The best restaurants in Kingston Lewes South East

A lovely country pub on the outskirts of Falmer village and close to universities. Staff are friendly and welcoming and Martin is a great landlord.

Great menu, delicious food and friendly and efficient staff. Can thoroughly recommend this great pub restaurant: venison & bacon pie with very creamy mash and Sussex Smokie both excellent, followed by a lovely orange & chocolate torte.

Popped in when passing for a pie around 4pm. The patchy-looking but smooth) concrete floor was being mopped and there was a really, really strong smell of bleach. We were unsure if it was open so had to ask... it was. Bought a chilled pie, grumpy server tried to give us the damaged one until I asked for the other one. Spotted Marmite sausages so they're happening over Easter. To summarise: great food as usual but please paint the floor, do your cleaning after it shuts and cheer the hell up!

Food was average pub food, they were very busy with few staff so maybe that’s why it wasn’t better quality.

Sadly we won't return and only visited this time because a family member assured us they'd upped their game. The restaurant offered very few cakes and we're uninspiring in their display. My husband picked up a tray and upon arriving at the till the waitress asked what he wanted. He asked for two scones and she simply said 'tray'. He was unsure what she meant so showed he had picked up a tray. She held her hands out across the counter to which he guessed she meant for him to hand it to her. She made no effort to stretch herself indicating he needed to lean further over towards her. She then rested the tray on the staff side and paid out scones and drinks, then handing it back to my husband. She was rude and unhelpful. It would make more sense to have the trays on the staff side of the counter! The tables in the restaurant were festooned with dirty cutlery and customers were clearing spaces to eat themselves. The chairs, conservatory style, could do with a deep clean. I guess as it's the only garden centre in the area they don't feel it necessary to try very hard. We won't go back.