The Bridge Inn in North East Derbyshire

Terrible experience! Been to many pubs and restaurants in the Peak District but never had such a hostile experience. Most of the staff members were nice, some even lovely but one particular senior member of the staff was particularly inhospitable and put simply Rude! Not only was she not able to manage a smile on her face, we unfortunately had the front row seat to her giving patrons dirty looks and rudely telling patrons off. Not sure, who hired her but she’s definitely made sure we wouldn’t be returning customers of Bridge Inn. In fact, even after we paid the bill and got up to leave, she prompted one of the other staff members to stop us and ask that we pay the bill. When we told her the bill was paid, she looked at us blankly and asked that we produce a receipt. Thankfully we hadn’t thrown away the receipt. Of course, once we showed the receipt, she looked away like we were dismissed but the other staff member did say thank you. You’d think that their system would show that the front table of 5 (next to the bar) with a bill of £90 was paid. We love going to pubs and restaurants in the Peak and entertaining guests, but we will be avoiding this one for sure!

Only called in for a pint, first time visit, very polite bar staff and a lovely cosy feel as soon as you walk in, as I would say, " a proper country pub feel " definitely be calling in again 🙂👍. Now had several meals and all have been excellent, especially the fish dishes, and the right size portions😋.

I worked here for a month, and the male owner Paul, is rude, aggressive and hostile! He shouted at me like a dog!! All I did was serve a customer! He has no respect for staff, that's why they have such a fast turn over of staff and no customers ! He has no desire to treat staff in any respect at all! The he worst place I've ever worked by far!!!! The food is so basic, bland and boring! And if you could see the prep in the back.....you wouldn't go back!!!! and the dog is allowed to roam around the kitchen! Also, the place smells like wet dog all the time, this is why the pub is so dead, glad I went back my old work which is heaving and packed all the time, not like this place which should be shut down! HEALTH INSPECTOR PLEASE!!!!

Lovely traditional pub . Simple, well priced food , nice pint of Landlord beer. Sat outside , so quiet and away from it all. First time we had been in maybe 20 years. Will definitely be back.

A beautiful little country style pub/restaurant with freshly prepared food and a rustic atmosphere.

We absolutely love the food here, its great for vegetarians too with a separate vegetarian specials board. We had spiced cauliflower pie, veg, hand cut chips and gravy

Very lovely lunch- ploughman’s in the garden!

Lovely place. Nice food, Friendly staff. Great for dog walkers

Called in here recently asked for a halve of coke £2.65 two days later i called into my local £2.00 for two halves of coke what a cheek to charge these prices by thwaites brewery total rip off

Pub smelt of toilets as we walked in. Zero people inside the pub, a few people outside despite it being a lovely sunny day. Ordered 3 main meals including the caesar salad for myself and a side of chips for the table. We waited for what seemed like an eternity and when it came my heart sank. It consisted of yellow lettuce leaves and 6 croutons which can only be described as inedible at a cost of £9.95 and I paid £4 extra for a piece of anaemic looking chicken. I was hungry so ate the chicken and was going to tell the one member of staff (serving food and the bar) when she came to ask if everything was OK. She never came and we had to leave. Will never return for food. The only saving grace is that it's in a nice spot for a walk hence the 1*

First time here lovely pub and friendly staff had the beef curry very nice my wife had Caesar salad £9 .95 for the lettuce and mayonnaise £4.0 for 4 pieces of chicken. £13.95 for a salad. (Shame) Overall I would have liked to have given more stars but for the shock of the Caesar salad:-( sorry.

Fabulous pub and beautiful views

Quick pint after an afternoon walk on Father's Day.

This is a lovely place to dine and have a drink lovely staff great atmosphere 💯

Old but very Beutiful pub and very friendly staff nice seating area outside.

Cosy little pub! We came here for some lunch as the weather was nice and we wanted to sit outside with some food. Lovely little spot, plenty of outdoor seating, the food menu was small and nice for those wanting to eat outdoors. I had the roast meat of the day sandwich with Gravy and home cooked chips. It was delicious! My husband had the chicken burger and my daughter had chicken nuggets. We sat over the little bridge in a garden area which my daughter enjoyed walking round and spotting all the little wildlife. Overall we had a lovely couple of hours here and would definitely come again. ☺️

Nice country pub, decent prices. Well kept beer.

The bar staff were sooooo slow, and it felt awkward when being served. Took forever to get a drink and it was not busy. We only had a drink so cannot comment on the food.

Yeh I liked it here. A Thwaites pub and very good food as pubs go these days. More 'authentic' Twaites ales (Gold, Original, etc.) would have made it a 5½/5

Lovely staff nice & clean found the pub on our way back from gardening centres

Great little pub friendly staff and great surroundings. Good choice of beer 🍻 A little pricey though two pints cost £12 50

Great birthday meal here tonight. All the dishes we had were cooked to perfection & the service was excellent. We loved the music tape which brought back lots of memories & sparked others. We are only here for the weekend or we would be regulars.

Excellent family meal with great food and attentive service. Would definitely recommend paying a visit. Wide selection of food to choose from the menu, plus a specials board, and it was all delicious. Good beers too. 5 stars all round!

After a dog walk, we stopped at the bridge inn, a very welcoming place, dog friendly. We had chips for food but they were berry good and well cooked. Good selection of drinks available.

Stopped for lunch half way through a round walk. Received a warm welcome & promt service. Had vegetable curry with rice & nan, & Guinness. Very pleased with the hospitality.

Only called for a drink. Bar staff very polite & new what she was doing. Clean & tidy bar area.

Just popped in to check the place out to visit in the future for a meal.. Young chap behind the bar was very freindly and helpful. Menu looks really good and reasonably priced. Will definitely be back for a meal.

Friendly, warm, and welcoming. Lovely country pub with some really nice walks close by.

Traditional country pub, Nice food menu, Outdoor shelter & beer garden. A good spot for starting / finishing a walk.

OK pub grub. Nothing special. Good area for walkers with dirty boots.

Great little country inn and the best food we have had in a pub for a long time, could not fault it. Would have given 5 stars for atmosphere if there had been more people in but it was a bit quiet. Lovely open fire . Would highly recommend

Really friendly pub serving good food . Good menu and a specials board . Lovely beer garden in a lovely setting

Only Popped in for a quick pint with my daughter, ssems a nice atmosphere and friendly staff, dont know about the food as we didnt eat but the menu looks nice

We normally come here for a drink after a walk around Ford. We decided to go for the Curry night haven eaten here previously and it didn’t disappoint. The Onion Bhaji’s were particularly delicious as were the curries themselves and Paratha. I wood highly recommend trying off given the opportunity.

Nice little quaint pub just noisy dogs x

Atmosphere, ambience, menu and food all brilliant - repeat visitor

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Excellent food ,cosy ,friendly and reasonable prices .excellent service, really friendly staff

Booked a table for 16, didn’t ask if we wanted to pre-order so assumed there was enough staff. Food was nice, we had a lovely Sunday lunch previously and it was beautiful so decide to book for a birthday. There was only one bar staff on and 2 younger servers who couldn’t serve alcohol so the service was really slow and waited over an hour. The lager was flat and not good at all so I had to take it back. My mother is gluten free so she had liver and mash, when we got the bill she was charged for the gravy, which I found insulting. If you have meal especially with mash you expect gravy not a dry meal. The pub is beautiful and I think service needs to be looked at. I did feel like getting behind the bar at one point to show how it’s done at fast pace so people don’t have to wait. Don’t think we will be back which is a shame.

Just been here, I had salmon & husband had home made steak pie. Absolutely 💯 delicious. Salmon perfect.

Just had Sunday lunch, we all had different a pork a turkey and a lamb. The pork came with amazing piece of crackling, all our meals came with potatoes mashed and roast, a lovely well cooked selection of vegetables, homemade Yorkshire pudding which if I'm honest was a little dry and overcooked but at least it was homemade. The gravy was very tasty, we all enjoyed our meals and will return to The Bridge Inn again, staff are lovely and the surroundings are nice too, all in all a great lunch out thank you.

Great traditional pub and lovely food

Really really lovely pub! Went a few times over the weekend. Archie the landlord is really nice too. He came over to make sure we were enjoying ourselves

We haf lovely homecooked food booked to go back with Friend's

Lovely location. Good service. Friendly locals. I don't like skin on chips so that was a downer for me but everything else was really good. Next time I'll order the fries and it will be perfect.

The sandwich was very underwhelming and rather expensive for 2 slices of bread.

There were no stars for food as we didn't have any, just popped in for a drink and took a couple of hours out of our day. We also had a little walk to the pond .

Lovely home cooked food, car park a bit small, think there is another place to park but couldn't find where you enter it

Nice place to stop whilst out in ford

Best Sunday dinner I've had and a lovely place.

Lovely watering hole after walk in eckington woods👍

Lovely pub. Attended following a family funeral. Staff were attentive with good service and great food and drinks. We were in the 'conservatory' at the back and felt it was a shame we had no access to what appears to be a lovely garden. Absolutely non existent phone signal unless you walk up to the main road

Quiet County pub, close to lush walks and fishing pond. Close then you'd think to large outer city district. Part of s lovely little village.

This is a lovely little pub on the end of or half through a great dog walk. The only reason it doesn’t have more stars is that it’s beer selection is very limited. If it had better quality or a broader range of keg beers I would have scored it higher!

Excellent food and service. Dog friendly too.

Loverly place good food very friendly atmosphere

Went today Good Friday mum Nan two kids amazing food nice staff lovely service will come again .fish was amazing xxx

Food lovely came out hot .Service and staff friendly would go again would recommed a visit .

We love this cute pub, owners are friendly and the food is great

Although the pub is friendly enough, and more than caters for muddy booted walkers stopping in for a drink and a snack, the food wasn’t all that. We both had a Butcher’s Sausage Sandwich. I’d like to know the name of the butcher, so that I never buy anything from them. Not nice. I was reliably informed by my friends that the Guinness was good, mind, and as we all know, a good beer is the real reason for going to a pub, not sausage baps.

Traditional pub. Good food. Dog friendly.

Good food, service excellent, lovely location, fairly priced and dog friendly. Will go again

Lovely meal in lovely family pub 😋

Nice little cosy pub with friendly people

The lamb burger was delicious and Warsteiner (my favourite) on tap!

We went Tuesday lunch time it was empty when we arrived but filled up quite quickly. The new landlord was very friendly and I believe his wife served the food which was very good.

Lovely country pub with a good beer garden . Great pint too. Plenty of outside seating, some under cover. Edit. We went for curry night last week ( jan 23) and the food is delicious. Got to be the best steamed rice I have ever had and lamb and spinach Rogan Josh just WOW, so tender. We were a party of four and we all enjoyed the night and food. We will be back!

Only nipped in for a pint which was good so can't really comment further.

Went for a birthday party. Landlady made all the food and it was great. Homemade onion bhaji and samosa. Drinks were good. I presume the manager, dark haired lady, was friendly, helpful and very approachable.

Enjoyed our meal last night. There were 14 of us, we pre-ordered our food and the service was spot on. We stayed for the quiz too which was a huge amount of fun. Really enjoyed our evening. Parking wasn't an issue and facilities were clean. Hosts were very friendly and efficient.

Lovely Christmas day lunch with my family can't fault the food it would have been nice to meet the host's

Good menu choices resulting in a great meal. The only down side being that my wife said the Pea and Ham soup was rather lacking in the ham department.

Lovely meal, great choice of food and attentive host, would definitely go again.

Normally, I enjoy a beer after a walk here but last week I was charged £2.65 for a half pint of lemonade with a dash of lime cordial and 2 ice cubes. I thought I had been charged for a pint but the barman said not! I think I will go elsewhere next time. Since found out that £2.65 is a common price and not specific to the Bridge.

First visit but won't be the last! Lovely pub, roaring open fire but the food was fabulous, great choices, piping hot, very good value for money and great service! Couldn't ask for more 😊

Excellent food! Very nice staff,I can't wait to come back for Sunday lunch! Absolutely delicious 😊

Really enjoyed the curry night here. Would recommend.

Nice rural pub friendly good choice of beers.

What a wonderful find..tooked away in this hamlet..lovely wood fire..Great food & fantastic host s...well done!!

lovely coffee and cake...service with a smile even though obviously very busy.

Stunning pub in the Ford. Great food in a great location. Outside area is good if you have walked your dog in the woods and caked In mud.

Great pub food with an open fire and friendly staff making an overall walking pit stop a lovely experience

Sad to say no food at lunch time on Tuesday's.

We have been for tea tonight. Meat n potatoe pie real chips n fabulous veg. Loved looked after really well..so good we booked for Sunday lunch will be back to let you know how it was x thanks for looking after us see you Sunday Ann n Alan x

Very very nice food and kind staff would visit u again

Good old fashioned local pub friendly staff Good food and good ales

Just had fabulous food at the Bridge Inn. Real homemade food plenty of it & lovely service. We particularly liked Archie the resident Golden Retriever who came to say hello. Will definitely be back & highly recommend a visit.

Food was top class. New decor invites

Stopped for a beer with the dog in the way back from a walk along the river.

All our food was lovely. Really enjoyed it

Absolutely great! We booked a table here on a busy Saturday afternoon and nothing was too much trouble. Thank you all for making it a pleasurable after for us all.

Feel like we've been ripped off £15.50 for a pint of carling and an apple juice with lemonade, won't be coming back here again!!!!

Had our first meal since it was refurbished, sat outside on a lovely warm evening. Excellent meal friendly and jovial staff, owners were particularly friendly. Pricing was really reasonable. Really enjoyed it. We will be back.

Was a beautiful meal and was looking amazing after the makeover in June! Lovely atmosphere too

Came here for a lunch with my husband and sister in law. They do a great steak and ale pie here, which we all had. Didn’t disappoint. Several options on the menu but you cannot go wrong with the pies. The service was great too, with a very friendly server behind the counter and kind kitchen staff. I removed one star because during our meal, there were multiple flies flying around and these were obviously a nuisance. Plenty of parking.

Limited menu so just had a drink ...looks good what new owners have done ...beautiful in the garden on a sunny day x

We had a larger and a steak sarni which h was excellent

Love this place! Always feels like we're on holiday here & it's only 10 mins from our doorstep! 🙏🤩

Has got a nice beer garden, not to keen on the inside, but a decent pub overall.

Very friendly pub in a great location with a beautiful beer garden. The manager very kindly let me stay in my camper in the carpark in exchange for eating and drinking in his pub. The food was exceptional as was the service. Thank-you. Martin