The Hampden Arms in Lewes

We stopped in for a meal in the way to the Dieppe ferry. Sadly they are “just a drinking pub” we were told but the lady behind the bar was very happy to direct us to a pub serving food. Very helpful to get us to a pub which did serve food.

Stopped by after a walk for a pint, great atmosphere friendly locals definitely going back!

The hampden Arms in South hieghton is absolutely amazing....Justin is so helpful...if you want a friendly face then this the place to go

Great pub to meet up with colleagues and friends!

A lovely, and friendly traditional English pub, great service and atmosphere and friendly staff and some nice beers available.

Lovely pub. Staff are friendly, cheap prices and great atmosphere. Board games and darts too 🙌

Popped in after a swim at Seaford. Met with friendly people, and 6 gorgeous calm friendly dogs. Had a great quality pint of Harvey's and relaxed for a short while. The pub looks very clean, has a book lined snug and a pool table. We shall definitely pop by again.

Heading for the overnight ferry from Newhaven, we were looking for somewhere to eat. Spotted the Tripadvisor review of Tuesday Curry night at The Hampden Arms and decided to give it a go. Would highly recommend, though perhaps booking is necessary as when we arrived there was only Tikka or Madras left. We had one of each, with poppadoms, onion bhajis, naan and bombay potatoes plus a drink and a mini pud. Great value, very friendly staff and other customers. Will go back again.

Lovely pub, nice atmosphere, pool table, kids area, lovely staff. I will be visiting every week.

The Hampden Arms Tuesday curry night was a massive hit. They accounted for all tastes from mild to spicy and all I can say is WOW! The curry was absolutely amazing, and one of the best curries I’ve had in a long long time, all home made and even had popadoms, naan bread and onion bajhis. Highly highly recommend popping in for curry night, the staff were amazing and the service was incredible. Thank you Sam for cooking and not to forget the biscoff cheesecake… delicious!!!

A proper pub, freshly decorated with an external refurbishment still underway, great ale, (Harvey's & Long Man), and a good value pizza, as the regular menu was suspended because of an event.

Definitely a pub for locals but a warm welcome for all. Food is available but old style pub grub.

Lovely pub I enjoy going there….

The food is absolutely terrible, all frozen or canned, the dishes were dirty, it was horrible, the cook should be ashamed. The toilets weren't very clean either. It's a shame, the garden is nice. But it's the worst meal we've had in the UK in a long long time !

Lovely friendly pub. A new staff member under instruction from the Landlord. He was lovely and patient with the young lad. Spoke to a few locals and had a great time. Beer was excellent, thoroughly enjoyed my time here. Thank you to all the staff.

Mel. Our cousin. We were at his wake. Drank a bit too much. Lovely Snake bites tho...hope the pubs doing ok without him!! We miss him.

Lovely old friendly village pub.

A lovely old school pub. Friendly staff, good beers, pool table, dart board and good size beer garden. Also an excellent beer stop if you are en route walking on the south downs to Firle and beyond

Great traditional village pub 😁

Been going to the Hampden arms off and on for about 3 years since I moved here from Brighton I think it’s a great pub a proper pub! loads of real ales great lagers loads of different nibbles the best I’ve ever seen in a pub to be honest and great pizzas and nice surroundings pool table and darts to be played on good locals to talk to the only reason I don’t go up there every day after work or weekends so much is because it’s on top of a hill and there’s no bus’s up there ! But I love this pub and think it need the Recognition of the way it is brilliantly Run and keeps the Old tradition of old pubs ! Well done landlord and landlady. Mick 🍺

Hampden arms ,such a lovely pub staff are lovely also the regulars ,, also has a great pool table dog friendly with garden x

A great village pub with a good range of beers. Great beer garden. Dogs welcome. Good value food. Always a friendly atmosphere. Visited with my son for lunch yesterday. Woman serving behind bar was lovely and friendly. My only gripe is that we ordered gammon steak with egg and chips which came out presented well however the gammon was cold. I told the cook it was cold and he replied it was meant to be as they don’t reheat gammon. They cook the steaks and keep them in the fridge. I found this strange as whenever I’ve had gammon and eggs before anywhere else the gammon has always been hot. I could understand if it was ham egg and chips but this was actual gammon steak. Nevertheless we ate it and it was nice. Looking forward to going back and trying the pizza menu. This is my local pub that I need to use more often.

Very nice place which I luckily found towards the end of a long walk on the South Downs.

Beautiful village pub, decent grub and great service. Lovely homely atmosphere with a nice little beer garden.

This is a proper little pub, great garden and it feels like an old school village pub we all use to know. Great staff and I always feel welcome. I cycle from rottingdean regularly for a pint or 4, it's a 18mile round trip so it must be good!

Lovely little pub really nice landlady

Great pub shame no locals frequent it. If all the locals went I'm just once a month it will survive. Otherwise it is likely to close

This is a friendly and homely place to meet others. I went in the evening when there was live music (Buckler's Reel) and it was a good atmosphere. I think pubs like this should be supported. Will return at some point (I live in Worthing!)

Great village pub, nice beer and good atmosphere.

Probably the best pub around staff awesome and friendly

Quiet little local pub. Also has books and board games for customer use.

Fantastic place the village people are so friendly the pub is excellent for food

Great pub in a very Picturess part of the country.and nice barpersons +bears good too

We had pizzas for £4! They didn’t have any other food though...

Nice place, friendly hosts, nice beer.

Traditional local. Good beer. A great band on 10th May "Bagge of Nuts".

Love this pub, proper local happy to have well behaved dogs and children, there is a garden out back which they are currently improving. While they don't do an extensive menu they usually have pizza to hand ( several.varieties)

Was pretty good....shame about the guy talking to a tree?

We had heard good things about the Hampden but we must have called on an off day. The staff were very friendly and welcoming. We ordered our food and waited patiently, and waited, and waited. Entertained only by the frequent smoke alarm activation! The meat arrived first, dished up on cold plates. Then, a few minutes later, the potatoes were served. A few minutes longer, the vegetables arrived. A few minutes longer still and the gravy was brought to the table - all 10 lumps of it. The process to serve the whole meal took just over 7 minutes. Needless to say the first servings were stone cold by the time the last instalment arrived.  Won't be rushing back.

What a nice pub, lots of laughs 😆

This is my local and I love it !!

Lovely village pub complete with bonfire society

Good beers, friendly staff. Relaxed atmosphere, varied seating and pub games.

local and warm atmosphere with plenty of typical pub games and grub. You can find pool, darts and toad in the hole plus many board games. I work around the corner and we visit at lunch, grab a pizza and play pool.

Stopped off here with my brother on a Sunday lunchtime, from the outside it looked just like a country local , it was 1.30 pm and we were the only ones in there , the place looked really grubby , we ordered 2 lagers and stood at bar . I asked the landlord where everyone was to which he replied it was still early , the place was minging and we quickly finished our drinks and left , place needs a total refurb, never again

My TripAdvisor review of the Hampden Arms, South Heighton. The Landlord, who looks like Bob Harris from The Old Grey Whistle Test, made me a pizza, even though they weren't doing food. The Landlady came round from behind the bar to hug a customer who's brother has died. One customer offered me an oddly-shaped courgette (zucchini); another admired my idiosyncratic parking and gave me the thumbs up after I explained I'd just done a 13 hour day. Good selection of ales - cracking pizza.

My Local for over 25 years - still great

Great local pub live music some nights

Very pleasant local pub, lovely garden area, friendly landlord and landlady. Would definitely visit again and most likely on a live music night.

Very nice friendly pub. Popular with the locals. Great if you have a dog.

Very friendly. Good wine. Good plays to take dogs.

Should have realised anywhere with tables free on Easter Sunday at 1.30pm wasn't going to be great. This Sunday Dinner was worse than school dinners. With boiled parsnips and brocolli that could only be described as boiled to death losing all colour and nutrients. Cold indistinguishable beef and lamb and yorkshires from Auntie Bessie. Massive waste of money only managed to get the landlord down to 8 pound per meal instead of 11.95 as we refused to put ourselves though the Sarah Lee dessert.

Declaring an interest (we played there last night!) but what a friendly place and crowd. Thanks!

The beer is always great thanks to Tessa and Kim’s diligence and the pizzas are fabulous and cheap to buy The bands are always excellent especially Brass Monkeys the local favourites. They also do open mic nights where all Musos are welcome Visit soon

Best pint of Harveys for miles. Great staff. Friendly atmosphere. Highly recommended...

Cracking inviroment great experience every time I go. So welcoming. Open fire great prices and good people just what you need on a night out. Deffently worth going for a few drinks.

Proper pub with lovely people running it. Great beer and the landlady will gladly explain the rules of Toad in the Hole

Good pub outside seating area when weather is good to enjoy more will come again

Toad in the hole, weird game !!!

Very friendly local pub. Harvey's beer and a very nice guest beer usually on. Great food and excellent social atmosphere. Everybody welcome. Pool table, Duke box, Beer garden, kids and dog friendly. Enjoy

Wow what an amazing pub! Lovely atmosphere with different little areas like a cosy den with sofas near a pool table, a beautiful open fire and fairly priced drinks. Very welcoming landlords

Great local pub, juke box, pool, toads, and board games. Hub of the community with bands most Fridays.

Cool pub, live music often, nice ales, friendly

Lovely set of locals, dog friendly pub, nice lively atmosphere but having checked TripAdvisor before travelling from West Wales to find best eateries in area... .they don't cook food on a Saturday night gutted! Still worth a visit due to selection of beers and friendly locals.

It's not often you find an old fashioned pub where you can walk in and have raucous and funny conversations with complete strangers openly at the bar, but this seems encouraged at the Hampden. They deservedly won Sussex Pub of the Year this year.

Land lady was lovely and very knowledgeable of the area. My partner and I both had scampi and chips it's was lovely. The pub is lovely and welcoming and what you expect from a typical British pub.

Like the Flying Fish in Denton, this is another excellent pub. Visited in October 2015 with my brother Mike for a couple of pints after our walk in the Denton & Bishopstone area of East Sussex. Very pleasant. I had visited with my brother a couple of years earlier on an evening when the pub has live music. It was excellent! They also have a 'room at the back' for smokers and I remember having conversations with some hairy bikers.

A thriving "locals" scene says it all - lots of regulars, beautiful setting, nice beer and best of all - regular live music on a proper stage! Great atmosphere.

Its a real community pub that hosts the local bonfire society. i have not eaten there yet but the do home made lunches and they have very good music events and the locals are very friendly and good people. This pub is a real treasure in a world where some many pubs close!!!!!!!

Good pub with good garden and good food