The Inn at Freshford in Bath and North East Somerset

Great food in a lovely pub in a picturesque village

A really nice traditional country pub. We booked because they were able to provide a basic steak, chips and sauté vegetables, with no additives or tweaks to meet the requirements of one of our party. The fish and chips were excellent too as well as the desserts. Great attentive service from the staff made for a very nice evening.

A lovely pub and excellent location which seems to be a place where all treks converge on. Great garden and can get a little busy. Check the menu options before buying a drink because some meals come with a free drink. Would recommend to anyone tired and weary in need of a rest after a hard days walking!

Sorry food not that good roast beef not good and expensive not as good as reviews suggest. Kids cheese pasta just pennies in a bechamel sauce from a microwave.

We ended up here by mistake really, but we were so glad that we did. Firstly, it's a very pretty looking pub, and the staff were lovely 🥰 The food was, honestly, the best we've had in a very long time. We had the roast chicken, with roasted new potatoes, sweetcorn puree, asparagus and maderia jus. Absolutely delicious!!

Lovely pub. Quick service. Great choice for Sunday roast, quick service and big portions. Pudding was excellent too. Lovely walks on the doorstep too.

Not been here for many years Well, what have we been missing A mid Sunday afternoon in early August The pub was packed & a very buzzy atmosphere , not a table to be had, inside & out Good job we had booked My wife had the Roast Pork & me the Beef, excellently presented & cooked as beef should be, slightly pink rare Well done to the staff We will be back soon

2 hrs beautiful walk from Bath for the best pint in the world, great food and a train back to the city centre. Days dont get better than that! :-)

Nice little pub to go visit after a nice long walk through the valley. Was unfortunately disappointed with the fish and chips, the grilled fish was tiny thin and just warm which was a shame, the ploughman's my partner had was rather nice though.

Really lovely country oub dog friendly, beautiful fireplaces and excellent beer garden! Lovely walks along the river roe and post beer too!

Wonderful little place. Garden with a view very pretty.

Visited on Sunday of the bank holiday weekend with family. We have always eaten here and loved it, for the 20+ years. However, this Sunday was the exception. Not sure if the chef has changed but the chips were soggy and and not what I would class as a chip..more soggy mini roast potatoes and the cauliflower cheese was tasteless and dry. What has happened to the crispy chips and the most amazing cauliflower cheese???

This was our second visit to the Inn At Bath this year! It was every bit as charming and welcoming as it had been earlier this year. Kelly is wonderful and makes everyone feel right at home. We could walk to the cute shops and restaurants and walk along the water. We introduced the Inn to new family members who were just as impressed as we had been and still are. Anyone who finds themselves near Bath should try to stay there.

Not the biggest menu and they were out of both the mussels and chicken the day we went but the burger was lovely and the staff were friendly. Reasonably priced drinks too.

What a great pub! The food was super tasty and you felt really comfortable!

Great beer garden for your Sunday afternoon. Plenty of outdoor seating and a sweet selection of beers.

Fantastic setting and a nice pub and restaurant. Wouldn't recommend eating outside in the evening, though, because the sunshine disappears over the trees and hill. Overall, our American niece loved it, and so did we.

Nice place to visit, great setting

Stunning building in a quaint location. Great food.

Sunday lunch was excellent. Can not fault the food. Good food good service. Very pleasant environment. Very pleasant staff. Would definitely go back.

The roast chicken with sweet potatoes was very good, and the steak beautifully cooked. Excellent desserts too.

Lovely country pub in idyllic location, great service, food and prices. Beautiful gardens, make sure you pay a visit!

Amazing pub in an idyllic location with fantastic food. The loos are in desperate need of refurbishment, but this could be due to recent flooding.

Delightful Sunday dinner out with the family. I would drive the hour and half again anyday just for the food! Highly recommend 👌

Long wait, small servings, food average, place smelled like fish. Overall had higher hopes for this place.

Beautiful place. Great ambiance. Lovely dog walks. Our best place to go, over and over again

First visit and very impressed. Would recommend

This pub is lovely, dog friendly, great food - the menu changes regularly, great space inside and out for the children.

Very very bad!!! We have been waiting an hour and a half for the food to arrive and it has never arrived. Some scoundrels!!!

The place to meet in Freshford... great garden.

Great food, open fires, craft tap cider/beer! Have been multiple times since moving to the area.

Great cosy pub great service, great food, friendly staff. Decided to go on the bank holiday so they wasnt much food on the menu but would definetely give it another visit

Lovely pub, very friendly atmosphere and friendly staff

A beautiful old building, a warm atmosphere, friendly and attentive staff. A group of 6 we had a wonderful 2 hours with nothing to complain about.

Been here a few times! We recently ordered some soup, fries, bread, olives etc so not eaten the main menu but was very nice. Gorgeous location, perfect for a stop after a loop walk around Freshford, Iford Manor, and Avoncliff. Love the beer garden and all the flowers in summer! I wish they would keep their hours updated as it says they're open on Mondays but I've been this week and it's not. Pic from my previous visit!

Fish and chips is a staple of most English pub menus and, as such, is a good barometer of the menu. Having just moved to the area I had been advised to try The Inn at Freshford. Two dishes caught my eye on their website, pork belly and a chicken ballotine. The pub can be difficult to find since so many of the local roads are closed for repair but it rewarded persistence. The pub lies in a quintessentially English river valley and despite the road closures it was well patronised when I visited on a Friday lunchtime. Unfortunately neither the belly of pork or chicken ballotine were available on the day’s menu but they were offering a free pint of bitter, Butcombe Original, with the battered fish and chips. The young bar staff were welcoming and the fast WiFi service allowed me to read the paper on my iPad while waiting for my meal to arrive. When it did arrive it was refreshing to see that the plate was not overwhelmed by a huge portion of chips but offered a sensible amount with a side of mushy peas. The batter was to die for, crisp and tasty, without overpowering the delicacy of the fish which had been perfectly cooked. It was the best plate of battered fish and chips I have had in years. I will return when they have pork belly back on the menu.

Lovely pub in a fantastic location. Staff were really friendly and we had a lovely time. I had the soup and the only vegan main, the portobello mushroom. I brought a giant dog and came in with my friend and his elderly dad. We were all very well looked after.

Great place in a great location with great food at a great price.

Had a great dinner at this gastro pub in the countryside. Had an open fire near our table, delicious mains and nice staff. The pub was very dog-friendly - most tables seemed to have dogs underneath

I try and get to the lovely Inn at Freshford every time I’m in the Bath area. Its location at the edge of Freshford village looking out towards the river is superb. The food is always spot on, really delicious and service friendly and efficient. Highly recommended.

Me and my partner came for lunch, we had booked a table via email and got a response to confirm the booking from Emma, the pub is a beautiful well looked building with amazing features, we were fortunate to sit in front of one of their logs fires before ordering our food, we first had coffees which were very hot even my partner said how nice it was to have a hot coffee as he had been other places where the coffee wasn’t, We ordered our food and it was delicious, my partner said how lovely the sea bass was and the trimming that came with it, the service what 5/5 and the staff were very pleasant, we will return, Thank you for making it a lovely experience

Very busy at lunchtime, food great. Will be back soon.

We went later on a Sunday afternoon for a Sunday Roast. Unfortunately the Duo of beef was sold out which would of been my preference, so went for the Pork instead. Has to be said it was pretty tasty with fantastic roast potatoes, the only grip I had was the yorkshires were a little over done for my liking but other than that it was spot on. We sat in the outside area round the back of the pub, luckily we were on the table that had timed heaters which made it to be a very pleasant experience. By the time we left we were the only ones there and the day past over to night. In all we enjoyed our food and then just chilling and chatting. When spring arrives that space will come alive and be a real hidden gem. dog friendly and plenty for the little ones to do as well 8/10

Saturday afternoon for a late lunch and the place was still very busy. Mix of walkers, locals, diners and dogs. (This is a very dog friendly pub and does well for it.) However the most noteworthy comment was the excellent service and standard of food which is cooked to order and came piping hot. The bar staff were totally 'on point' and our waiter couldn't have been more helpful and pleasant. I suspect the owners have worked hard to recruit the best staff available, as they certainly made a huge difference to our experience. Prices are not cheap, but they ARE good value.

12-01-24 Lovely local pub - not cheap but the food was very good - atmosphere was perfect very busy on a Friday night, appeared to be a lot of locals in - totally dog friendly

Bueatiful pub all year around. Lovely locals and staff. Excellent service and old features.

Visited the Inn on Friday night,both had fish and chips,massive haddock really tasty,we returned on Sunday for the roast again excellent beef,pink as I like it,good beers too.Definately come again in spring.great friendly staff and warm log fires 🔥

Best Christmas dinner I’ve had out at a pub. Lovely place

Lunch for eight of us and two dogs included beef short rib, sea bass, risotto and fish and chips. All plates were cleared and everyone enjoyed their meals. Prices are closer to restaurant rather than pub prices and service at 10% is added to the bill. Staff were friendly and efficient. Three real ales were available on the day. We had a really good lunch here after a 4 mile walk along the river and canal to Avoncliffe, Limpley Stoke and back to Freshford . Recommended!

We visited this pub on Boxing Day for a meal. It was a lovely location and had a really nice cosy pub atmosphere on a cold day. I had the sea bass which was very tasty and my wife had a burger which was ok but the bottom bun was a bit soggy. I also felt the food was quite pricey for the quality of food, I think you are paying for location here.

Great pub, lovely staff. 2 warming fireplaces. Good range of drinks including guiness. Free WiFi.

Perfect for a cozy meal and delicious food! Visited as part of a weekend away and would repeat again just for this pub

Ridiculously small portion of roast pork. Cold plates. Warm food. Had to send it back. Won't go again. Lovely setting but food and service was sadly very average.

Roast’s are amazing here, very cosy inside in the winter and the garden is great in the summer. Staff are lovely too and the prices as I would expect

Great country pub, great food and great location, perfect for a hour walk from Bradford-On-Avon or a train ride from Bristol. The landlady Emma is always friendly and welcoming making your visit extra pleasant.

Lovely spot, good people, good pints

Had walked here from Avoncliff on a cold day after watching a steam train 🚂 and was content to settle for a table outside under some heaters as it was busy but to her considerable credit the staff member who said our only option was to eat outside appeared a few minutes later as the heaters were warming up to say a space by one of the log fires 🔥 had come up and we were welcome to come in and dine with our plates on our laps. A real country pub with good real ale 🍺 excellent food cosy atmosphere and above all else excellent staff. So easy to get to by rail 🚈 to!!

Great as always. Just had a 3 course meal here and as always great. I had a crab dish to start which is a new addition and it was really nice. The food is well presented and you can see the love put into the dishes. Service was great and the delivery time was spot on. Lovely log fires burning away and a very nice atmosphere. If you like restaurant quality food at pub prices this place is a must. We will be back very soon.

Great place for a Sunday roast and the best sticky toffee pudding I’ve ever tasted. Lovely relaxed atmosphere and a roaring log fire.

This is an amazing pub! Despite the fact that the pub was very busy, the level of service and food were excellent! The place is really accommodating for dogs and the staff went out of their way to make us feel at home. Can't recommend this place enough!!

Great meal. Sat outside as we didn’t have a booking and so it was a bit chilly. Efficient service and enjoyable meal.

Picturesque setting, lovely food, great real ale, outdoor seating and views.

Ate a very nice steak dinner there tonight. All was good.

Excellent food, good beer, welcoming staff. Comfortable and spacious traditional bar in a very pretty village

Great food in a beautiful building and location.

I am a proper foodie, had a lamb roast the other Sunday, excellent food, excellent service, great atmosphere. Have not had a great meal out like this for years. Just wish this Inn was more local to me, but will definitely be making the journey back to try the rest of the amazing menu. Hats off to the people who run the inn. Oh and it is very dog friendly.

Best Sunday roast by far… beef pink n tender, insanely crispy roasties, 5 veg including kale, brocoli cauli gratin, roasted carrots and a root purée topped with a fat huge yorkie! Honestly treat yourself …It’s the best and we leave Bath to eat here x

Very pleasant dinner with a friend. Excellent food and service in a beautiful building and location.

Great food, lovely service and an amazing setting. Can with friends who live locally and had a great evening. Fish and chips, lamb and rump chicken bollotine. All very tasty. Can’t wait to return.

Ate their last night and was VERY impressed with the food - exceeded my expectations and thoroughly recommend this place. I had the lamb and cheeseboard and my wife had the fish and chips - wonderful. Atmosphere I gave only a 4* because I’d love to visit when the fire’s going. Can’t wait to return. Lovely staff too.

Delicious food (3 had fish & chips and 1 mushroom arancini & fries) and gorgeous country setting with lovely views from the quirkily laid out garden. Great value for money too- do not scrimp on the portions!

This is by far the best place for a Sunday roast. Been in many times for drinks. Garden is amazing. Very good drink selection. We go out walking every weekend and although the roasts smelt lovely, we needed to walk after so sandwiches for us. This weekend was a wash out so stayed for roast. So glad we did! Can still taste the flavours now from 3hrs ago. Great pub Great food Great staff Perfect Sunday afternoon Thank you ❤️

Heel gezellig restaurant met vriendelijk personeel je kunt hier op meerdere terassen buiten zitten super gezellig

Service can be a bit slow when busy but food and drink is worth the wait. Quality. That's it.

Good beer, lovely tasty food, steak, fish and chips and mussels. Agree with other reviewers about the service charge. We were there for 4 days and were charged in all the places we ate at. It seems to be the norm in the area but you can ask for it to be taken off.

This pub now pub cum bistro has changed, possibly with the times. It is in the lovely village of Freshford where I lived as an undergraduate. Then it was a village pub and fondly remembered. Now it is remodelled, more open-plan but still traditional and a good place for a meal with chums. The food is from a simple menu and well prepared. It is a good place to walk from in the beautiful valley by river or canal. Good beers are on tap. I recommend arriving by train from the very local station.

We came for lunch after a long walk as we were staying only a stones throw away. We sat in garden which is very pretty and family friendly. We weren't overly hungry so we ordered a few starters consisting of bread oil and olives, humus and bread, calamari and chips. We also ordered cheesy pasta from the children's menu for our little girl. The starters were nice. The calamari was a small portion and didn't have any flavour which was disappointing. The children's meal however was very large, large enough to feed an adult, so worth remembering for anyone visiting that wants to save a bit. But saying that, still expensive for a "childrens" meal. Was nice for a light lunch, but quite expensive.

We had a wonderful dinner in the beautiful inn. The people were very kind and the food and wine delicious.

A menu where everything is appealing. Great food and local beers. Pleasant pub garden with plenty of space. Set in I dyllic countryside.

Lovely spot, went for a walk along the river and got some food and drinks at the inn. Fish and chips were delicious. Lovely pub in a beautiful location

Great place in the village with really good food, nice large portions and a varied menu.

asked for a prepaid(!) service charge ordering at the bar. and then they refused to bring cutlery(get it yourself) to the table after essentially tipping them 10 quid

Beautiful setting with flowers and gardens. I had the mushroom arancini which was so flavoursome and delicious. The burger was great too

Delicious fish and chips, would have to be for £18🫤 I didn't pay the service fee of 13%. A bit steep I think.

As documented here by others, this place is spoiled by serving small portions at expensive prices with a discretionary 13% service charge. (13%!!). I wrote to the management following our visit to express our alarm regarding what they are doing. I have heard nothing back, not even an acknowledgement. Here’s a copy. “ Hello, I and some friends visited the pub earlier today for lunch. We have been several times before and really enjoyed your superb building, the location and the helpful staff. On our previous visits the food has been excellent and reasonable value. Today though our visit was marred by a couple of niggles which I think you should be aware of. Your main course pressed lamb and the cod with beans was dangerously close to being over priced and under portioned, so much so that we had to order additional carbohydrate side dishes at additional cost. At the prices you charge this should not have been necessary. Surely you must be aware that many of your lunchtime visitors are walkers or cyclists who will arrive hungry and are not going to be content with a tiny portion of over priced nouveau cuisine. There should always be room for good wholesome sensibly priced food on any pub menu, and no I don’t just mean fish and chips. Apart from the tiny portions, the food was tasty and well presented. Your staff were helpful and very pleasant. But the real kicker for us was your discretionary 13% service charge. (13%!!) We will never accept the same ludicrous situation as in the US where there is an expectation of an over inflated tip, defined by the establishment. We will just not be told what we are expected to tip, ‘discretionary’ or not. It’s insulting and it’s bullying and you are in serious danger of upsetting a large proportion of your customers at a stroke. We walk and lunch every week, and except in very egregious circumstances we always leave a tip. But we won’t be told by you or any other establishment what that tip should be. Several of us either reduced or removed the charge altogether, but we should never have needed to. It was notable that another of your customers advised us that she too had told you to remove the 13% from her bill. I do hope you can take this feedback in the constructive spirit it is intended. And I really do hope you will take actions which will allow us to return to the Inn at Freshford sometime in the near future.”

Best pub in the region. Offer gluten free options

Could not have been a more pleasurable evening on Friday 28th July. Congratulations to the kitchens for fabulous food, and thank you to all the friendly staff who gave us wonderful service.

Was looking forward to trying somewhere different that was local, disappointing! Portions not brilliant for the expensive prices AND a 13 & a 1/2 Service charge!!! There are definitely better offerings elsewhere.

Great village pub. Good food and great beers

ordered starter, Goat cheese with walnuts, salad turned out to be smudge/ slop on a plate with three leaves for £8 pounds certainly not worth sitting down for, how could anyone present that, chef needs to go back to school

Great looking pub in lovely location. Service good. Food quantities on the small size. Defitely overpriced. Quality good. Worst thing was the 'compulsory' service charge of 13%. Yes, 13%. How many people will complain about this, especially when with friends. The service was good, but...

Wonderful rural atmosphere yet has good parking space. Plenty of room for families in the garden.

Read the menu carefully at the bottom in small print is a 13% discretionary charge to be added to an already overpriced menu, 3 Portions of Fish and Chips GBP 18 and the staff at the till tried to add 13% to this. I complained...

What a fantastic country pub. Great décor, food, drink selection. Garden and pleasant indoor seating. Friendly attentive staff only let down by some arrogant buffoon by the name of Liam, who will snub you, look down his nose at you and be pretty unpleasant. I'll be back, but I'll swerve this jumped up barman

Lovely pub in a lovely little village on the River Frome

Lovely old pub serving great food.

A burger each for my wife and myself and very well served it was to. Spiced relish a new twist for me well received. Sharp service good venue with plenty of room and clean and tidy. Good drinks and sensibly priced for the quality on...

Food excellent and staff could not have been nicer or more helpful.

Great pub serving good food and drink, inside or out, book if going at a likely busy time. Freshford is a delightful village and lots of walks by the river

Booked an early evening meal on Saturday with a 12week old baby. Great service good value great food. From the young lady who showed us to our table to Reuben?, who took our order without writing it down! 5 stars