The Nelson Arms in North Somerset - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

I have read some of the reviews, I think you were writing about a different place. This is the best place for a Carvery, staff always friendly and polite, food always excellent, nothing is to much trouble

Awful. Just awful. 60 minute wait, food was awful and hair in my gravy. When confronted by the manager she was rude, and swore at me, an other paying customer sat on another table was also complaining about how awful the service was from the manager. My glass had a lipstick stain on from where it hadn’t been cleaned properly. Will never return and will make sure the bad word will get around. I am disgusted about how awful this place was with a terrible “manager”.

Had to wait 45 mins just to get the chef to sort our roast dinners out and the food wasn’t the best! Will not becoming back again as manager was very rude!

Booked for 4 adults. Had to wait for ta wait for table and would not give drinks until you sat at table! The queue for food was never ending as it was a free for all, absolute disgrace. Finally at counter only allowed 2 from 4 meats. Once I chose I was not offered stuffing or crackling. Plates were small for over £15 a head!!!! All the condiments were empty and they did not fill up. All in all it felt like being at the cattle market and they are just interested in the money ringing in the till. Needs a complete revamp.

We all enjoyed our food(a mix of carvery, from the menu and kids meals). Staff were very pleasant and made it a special occasion. Thanks.

Fantastic carvery, everything was delicious! Lamb & Beef tasted amazing really succulent. Potatoes cooked to perfection. Friendly & helpful staff 👌🏻

Me and my wife stopped off on our way home to get some food £15 odd for a carvery small plate and only allowed to choose 2 meats ordered drinks at the bar when ordering our food waited over 20 mins for our drinks and had to ask 3 times where are drink were to be told there coming the the manger come out and said what drinks did we order had to show the receipt to prove what drinks we ordered the waitresses were standing hovering around taking trays from under people plates not giving them time and as soon as ur finished eating there there at ur table taking ur plates felt very rushed

Worst roast dinner especially from a country well known pub. We did not expect it so be so tasteless and watery. Not worth the money and don't arrive around 1pm as they rush you so they can close at 2pm Manager rude to staff in front of customers Kids meals are microwave packets and all food and puddings felt like they has just come out of microwave not fresh Very expensive for what you get

16/9/2022 My wife and i went here for the carvery which was very good and also very good value we will be back Thankyou to the very nice staff

11/10 service every single time, the staff are lovely & so helpful! The food is amazing also one of the best caverys I’ve ever eaten!

Roast carvery was delicious. Beef, Turkey or Pork. Roast or mashed potatoes. Veg - peas carrots cabbage swede, Yorkshire pud and stuffing, and plenty of tasty gravy. Went on Friday evening, Staff very friendly and helpful. Gets very busy on a week-end. Best to phone and book a table. Not far from Brent Knoll. Car park good size.

We had the carvery on a Thursday lunchtime, the portion size was great, it isn’t help yourself, but the staff give you everything you want. Food was unusually hot and excellent quality. Service was excellent. Did need more seasoning in cooking but can be added to your own taste. Excellent value. Will be going back regularly.

Wow , best roast potatoes ever , went here with my family today for a carvery , was given a lovely plate full all fresh and tasted amazing, living 175 miles from this pub I would travel to it just for the roast spuds lovely , very friendly warm welcome atmosphere felt very welcome here and nothing was too much trouble thank for you for an amazing meal

A few Sunday's a go we had a booking else where and they cancelled last minute, with a few hours to spare I called the Nelson pub and they were busy and they did all they could do fit us in, and they did. I was with my husband and toddler, the Car-very was good value, very tasty and the staff dished up the portions and they were very generous with it. The pork tasted perfect and the beef was very tender, and vegetables were very fresh, finally my Yorkshire pudding went down a treat. We aren't local but pass this pub every so often on a journey we make so we will be returning. A definite worthwhile visit.

Before lockdown we would get a Sunday lunch as a take away as I work it was always nice and we enjoyed it, we decided to get one today and it was the worst Sunday lunch I have eaten, to be fair the beef was nice but the rest of it was awful, the roast potatoes were completely black and inedible, the Yorkshire puddings were chewy, the gravy was so strong it just overpowered the meal carrots like bullets, if this is what they are now dishing up we will definitely not go back.

Oh my, if you enjoy a full carvery , then this is the place to go. usually a choice of four meats, plenty of roast potatoes, and their swede...... I am not exactly what they do to the swede to make it taste so good...

Nice food but wow an increase of £4 per person for a Carvery 😡 I know we have had a lock down but I think that amount of increase is bad !

Went for a meal and I can say it was great. Food was a hot, tasty, and a very good price and the staff very helpful and friendly. To say it was good! We have already booked for later in the week.

Went for a family carvery on Monday lunchtime. Was the best carvery I've ever had!!! Absolutely delicious, big portions. Was full but couldn't stop eating, waddled to my car and went home for a sleep. Staff were really friendly and helpful.

Food 5 star service needs attention Yes very busy We booked and were put in a corner with 3 tables around us the families were together. Not a problem Would I have sited us there NO. Whilst we waited 2 lots of 3 people same...

Arrived early so I expected to wait to be seated what I didn’t expect is 2 groups who hadn’t booked seated before us and also when it was our turn for the cavers to be moved do they could all be served together Not very...

They offer the best Sunday dinner. The meat is cooked to perfection , plenty of choice - beef , turkey , lamb and pork. A good range of vegetables. I would highly recommend eating here in or takeaway. The staff ( family business ) are...

Omg this is the best carvery that I’ve ever had..well worth the money!! Very friendly and helpful staff and would deffo recommend. Can’t wait to go back 🤗

Stunning roast dinner plenty of meat and veg cooked to perfection!! Potatoes are amazing!! Great value for money

Often passed this Pub. Now having had lunch there wished we had gone sooner. Very good carvery, pleasant atmosphere and friendly service.

Surprised mine was last review - back in area for a couple of weeks. All I can say is that the carvery is very good, well managed - no heaving bodies trying to get the best portions and lamb delicious. This is a friendly establishment,...

On entering the pub looked cosey. So we order at the bar a drink and Carvery. When we went to sit down in the dining area the chair was filthy. So I went to change it and all the chairs were just as filthy. I...

I have actually grown very fond of The Nelson. It looked a bit rough and ready and not overly welcoming at first glance. But i have to admit i was wrong, the staff are lovely and the food is actually pretty good as well as...

Came for a roast with family, and had the lovely carvery ,beef roast and I really enjoyed it , choice of 4 veg , 3 meat choices, roast or boiled spuds , definitely visit again

If you are looking for a great no frills Sunday lunch, they do other stuff as well, it's perfect. They are closed Tuesdays, we went for the Cavery and I want disappointed

Excellent food and lots of it, the staff were very friendly and helpful as Im in a wheelchair but nothing was to much trouble, highly recommended and well worth visiting

Me and my friends had just cycled from Winscombe when we came across this lovely little pub. Despite it looking a bit old from the outside, inside was very tidy with tables of different sizes (theres also an outdoor seating area). We went to the bar to ask about my friends dairy allergy and within minutes we had order and payed for food and drinks. We werent extremely hungry so the friend mentioned above had breaded mushrooms and homemade chips and myself and another friend shared plaice with chips, peas and salad. It was delicious! The service was lovely and quick therefore I made sure to leave a tip. What a nice place to go to refuel before heading back :)

Someone had recommended this place to my husband many years ago as a really good place for a Sunday carvery., so we thought we'd give it a go Sunday 14th July.

Excellent atmosphere, located in Lovely pretty village. Excellent service very friendly and welcoming. I had carvery and it was the best I have ever had.

Came out to u had a lovely meal but was disappointed with some staff has kept coming round the tables while u were still eating I just finished my meal and my partner was still eating and a member of staff just took my plate away not even a smile on her face it was difficult to have a conversation due to this it felt as though we we’re being rushed

On the rare occasions that I work in Brean I always make the effort to eat one night here. Unlike many carveries lamb is on offer, most will no have it on the menu for cost purposes [stated by my local carvery]. The swede is great and roasties like home made - not frozen.

Came with some extended family while travelling. It was OK but nothing special. Good size portion of meat and wide selection of veg. My husband is vegatarian and discovered the veggie carvery is just the standard carvery without the meat - no actual seperate option. They did do a veggie gravy which was good. Ice cream puddings were very large.

Popped in for lunch recently and found it distinctly underwhelming. Battered fish was clearly not home made and chips were pretty poor too. Go there with low expectations and you won’t be disappointed but don’t make a trip specially.

Really not impressed with the food. Poor selection of vegetables and meat was tough and dry. Nothing on other Calvary’s around the weston area. Wouldn’t not return.

Visited for Sunday lunch and was not disappointed.... choice of 4 carvery meats and gorgeous gravy...will be back

When visiting for a family lunch, I found the pub very cluttered and two many tables crammed in togeather, with one of us having to move whenever someone wanted to use tables around us, also the seats on the chairs was dicustingly filthy, we were trying to change them from other tables but all of them were the same. Would say food was average and pricey for what was served up. Will I go back, NO

Wonderful friendly service and the best carvery for miles around. I use it at least a couple of times a month, and often meet friends there. The food is fantastic, freshly cooked and tasty.

Tonight we did an early christmas night cos my mates daughter is going travelling so will miss christmas at home .

Visited as a change to our weekly home cooked roast, £11.45 is very over priced, food was very average, manager/ landlady more intrested in talking to her firends than serving customers, even let a gentleman push in the line to get his food as she knew him! Very dissapointed!

Visited many times throughout severel years. Never been dissapointed. Food plentiful always cooked well and very tasty. Just like Gran used to cook.

Burger and chips. Chips were awful, tasted of rancid oil. Burger was in a bun and accompanied with discoloured brown lettuce ..yeuch. A truly awful meal. Avoid .

car park was full the barman friendly and polite so thought must be good what a disappointment the beef was okish the roast potatoes were burnt and soft the cabbage over cooked and the vegetables were just dumped on the plate do not know how they get so many good reviews

Called in on way to Bristol airport on Bank Holiday Money. Carvery at £10.99 was OK ... cooked OK and staff helpful. Chef/carver kept disappearing However both rooms very dated and in need of better cleaning and certainly new carpets.

Oh my days there carvery is delicious, large plateful very tasty and a really good price at £6.99 it's my favourite for a roast dinner. The staff are also very friendly

Visit regularly. This time first Sunday visit although. A bit dearer more meat is given. Well worth it. Friendly great food nothing to much trouble. Lovely and warm inside on a rainy day!! 5 star food

Visited with my family, the lady that served us was lovely. We each had a carvery meal, the food was nice, the portion size was was huge making it excellent value. We ate mid-week at lunchtime, it was near the end of service and the restaurant was quiet. The restaurant area did look like it needed some attention, the seat covers at our table were badly stained.

I post often about good places to eat, because people need to know. I guess if it's no good I walk out. Like today on the way back from Bristol airport we called into a pub on the left for carvery. We took one look and walked out, so no name given. We then went on May be half a mile into this place. Brilliant Sunday roast. They have it spot on. They even do takeaway which seemed popular with the locals. Great food and service

Popped in on the way home from a day out yesterday, the first time we have been in a few years and was sad to see how dated it is looking. Staff were nice and friendly, we arrived a little before food started but were told we could take our drinks to the dining room. We chose table 10 first, but the seat covers on the chairs were so dirty we moved to another table. The room was full of flies which kept landing on us. At one point I had two on my face and another on my hand. It is hot at the moment, but we eat out regularly and have not had this problem elsewhere. The starter came quickly, which was a sharing platter for two, but no plates came with it and we had to ask the waitress for some, which she seemed surprised at. She was very nice, but perhaps new? The flies were landing on the platter as we were eating and we had to keep fanning over it. The platter was 6 breaded mushrooms, 2 goujons and 4 prawns, garlic bread, salad and dips. The bread was lovely, the salad was okay and the rest was nicely cooked. A young man came to clear our plates and his customer service was excellent, very friendly, he seemed interested in whether we enjoyed the food and asked if we would like him to get us more drinks, without us asking. The mains arrived quite quickly. We both had Hawaiian burgers and chips. The chips were awful, soggy and undercooked. I am a little fussy over chips, but my husband will eat them any way they come, but he could not eat his either. The burger was tasteless and we had a bit of dried lettuce and raw onion with it. Nobody came to check on us despite there being only 3 tables in use at that time and when the waitress came to take our plates away she did not ask if there was a problem, despite only the burgers being eaten. I told her the chips were soggy and not cooked and she seemed a bit flustered. She asked if she should take them away and tell the chef and we said yes. We were expecting someone to come and speak to us after, but nobody did. We went to pay and the waiter who had served us earlier took our money but did not ask how the meal was and charged us the full amount, so £32 for a starter for two and a burger each! Really disappointed and a shame as it used to be great food there

Visited here for an evening meal whilst staying in a hotel nearby. Quaint, quite old fashioned pub, but lovely with it.

We went midweek so had one dining room to ourselves. I had the scampi which was lovely. The lady behind the bar suggested telling us when my food was nearly ready so the those in our group having the carvery got theirs. This was really nice as it meant we all ate at the same time together.

My husband has mobility problems, but it was easy to park and go on the flat to sit in either the conservatory or the restaurant. There is a carvery with a choice of 3 meats and plenty of veg. I chose the lamb, my husband the beef. We done extremely well. It was £20.40 which was the two roasts and a pint of beer and a J20. Excellent.

Fab food. Seater on Sunday but lots more meat. Proper roast potatoes. Mashed sweet and fresh cabbage and carrots. Thick gravy

What an Amazing Carvery always great food at this pub ! It’s friendly lovely service and lovely staff always there to help with a smile ! We really recommend to go have a nice drink and good food ! Loving the Carvery ! We always visit ! And come away feeling very happy ! Well done to all the staff ! You do an Amazing job ! Totally enjoy the food !

Our friends took us here for a carvers and oh my what a surprise it was fantastic the best one I have had in a long time four courses of meat all the veg you could eat Yorkshire pud stuffing GREAT this family run pub so excellent staff very friendly and helpful the pub its self is cosy and very homely The food is very good value for money plenty of room and plenty of parking

I love going for carvery and have been to The Nelson's Arms on several occasions and have to say, it is the best ever. The atmosphere is warm, welcoming and friendly and the food is just gorgeous.

We were staying locally on a family break and stumbled across The Nelson Arms after being turned away at the nearby Sidcot Arms (as we hadn’t booked even though it was empty).

I cannot stand the traditional sunday roast, I find it bland, bulky and the most basic of culinary flare (that should upset some) So with horror my wife stated she wanted a sunday roast at The Nelson Arms, a place her sister swears by. OK, so car loaded, and its quite a drive to Churchill from the Bath side of Bristol. Eventualy we get there, its popular, so no easy parking, I do find a spot, opposite another pub up a hill. We enter its busy, busy with a capital B. Luckily our reserved table is ready, but its a tight seating arrangement for the 6 of us. 5 of our cohort order roasts, i survey the menu and tho there is a multitude of flavours and styles, nothing grabs my fancy, but I go for a hot bagette. Off they go to collect their roasts, and I await my order. Back they come with their roasts, all looking smug. I await my baguette. They consumme their roasts (mucky food at the best of times) Im pretty fed up now awaiting my baguette, which Im convinced will fall far short of my expectations (why, have you ever ordered a house special burger in a pub with an eatery menu, £12 plus, they make it sound great, but it never lives upto expectation) My baguette arrives, hmmm ok it looks better than expected, chomp and its blinking lovely!!!!!

A splendid carvery, all home cooked, fresh veg and gorgeous joints of meat . Extremely generous servings . And the prices are incredible .highly recommended

We came across this place on the off chance en route back to Bristol from Devon and thank god we did. What a great family run pub this is. As we walked in mid sunday afternoon it was naturally very busy. We were greeted by a very friendly and smiley lady who informed us that as we hadn't booked, we would have around a 20 minute wait which in my opinion is nothing. After about quarter of an hour we were seated at the back in a lovely conservatory area. Quaintly decorated and quiet, we were more than pleased with this. The carvery isn't self serve however this was not as issue. The meat choices were Lamb (Yes!!!), beef, pork and turkey. As me and my mum had two different meats each we were able to taste them all. They were simply stunning. The veg choice was peas, carrots, cabbage and swede along with roast potatoes, stuffing and home made yorkies. There was no limit to what you could ask for and it was all piping hot and perfectly cooked. Must note the roast potatoes were like your mums (gorgeous) and the gravy was great too. A bargain at £10.99 on sundays and £6.99 weekdays too. I will definitely be returning as soon as I can as this was by far the best carvery I've had. Forget toby and winterstream there's a lot to be said about family run pub. Teo VERY happy customers, thank you!

Had a meal here 7pm on Sunday evening. Full carvery still on. Great meal, Lamb, Beef, Roasties were excellent. Reasonably priced. Good Staff really helpful. Partner had steak, cooked excellently. Thanks

Lovely staff! Food always excellent, great atmosphere! I highly recommend the carvery. Been here many times over the years and never a bad meal!

We rang ro book but they dont take bookings before 3..Was packed but they found us a table. We arrived about 130 ish..they needed the table back before 3. I waited at the bar for about 15 minutes as only one person on. The food was ok, nothing special..i wouldnt bother again.

Driving back to the Midlands from a day in Somerset our tummies were rumbling. We asked a gentlemen where we would find a nice pub meal and he mentioned The Nelson Arms.

If you’re in the Churchill area and are hungry, this is your place. For less than 7 pounds at the Carvery, you get a huge place of delicious food - beef, lamb, pork, turkey and late variety of English sides! Yum! The staff is most friendly and will make to smile. You will leave here with a warm heart and a full belly!

Went out with my niece for lunch here last monday.we both decided to try the carvery and im glad we did.as it was absolutley lovley meat was lean and cooked perfectly roast patatoes were fab .all in all a great meal.nice friendly welcoming staff realy good value for money.defenatley recomend!!

We have been here a number of times for lunch while on holiday in the area, and have never been disappointed - the carvery is first class. On this visit I had pork and my wife had pork and turkey. It was properly cooked, and the vegetables were like home made. Unlike most carveries, they load up your plate with vegetables for you, according to your choice, and the servings are extremely generous. The staff are friendly, and the pub has a genuine relaxed country pub feel about it. If you are looking for a good lunchtime roast dinner, don't go anywhere else.

Amazing roast been thier twice now very very welcoming pub

Very nice indeed very tasty the gravy was nice and the lamb was delicious I would certainly go again and maybe try during the week where it's nearly half the price. Here's hoping the standards are the same

Very welcoming young barman explained about the local cider..lovely people skills

Late Sunday Carvery Dinner. Pub was very busy (sign of good food) with good selection of beers. Meat portions were big, plus all you want on the vegetable front. Good taste to the food.

Popped in on our way home from a day shopping in bristol, absolutly amazing carvery with the best roast potatoes.

The place was friendly, clean and plenty of food. Not fine dining but OK. It was convenient for our stay.

Good food and good pint of Doom, friendly service well priced menu. Just off the Airport road at the traffic lights in Churchill, turn right on the way up.

We visited the Lord Nelson pub and had a wonderful dinner! I would definitely go back. Excellent service, fascinating pub (look through the glass at the bar down to the old well), great little half-pint, charming outdoor seating area, very good atmosphere and delicious food!! Really delicious food!

Visited with a friend, and had intended to eat elsewhere but ended up here. We walked in and ordered drinks, reasonable prices for a pint, but a single archers and lemonade expensive at £4.50. The barman was incredibly friendly and confirmed we could sit anywhere without a reserved sign (as we spotted a table with one when we arrived). We walked into the main restaurant area by the dessert fridge and passed a large 12 seater table which was reserved. We chose a table in the conservatory area, but decided it was a bit chilly and the tables only had hard wooden chairs so moved back to the main restaurant area where the chairs were padded and it was warmer, and sat down.The menu is a laminated piece of A3, folded in half. Our menu was slightly grubby, but we weren't too bothered. We chose our meals and went up to order (2x starters, a carvery, and a curry). The food:Our starters arrived slightly overcooked - the chicken goujons were ok, but crunchy, the mozarella sticks were harder than the goujons! The waitress was hovering, and cleared our plates as soon as the cutlery hit them. For our mains, once the curry arrived my friend collected the carvery. In the time that the curry was put down on the table, before my friend returned with her carvery, the waitress walked past four times. It seemed she was not busy and was looking for something to do, very attentive, but slightly off putting. The carvery was ok,very good portions, chose two different meats and had two slices of each. Unlike a standard carvery, where the meat is served and you are passed the plate to choose the remainder of your meal, the canteen reference from an earlier review made sense. You are asked what you would like and the staff serve it all up for you. The taste was good, the lamb was delicious, but there was something hard and solid in the cabbage, possibly plastic. We didnt investigate further just popped it to the side. My curry (rogan josh) was a bit salty, the chicken was very tender and well cooked, and the rice was lovely. The accompanying naan bread was cold, as if from the fridge, but I warmed it by putting the curry bowl on top of it! The waitress was hovering again, as well as seeing to three other small tables (two couples, and a single gentleman), she walked through the room an additional 12 times while we were eating (we had made an earlier joke to each other about counting and were shocked when we did!). We definitely felt watched!Dessert was also a bit of a game of two halves. First thing to mention is there is a choice of (squirty) cream, custard or ice cream with desserts. For icecream you are charged an additional 60p. The white chocolate rocky road was absolutely delicious. Light and airy, with a good ratio of mini marshmallows, raisins and malt balls included, all on top of a biscuit base. The angel sprinkles cake was... ok. There were a few slices already missing where it was on display in the dessert fridge, and the side where the cake had been cut was dry on one side from exposure to the air. Again, brilliant portion sizes.The restaurant:As mentioned already, the A3 laminated folded menu was a bit grubby. The decor is reasonable, some very tasteful pieces but a bit mismatched around the room. The chairs had a multitude of stains/marks on and look like they could do with a good upholstery clean. The tables are decorated with plastic pots of flowers, quite tasteful/realistic but absolute dust magnets. They were dusty! The tablecloth was a little sticky, we assumed at first due to the style of tablecloth (wipe clean but padded), however we later witnessed the hovering waitress using a cloth which sat in a bowl of progressively dirty water which sat on a table next to the dessert fridge (and next to the door to the gents toilet) to wipe down the tables when she cleared and relaid them. We realised at one point that the place mat on our table next to my friend had salt on it, and neither of us used salt during our entire meal. Upon ordering dessert we also got a second drink.. my pint glass was 'dishwasher dirty' - I have this at home and am used to seeing it, stained marks that do not come off without a proper scrub.By this point we had gone slightly insane from the same four or five country music tracks which were playing on a loop and were just laughing at the entire experience. It is certainly not one we would forget..however at over £60 for 3 courses and two drinks for two people it was definitely a case of quantity, not quality.With a good clean, a larger selection of music (I am a country fan, but a wider range of tracks is needed!) and some better hygiene standards (the bowl of dirty water that the cloth was kept in throughout the entire time we were in the pub could have been returned to the kitchen to be rinsed/changed... the spray bottle we assume of anti bacterial spray next to it could have been used..) this place would be worth a return visit as the portion sizes ARE good, and other than the hard thing in the carvery, the carvery was nice, the other menu items aren't so good. It seems to be popular with locals, a couple of the tables were definitely regulars. Oh also, the reserved large table of 12 people never materialised, we were unsure whether it was reserved for staff for after closing (as another reserved table in a different part of the pub had been used by the owner while we were eating).

Not so long ago, practically every pub was offering carvery meals but now the Nelson Arms out at Churchill, is one of the few left!We called in there for lunch a few days ago and had a good meal; the beef was slightly overcooked but still tasty and the vegetables were very good (lovely creamed swede), apart from the peas - not fresh or frozen, could they have been tinned? My friend said the turkey was moist and delicious. For pudding we went for the spotted dick and custard, brought to us steaming hot from the kitchen and it was very good with lots of flavour.The staff were friendly and service was good, but the decor of the pub is looking a bit tired and could do with a refurbishment. There isn't miuch room between tables and it is difficult to get the chairs out from under the tables!There are only 2 real ales on offer, Butcombe and Doom Bar and the spirits seem to be the usual ones. But having said that, you get a good lunch with generous portions and its well worth a visit.

My wife and I had some visitors down from "up North" so we wanted to show them around, Street, Shepton Mallet, Cheddar etc, and on our way back we stopped at the Nelson Arms in Churchill.We decided to opt for a light lunch as we were eating out in the evening, so we ordered baguettes, not a good choice if you are eating a large meal later, they were Huge. There was plenty of the filler of your choice, and in fact you couldn't pick it up in one go and we all had to cut them in half, one of us even cut the halves into quarter again.Well worth a stop, not just for the baguettes as the carvery looked scrumptious also.

Went with friends who regularly enjoy the carvery there. The whole place was packed with regimented tables to cater for the hoards that apparently flock in. The carvery servery area was somewhat restricted for the chef, but the food was plentiful and tasty - my friend had seven roast potatoes! The Butcombe beer was well kept. However, I thought the place could do with a bit of a makeover and the actual bar itself needed sanding down and revarnishing. So, mixed impressions - the chef was jolly and welcoming, the carvery was good and plentiful, the Butcombe was spot on but not keen on the canteen feel! And a makeover wouldn't go amiss. However, my friend informed me that at times the place is so popular in the summer weekends that people have been not known to be queuing outside to get in!

Just had gorgeous Carvery at the Nelson, very highly recommended.... Gorgeous crispy roasters, and the Swede is to die for... plus the Lamb was tender and very tasty, I would have liked my own pot of mint sauce on my table....I did add some at the bar but I was to cautious..lol. Thank you it was superb.

Carvery very much the focus of this place even doing a takeaway! Every table set for food and smell of cabbage pervasive. Only 2 beers Doom Bar and Butcombe. Barmaid was delightful though, beer was well kept and hot baguettes were delicious with superb chips. The dessert fridge looked to die for.

had the carvery which was very nice for the money, and had a rhubarb and apple crumble for afters which was very nice. staff were friendly,

Lovely country pub that does a carvery 6days a week for a very reasonable £6.95 except on Sunday . staff very helpful,And a few real ales to sample.

If you can't cook chips you really have no hope, shocking meal, don't waste your money. Bloody awful Gin and Tonic to boot.

The food was ok and the drinks were good to the service is ok and the food is just a bit expensive but for a little bit of food it is ok

We ate here while staying at a local B & B and came back twice. The carvery was really good, the meat tender and lovely roast potatoes. It was very good value for money. The staff were friendly and welcoming.

The food itself was good with lots of it, however, the way it was plated up leaves a lot to be desired. The meat was carved beautifully, but the vegetables were almost thrown on the plate. The roast potatoes were speared with a carving fork and mostly broken before being virtually thrown on the plate. The food tasted a lot better than it looked.The drinks were expensive. Half a lager and a small coke was £3.65. Our overall experience was not good and we will not be returning.

The pub is situated half way between Bristol Airport and Cheddar Gorge. The carvery is serviced whole day (£6.99 per adult and £3.99 per child). Choose from beef, pork or turkey, add wedges, veges, gravy or stuffing. Food is tasty and service is very good. Highly recommend this tavern for all who travel around. They serve nice cakes as well.

Ate here as we were recommended it for the carvery and don't get me wrong the carvery was very nice and good for the money however we also ordered the "home made burger" which needs to be changed to home cooked as its definitely not home made it was a mass produced cooked burger and fries were undercooked pale hard potatoes but hey ho it's a good place for carvery

Whilst this pub/restaurant is a carvery there are plenty of other dishes to choose from. The food is excellent and the pub was very busy when we visited on a Saturday afternoon/evening. All four of us only had excellent things to say about this place as we left.

This village innlooks a little tired from the exterior but inside it is warm and welcoming with tables throughout as the focus here is on a traditional family dining experience. The carvery menu is back up by an extensive choice of other dishes. We had a choice of four meats and five vegetables with the usual accompaniments. The food was well cooked and portions to suit all preferences. Top marks for the offer of gluten-free gravy. Tradional puddings and sweets.

We had surf and turf and it was exactly what I expected, not refined but good honest well cooked pub grub. The service was very pleasant, the pub is clearly for eating, the decor is dated but probably shouldn't update because it would loose the 70's feel. I would eat here again on another trip on the way to the airport.

Good food - Large portions - Good value for moneyStaff friendly.Nice beers on tap.Decor nothing special - But then after all it is a good honest family friendly pub with no pretentions.

What can you say - just good wholesome pub grub. Extensive menu although limited real ales which was disappointing.

Lovely carvery here, it's always busy, but you never have to wait long for a table. I'd rather go to a busy place than an empty one, you can tell it's good food at a good price. This is ideal for a meal for two, family meals or group meals as all are catered for. Highly recommend this place

Called in on the way home, late lunch time. Found the carvery was open, as well as the usual menu. However, we chose the carvery and at £6.49 each, a definite bargain. Beautifully cooked food at a very reasonable price. Restaurant a bit dated, but you don't get everything. Really glad we stopped here.