The Whistle Stop in East Northamptonshire

It was the first time I went there, but the owners made me feel like I've been going there for years.. Thank you so much for welcoming me.. Such a pleasant evening 🤩

I recently had a frustrating experience at this pub. I received an £85 parking fine for parking just 10 minutes, during which I bought a coke. I've tried calling the pub multiple times, but their phone number never answers, and there’s no way to email them my receipt. Most places like golf clubs and hotels have clear signage or an iPad to validate parking, or someone asks you to do it. And if you do get a fine but can prove you were a paying customer, they usually waive it. But this pub is different. I wasn’t looking for a sign because, honestly, it’s a pub – you don’t expect a parking validation policy. I want to warn others: be careful when visiting this pub. You might end up with a similar fine for a quick visit. It’s clear they don’t prioritise customer service or transparency. Instead of making themselves available for contact, they seem to prefer hiding behind the supposed legitimacy of there being clear signage, while unfairly taking your hard-earned cash.

Stoped here to meet up on the way to Bury St Edmunds. Fixed price 3 course lunch was excellent value

Food always good. Lovely helpful staff. Great place for children. Dog friendly.

Can’t thank Gilly and the whole team enough. Went on Sunday for hubby’s 50th birthday lunch with the family. Great service bearing in mind there were 23 of us. Food was fab and lovely and hot. Everyone was very pleased. Can’t recommend highly enough xx

My first time in this Estabishment passed it many times. The Service was excellent friendly helpful and all smiles. The food was delicious the steak cooked perfectly and the bread & butter pudding took me back to my childhood. I found them very child friendly with ny grandchildren. I will definately be going back again for the Sunday dinner and for a drink outside in the Summer. Highly recommend them

Went for the first time with my family of 7 for a Sunday roast yesterday.. AMAZING! Staff are super friendly and food was amazing! We will be back. Thank you to the team 👍👍👍

Been a number of times now and yes you wait a little while, around 20 to 30 minutes for your food but it is cooked to order and fresh and hot. Been on Saturday night for there steak night special and the steak is always good quality and cooked to perfection. Landlady at front is usually rushed off her feet but very attentive. Will continue to use.

Myself and my partner with her parents arrived with the dogs, to come have some food we heard really good reviews about the place. As we arrived at the bar and asked a few questions about food and drink the bar lady was very abrupt miserable and damn right rude. My partners parents originally went to bar and she completely ignored them. Even one of the other folks in there mentioned it’s self service in here as a joke due to the fact the woman behind bar was so ignorant. We also noticed our glasses were very rough and dirty. In the beer garden although there was nobody there, it seemed there was a lot of beer glasses hovering around which looked to been there for ages. This experience put us off thus not ordering any food and leaving. It was about 4:30pm on an easter weekend it was dead and dismal which doesn’t surprise us if they spoke to the bar lady.

Warm friendly welcome, relaxed atmosphere and the food was lovely. The pub has quiz and race nights on a Friday.

Thought we would try the Whistlestop as never used it before,and wish we still hadn't. The reception we received was frosty by the lady at the front of house,the place was cold,smelt musty,and the beams were full of cobwebs,not the best first impression. Our first selection off the menu was not available,but took them five minutes to inform us,so we selected again,and then waited a good half hour for our food to arrive,the food was below average when it did arrive. Our first and last visit.

Contacted at short notice to see if they could fit us in for Sunday lunch. We’ve been here before as they are so dog friendly for my two small dogs. Like all our previous meals here, it did not disappoint. The Sunday lunch is amazing and extremely good value. I don’t know how they do it for the price given how much it is to eat out elsewhere these days. Lovely quality home cooked food. Thankyou, we will be back.

Great food and drink, we have been many times and have never been disappointed with the food.

Excellent value three course lunch. Well kept real ale available. If you have mobility issues be aware of floor surfaces in the building. Raised floor area surrounding the bar.

Can't speak highly enough of this Pub. Super friendly, lovely food great pint. 5*****

Always great food and great value for money Hate the cold draughts when people come in and out maybe one day that doorway will get some kind of canopy Otherwise a fab place

Ordered a garlic bread pizza and a Cajun chicken burger, both undercooked. The beef burger I had was perfectly fine other than being a bit too greasy, the others needed about 10 - 15 minutes more cooking time. The service was absolutely amazing they were very understanding about how we felt and I’m sure this could’ve just been a one off thing. Decided not to pay.

We go to the whistle-stop often, especially on Sundays, for their Sunday roast dinner. We have had the Christmas dinner, Christmas Day, for the past 2 years. Tonight, we have been there for New Year’s Eve again our 2nd year. Such nice people try to accommodate everyone.

The food was awesome, thankyou to the venue and the staff for the best service!

Boxing Day meal for 8 Very good service, staff were friendly and accommodating. Barmaid even helped with picture straightening. Will definitely be back in the New Year.

I'm not sure if the previous reviewer went to the same place as us 🤔 We had a fantastic family boxing day meal. The service from Crystal was over and beyond a waitress that has been flat out over the festive period. The food was fresh, hot and delicious 😋

Awful service awful place awful everything

Came for breakfast on Xmas eve . 5 of us had full English. Amazing value for money excellent fast service and enough toast to feed 10. Food was freshly cooked and delivered piping hot.

We had a great lunch here today, quality and value for money were top drawer. My wife and I both ate from the Christmas Treats menu and the food was delicious. Nice atmosphere,we had a table near one of the open fires! Well worth a visit,pretty sure we will be there again soon.

Great, family run pub with fantastic food and excellent drinks! The menu changes regularly and the meals you can order are amazing for the price… me and my partner visit most weeks at least once as we can’t cook the same level of food at home for the prices we pay!

Great pub. What an awesome Sunday roast. Felt like being back home with your nan cooking. Wholesome, tasty, and great value. Don't drive past, stop inn!😉

Amazing Sunday roast and super value for money.

Fantastic place, food is great, drinks are very reasonable and the owners are brilliant. Always friendly and nothing is ever to much.

Lovely Sunday afternoon at The Whistlestop!! Happy to accommodate our large family.Well cooked Sunday roast and always reasonable. Thank you Nigel and Gillian

Such a lovely welcoming family pub, food is delicious, plenty to choose from & the staff are nice and polite. Really would pay them a visit

The food and staff are amazing. Best roast in a restaurant I have ever had. Well worth a visit

The staff and food are lovey One of the best roast I have had in a pub

Having had several good honest meals here we came again for three steak night. Unfortunately 3 of the 6 steaks was inedible one of us one of us complained which turned in to a heated argument. When we left the owner/chef spat at us off his balcony in the car park very manly and disgusting

Sunday 26th November. We had booked at Cosy Club in Stamford town centre but after spending more than an hour trying to move around gridlocked roads and the handful of tiny carparks that Stamford has to offer, we had no choice but to sack it off. I rang The Whistle Stop expecting them to be full but they accommodated us (4 adults and 3 children). They were very welcoming and gave us a friendly and attentive service. We all ate good, hot food at very good prices and overall the experience was positive, especially after the stress of trying to park in Stamford!

Good old skool pub. My young children love this place. I'd go more often but they're an hours drive each way. I'll be back! And I definitely recommend

Great value food and great village pub - Friday two fish and chips for £12 excellent value - really enjoyed and great value - hunters chicken was great for fussy daughter - second time went for Sunday lunch and that was great - glad we stopped by today.

Always a ruddy good feed here on a Sunday xx

Just had a roast dinner... such good value. Very tasty highly recommend ...everything made from scratch definitely will be going back

Love the place. Been going there years on the way from Skegness to home.

I organised a friends birthday party here and there was 20 of us and the meals (3 courses) all come out hot and together. The staff were jolly and couldn’t have been more helpful . Would highly recommend going here for a drink or food you will not be disappointed. I’m looking forward to trying the plates Sunday dinner too! Great job everyone 😊

Lovely friendly pub, staff are great . Been on Saturdays for the 2 for £20 steak nights and also had a few sunday lunches also 2 for £20 ( and kids under 12 eat free)… I’m not sure which I prefer as they are both cooked beautifully and very tasty.. it’s a lovely friendly pub, can’t fault it

Phoned on the off chance Saturday night as we was hungry and had step son staying with us. They had room for us and we had an enjoyable meal. Had sharing starters (although we didn't share) hunters chicken and two lamb shanks (from specials board) delicious.

Really nice pub, great breakfast, friendly service, alot of interesting train memorabilia on the walls

The place was filthy (dead flies all over the palce, broken and sticky tables, grubby floors etc!), food was not nice at all and we all had a variety of dishes, service was very cold and flat (much like the soft drinks) struggling to see how they have any good reviews! Will definitely never come here nor recommend it to anyone! Gross!

Lovely setting for Sunday lunch, and a great selection to choose from.

Lovely pub. Nice atmosphere. 👌🏽

Nice little pub friendly staff, thanks.

Great place, recommended by a colleague Craig, will recommend to others .

Great food great people lovely pub

Lovely village pub, great food.

Great place for food and to watch the trains go by

Having known Nigel for a number of years I decided to use his pub for my 40th birthday party. They catered for us with a bbq, allowed us to decorate the beer garden, and accommodated for 90 guests to celebrate the night away in the privately reserved beer garden. I highly recommend this place if you’re local to Stamford and the Deepings area.

There are Sunday roasts and there are Sunday roasts..... some are ok some are good some you have to pay over the odds for, but the whistle stop at tallington ticks every box, good atmosphere, good service and the food was excellent and the price was extremely reasonable, you would go along long way to beat this, we fully recommend this place, we'll done the whistle stop and thankyou

Gone down hill , dirty glasses ,sticky tables,booked a table , ran out of starter ,only 3 on the menu , beef looked like it had been cooked on a hot plate , veg portion for 3 people was terrible ,only got 2 sliced carrots literally , only warm , waited over half an hour to be given a menu , will not be going again

A really good selection of vegan food. Went here for the first time my meal was tasty apart from undercooked chips. My boyfriend said his chicken was bland but would like to try again.

Second lunchtime visit. Pleasant experience with friendly service, good value and excellent quality food.

Whilst staying at tallington lakes we were looking for somewhere nice to have dinner with friends. Whilstlestop accommodated us for a table of 8 on Friday evening. Fish and chips 2 for £12 which were really good portion sizes, burger was really good, and deserts (apple crumble and sundaes) we're all homemade and tasted amazing. The prices were more than reasonable for the quality of food we received, will definitely return if back in the area!

First visit to the whistle stop inn. With a group of friends, we walked from tallington lakes to the pub. Upon entering the pub, we were met with a nice smile and very polite bar staff. The food was excellent and plenty of it. I would definitely visit again.

Came across this pub by chance, great little find! We booked a table at 3.30pm as kitchen closed at 4pm on a Sunday, we thought that this late in the day there may not be much choice and to be honest as we booked so late on we had thought hopefully food would be okay - The Sunday Roast was fabulous & most definitely value for money! The quality of meats was superb - beef was pink (as requested ) & Turkey was very tasty not dry at all, plenty of accompanying potatoes veg & lots of gravy! Definitely recommend a visit!

Lovely food, friendly staff and a good band.

Pretty mediocre really. I was first to be served at Sunday Lunch and it did fill up quite quickly. Beef chewy, potatoes hard on outside (as opposed to crispy). Very watery cauliflower with melted cheese over some of it, presumably purporting to be 'cauliflower cheese'. Not a pretty sight. Apple crumble was really nice. Service was okay. Won't be returning but it clearly suits many others.

We've just come home from having a Mother's Day meal. The belly pork broth absolutely amazing, the pork just fell apart. Roast dinner beautiful and creme brulé cheese cake delicious 😋 one hell of a chef. All staff absolutely amazing. Thank you ❤️

Absolutely fantastic Sunday lunch, nothing was too much trouble, dad is hard of hearing, so they moved us to a quieter corner with no hassle. Very friendly team and tasty food, also great value for money, will definitely return

Only stopped for a quick drink but had live music

Great fleshy fish, chips peas and tartar great price two for £12. Table service, great value and friendly.

Good variety of food at a reasonable cost. All cooked nicely, the lady that severed is nice and friendly.

Very knowledgeable when it comes to allergens. I'm a Coeliac and each and every time we gave dined. the food has been top notch, quality produce. superb service, very reasonably priced. Such lovely land lord and land lady. Thank you so much. Ju Tallington Lakes

Absolutely amazing food, staff friendly and very helpful. Would of given a 5* but disappointed that a lot of people are smoking next to the kids play area. Would be nice to see a smoking area in car park away from the children. Will definitely be back again 😎👍 Have since been back and definitely rate the whistle stop 5⭐️ Well done 👍

Another fantastic meal at the whistlestop. Can't praise them enough. Very welcoming and good service as always

Had breakfast there a couple of times, can't fault it.

Just had a 2 course lunch here, (hadn’t room for a dessert!) Not only was it excellent food, but also amazing value. By far one of the best pub meals in the area. Plus an added bonus of open fires and they allow your dog in. We’ll definitely be back, thankyou!

Really nice breakfast at the Whistlestop in Tallington. Would recommend a vist.

Fantastic food , we have eaten here a few times now highly recommended the Sunday lunch, the grandchildren love the play area, :)

My neice n I had a lovely lunch today. Welcoming staff and reasonable prices . We will definitely be visiting again ☺️

Goos food, good value and friendly staff

Was ok food, but not brilliant, the pub inside lacks love and could do with a complete makeover as dull and boring, a few twinkling lights and warm colours would make it a bit more welcoming..

Lovely chattey twin ladies make My day

Compleatly different since I last visited. Nicely designed.

Fantastic food. Very friendly staff nothing is to much trouble. Use regularly, value for money.

Fantastic food. Very reasonable price's. Very friendly staff. Best food in the area. Definitely recommend

Lovely pub good prices and friendly staff

Called into the Whistle Stop, on the way back to Rutland, in search of some lunch. On arrival, we were greeted with the news that there was no food as there was an electrical fault with the cookers. We left hoping to find another pub on the way home but, as we were about to drive off, the landlady came out to tell us that the snag was fixed and food was now available. What followed were two of the best burgers tasted in recent months, accompanied by a generous portion of really crispy 'skinny fries.' It's sad that the place was almost deserted - it genuinely deserves more custom. We shall return!

Great brunch and good value. Couldn't fault it

Good pub but my pint cost £4.50. At this rate I'll have to give up drinking.

I'm fortunate to live within walking distance of The Whistle Stop. The food is great quality and well priced. Had Sunday lunch there yesterday and it is piping hot, a choice of meats with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, vegetables and cauliflower cheese. Good service too! can highly recommend for the food.

Brilliant host, Gillian provided good honest service coupled to great value food. Leaving us with a full feeling from perfect food and the welcoming we received! Big thank you

Dropped in on way back from Hunstanton there was nowhere either open or not full from Wisbech to tallington, squeezed us in the food was excellent, will definately be returning!

Never been before but felt welcomed and homely environment. Even though they was on a limited menu for this week food was delicious. Amazing burger and kids loved their meals even had pudding. Very reasonably priced and will deffo be back.

Came here for a family meal out, travelled 80 miles and was not disappointed. The food was excellent and so was the service. The food was fresh, flavoursome and well presented! The staff were friendly and helpful! Will definitely be travelling the 80 miles back to return! Thank you “The Whistlestop” 👍😀

Was travelling and stopped of here to have lunch and was not disappointed. Beautiful place, lovely welcome, nice food would recommend 100% nothing was to much trouble for the landlady she made me and mum very welcome will be calling again when passing.

Friendly service. Decent choice of drinks. Best food value for the area. Too late now, but strongly recommend the local Tallington asparagus when it comes back next spring.

An enjoyable 3 hour leisurely lunch

Amazing breakfast this morning and very friendly staff.

Walked from West Deeping and followed the river and ended up in The Whistle Stop. Had a lovely Sunday lunch and couldn't fault anything. We sat outside in the garden and our dachshund loved running around the secure garden which is also great for small children as there is plenty of play equipment. Would highly recommend this place.

Amazing breakfast and very friendly staff.

Just been for a lovely Sunday breakfast. Perfectly poached eggs on buttered crusty bread for me and the English breakfast for my friend. All fresh ingredients and generous portions. Extensive choices and great coffee. Very reasonable prices in a bright airy bar. Try it! You'll like it! [No photo sorry - too busy eating 😊]

Lovely food and lovely couple running the pub. Excellent Sunday breakfast, good value for money, everything was delicious x

After seeing the specials menu we decided to go for a meal on Friday afternoon/evening. Staff were friendly, atmosphere was relaxed and the food was amazing. Definitely recommend going, we will certainly be back.

Lovely little place with a great atmosphere

Had a great Sunday lunch here today. Beautiful tasty Roast lamb with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, Broccoli, Green Bean, Carrots, Cauliflower Cheese and and delicious gravy. All served piping hot on warm plates. The Apple Crumble was great too. The food is great value. Amongst...