The sun inn in South Oxfordshire - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Beer well maintained, good food (particularly Sunday lunches) and great prices - no complaints here.

Just had a lovely home cooked roast with my family. Was choice between beef and pork and when we couldn't make decision were kindly offered but of both. And veggies they just kept coming. Felt like having a roast at my nanas. Lovely we will be back.

What a great pub! Very friendly staff. Good choice of drinks. Lovely garden to sit out in on a sunny day. We will be back again when we are in the area next.

Under new management Currently open 12 noon till 11 7 days days a week food now being served wed to Sunday light lunches and evening meals easy access for wheelchairs ample parking and outdoor seating pleasant staff it's worth a visit to make up your own mind as it has improved a lot.

Nice stop on a long walk. A welcome break with pretty good service. Not too busy due to the location and time which was handy as there is not a huge amount of space, cosy.

Brilliant little out of the way country pub. Lovely garden for when the sun is shining! Easily the best pub in Hill Bottom!

Absolutely brilliant! Great food and great service. We will be back with more friends!!

Warm, friendly service... what more does one need 👍

Great local working mans pub, nothing extravagant. Theres a good varity of booze to suit everyones taste and a simple but good menu for food no over the top elaborate over priced dishes just simple good food and the pizza on fridays is banging highly recommended that. They also host classic car/tractor meets and host the stoke row steam rally. Been drinking here for a few years now. Nice beer garden as well.

Landlady curtly told us the kitchen was shut. No apologies. Very rude. Won't go there again.

Sunday. Called in after walking the dog and happy to see they weren’t busy and looking forward to their Sunday Roast. They served us drinks but wouldn’t take our food order as they were too busy (4 tables looked occupied) and only one person in the kitchen. We had our drinks and left . This is second time I’ve been and the service is extremely poor. Unfriendly and not welcoming at all. A shame as the garden has been done nicely. I can’t rate the food… for obvious reasons

Spent an evening here with some friends, good traditional pub food and local beer. Portions were generous and food well cooked. The pub is very clean and staff welcoming, we will certainly visit again!!!

Classy, spotlessly clean local serving a great pint of 'Good old boy'. A real pleasure.

This was a great pub when the previous landlady ran it. However the new landlords have ruined it. They are incredibly rude and unpleasant people that can’t even be bothered to serve you. It’s such a shame as the previous landlady made the pub thrive, gaining lots of new customers.

Visited after a lovely walk along the Thames. Super traditional country pub, great value straightforward bar food, superb beer and friendly hosts

Amazing local pub where everyone is welcome..

Top quality staff definitely a lovely local

Friendly, reasonable prices on drinks, loads of lovely space outside and often things going on

Greatly improved pub. Very friendly to morris dancers and their local audience. Good ale from a surviving West Berks and the Loddon breweries. Ample parking.

Brilliant landlady ! , great atmosphere , and entertainment, out in the countryside Wonderful !

I only stopped for a pint, but friendly staff, comfortable, great garden and outside seating for families and dogs (dog friendly pub). I don't think they're offering food at the moment but they have the usual bar snacks.

Super hospůdka, dobré pivo a vynikající obsluha, čisto a utulno

Refurbished hostelry under recent new ownership. Excellent beer.

Excellent Sunday roast and great service. Highly recommended.

Enjoyed a pint and cheese and onion sani. Friendly fok both sides of the bar

Excellent pub food in the large outdoor area. Good quick service although quite Covid busy..

Lovely pub with friendly and helpful staff! Il most certainly be coming back in future ! Food looked fantastic !

Excellent food and drink. Nice and local

We had a lovely lunch today April 2021, no Sunday roast due to outside dining but the food was delicious, freshly made: homemade coleslaw, great burger and fresh fish. Family and dog friendly, new seating area, although we chose to sit in a smaller area, in the quiet rural location just the birds tweeting. Not far from Pangborne or even Reading TC..

Four of us had lunch here and it was very nice, portions on the large side. Ham, egg and chips not the norm but with belly pork, poached eggs, hollandaise sauce and chips it was nice but why mess with good old ham, egg and chips served with thick slices of home cooked gammon. Friendly service in a nice old pub.

Amazing food, great service and a chef that takes pride in his work. What more can you ask for?

Fantastic village pub, great food, lovely staff - I highly recommend a visit!

Good beer and friendly atmosphere, too early for food as only just reopened after lock-down but optimistic it will be a vast improvement over the previous surly occupants. Hoping it will again become a friendly village pub after a good start. Give it a try!

It used to be an amazing pub with great food, unfortunately after change of management it is only average pub. Shame.

I received a phone call from a friend who had been looking at the reviews on the pub who suggested that the previous landlord may be back as they spotted Mark (he isn't hard to spot) in a picture of a recent review. I was excited enough to drop everything and check it out for myself. I can confirm Mark has not been at the pub for over a year and the picture from what suggested to be the best Morris Men night therefore has an issue as he was not there for this event. Just to point out, the pub has always been a pub but understandably everyone has their own opinion on what makes a 'good' pub 'good'. Whether it be good food, family friendly or geared toward the locals, this pub has done it all and everyone has their preferences. I personally preferred when the previous landlords & Mark were at the pub as Mark was a STAR and made everyone feel welcome.

The last time we came to The Sun, there was a couple running it. They were warm, family-friendly and the food was fantastic. This time the pub is under new management and it’s a disaster. There’s an air of neglect, decor is somehow now more dated, the garden is basically an extended car park and the bar has an atmosphere that this is a place just for local blokes with pick ups. It’s tragic. This place used to be worth driving to. Now unless you’re part of the local gang you should avoid.

Great food and friendly staff .

One of our favourite Morris nights. Back to being a real local pub. Good ale, no nonsense food, darts and a new landlord making a real go of it.

Great West Berkshire and Loddon ales

Had chosen this pub as near the Chiltern way for lunchtime sustenance. Found they did not serve food in spite of what the website suggests. Half the beers were off. The pint of bitter I had was stale. The garden is a bit of grass at the back on the edge of the empty car park with one wobbly pic nic table and various bits of discarded rubbish. We sat at one of the tables on the roadside at the front and lunched on crisps. Very disapointing

Under new management for last 4 months,food is tops , Sunday lunch is all fresh veg no frozen stuff here well worth a visit you will not be sorry,plus all the best beers wines and spirits 😄😄😄

Great little pub! Great beer, nice, relaxed atmosphere and landlord and staff are very friendly and welcoming. Well worth a visit.

Very nice food and exceptional service. I had a pleasant dining experience with food of the most exquisite flavours. For this reason I highly recommend going to The Sun.

Brought the family out for a meal we all decided to have a roast was able to book a table for 6 with no problems very helpful staff and friendly. meals were delicious, generous portions, and very tasty kids were well looked after would definitely be going back again soon

There appears to have a change of ownership. We were told we were lucky to be there, we disagreed. The staff are poor as well as rude. We ordered sparkling water and some prawns, neither were available. There are several excellent pubs within a few miles, avoid this one.

Nice pub, friendly staff, good reasonably priced food

it is once again under new management, the new people are trying to make a go of things, they have taken the pub back to square routes and started again. Good honest priced beer. Basic but good food. Will definitely be going back.

This place was once beautifully run. It is sadly now a shell of a pub. The beer is OK but it has lost the soul the kitchen provided by Giles and Nina. It offers basic sandwiches and nothing much else to write home about. Such a shame. It had become the hub of the community in so many ways. Sad to see somewhere with so much potential sit in a sorry state.

Since the change of landlord this pub has gone down hill fast. The last occupants really worked hard to build a reputation for good food (great sourdough pizzas as well). The new ones do not seem interested in creating a welcome. The curry night looks quite good but otherwise nothing doing on the food side. No menus on the website says it all. If you like a pint of Good Old Boy you'll be OK here but don't expect lively conversation!

We recently visited the pub and had a fantastic curry. The staff were very friendly and helpful and the pub had a nice feel.

I went to the new Tuesday Curry Night hosted by the CookCurry Club - I've had their curries before as takeaways (incredible) but never in a restaurant setting.The food was, of course, delicious. I had a selection of starters and the veggie main. And not only can you have a great curry but you are sitting in a pub with great beer! I will wake up and will all be a dream, but even if it is, I'll be back on a Tuesday soon - just to check.

I went to the The Sun Inn for a evening diner with a friend and it was a cosy pub with very friendly staff. The food was excellent and the atmosphere was great.

Great night with friends at The Sun - fabulous freshly cooked curry, delicious flavours, beautifully presented, friendly service and will be back on another Tuesday evening - thank you Kran and team at The Sun.

This place was a Gem of a pub over the last 18 months. Shame on Richard Hazel to eject last landlord in favour of this debacle. What was once a friendly pub, with quality food and quality wine is now a pub reserved for drunken tarmac roadies. They couldn't wait to ruin the menu and wack the Stella on tap. What was once the hub of the hill community, that shared good food, conversation and good beer is now a sad, shadow of its former self.

Terrible. Richard should have stuck to tarmacing and left our village pub well alone. Terrible food, terrible service and reception. Slow service. What more can I say??

Terrible and doesn’t compare to the previous owners. No idea what they’re doing unfortunately. Richard should have stuck to tarmacing and left our village pub well alone.

Avoid, so sad before it was a great pub with quality food now it is absolutely disaster, no idea how to run this place, very disappointing and sad that owner let this happened. No clue and no taste!

We usually visit this pub around 1-2 times per month but will now have to find somewhere else. After out last visit we wont be returning. When we found out the previous tenants were leaving we were quite upset because we had just come across this amazing location where all of the family could choose a satisfying meal accompanied by some great beers and wines. we were always looked after by the friendly bar staff and with a few members of staff we would call them by their first names. The issue now is that the pub has approached more of a 'local pub' vibe with minimal food offering (though the beers are still good) which didnt take our fancy at all. When i visited with a friend we felt like outsiders, not very welcomed. Service was extremely slow and not worth the wait.I would not usually write a review, but I love to know where the previous team are now. If anyone reading this finds out please direct me.

Stop sendimg me these reviews. I have already opted out !!

Wish we read the recent reviews before coming. Sad to see that the previous couple have gone and unfortunately the food offered now just doesn’t compare. Good selection of beer but it’s a shame to see the pub return to being the “tarmacers arms.”

Last time in this pub was September - we had a great meal but the people running it were moving out and I got the impression that the new landlords were going to run it as a drinkers pub. What a pity for all us locals who like a nice walk with a good meal to look forward to.

I think this might have been ok until recently judging by the reviews, bit when we visited there was no menu and we were only able to have sandwiches and chips. Hopefully it will get better as the new owners settle in

Came to try out the place under the new owners but wish we didn’t bother. No food.. Old guy behind the bar much too slow and very awkward. £3.90 for a small bottle of peroni!!!! They must be having a laugh. We won’t be returning.

Proper old English pub and dog friendly

Cannot fault any of the meals on offer here! They close next week so try it before they do. Best dinners I have experienced in the area! Yummy!

Another typical British pub with a fabulous atmosphere and great bar foodthe sausage and mash was a particular highlight.Great location on the hot summers day we visited and the staff were polite and helpful and there was no rush even after we had finished our foodExcellent value for food and drinks

Beautiful pub on a quiet road, friendly staff and locals with a good selection of beers...and I can vouch for the seriously delicious Coppa Di Parma pizza! Been a while since I've been here...won't be so long until my next visit.

Excellent, convivial pub for a family celebration.

Took the family out for a bite to eat and was very impressed. Our food was excellent and had a lovely chat with some of the locals in the bar. Will be visiting again.

I was in the area visiting and my family came down from London to go out for a meal, after looking at local restaurants I couldn’t find any that would offer food that the whole family would eat until I came across this place.After looking at the reviews I could see that the majority of people thought highly of The Sun and after visiting for dinner with my family I can see why!I’m not someone that usually leaves a rating because I don’t see the point but as I saw there were some negative reviews that said the staff weren’t friendly or helpful I thought I should say something.I’m my visit I booked a table for 7:30 on a Friday night because I didn’t want to get there and have no room, I called to say that me and my family would be 15 minutes late and the lady that answered the phone was lovely and completely understanding.Upon arrival, it was clearly not an actual restaurant but more of a pub but that isn’t me complaining. The Sun is in a nice little quiet area and for summer I bet would be a great place to go.I looked at the menu before going there and so I had a rough idea of what they served.Me and my family got a nice table in the corner so we were free to laugh and joke around HOPEFULLY without distracting too many people.The staff immediately came over and asked what drinks we would like which was nice as it looked as if they were quite busy and I was expecting a bit of a wait but that wasn’t the case.We ordered food and it isn’t cheap there but I can’t complain about quantity or quality at all. You get exactly what you pay for there in my opinion. I thought the steak that I had was quality and the chips that came with it were beyond better than standard pub chips so I was very happy.The lady that served us was lovely, always smiling and had great customer service.I would recommend this place to absolutely anyone visiting the area but as I said, the only thing that I would say is that it isn’t CHEAP, it’s not ridiculously expensive and with what you get it’s definitely proportionate but if you’re someone that usually goes to McDonalds then it’s a bit more expensive.Great place, great food and great staff.

Great Sunday Lunch and good ale (west Berkshire)

On local recommendation we went here for lunch. The Sun was rather more basic than I had imagined - bare wooden tables - but it is a pub. We sat very comfortably before the fire (it was a chilly and wet day) and enjoyed an excellent repast of a selection of charcuterie followed by an outstanding smoked mackerel pate with glasses of smooth Chilean Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot. Charming young staff, but sad to be told the current team will be moving on soon - hope the next lot are as good!

I had pizza and that was very good

Great Sunday lunch, very welcoming and relaxed. Roast beef and house red was awesome, so too were the puddings. We will definitely be coming back!

Visited this pub for Sat lunch today with 7 adults and 3 children. The food was superb, well above your standard pub food. It looks like a fairly typical pub from the outside but the inside is smart, well decorated and cosy with a real fire. The guy running it was very friendly and easy going and I would recommend this place and will go back.

15 of us came for lunch today, really good food we all enjoyed very much, many had the pie and mash, maybe a few carrots on the plate when serving would give a better visual presentation, a boost of colour. Pizza wonderful a delight to see and great taste, One gluten free lunch dealt with very well. Coffee machine not working well so coffee took ages. Keep up the good work thanks so. much

Tried The Sun for the first time on Friday. Exterior seemed like a small village pub, nothing to get excited about! However, once inside welcome was friendly, good atmosphere. Crowded but not overwhelmingly so. Got seated immediately, with drinks brought to table. Menu interesting, with something for everyone, not just pub staple menu. Attentive service, with food produced in good time. Food itself delicious! Starter choriso with onion garnish, served on toasted ciabatta. Then highlight for me, ribeye. Cooked exactly to my specification, with cut of meat beautiful. Couldn't eat anything more after this (too full) so cant comment on desserts. Two of us with beers and soft drinks £54. Will be booking again! Give it a try, I do recommend it.

Very disappointed.. waited 40mins for soup.. still not arrived ..staff not bothered we ordered in advance .. even phoned to say we would be fifteen minutes late .. not very professional

Very glad to come to this place today, group of 17 dealt with perfectly. Great food also

We stopped at The Sun Inn on a Saturday walk and had a great meal. Good food - good choices (including vegetarian) - good prices. Friendly pub.

Nice pub with really good (mostly Italian style) food. Could be better on the organisational side.

We strongly recommend the Special Christmas Menu. Great choice, excellent value, superb meal. Two of us - gorgeous Terrine and Crab Tian to start, turkey and beef as our main courses, topped off with Chocolate Tart and Pavlova. Would readily do a repeat visit before Christmas if waistline allows. Have a look at the menu on their web site, best Christmas Fare in the area.

Fabulous, great service, amazing quality food, great beer, well worth lots of visits

Met up with four old(young at heart)friends for a Christmas Get together. One knew about the Sun. On arrival we were welcomed by the landlord who offered a great range of ales including Loddon and. West Berkshire Brewery. We settled on Pints of Good Old Boys which was excellent.The fire was roaring giving a great cosy atmosphere.A very helpful young waitress took our order.The starters included mackerel pate,homemade soup and an Italian anti pasto cured meats which were excellent. On the specials board was rib of beef. We all fancied this if served pink. It came with parsnips,roast potatoes,cabbage Yorkshire pudding covered in a delcious meaty gravy. It all great.There was a good choice of reasonably priced wines . Unfortunately no room for the homemade puddings.Please give this hidden gem a try.

Visited with our friends from the North for a late Sunday lunch. We had preordered from the festive menu with one coeliac amongst us who was carefully looked after. The food was tremendous, everything was well presented and tasty. Highlights : roast goose, crispy roast potatoes and the best stuffing ever.The staff were friendly and attentive, the food arrived at a suitably relaxing pace and we had a great afternoon in the Sun. Highly recommended.

Having just moved to the area, we were delighted to find this gem of a pub. It was a little cold when we arrived but they immediately adjusted the heating and added more logs on the fire and we were warm and cosy in no time. Will definitely be back again! We ate everything so quickly we forgot to take pictures, next time we will be back with friends.

We cycled here for Sunday lunch a couple of weeks ago. Arrived in lycra, admittedly not smart, but were clean and had money. I was really excited to see a veg plot and braces of pheasants hanging on the fence which seemed to bode well for a tasty lunch. Pub was very quiet and on sitting at a free table amongst a row of empty tables without reserved signs were asked by an unsmiling man if we'd booked and when said we hadn't were told there was only one table we could sit at (a tiny one pushed into the corner). We had made this pub the destination of our ride and I was looking forward to a hot soup followed by an indulgent pudding for warmth and calories combined with a pint. This pub used to do amazing classic British puds with lashings of custard. Soup came with croutons and when we asked if we could have some toast or a roll to make it more filling (toast was being served with another starter) were told the kitchen absolutely couldn't do this. Out of approx 6 puddings 3 had salted caramel (in the minority here but I don't like it) and all of the others were very light and non calorific. As the soup bowls were cleared the unfriendly man asked if we would be ordering anything else to eat. When we said we weren't sure he immediately said he would bring the bill. Not even the chance to think about whether we would like tea or coffee, or enjoy the warmth inside (although the atmosphere was actually enough to negate this anyway). The whole time we were there the other tables we were categorically forbidden to sit at remained empty and we left about 2ish, so not much sign they had been booked for Sunday lunch by anyone else. We used to come here often with cycling friends and always received a warm welcome and loved the warm, bubbly atmosphere. Travesty that this management has taken over an old classic. We certainly won't be back!

Really nice burger and great little pub, not so keen on groups unless you order the day before though

Visited with family. Nice pub and nice food with friendly service. We had booked as we were a large party and this is a relatively small pub. Nice garden and plenty of seating outside. Food prices were a little high, but probably normal for this area. Be aware they close at 3pm so it doesn't give you long if you want a relaxed lunch.

Very much improved under the new owners. Excellent beer.

Excellent Sunday lunch, great staff and service, will be visiting again soon!

Make sure to book before you go! The food was absolutely fabulous, we went for Sunday lunch and started with the rosemary tear and share bread. It came warm and with butter / olive oil and balsamic vinegar and was divine. Half of our dining party had the roast beef and half the roast pork. The meat was tender, juicy and delicious, the roast potatoes were everything you would hope a roast potato would be! Light and fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside. The Yorkshire puddings were equally good. The accompanying veg was delicious. For dessert the salted caramel brownie with ice cream and chocolate sauce was heavenly. The rich brownie was perfectly complimented by the ice cream. All in all an amazing meal! The service was excellent and the staff were friendly. We will definitely be back for more!

unexpectedly stumbled across my best meal ever in the UK, in the middle of a hike. the staff was very friendly and helpful in suggesting courses, and the food was fantastic and reasonably priced. would definitely visit again if i ever end up in the area!

My family and I visited The Sun Inn last week and they loved the food! We drove from London after hearing about this place and I will definitely be returning! My son had the burger which was exquisite, whilst my husband and I had the Coppa Di Parma and Truffle Mushroom Pizza, which is without a doubt, one of the best pizza's I have ever had. I would definitely recommend this place and am looking forward to my next visit.

Stumbled upon this gem on my way through Whitchurch hill, and this will definitely be a spot my friends and I will come back to regularly. Food was amazing. I had the Sirloin steak which was tender and super tasty. My girlfriends had the truffle and mushroom pizza and the crab fettuccine. We also had the cote de beouf to share! The service was super friendly and made our dinner all the more enjoyable.

Excellent quality food at reasonable prices

i when to the pub on Father`s Day. I thoroughly enjoyed my Sunday roast. I had the chicken... best chicken i`ve ever eaten!! For desert i had the chocolate sundae. It was very nice to eat on a hot day like it was. The two young girls who served me where very pleasant, sweet and helpful. I`ve never seem such smiley waitresses. It`s rare to find such a cosy small pub that serves amazing food and has such nice hardworking waitresses. I will defo be coming back. Thank you for a super fathers day.

Friendly staff, great roast dinner, but the menu was restricted on a Sunday to roasts only.

We haven't been to this pub for a while (we have family who live in the village) and when we arrived, the decor and refurbishment looks good. We were greeted by a lovely barman who was extremely friendly and helpful. We were a party of 4, 3 had the burger and I had the crab linguine. The burgers were described as 'the best burgers they'd had ever!!!' and my linguine was amazing. You could say that the food went down very well!This is a great little pub, with a lovely welcoming atmosphere and delicious food - we will be back sooner next time!!!!

Booked in for a late Friday dinner, pub is round corner from us. I've been in previously and met the new owners, Nina and Giles, a nice young couple with extensive experience of catering at top venues around the world. So I was expecting good things. And I got them!This is a local pub that, under previous owners, was quiet. Really quiet. Their food was fine, eaten there a few times. But Nina and Giles have bumped things up a notch, and in quite an understated way. Menus aren't flashly presented, prices are very reasonable, service was attentive.We started with avocado on toast to share. Simple, but delicious. Avocado was ripe, not served cold, and seasoning well balanced. Could have eaten it again no problem. For mains my better half had Devon crab spaghetti while I went for slow cooked lamb ragu with pappardelle. I'm not a huge crab fan, but I had a taste and it had plenty of flavour. My lamb? Boom. Not too much, not too little. Deeply intense lamb flavour (I'm guessing a reduced lamb stock used in addition to the lamb) that just kept me coming back and didn't fade. Despite feeling full, I just had to finish it. Would have been rude not to, it was that good. I can't really criticise what Nina and Giles and the rest of their excellent, friendly staff are doing here. I don't care what a place looks like - though the Sun is cosy - as long as the food is good. It's rare to find somewhere like this. There's a real confidence in the execution, with no flashy "cheffy" touches that show insecurity. The term gastropub is passe these days - it would almost be a disservice to apply it here. If you like the look of the menu at The Sun, you'll get exactly what it says on the tin, plus a bit more you weren't expecting. Well done.