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Has to sadly be one of the worst take aways I’ve had :( kebab was pretty much inedible and the chicken wrap was vile, two cold battered chicken strips with what I can only describe has hacked off pieces of cucumber in a soggy wrap. Just short of £30 for 2 crap meals.

Under new management. Information well out of date (probably lockdown). Sunday special 4th Dec Roast beef Yorkshire pud WRAP £6.95, roast potatoes £1.95, cauliflower cheese £1.95. Tasty enough but won’t be going again until they get their act together and do proper Yorkies, you cannot wrap them

Could not complain at all 2 for £20 on meals. Proper home made chips. Good food.

Great pub with amazing food and good service.

Despite calling a few days ahead to book in our large party which I explained included dogs and young children, we were given an extremely rude reception - before being reluctantly led by the landlady to a table laid up for a different booking and told we had to fold down our buggies and leave within 2 hours. (There were other buggies in the bar area so this seemed particularly odd). We all felt really uncomfortable so decided to leave rather than let the atmosphere spoil our meal. Extremely disappointing as we had planned our trip to Keswick around a meal here. But delighted m to say all was not lost though and we found somewhere with a much more friendly and accommodating attitude.

Very nice option in Ballycastle.

UPDATE - STILL THE SAME 😱 The coffee was luke warm. The exterior and interior needs painting. Very run down. Very slow to get served. One serving and making drinks and food and a very large queue.

Lovely hot drink and tea cake was excellent, service was first class and everywhere was spotlessly clean.

Called in for a drink lovely little pub great atmosphere.

Following the Management Response to my initial review, I deleted it and have written a fuller version here: My initial review: If you ask for the beef madras, expect something that looks and tastes like beef stew with curry powder. Also, if you comment about the late arrival of your meal, expect a reply such as "I've only got two pairs of hands [sic]". My fuller review: Let me first say that I wasn't the only person to complain about your beef madras. Nevertheless, if you think the dish was satisfactory, then neither will I be the last. Secondly, the comment made at the time about the delay in receiving the meal wasn't made as a complaint. It was simply to say that chips were expected with the main course. The person who made that comment wasn't me, and didn't deserve the response he got from your waiter. With regards to being rude and disrespectful to your staff, you really need to learn the definitions of those words, as does your waiter. The only time I had a negative interaction with your staff was when I said that the beef madras was the most unusual that I had ever come across. Instead of being offended, you ought to take it as a learning point. I have been served curries in many traditional English pubs and restaurants in the past, and none were like yours. As for my Google reviews, you will see that out of 26, 12 are 4 or 5 stars. Aren’t you disappointed that yours isn't one of them?

Really disappointed with our experience. I booked table in advance for myself and my husband for Sunday lunch on his birthday, when we arrived we were given a tiny table beside the door, it was draughty and intrusive with people coming and going , we asked if it was possible to move to a more suitable one, the waitress said she would ask but it was refused even though there were other unoccupied tables around us. We waited a good thirty minutes for our meals after ordering, it takes a lot for me to complain about a meal, and I would like to stress that the staff we saw were lovely, and not their fault, but the meal I was given was appalling. I ordered chicken burger, with chips and trimmings. The chicken breast was not only cold, but overcooked and dry. It was like eating shoe leather, we sent it back. The member of staff was lovely and apologised, though it was not her fault. The manager, however ignored us, and although he was present, he did not engage with us. I thought he was very rude. Iwe will not return to the bitter end for any future meals and will pass on our experience.

I've just placed an order and the money went through and now all of a sudden they cancelled it and i tried to ring them and no answer

Entered to be greated with a sign saying saying to wait here to be seated. Waited almost 10 minutes for anyone walking past us or anyone serving on the bar to even acknowledge us. In hindsight we should have just walked out before then but the kids were hungry so we persevered. We were finally shown to a table under freezing cold air con with slug trails on the carpet (they were probably attracted to the chips nobody had bothered to pick up). We ordered food which took over an hour to arrive and it was grim at best. The woman that introduced herself as restaurant manager was incredibly patronizing when we brought everything to her attention, her insincere use of calling us darling was cringeworthy.

Stopped for coffee break this morning. Not too many places open at this time of year especially early morning (9.30).location and atmosphere is nice and staff were pleasant. Unfortunately scones were not fresh -baked yesterday I would think. Coffee wasn’t that hot either cold long before I’d finished my scone. Lots of jam served but butter very hard and difficult to spread. No cream. Price was fine if food had been better

4 times we told the guy the other, before he could get what were looking. The order was 2 americanos and pouring cream, 1 americanos decaf and it came down as 2 regular americanos no cream. We asked for cream to be told they no cream