about. The menu selection is fab (and tweaked seasonally) and we've collectively tried almost everything - every dish has been delicious, much better than usual gastropub food, and they also do really nice cocktails! The decor inside is very pleasant, the restaurant area is stylish and modern, whereas the pub feels more casual and homely. There's also a nice garden so you can dine outside, and it's dog friendly :) Basically, The Bell is awesome, so we always go here if we want to be guaranteed an delicious meal and an amazing experience. Highly recommend!

Went for a family lunch and the food and drinks were good. Cant complain. But the lunch was made by the waitress. A beautiful young lady called sophie think she was 18 she said Her service was brilliant. She was friendly,chatty polite and nothing was to much trouble. I would be making her sign a lofetime contract and paying her the world to keep her as employees like that are hard to find....she can work for my company any day. Giver her a pat on the back...a raise...day off....however you reward your employees

Service friendly, but drinks took ages to arrive. When you have a choice of only 2 steaks on the menu and the ribeye wasn’t available, thats a poor show.

The Bell always serves great food in a reasonable amount of time and the atmosphere is nice and cosy. The burgers are really tasty and the staff are too! It is way better than the Oak as that place is rubbish so this is clearly the best place to go in Aston Clinton for food.

Rooms are comfortable if a little tired but good value for area. Breakfast better than the Bel & Dragon in Wendover

Good choice of nice food in lovely atmosphere. Staff attentive and good with toddlers

Fabulous meal, friendly staff. Relaxed atmosphere.

Arrived for lunch. Very good choice on the menu. Staff really friendly and helpful. Meal arrived quickly and good size portions. Food excellent. Would recommend. Good value.

The food at the Bell is always cooked to perfection, with excellent flavours. The staff are friendly and attentive. The building itself is wonderful - so full of history and the interior decoration is impressive. We'll be sad to leave the area in a couple of months, the Bell has always been a favourite of ours, both together and separately, but we're moving too far away to come back and visit.

We liked the friendliness of the staff and the choices on the menu. We chose it because we knew it had wheelchair access which many other places do not.

Had dinner here on a Saturday evening. It wasn't as busy as expected but I'd advise to book as it can get very busy. The decor and layout of the building is lovely. Staff are friendly. My biggest issue is the prices. I ordered half a pint of lemonade and it was £3.40. extortionate!!! A non alcoholic peroni 330ml was £4.20. I'd expect that for alcohol but that's extremely expensive. I had a Margherita pizza with added 'exotic mushrooms'. It was nice but the mushrooms were chestnut mushrooms. That is not exotic. My OH had the pork belly with scallops. It was a very small piece of pork belly but well cooked. The two scallops which it came with were the size of a 10p each and cost £5 on top of the pork belly cost. Again very disappointed. The lemon tart was too sweet and was smothered in far too much jam like substance. Maybe my expectations for this place were too high but I left disappointed. It's not often I'd advise to go elsewhere to spend your hard earned cash but I would on this occasion. I hope the venue reads this and considers what it could improve on.

Something of a nostalgia trip as first visited when at university in Buckingham back in the very early 90s Excellent food and very helpful staff. Will stay next time

Nice pub,had the fish and chips which was amazing

Pub and garden very nice Great food Friendly staff

Great food, friendly staff and lovely place

Food, prices, venue and service all very good

A lovely meal, food was delicious. We had a great waitress too, so polite and helpful - thank you Sienna.

Fab meal, great service by Sienna!

Great food, brilliant service from Sienna too.

Last couple of times we visited the bell our food was not great, not sure what’s happened as previously we never had a bad meal

Always great definitely worth a visit!

First time visiting, and I was impressed with the surroundings and the service. Parking is limited and awkward, take care if yo manage to get a place in the official carpark, coming back out into the street. 🚗 The food was very good, and the selection was suitable for my wife who has allergies as well, the staff were very attentive, and helpful, great atmosphere especially if it's a warm day as the outside is welcomed to the inside with large doors, good seating area outside that gets full very quickly on nice days, it's a bit of a sun trap... 🌞 We enjoyed it so we hope you do too. 🍽️

Great pub at Aylesbury with plenty of parking and cozy seating . The staff is friendly and responsive . The food portions are good

Wow ... A wonderful place to stay at night clean good food has good history and friendly staff nice hikes all around. I recommend if you stay.

Very good food and like the curved seating. Not in a hurry so not particularly worried about speed of service, but the sparkling water I ordered took quite a long time to arrive. Otherwise nothing not to like! Liked the option to have a mini dessert with coffee

We had a lovely afternoon at The Bell, nice relaxed atmosphere, beautiful food and the best service by Owen that we have had anywhere in a really long time. Friendly, attentive, and nothing too much trouble. In fact the whole team gave off that vibe. Thank You to Owen and the team for making the visit so enjoyable.

Nice place, stylish decor, lots of space to sit. I ordered pan fried prawns and steak and ale pie. Consistency of the food was fine, but both dishes were lacking a little flavour. Would go back for drinks, doubt I'd dine there again.

We stayed at The Bell for one night. Family of 4 with one double room and one twin room. The building itself is beautiful. Well cared for frontage with lights arching over the path and what looks like a lovely outdoor seating area for warmer weather. Inside is similarly impressive with loads of original features, exposed woodwork and cozy areas to eat and drink. The hotel rooms were very impressive. Our double room (room 4) was huge with a really big bed. All the usual things you expect to find and a generous shower room. The room was extremely clean and warm and we enjoyed a peaceful night's sleep; there was no noise from other rooms or outside. Our sons' twin room was also nice with a really big shower room and a lovely fireplace. We enjoyed a Sunday roast in the evening which was excellent. We ordered two 3 meat roasts, steak, and panzanella beef fillet salad. We all thoroughly enjoyed our meals and found it great value considering the quality and service. The wine list and choice of beer and spirits is extensive. Overall we found our stay here really enjoyable. Staff are friendly and attentive and the prices were very reasonable.

We were celebrating our 5th Anniversary, we had met each other at the Bell .Lovely greeting by the staff ,great service & such a delicious roast dinner & dessert perfect .

We went for the highly recommend Sunday roast which was really good, everything came out fresh and hot. Meat was well cooked however I feel like the choice of meat is very limited. The staff were understandably very rushed and I felt this when being served. We did order dessert too however I would probably not ever again. We had the 3 scoops of ice cream and warm cookie, the cookie was not warm is was basically a Maryland however the ice cream was extremely enjoyable. Also ordered the biscoff chocolate bomb with a brownie, brownie was rock solid and cold. The biscoff was scooped straight out of the jar and the price was purely exaggerated due to the melting performance of the chocolate shell.

Dinner and over night stay...room lovely clean and comfortable reasonable cost . Sunday lunch was really nice too Pub is really oldy woldy nice bar area great staff I will recommend this to all and return myself for sure

Excellent meal. Great staff. Well able to deal with allergies concerns.

Had dinner and was severed by such a fabulous waitress called Sienna. Amazing food, couldn’t speak higher of the chefs. Will be dining again soon !

Had an amazing lunch at the Bell, served by a waitress called lily, she did an amazing job as was quite busy! But food was amazing, I had the fish cakes which were out of this world, followed by a poached pear which again cannot fault at all. The decoration of the interior in the pub was also beautiful will definitely be back.

Had an amazing lunch with the family last Friday. The staff couldn’t do enough for us and the food was amazing. I especially loved my dessert with fresh raspberries too. Will be back!

We stayed in the family room for one night which was a bit wasted on the 2 of us but we thought it was delightful and breakfast was excellent. We think we have found a gem of a place to stay and will definitely with you again

Excellent starters, excellent roast, and excellent dessert, great staff, and excellent seating area. Thankfully, same standards every time that we have visited, real character building too..

Made to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome for having a baby and a buggy during what was meant to be a lovely catch up with an old friend. Shame, this is my local and I have been many times over the years. Will not now return. Very disappointed.

In the area on business & my hotel suggested eating at this pub. It’s a beautiful building, nice garden and has plenty of parking. Inside is big, lots of eating areas. It’s quite dim lighting wise inside so nice for a romantic meal. The food - 100% fantastic - had the rib eye-hands down one of the best steaks I’ve ever had-absolutely amazing. It’s not cheap but worth every penny

Our server was marvelous, very cheery and smiley, Our food was perfect and the desserts were amazing! - (would love to see the cheesecakes back on)

We had a lovely time - great food (genuinely of a “gastropub” standard) and attentive service.

Absolutely brilliant! the server was fantastic, the food was lovely... the perfect visit. oh and when we asked for a specific table by the patio doors we were given the very one we requested. wonderful experience from the moment we walked in, thank you.

Really nice food and good service.

Tasty and enjoyable Sunday lunch

Food service slow, chicken burger was super sugary. Lovely venue

Pretty good overall, although meat portions on the beef were a little small and the gravy quite salty. Service was good, staff friendly and professional. Edit 4/24: still good, still salty gravy.

Fabulous birthday meal. Couldn’t fault the food or service Highly recommend

We went there for a meal after a sad occasion, 8 of us, excellent service and food

We have booked table, and for along time I was planning to visit your Gastro pub, and we visited with our dog, knowing that will be served in bar or garden, but we actually hardly get hello on the entrance, we choose garden, table was covered dust, ordered drinks we bring our self, and food been served on the dusted table, with no any intention to wipe it by waiters... It's not service we would expect in place named Gastro pub, this is just low quality regular pub. Unfortunately we not visiting again. Worst fish&chips ever

Great location and plenty of space . Food was good quality pub meals. Food dropped a point as all the coffees were so weak, felt like they were all milk and no coffee at all. Maybe the machine was set wrong? Otherwise all good.

With daughter and grandson - good menu for kids without compromising the grown up stuff. Good choice of fish on the menu - and meat too though sadly the steak my daughter ordered “bleu” came medium rare.

Friendly, helpful staff. Great food and range of choices, including vegan and ethically sourced. Lovely interior and garden.

Nice birthday party here tonight. Had our own room which was nice. The young girls who looked after us all were brilliant.

Very pretty pub. However, our food took over an hour to arrive and was very average. The half chicken was dry and had virtually nothing else on the plate! Expected better for a fairly expensive and nice looking pub.

All great! Don't normally eat out these days because we're often disappointed but we gave you a go based on your reviews and were so glad we did. The service was impeccable, perfectly timed, thoughtful and friendly. The menu had a lovely mix to choose from and the food was impressive. Honestly, you couldn't have improved anything!

Our food was wonderful and the amazing service that Gary gave us really made our visit.He was so helpful and even enquired about a favourite dessert of my mum in law(creme brulee)to let us know when it would be back on the seasonal menu.The restaurant was really busy but Gary was super efficient and calm and seemed to genuinely enjoy chatting to everyone and making them welcome. I asked for his name so that I could leave feedback because he really was good at his job and you should get him to train all the staff so that they are like him !10 out of 10

The whole experience was a delight. The waitress was absolutely lovely. Really took the time to interact with us, not simply do a job and take our food order. The food arrived promptly, was beautifully served and tasted delicious.

Ashley was a very attentive waitress. She was at hand if needed and very polite. The pub is in a lovely setting with plenty of parking outside.

Service was OK - quick starter but slow for main course.. Food was good apart from the prime burger and the brownie, which were both dry and overcooked/re-heated.

Was taken by my daughter for Mother’s Day - we were in the dog friendly part of the restaurant in front of a roaring fire - just perfect as a miserable rainy day. The MD menu food was amazing - could not fault and good range of choices. Service was great and we were never kept waiting for anything. Will certainly return.

We celebrated our son’s birthday with our large family here this weekend, as it’s our son’s favourite restaurant. I have to say it did not disappoint, the food was lovely, the service was so warming and friendly, and our son loved it. Thank you The Bell for always delivering!!!

We had a table of 10 for my sons birthday and the food and staff were amazing. Very helpful and accommodating, especially as we were a large group. Highly recommended.

Went there for dinner with good mate 1 in wheelchair well looked after food was good enjoyed the evening 1 small downside was getting wheelchair in front door.