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I did not visit the Ship and Castle, I merely looked it up online as I was around there in 1977/78. I was then asked to rate the pub by Google!

Excellent food and Excellent service highly recommended

Janet millken said the food is not and

Went yesterday for lunch after a session of goat yoga in the area. 10 of us sat on the patio area outside and had a light lunch from the amazing selection on offer. Suited everyone and food came quickly. Sat in the beautiful sunshine and this place finished off a perfect day! Thoroughly recommend. Food was exceptional value.

Excellent pie (big chunks of steak), mash and various veg, piled high, with thick gravy. Ribeye steak succulent, coming with big fat chips. Desserts well worth going for too. All this with real ale, a view from upstairs over the village green, and the romance of a 700 year old pub. Visit!

Absolutely amazing Sunday lunch here! We had the sharing lunch for two. Could not fault it at all. We come here when visiting daughter in Epsom Uni and have never been disappointed with the food, the service and the staff. Cannot recommend highly enough - such a pleasure to leave this review - well done The Maquis of Granby!

Spent lunch enjoying the sunshine with good food and drinks and excellent service from the staff Will be back

I really feel this could and should be a great boozer … but sadly it’s lacking any kind of friendly welcome / engagement / atmosphere from the staff who’ve served me when ive visited on recent occasions. When other local pubs within a few hundred metres of The Wellington are busy with a great atmosphere, sadly this pub is virtually empty. Given they have a great location at the bottom of the High Street next to The Square Tower I can’t help but think they are missing a major trick in not attracting more customers/ tourists / visitors to Old Pompey by offering a better experience.

Nice location and ambience however the food is very expensive for relatively simple dishes which appear to have little kitchen skill. For example, salmon with Asian noodles was a simple seared salmon fillet with what tasted like packet noodles with sweet Thai sauce from a jar plus some mange touts overly sweet, presumably UPF sauce ruined it. Definitely did not justify the price. The ham, egg and chips at £19 was a single small slice of ham with gristle centre, two small eggs and a small portion of frozen chips. Our local pub serves a much better version at £13. No decaffeinated coffee left.

We visited the Filly Inn after seeing the kids menu and liking the fact it had some "healthier" options like toad in the hole with veggies, cottage pie with veggies rather than the usual chicken nuggets and chips. When we arrived and walked in we loved the decor and the fact you could see straight into the kitchen, so could watch your food being cooked. We took a seat at our table feeling that we were about to have a wonderful dinner out, but that soon changed. The service was terribly slow, considering there was only one other couple in there eating! I ordered the pate and my partner ordered the calamari. When it arrived the calamari was missing the miso mayo, so my partner asked politely if he could have the mayo and the waitress did not apologise and simply turned her back and wandered over to the kitchen, we could hear the kitchen staff sniggering and the squeezed some plain mayo into a dish and brought it over. We are not ones to complain, so we just ate what we were given. And this is the most frustrating part, the food was fantastic. As I made my way through the pate, I soon realised my three tiny crostini bits of bread was not enough for my kilner pot of pate, so I asked for some extra bits of crostini so I could finish my lovely pate as I can not just eat the pate alone. Again, the waitress did not apologise and just looked at me shocked and walked off. Again, I could hear sniggering from the kitchen and as my bits of crostini was brough out, I heard the chef say "she will probably want more pate now"! I was shocked by this, I didn't think asking for an adequate amount of bread with the amount pate that was served was a big ask and on the menu it reads it comes with ciabatta and this was definitely not ciabatta, it was three tiny pieces of crostini. When our table was cleared, our drinks were empty but we were not offered more drinks, therefore we asked. Our old bottles, glasses were not taken and when our second round of drinks arrived they still were not taken. Our mains came out, and again it was delicious - I had the mushroom pie, my partner had shepards pie and my son had toad in the hole. We always order dessert, but we just wanted to leave by this point as we felt unwelcome, so we asked for the bill. When the bill came, we were charged for the extra bits of crostini and also, 12.5% service charge. I would like to say that we always tip generously, but 12.5% service charge for inadequate service was quite hard to swallow. But as I said, we always leave a tip so we did not ask for this to be removed. Now, onto the charge for the extra crostini, now I do not mind being charged for extra but I feel that this was not an "extra" this was just compensating for the lack of bread that was misadvertised and put onto my original plate. Also, that fact that my partner never got his miso mayo. In hindsight, we should have complained at the time, but we are not ones to cause a fuss, especially with my son present and by now a family sitting behind us, so just paid the full amount including the service charged and left. We would have been regulars and would have recommended the Filly Inn to others, but we won't be returning and tell people to avoid. I would like to end this review with a plea to the management - you have the decor and the food right, it was lovely but you can't go on just that alone. Please just work on the service and just the finishing touches that make people want to return and recommend.

Ordered chips, onion rings and mac and cheese as a light snack at the end of a long work day. It was honestly horrendous. Onion rings were crispy but look anaemic and tasted like oily water. No seasoning or flavour at all. Mac and cheese didn’t even look edible. Looked like someone threw up in the bowl and we didn’t touch it at all. Chips were okay but weren’t completely cooked and again lacked flavour.

Stunning pub made extra special by the Management team. My in-laws stopped over last weekend and we wanted to wow them with a top notch Sunday Roast and a calming atmosphere. They were absolutely delighted Thank you to our waitress Jess who introduced herself and looked after us all incredibly well. well done and thank you all

Fast and hot but no pitta bread for the large shish

the food had sweated in the bag but was edibe

Great place to be, especially on sundays with sunday roast