The best restaurants in Blunsdon Swindon South West

AVOID —- Booked for my friends hen party to set up a green grazing table and they never showed up despite us paying in full - have emailed, called, messaged and instagrammed and no response. In the process of reporting to trading standards. We were left with no food for our event.

We came for breakfast one morning to try this place out. Well the staff were so friendly and made you feel welcome and the coffee excellent and then the cooked breakfast, plenty of it and was delicious. The whole place was clean the only negative I could say was parking in the car park was tight but that is not their fault and you could always park on the road. Great little Cafe i would recommend to go.

Firstly i would say this place is decorated pretty and located in the tadpole centre where you will find free car parking spaces . The staff are friendly and the atmosphere is good. As for their coffee NOT so good. Its a shame really as the staff and atmosphere is great. We had 2 oatmilk lattes and my husband had a normal latte . The oatmilk latte was the worst i have ever tried and i go to different coffee shops every day so for me this one for coffee especially Oatmilk is the worst . It has just a funny taste and we left our coffees. My husband had a nirmal milk latte and smhe cant taste or smell so he drank his but when i took a sip of his normal coffee it was ok but still not the best but the oatmilk is the worst . So if you want to try this place for atmosphere and friendly staff dont bother having coffees try another type of drink . The prices are quite dear for a not so good coffee.

First visit here which was for Sunday lunch. All the waitresses had a friendly approach and nothing was too much trouble. Orders made were not exactly correctly provided ie wrong beer and crumble with ice cream instead of custard but all mistakes were quickly rectified. Nicely decorated inside and landican seems to take an interest in what people want in terms of drink even if he doesn’t currently have it. Location wise it is a bit far off for us but we would visit again.

Food was amazing , the service was fantastic and can't thank hayley and michelle enough , nothing was too much trouble , would recommend to any one , perfect afternoon thankyou

Gave a 2 because the waitress was lovely. Food terrible. Items missing, cold food, congealed cauliflower cheese and overcooked potatoes. Would not return! Did complain but fell on deaf ears.

We booked for Sunday lunch at 12 o'clock. When we arrived we were shown to our table. The drinks order was taken. Then the girl came back to take our order. We sat for 40 minutes waiting for our lunch. People were coming in after us and getting their food before us. When I asked the girl where our food was, she replied it's taking longer because we ordered a side order of cauliflower cheese." The table that came in after us were on there puddings, before we got our main. We have not been for a while, thought we would try it again. But was very disappointed. Will not be going back.

We go here quite a bit, lovely new pub with nice atmosphere. My to go to dish has always been the Plantbased Burger. It was sooo good even my meat eating friends would have it. It was like a 10/10. But when we went the other day we found to our disappointment you’ve changed the plant burger to a beetroot burger??! It was eatable, but only a 3/10. Please bring the old vegan burger back.

I had 2 cappuccinos in the terrace, brought to me by a very polite man. Later when my wife joined me we, in Carries Bar she had spaghetti and I had stir-fry. Nice food and good service, only would have preferred them to be brought at the same time. Staff worked hard and food was of great value. Will come again. Michael and Tracy

We had our wedding here, from ceremony to reception. Grace and her team were faultless. Grace guided us through the day, so we didn't have to worry about a thing. She made us both feel relaxed and looked after. The rooms were beautifully set up, the wedding breakfast was lovely and the in house DJ had everyone on the dance floor. A perfect day, we would highly recommend having your special day here. We even had some cheeky treatments in the hotel spa the day before. Just what you need before your big day ❤️. Thank you everyone at The Blunsdon House Hotel.

Ordered the pork katsu, it was pleasant and plentiful and cost £12.50, it was about right for a non Japanese speciality restaurant. Getting my receipt to claim it back on expenses has been a little labourious. The breakfast delivered to your room was good and perfect way to start the day. Most disappointingly was that they had no draft lager.

The red lion at Castle Eaton - AIRFEST DAY A fantastic setting to watch the RIAT from and as always very beautiful alongside the river. A few disappointing factors today to mention though, when we arrived at 1.30pm we were greeted on the door by a lady who struggled to add up the ticket prices and informed us that although food was served until 3pm we might not be able to get anything to eat other than donuts at the bar, this was mentioned after we had paid the entrance costs, a shame as we had hoped to all eat lunch out. We had also seen advertised in several places that the price online for this event under 12 were free, we had two in our group, however the same lady also informed us that it has now changed to under 10 so we had to pay for everyone in the group. We were charged £7 each and then I had to go back and ask for the cups that were meant to be included in the price. It tainted the experience upon arrival to be faced with all that before we were allowed inside the front door. It gave an impression of greed and profit over ensuring true hospitality. Once finally allowed inside after all the various rules were relayed to us at a fast speed and for what seemed like a long time, it was brilliant live music and always charming to see the weeping willow trees and river. Toilets were in a poor state with bins completely overflowing over the floor, a general unhygienic state in both the men’s and women’s. Bar staff told us we were not able to order a portion of chips unless it was accompanied with a main meal so I asked if I can order pizza and chips, this was also not possible so we just ordered pizza, however we spent the afternoon watching kitchen staff bringing out various portions of chips to numerous people, again a little disappointing. Most things on the menu seemed to be unavailable or sold out. The pub atmosphere has gone rapidly downhill since we last came and customer service skills were lacking, we noticed the same abrupt lady from the greeting at the door spend the afternoon bossing staff around and acting like she owned the place but being qualified in hospitality myself, she was clearly inexperienced in the trade or at least fairly new to managing staff and a premises like that. There were other small points like women’s slippers and sandals lying in piles behind the bar, just a general unprofessional and untidy vibe. It was disheartening that there was a shabby unkempt feel to the whole place as we previously remembered the red lion as a magical and charming place. We have very special memories made on numerous occasions previously. On a more positive note, the pizzas that we were allowed to order were delicious and we would come again even though we have been put off a little. It would be helpful to have a food menu on the bar where you place orders for the food and clearer signage where to queue as I stood for over half an hour in the drinks queue to then be told I have to queue around the other side for food. Please bring back the original, more professional staffing team as currently it is not doing the pub justice.

Sainsbury’s Restaurant is now closed . Permanently and replaced with an Argos store . Such a shame as the food and drinks used to be pretty good I don’t know why Sainsbury’s are doing this to a lot of the stores I’m guessing to try and save money now you have the opportunity to have a sandwich and a packet of crisps and a drink to go

This has to be the worst truck stop food so far. We arrived at 6.30 so not too late but the meals we wanted had run out so had to order something else but it was poor quality and not nice at all so we didn’t eat most of it. I was passenger with hubby so can only comment on ladies toilets but they were clean. Ladies were lovely just shame the food let them down. We were stuck between this one and Chippenham but wished we had gone there instead now. Will know to avoid next time.