The best restaurants in Rother South East

What looks like a big shed accommodating a large bar and restaurant manages to be both comfortable and industrial at the same time. Had a drink in the bar - great music - before being taken upstairs to the restaurant. The Garden Menu at £60 was the only menu on offer with a choice of main course. The beetroot and yogurt starter was aggressively peppered which overwhelmed the rather overcooked beetroot, and a pool of something green which didn't really improve matters. The next course of cured trout was more successful, firm clean tasting trout with labneh and wasabi roe - things were looking up. I opted for the Tillingham Lamb which was not a good choice. The lamb had been overcooked, shredded and reformed into a large puck shape. It was seriously under seasoned as was the potato 'terrine' - the single cavolo nero was the best thing on the plate. The two deserts were the stars of the menu - why two deserts? - especially the Panna cotta which was seriously good, lovely and silky and delicately flavoured. I declined the additional cheese course at £12.50 for one cheese - which even in these harsh times is a bit much. The service was haphazard - our waitress was very nice but some very basic training is clearly a work in progress. It is encouraging to see a business like this with a young and enthusiastic staff but the food was so hit and miss that a return visit is unlikely.

Best Cafe in the south east !!, you can really tell the ingredients are of very high quality, massive portions and always amazing service, plus they also do takeaway 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Table of 6, we were put on a very small table for 6 people, we had hardly any room to manoeuvre. All the roasts arrived but had to wait ages for gravy to arrive and other accompaniments, the young lady dealing with us was very polite and helpful. Service was very slow, only seemed to be one young lady doing everything, and it wasn’t even that busy, but food was great, although carrots were floating in oil. Unfortunately, whole experience of dinner was spoilt by obviously locals playing cards talking loudly and shouting at each other and swearing, we did have a young child with us had no respect for people whilst eating. The food was good but put off going again as felt the experience was spoilt by the locals especially the very loud lady in a baseball hat that didn’t fit her head! Such a shame as would like to go back.

my husband ordered salmon it was overcooked and came with a roast dinner and chicken gravy a very strange meal .I ordered steak and was told they did not do chips so it came with a roast dinner as well. The pub really needs a lick of paint and a good dust. Could be a lovely village pub but it feels like who ever runs it has given up very sad to see.

Lovely food that was very affordable priced, with efficient and kind service, great ambience, plus very easy parking Completely recommend!

Found this Cafe just after we moved to the area in April 2018. It has become our regular Saturday lunchtime venue. Always a warm welcome and varied freshly prepared snacks available up until 3.00.pm daily, although they don't close until 4.00.pm. Beautiful fresh cakes and lovely coffee.

Lovely welcome, the cream tea is delicious here, scones are warm and moist served with lots of cream and homemade jam, good service in a lovely surrounding.

I ordered through Just eat, good food, quick delivery, friendly staff always helpful. Before I ordered in shop, and staff was always nice

This restaurant was empty apart from us on a Saturday evening, could be the 70s decor thats putting off a lot of customers.

Just stayed for 3 nights , what a great place, the staff are lovely and so helpful, ample parking , and so near the town, the place needs a complete refurb but don’t let that put you off , the place is very clean , our beds were very comfortable and we will definitely go back , it will look amazing when it’s refurbished, people with children will have to be carful as there is no barrier to stop children from getting near the river, but then that is down to parents , definitely book it’s great

We have just had a wonderful long weekend at Rye Harbour Holiday Park. The accommodation was excellent we had a (platinum caravan), beautifully decorated and had everything you could need for a weekend or indeed longer. The service when we had a slight problem was superb. Would recommend Rye Harbour for a holiday to anybody.

the staff were friendly and very helpful and the food was really good. We had sugar snap peas whilst we were waiting for our tapas, five for £25. I haven't ever seen them in other restaurants and decided to try them; great decision, they were really tasty. the 5 tapas were also really tasty; a selection of meat, fish and vegetarian options to mix and match. We had 5 between two of us and there was more than enough. My favourite was the whitebait, so soft and succulent; and the ribs, also tender and delicious, in fact all or it! They also do churros for dessert, among other things, but we were too full up so we'll have to go back! They also had a live guitarist who was really good and not too intrusive. Hope this place gets plenty of christmas party bookings this December, they deserve to do well.

I was sad to see the last review. Like many other people we visit Wards kitchen regularly. It is a friendly good value traditional cafe with lovely home cooked food and the best cheese scones for miles around! It is a shame that the cafe is upstairs, although you can buy the baked goods in the shop downstairs if you can’t make the climb. Having said that, many people struggle to get up the stairs knowing that the effort is worth it.

Food never disappoints. So delicious. Can’t decide on the best dish but special shout-out to the roti!