The best restaurants serving British food in Aylesford Tonbridge and Malling South East

I came here with friends for lunch and on the menu was a Caesar salad.. it didn’t have the option to add chicken on the menu, despite me asking about what it is. So £9 for lettuce, croutons and a bit of cheese.. so I returned it and was told to pay an extra £2 for chicken?! For a small ‘family’ cafe this is awful and when I said that £9 for that was unfair.. the staff member responded with.. ‘Well you obviously don’t know how much it costs to run a buisness’ which I found frankly unprofessional and RUDE! I responded saying ‘you don’t know what I do for work, but this is not okay to charge that’ And she responded ‘Well I would pay that so it’s tough’ Honestly how unprofessional. I’ve been coming here ages.

lovely surroundings. Awful food, service and atmosphere. Booked lunch for a friends birthday and paid a £5,00 per head non-refundable deposit. I have been fortunate to eat at some amazing restaurants, and can honestly say that I have only been asked to pay a deposit a couple of times. On arrival, we were surprised that such a lovely space was so empty, there was only 2 other people in the whole place. It is a large room with tables to sit I would say at least 75 patrons. We had to approach the staff as we were not greeted on arrival. We were not seated, and there was no reserved signs on any tables. After choosing where to sit down, we were ignored to the point that one of my friends got up and took some menus from one of the other tables as we had none on ours. We were then told that to order we were to get up and go to the counter. One of our party was unwell, so my friend that had made the booking told one of the staff, her reply was a curt, "well you don't get your deposit back". When we went to order, the deposit caused so much confusion. It went from bad to worse after that. A drink arrived with some spilt on the saucer, and nothing was said. The menu is limited to say the least and quite frankly boring. My friends have been to the tearoom on site, but thought that as this was a birthday celebration, it would be nice to "upgrade". How wrong they were! The food arrived in dribs and drabs. There were no condiments/sauces offered apart from salt and pepper on the table. One of our party had ordered quiche and salad. This arrived with a large portion of chips on the plate, which was unexpected. The "salad "consisited of a lettuce leaf, a couple of slices of tomato and the same of cucumber. The quiche was so hard that my friend could not cut into it, so when our chuck in the oven scampi, chips and dried up peas arrived, my friend commented about it. The waitress duly returned it to the kitchen, returning sometime later with a replacement, which was cold, well frozen in the middle. Our other meals were no better, and we decided that rather risking feeling unwell, we would not eat it. To be honest, it was so tasteless, it was not enjoyable. The waitress removed our plates and we prepared to leave. She returned stating that the "CHEF" was sorry and that we would be getting a full refund. This itself was problematic and we were sent to the reception area in another building to sort one of our party's out. All in all, a very disappointing and unpleasant experience, and not one that any of us will be repeating.

The Fields is my go-to venue on a regular basis when going out with friends or family for a daytime or evening meal. Always a good selection of food and friendly staff. Highly recommended