The Carnarvon Arms in Ashfield

Lovely food and excellent service.

A great atmosphere in the pub . We had a meal in the garden room as we had our dog . The garden room is really good with heaters to keep warm . The food was fantastic and fairly priced. My on small criticism would be the dishes didn't get cleared from the table . But it was Friday evening and they were really busy . Overall a great experience.

Shame that we had to sit outside because we had two little dogs.I can understand why they don’t allow dogs in because it would be too full of people otherwise.There’s a campsite 200 yards away and walk (five pits trail) with lots of dogs.It was a bit cold outside.This has to be one of the only pubs around that don’t allow dogs.

Good food get loads for your money good selection of drinks staff very friendly recommend this place

Had a wonderful evening and some amazing prepared food, only down side was the waiting time of about 45 minutes to get the food. In the carnarvon's defence it was busy and it was worth waiting for, we will definitely return every time we visit the Area and would highly recommend it, the staff are wonderful friendly and give great service, I will be recommending it at the Siverhil woodland retreat and campsite where we are staying

Awesome food ,,, Well worth a visit

Excellent food, excellent staff and service.

Lovely Venue. Good quality fresh food , and very good friendly staff. Decorations very good {love the Basket lampshades } very nice all round.

Great service.... smiley... Friendly... Attentive. Good was lovely! Beautiful interior too

Nice, reasonable, like a premier inn associated restaurant.

I have left a review before, however I have to say, the staff are just amazing, absolutely nothing is too much trouble for them, they always go above and beyond to make sure, your dining experience is the best it could be! We are frequent visitors here and have never had a bad meal, we also use it for family birthdays and again all meals served together and no complaints! So lucky to have the Carnarvon in our local area. Thank you and well done you are an amazing team.

(Not enough tables outside front) but has garden at back . Very Very popular at weekends Busy but busy means good Excellent location not far from Hardwick Hall Very good food decore and amenities Limited seating outside Plenty of tables inside! Good carpark plus can park at back and side plus the road ! (Dont reverse into the light post in middle of carpark ) Very Busy road ! (But can park easy) NICE ATMOSPHERE EVERY TIME YOU VISIT ! (Sundays can be super busy booking VERY good idea enjoy) No dress code relaxed kind of venue Walkers plus dog walkers,🐭 cyclists, motorbikers scooters horse riders also (outside) Big enough for a party also ! Riders,welcome 😊 all info up to date PLEASE DON'T BLOCK PEOPLE'S DRIVES.☺

Visiting friends and staying on silverhill caravan site with our 2 Labradors and arrived Friday evening to a very busy pub, wasn’t holding out much hope of getting a table but was greeted by a lovely lady who explained dogs are not allowed in the pub but they had a summer house out back which we could sit in. Concerned it might be too cold she reassured me it has heaters and was welcome to take a look. We ended up staying and enjoyed a lovely meal of fish pie with lots of veg and chips, I had chicken and bacon Caesar salad which was beautiful and was too full for desert. We enjoyed it that much we returned for another drink the next evening with our friends - excellent service and food

Fabulous place to eat, staff are very friendly and welcoming

This place used to be great, I've been going here for years. The food has got very expensive over the last couple of years, which is not an issue at all if the quality is there, and it's just not anymore. Very cheap cuts of meat poorly cooked, the chef had two attempts to cook a steak as requested and failed both times. If a chef can't get steak right, he shouldn't be in a kitchen in my opinion, it's basic cooking skills and I can honestly do better myself at home, the steak quality from Aldi is a step or two above theirs, the pork, gammon and chicken cooked to within an inch of their lives. Everything is also covered in oil/grease and slapped on a plate in an attempt to look fancy, accompanied by frozen chips and overcooked vegetables, not what you would expect when paying £28 for a mixed grill. What I will say, is it's still a lovely place to sit, the staff are very attentive and can't do enough for you, Shame about the food. By all means go here for a drink or two, just don't waste your money on the food.

Prices have rocketed here in the last couple of years. I don't mind paying a fair price for a decent meal but for some menu items I don't feel that The Carnarvon offers that any longer. The desserts are a good example. Traditional desserts like apple pie or sponge with custard are good value and you get a decent sized portion on a largish plate. The desserts like the Bailey Boo for example is terrible value. It was served in one of those thin sundae glasses. The amount of ice cream was minimal and nowhere near the 3 scoops that the menu described it as having . The crunchie 'pieces' were just two small crumbs. Really disappointing for the money paid. I felt ripped off which isn't a nice feeling.

We went here for Sunday lunch You have to book It's very popular Great food

Still really good 4 years later. Didn't mention before but they have some of the nicest toilets I've ever seen in a pub. Really enjoyed the food. The early bird menu is exceptional value and the choice is incredible. The venue is nice with plenty of seating and a suitable sized carpark.

Lovely lunch here today. Good service and lovely food as always 😋

Food swimming in grease on plate definitely not worth the money

Great traditional pub/restaurant with added extras.

Been to the pub a few times now( last one tonight 19.9.24) it has great service and food. Well worth a visit. I’d give it 4.5 stars only cos no place is perfect.☺️

First time visiting this pub for food. All I can say is wow. The staff were lovely and the food was delicious. We will be back.

Food was excellent as always, good choice on the menu at a decent price for the quality you receive.

Love it here food it great staff lovely and atmosphere is perfect for a nice meal or a quiet drink

1st visit, as recommended by a neighbour, easy to find, lovely tastefully decorated restaurant and beer garden with under cover seating area with tables, very nice, staff very welcoming when we said we'd not been before, I had scampi but it was dry and hard, and hubby had beef pie & chips, 2 deserts and a few beers, not bad for a first visit although £65. Came again midweek and hubby had lamb lunch and I had veggie lunch which off the early bird menu, 2 boiled potatoes, 3 veggie sausages that were tasteless, peas and carrots, no mash or any other veg, and the plate smelt like a damp tea towel , and so did the deserts when they came , very off putting, service brilliant but sadly food not so good, lamb was alright, such a shame as the decor and staff seem first class but sadly the food wasn't.

No major complaints from me, Nice food and reasonable service.

Excellent Sunday lunch, good service from the staff and good value for money

Staff very friendly and efficient 👍 Special thanks to Ashleigh and Keeley .🙏

On a recent visit to the Carnarvon we were served in the restaurant by a male waiter wearing bright red nail varnish. I don't think so. We will be dining elsewhere.

Lovely food and friendly staff. A recommended place to visit for a meal or a drink. The boozy beef pie is very tasty, along with the Four Cheese Farfalle. Good 'main' portion sizes too!

Nice food and beer garden lovely to sit in on a sunny day.Abit expensive but usually busy so they must be doing something right.

Very long wait for food to be served and when arrived broccoli was solid and carrots were mushy. Womtbe going back

An all round fantastic evening out . Can not fault this pub in any way. Food was amazing and the staff were 5 star. Will certainly be returning to eat there again. 👍😁

Warm night sat outside with mrs and the dog .good menu and choice of beers .though busy food arrived quickly

The food was perfect .a little bit to much batter on my fish but that's just me . It was quite a surprise to get vegetables as well which were well cooked .

What a gem of a place, absolutely beautiful food, the service from everyone was outstanding. Lovely atmosphere. Thank you.

Took my mum out for a meal but come here often. The food is always delicious and there is loads of choice on the menu. It was delicious as always and the staff were friendly, helpful and attentive.

Very welcoming and friendly staff food was amazing and plentiful will be paying another visit in near future 😀

Been trying to ring now for 3 weeks. Never answer the phone. Sent an enquiry through their website.......no reply. Emailed them......oh.....no reply. Obviously not very customer focused.

Incredible food. Lovely place to eat.

Very good food at a reasonable price. I especially wanted to review the Canarvon tonight.I have eaten there numerous times,and had good service.However,this evening we had exceptional attentive and friendly service from the waiter named Jacob.A credit to The Canarvon.

Attended a function where there was 20+ people for a meal. The service was good by polite friendly staff and the food was excellent and plentiful. Would recommend.

A really nice place to eat, drink and spend time with family and loved ones. The decor is really nice, the food is great and the staff are friendly. Highly recommended.

A ribeye steak that wasn't a ribeye steak (more like a sirloin). A gammon that gets sent out 20 minutes before the rest of the meal. A pork tower that is just pork and bacon. I guess when the wages they pay are peanuts they get monkeys.

Visited for an evening meal on a Tuesday evening with some work colleagues, with modest expectations. The food was good, and well flavoured but the service made the evening. All the staff were very friendly and engaging and seemed to be enjoying their roles. Will definitely visit again

Easy to book, but I’d recommended you do as it’s a popular place; especially on a Sunday. Met straight away and seated in a booth style table. Staff were friendly, everything looked clean although table was ever so slightly sticky. Drink came straight away and during the meal we were asked if we’d like more just as the glasses were getting empty. We all had the carvery option, 5 beef and I had the chicken, which I asked to go large on. Probably not recommended as the additional Yorkshire was soggy and the extra meat was small. All plates finished and a few deserts ordered.

Absolutely gorgeous meal, very busy, outstanding service, our server Jacob was lovely, all allergies catered for, highly recommended.

Very good. Great meal amazing staff. 100% recommend to anyone

One of if not the best eateries in the locality

The staff and service were good. The surroundings were also pleasant. That’s where it ended. The food was average to say the least. Whoever wrote the menu had a degree in literature with a talent for elaborate and ornate descriptions. Sadly, the kitchen does not deliver what the descriptions promise. I could elaborate (bland boiled cauliflower, carrots, beans…) but I won’t. You need to use your imagination and conjure up the plainest and least flavoursome vegetables, greasiest fried food, sad and dry fat chips, salad dressing on cabbage which is clearly mint sauce from a jar… and you are somewhere very close to spot on. If they can only do pub grub, admit it. Stop trying to be a fancy ‘gastro pub’. You are delusional. You do so many things badly, change to doing just do a few very well.

Lovely dining pub. Good selection of vege/vegan meals. Excellent service in a pleasant atmosphere. Recommend.

Excellent place to have a nice meal and a beer

We went for Sunday lunch with our two friends & we couldn't fault it. Fabulous

Delishous food. Lovely service and lovely friendly staff

Such a lovely place and the food was delicious 😍 the chips could have been cooked a little more for my taste but that’s just my preference. The service was so hood and all the servers were friendly. I had a huge craving for home made onion rings and these made me SO HAPPY! They were delicious 🤤

Always enjoy an evening meal at The Carnarvon. A recent visit to celebrate a birthday was great and the staff very attentive and efficient. Thank you

Lovely meal here last night in beautiful settings. Meal was fab. Service above and beyond can thoroughly recommend

Well Above what we expected A wonderful ambiance Very polite Nothing is too much trouble Beautifuly presented meals We will be back again Thankyou

Went with family for a birthday celebration, we had a large group of 25 booked in. We pre ordered our food the week before and everything ran like clockwork. The food all came out at the same time, everyone said their meal was really nice and the staff were fantastic. Couldn't fault anything and we will definitely be back

super gastro pub resturant....our meals were excellent served in lovely surroundings by very helpful staff probably one of the best places to eat in this area if i could give it 11 out of 10 i would.

My mom and I visted The Carnarvon for a drink and dessert. The staff were all pleasant and greeted us straight away. Although the kitchen was closed for meals, they still allowed us to have a dessert. We were promptly seated, and didn't have long to wait for our delicous well presented desserts. We asked for our thanks to be passed onto the kitchen staff, since they weren't technically serving but we're happy to have prepare or desserts.

Good food, reasonable price. 👍🏻

Lovely lunch time meal really nice and quiet food and service was excellent

Service was incredible. Food was great but the gammon was very fatty and not much meat.

Just been for my Sons 21st, everything was excellent. Thank you everyone including all the staff and I think some of the other dinners that sang Happy Birthday as they brought out his cake, Thank you 👏🏻

Family night daughter’s birthday. Start by saying the lady who served us was lovely. They brought daughter’s cake out and sung brilliant. Not been for a while but sadly won’t be back. Husbands fish pie was mush. My garlic mushrooms worst had. Bullock pis which I’d had before not as good.

on Sunday the 2nd June I treated my family to a meal to celebrate my 70th Birthday 16 of us in the ship room it was amazing the staff where 100% The meal was marvellous Thank you so much for making the day so special

Fantastic staff, so friendly and service very good . Had Greek chicken and they need to sell this sauce as it is to die for and I would buy in the bucket loads! Fantastic

Came highly recommended, so we took our family down from Sheffield . Very disappointed ! The service was excellent ; the ambience was very good; presentation very good, but the food, on the whole, was dry and tasteless, apart from the excellent Boozy pie.. It was Bank Holiday Monday -no excuse.

Service was really friendly and fast! We had 3 courses and everything we had was perfect. Hot, well presented quality food! Drinks were lovely and cocktails were really nice! We cannot wait to return.

Absolutely superb. Such friendly knowledgeable staff who delivered outstanding customer service. Timings were perfect from ordering drinks within a few minutes of being seated to giving us enough time to choose from a menu where we were spoiled for choice. 6 in our party and all meals came out together, all piping hot and delicious. Drinks were replenished when needed and the whole experience was wonderful. A real pleasure. Well done & thank you team Carnarvon !!

Excellent food and service - difficult to choose what to eat as there were so many tempting things on the menu. Our group were all pleased with what they had - empty plates 😀 unfortunately there was a party with lots of children in the conservatory room - who kept coming and going noisily through the restaurant - and with noisy parents shouting after them.

Nice meal good atmosphere friendly staff.

Excellent service, fantastic staff, all the food was excellent especially the new potatoes and veg, I had the duo of pork and was really impressed especially tasty gravy

Arrived before 5pm ( 4.55)without booking ., but was kept waiting so actually sat down at 5.02. We were given Early Bird menu, which I questioned as still available and was told yes. We sat in the bar area rather than the restaurant, where we had on previous occassions had the same service as in the restaurant. Having decided what we wanted and having already been given our drinks, the waitress then came to take the order and said it had to be from the main menu. So we chose again from the main menu. I was not offered salad, but given veg which I really did not want. The chips were luke warm and the chicken was just plonked in a square dish, covered in very salty sauce. This was a birthday meal for my partner. However, it was not the kind of experience we were expecting or have ever had here before. Needless to say the service was extremely slow and sloppy, so I will not be revisiting when I can have better food served hot and cheaper at a lesser establishment.

Lovely food, great service, very friendly atmosphere.

Lovely surroundings to meet friends. Good food, served hot.

1st time visiting, Great place. Food was really nice. Modern contemporary decoration. 100% will be returning. Prices are very reasonable.

Very warm welcome despite not booking. Food excellent. Unending supply of chips and veg. My friend had a small appetite and they were more than happy to serve a starter as a main. Reasonably priced drinks. All in all a lovely evening, we will definitely return.

Had a fantastic evening, food was great, staff were all superb. The welcome was brilliant and gave our group all the info we needed for food allergies/ Gluten free etc. Would not hesitate to come back. I think you need to pre book in advance due to the demand for this place, we were staying at a nearby camp site and booked 5 weeks ahead

I was only able to try the lunchtime menu due to the timing, but the food was absolutely fantastic. I'll be returning to try their evening menu for sure. The drinks are top-notch, as well as the service. Fast and friendly. There's no wonder why this establishment is so busy.

We went for a birthday meal. Food and service was great. Prices were reasonable.

Having a table for six at a family gathering can be awkward at times, but we were given a cosy table away from the hubbub of the main bar which was perfect. The food arrived quickly and the service was excellent. One word of warning, with the trend towards slimmer burgers (especially really tasty smash burgers), the Ultimate Burger here is a behemoth of a tower, with beef and chicken inside. It's almost too big to eat and could easily be shared by two people. The chicken couldn't be tasted either as the other flavours overwhelmed it. Don't let this put you off, just be aware and enjoy 😊

My meal came out of the microwave burned to the dish but staff changed it without question for me and my wife to eat at separate times, second attempt was nice.

We had a fantastic meal here, the atmosphere was great and the service was excellent.

Food amazing .service I give them 100% .very polite & helpful .I highly recommend the Carnarvan arms .thank you so much for making our family meal so special..x👍

We do come here a few times a year as it is local for our family/friends. We have never been disappointed in the food or service. It was the first time we had been offered the specials menu (perhaps when we had been before they may have been sold out) but it was nice to have something different as I do find that their menu has been very much the same and I like a surprise!! More specials please !!!

Always a great experience at the Carnarvon. Excellent food, very extensive menu, decently priced. Friendly and efficient staff 👍

Was our first time visiting here, we came on a Sunday around 1 pm. The car park was full, but we luckily got a space as someone left. The restaurant had a lovely cozy atmosphere, and the food was very good; I had the lamb roast, would recommend it. Also came with a refillable veg bowl for the whole table. Service was mostly good, although we did ask for a bottle of water for the table, but it never arrived until we asked for it again. Also, when we finished and wanted to pay, it was difficult to find anyone. Overall, I would certainly visit again and recommend.

Enjoyable lunch at this popular restaurant, car park was full at 13:00 but a spot opened up after 5 mins. Car Park was half empty when we left at 14:15 so consider your timings and always book.

Food excellent. Server brought wrong drink but offered to exchange. Overall very enjoyable.

Went for a 5 mile walk and had dinner here this evening. The food and service were both great. Lovely atmosphere and will be visiting again.

Come here for my mrs and sons birthday staff are always very welcoming and very helpful thank you for a great evening meal and a great atmosphere.

Bit noisy at the end of our meal ... but food & service were good.

The menu caters for all. Great choice of drinks . Service really good. First time but not the last.

Really good food and atmosphere service was excellent and welcoming. Staff young and very helpful, I had the chicken which was lovely spicy and lots of veg and chips.

All I can say is excellent all round.

Mother's Day 3 course meal, great food, great service, will be returning.

Really lovely meal, better than expected. Most of the mains come with an array of sides – salad, potatoes, chips and veg – which makes for a very big meal if there are just two of you. I opted for the “Triple Take” combo, which was good. The dining area is very spacious, so you don’t feel like you’re on top of another tables – this is particularly unusual for a table of two, which I often find are cramped and placed wherever there’s space. Only criticism is no one came to take my payment at the table – perhaps they don’t do that here. We waited quite a while, then paid on leaving. It would have been good to know if that was the case when we arrived as it was a bit of a waste of time. That being said, the staff were very polite. Lots of parking, admittedly went on a weeknight, but practically parked by the door even though inside it was half full.