The best restaurants serving British food in Dunton Green and Riverhead Sevenoaks South East

Booked this on the last Saturday in August with friends for lunch. None of us had been before. On driving in, we were looking forward to our experience as the entrance and buildings are lovely. The restaurant doesn't match this. I ought to have realised when I saw that we were the ONLY people in the entire place at lunchtime on a weekend. There's always a good reason why a restaurant is empty and we found out quickly why. The service was fine but frankly, should have been amazing given we had a private waiter! We had shared rolls with balsamic and olive oil. There was almost a bath of the stuff in bowls so it wasn't easy to dip the rolls. These were nice however and warm. Three of us ordered fish and chips. They ranked right up there with the worst fish and chips we've ever had. Tasteless frozen chips and peas. Fish that was mostly batter and I highly doubt fresh. My friend enjoyed his chicken leek ham pie. It wasn't bad enough to complain about in case the venue is wondering why we didn't. It was just so disappointing for the money that you have to pay these days to eat out, that we would never return and never recommend it. The picture provided here on TA is exactly how it looked except with the four of us on one table so NO atmosphere as you can imagine. When I asked why it was empty, we were told it was the 'time' between when people check out and check in. Clearly the locals know better and avoid it!

Very pleasant atmosphere, fair service, good food. Only downside is cost the ............£85 with incl. 3 glasses of wine

Slow service, took ages for glasses to be brought for refill drinks 6 eating, 5 had carvery, 1 had the caramelised onion & shallot tart, took so long to come out 2 people had already finished their meal. Carvery: no lamb, no Mac & cheese, has to wait nearly 10mins for more gammon - server seemed annoyed we insisted we wanted the gammon. Ordered coffee - no milk!