The best restaurants in Chestfield and Swalecliffe Canterbury South East

We visited on Sunday 25th May, lunch time. A table for 3. Will and Ben served us. Will recommended the Seabass, which I ordered and it was delicious. Will and Ben were friendly, professional and engaging. A credit to the The Oyster Bed. Will always come back, we love this place. All staff are welcoming and professional . What is important for us is that the food is hot when served and it was.

Very busy but staff working hard and couldn't have done better to be more efficient whilst taking just enough time with everyone. Food cheap and good

I came here about a year ago and posted a negative comment well I have been back numerous times and it's super it must have been one of those days for the barista who I have not seen since. Ham and cheese croissant and carrot cake are both gorgeous.

Good choice for the family. Everything we ordered was eaten, my eldest son loved the burgers so much, he's still telling us today about it.

We went to the Oyster Bed for Mother’s Day and I took my friend a few weeks ago on a Saturday lunch time. Both times the food was amazing. It was hot fresh and very tasty. We had the set meal on Mother’s Day and it was very tasty. Rubi was our waitress and she was very professional and helpful. She even popped back to the table to explain about the Yorkshire pudding as our friend is a vegetarian. When I brought my friend for lunch we had Will as our waiter. Again he was very professional and helpful. My friend wanted a change to her dessert and he spoke to the chef and nothing was a problem. We will definitely be returning soon. Thank you for a wonderful dining experience. I’m so pleased the Oyster Bed is back to its glory. We stopped going for a long time as it was terrible in there. The food the waiting time, it was awful. But now it is better than before. Well done xxx

Never have any chicken and always substituted

I stupidly made the mistake of ordering via the app for a delivery again. Again my daughter’s happy meal was missing again. I called up the restaurant and they stated unless I drove there they wouldn’t not be bringing the missing items and to call up a number to get my money back. I called the number and now have to wait up to 14 days for my money back. My advice for having a delivery from here is check everything is there from the doorstep and if anything is missing refuse the whole order then do a chargeback from your bank.

Filthy, dirty "restaurant". Cold food, poor service, long wait and awful experience. Whoever is running this branch of the chain, is letting the brand down. I would rather go hungry than eat here again.