The Bruce Arms in Hambleton

Keep 'Bobbing on' with your fantastic food, great service and ambience.... great rapport with your guests, delightful evening as always. Thank you.

Gorgeous place. Going back tomorrow. Just what a village pub should be. Perfect.

Every course cooked to perfection. A varied and imaginative menu, very informative and friendly girl taking orders. All the staff were friendly and had the balance just right. A lovely and unpretentious restaurant and we had a great night. Can’t wait to get back. It’s hard to find places like this.

Super friendly service and food was absolutely delicious. Great ambience and cute decor with lots of lovely plants.

Very friendly staff. Helpful through the booking system. Adapted menus for lactose intolerance to give multiple options. Dog friendly. Cozy rooms and delicious food. Great atmosphere and quick service.

Amazing service, fabulous staff, great food. Top notch all around.

Jade made us so welcome in what was a major issue for the village, no water. The whole staff went well above and beyond to serve their customers. Much better experience than the pub by the river. Thank you Jade and staff, we will be back. Cheers. XxX

Dined here on Christmas Eve with family of Six. A warm welcome, great service and Food! One of the best menus I have seen in a long while and everyone enjoyed their lunch. I would recommend dinning here if you are passing by or staying in the area.

Excellent pub not far from the motorway way made it a great stop en route to Edinburgh. We walked in to find the bar full of locals but the friendly staff immediately saw us and showed us to our room. The food was excellent, the winelist is well thought out and fairly priced and there is a wide selection of cocktails and digestives. The room was comfortable and clean but could do with a bit of updating. All the staff are very well trained and Matt, the landlord, clearly runs a tight ship that gives the place a very relaxed feel. Thank you all.

Great, relaxed pub setting but with exceptional dining experience. The food and service put some more supposed high end restraunts I have eaten in to shame. All 3 courses were fantastic. Matt was an amazing host and his presentation of the delicious cheese board at the end of our meal showed his passion for quality! Highly recommended !!!

Fantastic country pub with a brilliant and friendly team led by a knowledgeable landlord. Delicious food. Worth a detour.

Highly recommend amazing tasting food, fantastic team. ReL fires & dog friendly 10/10

Beautiful pub. Lovely dining room where our large party ate last night. Fabulous food served in a candle lit dining room with a roaring fire. Lovely staff. Thanks for hosting us.

Superb. 5 of us went on Saturday night, 1st time for myself, and we weren't disappointed. Menu isn't vast, but personally, I like that as too much choice isn't always a good thing Service was great food was top notch and all at a reasonable price Defoe recommend 👌 We will be back👍

4 of us Stopped here for 1 night, the bedroom was quaint, all of them were named after famous Bruce's. We had the Ken Bruce and the Bruce Springsteen! Booked in for evening meal which was fantastic, warm runny yolk Scotch egg,followed by Braised Beef Cheek and Sticky Toffee Pudding with Vanilla ice cream all were excellent! Good selection of wines and a nice pint of Theakstones bitter.The breakfast was also excellent, quality bacon sausage blackpudding with tomatoe mushrooms beans and lovely egg! Warm Croissants and Pan au chocolat home made jam cereal if you wanted it and a fantastic Apple and Rhubarb juice. Matt was a fantastic host and I would recommend a night at the Bruce Arms with or without your dog and I nice country walk!

Food excellent. Didn't stay so can't grade rooms

A superior menu from a chef who knows how to create sumptuously tasty food. Highly recommended.

Staying at a nearby retreat we booked to eat lunch at The Bruce Arms, in the village of West Tanfield on both the Friday and the Sunday. I want you to know that this could so easily be an "excellent" review but for encountering a familiar problem. We have a vegetarian in our party and when we are planning to visit somewhere new we will always be looking at your website menus to see what's on offer. When we arrive to find that your actual menu is different from the one advertised on your website it will always lead to disappointment. My partner had the vegetable tart tartin on offer and thought it was a bit chunky and raw but ok. I had the sausage and mash special which was absolutely incredible with homemade sausage roll, sweet with herbs, beautiful black pudding, a Lincolnshire sausage, the most creamy, buttery mash, lovely veg and wonderful red wine sauce. It really was fantastic and the 3rd person in our party had the soup and a mackerel pate both of which were excellent. On the Sunday for lunch it's just the 2 of us. Again on your website the vegetarian choice of nut roast is advertised and we are looking forward to it but when we arrive we find that the menu we are given has no nut roast but now has the vegetable tart tartin again which we don't want. The staff were wonderful and accommodating and sorted out a veggie Sunday lunch with veggie gravy. My roast pork Sunday lunch was again absolutely incredible, delicious and wonderful. I fully understand that you say that the menu is subject to change and you need to be able to do that for the benefit of the business but it really would help if you included your website offering in those changes.

Called up at last minute this evening, a table was available in 30 minutes, we arrived to a full bar, full of locals, I mean full, the atmosphere was brilliant lots of chatting and laughter, a Landlords dream, our meal was delivered promptly despite the Pub being so busy, Staff were attentive even though they were run off their feet, quality of our meal was excellent, so pleased to see a village Pub so busy, we will back soon

We both had the sirloin steak which whilst a little pricey at £35, was well worth the money. It was big, beautifully cooked and very tasty. There was nothing to fault, the chips were possibly the nicest we have ever had and the mushroom, tomatoe and salad accompanying the dish were great too. Nicely renovated as a traditional country pub and great service too. Highly recommend.

Absolutely amazing -we had been previously and took our family this time and it certainly didn’t disappoint! We all agreed it was the best Sunday dinner we have ever had!

We went for a roast, and we can honestly say that it was the best roast that we've ever had! We ordered the terrine to start and then the beef roast, with all the trimmings! It was so tasty and perfectly cooked! The staff we're super helpful and friendly. Highly recommend this roast for anyone visiting the North of Yorkshire!

only stopping for a main course lunch service was quick and efficient, old Jamaica ginger beer sweet and fiery. I has venison haunch that was cooked spot on with plenty of juicy ruby red meat to match the red and yellow beets that came with it. flavorful juice and extra plate of mixed greens elevated the meal. she had the cod and chorizo with potatoes a proper ramp up on the usual fish and chips. really liked the whole place, people and food.

I’m not sure which Bruce Arms Sam L from Knaresborough reviewed (see below) but the one we went to yesterday was super. Very friendly staff and super Sunday lunch. The cauliflower cheese was absolutely delicious too. We had coffee outside as the weather was lovely. The baklava served with it was a lovely touch and tasty too. The outside seating area is very pleasant and we saw someone adding more plants etc to make it even nicer. We will be back. Well done to all concerned.

We live locally and have been a couple of times for Sunday lunch and recently on an evening. Genuinely think it’s fantastic, from drink selection to the food, waiting staff etc. In a time when many pubs are struggling, this one appears to be thriving and deserves supporting. We will certainly be back.

Top notch Sunday lunch, 3 course's of very well presented quality food and excellent beer

Just had a drink in beer garden, lovely staff ☺️

We had a great meal,service was great too ,if in the area again we'll be back to the bruce Arms

Great food great service. Thanks!

Good beer, excellent roasts and attentive staff.

Maybe it's historic, but The Bull, down the road, is a much better pub for me.

Lovely very friendly and very welcoming staff. Nothing was too much trouble. The food is excellent and very well presented. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay and definitely will be going back again. Well done to Matt and all his staff. Thank you for a very enjoyable stay.

The Bruce Arms is the perfect blend of rustic country charm and culinary brilliance. Cosy and inviting with a wonderful host and staff. There is a great selection of drinks/wine. But the real star of the show is the food. Eaten here a few times now, most recently for a delicious Sunday dinner. The well crafted menu always seems to have changed with the season resulting in a great dining experience, with delicious vegetarian options too. If you're seeking a genuine taste of the local area with a great Yorkshire welcome and top-notch fare, look no further than The Bruce Arms. A true gem to which we will keep returning!

Shocking... Clearly under new management and forgotten to hire a chef. Scary to think that people may visit Yorkshire and a meal here could shape thier opinion of the area. We booked a meal after reviewing the google reviews and photos. It was clear that the majority of photos and reviews are from previous ownership/management. The dinning area was dirty and dusty. The toilets were even worse.... The food, priced at about 30 quid for 2 courses implied it was going to save the experience.... not the case. The beef was cooked well, but the rest of the meal was shocking. Burnt yorkshires, raw cauliflower cheese and the potatos definitely werent made within the days service and I wouldn't be surprised if they had been warmed up from the week before. After expressing our disappointment staff were kind enough to remove the food from out bill as we hadnt eaten it and we paid the bill they provided. When leaving we were approached by a drunk man (I think his name was Ben). He asked if we had paid for the meal to which we stated we settled the bill. He then asked the question twice more, getting more aggressive. At this point we asked if he was the manager to which he replied he was a mate of the owners. We ended up heading into Ripon for some dinner. I'd advise anyone else to do the same.

Shocking... Clearly under new management and forgotten to hire a chef. Scary to think that people may visit Yorkshire and a meal here could shape thier opinion of the area. We booked a meal after reviewing the google reviews and photos. It was clear that the majority of photos and reviews are from previous ownership/management. The dinning area was dirty and dusty. The toilets were even worse.... The food, priced at about 30 quid for 2 courses implied it was going to save the experience.... not the case. The beef and cooked well, but the rest of the meal was shocking. Burnt yorkshires, raw cauliflower cheese and the potatos definitely werent made within the days service and I w be surprised if they had been warmed up from the week before. After expressing our disappointment staff were kind enough to remove the food from out bill as we hadnt eaten it and we paid the bill they provided. When leaving we were approached by a drunk man (I think his name was Ben). He asked if we had paid for the meal to which we stated we settled the bill. He then asked the question twice more, getting more aggressive. At this point we asked if he was the manager to which he replied he was a mate of the owners. We ended up heading into Ripon for some dinner. I'd advise anyone else to do the same.

Stopped by for an evening meal during the week. The food is top notch, very tasty indeed. Very friendly staff. The landlord is very sociable! Nice family atmosphere with the kids running around. Very enjoyable, thank you!

Heerlijk steak gegeten in de achtertuin. Goed gebakken, voldoende groenten en garnering! Leuke locatie!

Called in for Sunday lunch today, with the little dog we were looking after. Everything was nice and relaxed. We got drinks at the bar and then opted for a 2 course meal (starter and main). The tomato and chilli soup came with a chunk of sour dough bread and herby butter. The salmon was done miso style. The main course of pork and beef were delicious too, with veg and roasties. All washed down with pint of real ale. Recommended.

Brilliant food, excellent landlord and well trained staff. Cute, cosy friendly pub!

Visited for a big family meal. Food and service were both great

Friendly and cosy pub. Lovely bedrooms. Great food cooked and served with flair. Lamb Henry was tender and the chef was happy to swop couscous for green veggies. Tasty breakfasts. Beer was good too!

All the rooms are named after famous Bruces ! You have Fiona Bruce (obviously), Ken Bruce, Robert the Bruce, Bruce Forsyth etc We stayed in the Bruce Bannerman aka the Incredible Hulk room and very comfortable it was too. The food was extraordinary, I had the lamb Henry and, my goodness, was it tasty. Mrs MaverickTendency had the Bacon and Queen scallop Caesar which apparently was equally wonderful. All washed down with wonderful Theakston bitter brewed just up the road in Masham. I can thoroughly recommend the Bruce Arms, some of the best food I've had. A visit to the church and the Marmion Tower (English Heritage site) is recommended.

Great food, good wines including natural wines. Will definitely return. ... Did return and it's still just as good! Natural wines are good for the palette, environment and the head 😁 (presumably from lower sulphite levels). The people here really know their stuff. We were indecisive and had some great help choosing main courses and matching wine (which went well with the main courses and absolutely brilliantly with the starters).

First visit and the food was amazing, staff all lovely, helpful and friendly

Exceptional food and service from the team, very friendly staff. Lovely outside area & great beer. 100% would recommend + very dog friendly.

Friendly staff and a good pint.

The best beer garden by far!! The food is also really great quality.

Great service staff very friendly. The food was excellent will always use the Bruce Arms.

Magical place to enjoy a nice IPA in the Sunshine. Staff make you feel welcomed 😊

Excellent food at this lovely pub for a very special family occasion. Thank you to everyone involved.

Nice enjoyed room ok food eatable made comfortable

Cosy pub serving incredible food. Well worth a visit

Arrived short notice and the management and staff couldn’t have been more welcoming. Great staff, great food.

Excellent food and drinks, fantastic attentive staff. I'm stuffed 🙂

We popped in for a coffee followed by a Sunday roast the next day. Super friendly landlord and the staff are all lovely. One of the best roasts I’ve had in ages (the cheesy Leeks are an absolute essential upgrade). Epic sticky toffee pudding and a short but sweet selection of draft beers 🍻

Good food, well served and reasonably priced

Excellent beer and fabulous staff. Loved it here

Lovely pub serving delicious meals. Friendly atmosphere, and a great Team working there. Clearly a well managed establishment with a good wine selection, and a knowledgeable host.

Lovely place for a night away celebrating our anniversary. The room was comfortable and clean with everything you needed. The food in the restaurant was gorgeous for both our evening meal and breakfast and nothing was too much trouble for the staff. Service from Matt and his team was impeccable throughout our stay, we'll definitely be back!!

Not much of a choice of mains and desserts. Very pricey for what you get

Excellent food, quite pricey but good quality and service.

Fantastic couple of nights here! Highly recommend paying The Bruce Arms a visit for a pint, meal or night away. The food was fantastic, and Matt was a great host for the weekend. We each enjoyed the smoked bacon loin and lamb cannon. The sticky toffee pudding - what a treat!! The menu changes every couple of weeks or so, so you can be sure to get something seasonal. The breakfast was fab! Great local butcher’s produce. Some may say the food is not the cheapest, but hey, you get what you pay for. The Bruce seems to be on the up with the owners wanting to build up their business which is great to see and support. We will be back!!

Stayed at the Bruce Arms for 2 nights from the moment we walked in we felt welcomed room Excellent food outstanding atmosphere wonderful very dog friendly can't wait to come back 😀

Visited here on New Year's Eve for lunch together with a return visit on 22nd January for Sunday lunch. Both times were excellent, and was the reason for our return visit. A great location, great service, dog-friendly and a good selection of drinks and real ales. The food was amazing and had the 'Chicken + Ham Pie with Triple Cooked Chips' on my first visit followed by a 'Christmas Sticky Toffee Pudding'. The Sunday lunch is still the best that I have had so far this year. Had 'Roast chicken breast, sausage meat + bacon' followed by 'Lemon posset, raspberries, and cumin shortbread'. Simply divine food and will definitely recommend and return

Could not have asked for more, lovely weekend away will definitely go back.

Terrific local pub with an excellent kitchen serving well cooked and presented dishes from an imaginative menu at good value prices. Deservedly popular restaurant is informal with friendly staff - all overseen by the congenial landlord. Eclectic drinks and wine list with some excellent options - try the one-off ‘top shelf’ wines!!!

Mother’s Day at the Bruce….beautiful food, service & atmosphere. Will definitely be back!

Their kitchen is often closed on a Wednesday evening, however this Wednesday was their Tartiflette Night cooked by the landlord. Absolutely brilliant; two helpings, lemon posset, French music, they brought the Alps to Yorkshire. Regular menu is equally délicieux!

As we were walking around the village so we called in to the Bruce arms Beautiful pub and well presented Very friendly staff and so helpful Brought our drinks to the table Beautiful latte and great taste Great atmosphere Definitely call in if you are in the area 5 stars from me

Wonderful pub owner who was friendly and funny. Very accommodating of our one year old and the food was fantastic. I highly recommend.

Went for sunday lunch all i can say is WOW

Didn’t realise a broccoli starter could be so good. Informal, cosy county pub with fantastic food.

Outstanding vegan food - definitely the best Sunday lunch we have had anywhere. A delicious meal, really well-balanced and no compromise on flavour. So many dessert options including a cheese board. Great service and very knowledgeable. Looking forward to our next meal there!

Lovely country pub, serving great wholesome food. Great service.

A great place to go. Food, drink, service, atmosphere all exceed expectations. We love it and couldn't wish for more time and time again, whether it's just us as a couple or with our family and friends the Bruce never lets us down. A credit to landlord and staff.

Stunning food, restaurant quality rather than pub. Very friendly locals, very knowledgeable staff.

Highly rate The Bruce Arms, Matt, Philippa and the staff are amazing. Friendly welcome, very comfortable atmosphere. The room and amenities were great, loved the duvet, pillows and the freshly ground coffee. I cannot say enough about the food, both dinner and breakfast were excellent, well presented, enough of it and definitely compliments to the chef. The garlic bread was the best and well worth a try. Good selection of drinks available and not all the common ones you find everywhere either. Overall a very pleasent and relaxing two night stay.

Nice little country pub with a real fire. Seating is a bit limited unless you are eating, in which case the restaurant should suffice. It's probably best to book ahead. Excellent ales on tap with friendly bar staff. Mental note to have a meal next visit.

Quaint little pub in West Tanfield. Was our only choice as the Black Bull was closed for refurbishment, but didn't mind luckily as it was a very friendly and chilled bar with nice staff and patrons and some excellent ales on draft. Dog friendly too which pleased Storm and Shadow. Didn't have food so can't rate it ... yet.

Had a really nice Sunday lunch at this excellent pub. Great food, service and hospitality. Definitely recommend a visit, but suggest booking in advance.

What an excellent pub / restaurant. The food is fantastic....so tasty. The staff are fantastic...nothing as any trouble. The ambience is lovely. We just opted for a lunchtime sandwich..but what a sandwich. They came in unpretentious 'ordinary' sliced brown or white bread, fries and a mini tomato and basil soup taster. Absolutely delicious. Ask for the ‘Terry McCLeary Special’ sandwich...white bread on the top, brown bread on the bottom. Magic! Why has it taken an American (our guest for the day) to invent this, off the cuff? He’s a star. (Sadly, Terry died back in the US on May 14th 2020. RIP.)

A lovely evening, centred around perfectly executed meals, in a friendly relaxed setting. The venison is a dish I would have again tomorrow, as was the starter to be honest, (Black pudding and crispy duck egg). No doubt we will be back to try out the rest of the menu at some point very soon, (babysitters permitting). 😅 Nice selection of ales on too, theakstons and a couple of guest pale options 👍

Fantastic pub either just for a drink or 6 the food is absolutely fantastic and the owners are warm and welcoming the whole place has a wonderful homely feel you won't be disappointed

When we arrived at the Bruce arms it was raining and our table was booked for the 6 of us (and a dog) outside, the staff did their utmost to keep us dry, intially setting up a makeshift shelter from umbrellas suspended above us then finding space inside and providing seating for us. Food was top notch and very reasonably priced, well worth a visit!

Amazing service, Matt is such a great host with a great team - and fantastic food and a brilliant wine menu.

Ate a couple if times during our stay in West Tanfield and would recommend it. Not the cheapest but worth the cost. The samphire on the mussels was a great addition and the bread which came with it was delicious and fries piping hot. Can't remember the last time I ordered a cheese board and it wasn't served straight out of fridge 👏 for serving at room temperature, and a lovely selection of crackers. My only disappointment was scotch egg was not quite runny enough.

Had a right night and day best pub around people was all really friendly xxx

A brilliant roast and desert and warm welcome. This pub is on the pricey side but the cost is completely justified by good food and service. Highly recommended.

Excellent food, excellent service, great atmosphere. Would definitely go again.

Fantastic food and service as always. Throughly enjoyable and well worth a visit. Love it 😍

Went in for lunch today. The sign outside welcomed everyone and their dogs except for racist uncles and that really tickled us so in we went. The pub has recently changed hands so it was good to see what the new owners had done with the place. Tastefully done out but not over the top and you didn't feel like you needed to be in full bib and tucker to be there. Very friendly staff. The landlord ran through the interesting lunch menu with us and we ordered the ploughmans and the market fish which, today, was hake. Food arrived promptly and was really well presented. The hake was fantastic - cooked to perfection on a bed of wilted greens which hid some really punchy samphire and dressed with a caper butter. The ploughmans was interesting with an great assortment of meat, homemade sausage roll and two superb cheeses - the Leeds Blue was the perfect temperature and to die for. A couple of sides of generous hunks of garlic bread and some decent triple cooked chips completed the meal. We left there very happy. The food wasn't the cheapest that we've ever had at around £21 a head including drinks but it was absolutely worth every penny. Highly recommended.

One night stay whilst visiting the area, clean and comfy room. Had a delicious evening meal and a cracking breakfast. Great service and cask beer. Would certainly visit and stay again in future.

An average country pub. Pleasant staff but some customers with no filter! Not what I want to experience as a "tourist." Shame, as it's a lovely location, in beautiful countryside with huge potential.

Super friendly staff, lovely atmosphere, great service, excellent food. Bedrooms are well kept and have every thing you can need. Only negative was that I couldn't try the breakfast

Excellent Sunday lunch. Starters included scallops. Mains included perfectly cooked roasts and delicate fish and the puddings included lemon posset. We will return even if its just for the on tap Guinness .

Fantastic food, great range of beers and the staff are super on it.

A food experience..a must go for every foodie out there.. But remember to book as we didn't but they did squeeze us in.. and we're so grateful for that .. from starter to desserts each mouthful was a taste sensation. The steak melted in my mouth and the black pudding was best we've ever had.. for me the best part was the heavenly truffle that came with my chocolate Tart let's just say it was a " Harry met Sally " moment lol.. husbands was the chicken butter sauce that came with his duck he wanted a spoon to make sure he got every drop..please help support local pubs visit soon

Food and service was top notch.

Clean. Comfortable. Great service and food.

Fantastic food. Excellent host and service. Brilliant ambiance..I would wholeheartedly recommend The Bruce Arms in West Tanfield.