The best restaurants serving British food in Rode and Norton St Philip Mendip South West

Recently reopened, so all menus on websites are wrong still waiting on previous owners to close the web page and the online booking as the new owners only take phone booking and walk ins. All welcome very doggie friendly. Relaxed friendly pub with pub meals

I have been a frequent visitor at the Farleigh Road café for more years than I remember, and I am a regular user visiting some 3 or 4 times per month so, with Flourish in charge, is it any different? The building is bigger, the car park is better and easier to navigate, the restaurant is bigger, and the staff is still as excellent as they have always been. Food is always good with good sized portions and the prices, well as per anywhere have gone up. Like with all restaurants we know this has to happen but don’t be tempted to push much higher. Be careful what you wish for. The new ‘Flourish card ‘ is a useful tool for getting offers on food (can also be used in the shop) but here I say that it is not very well explained so I suggest to Flourish that you get some flyers made to leave on the table /take away as both you and the customer will benefit. I know how to use the card. Many will not. To sum up, then a great place to eat and meet and yes, you will not please all the people all the time as some hanker for the ‘old café’ but progress moves on so please Flourish keep those excellent friendly staff and the quality of your food as most of us seem to like it very much. A recommended café then!

Booked a Sunday lunch for 8 for our anniversary, and had a brilliant time! The staff even brought out an extra little plate at pudding to celebrate 🥰 Very friendly staff who happily chatted with us. We felt a little rushed when we first arrived, as we were told on the phone we could only have the table for 1hr40. However when it came down to it, no one told us we had to leave at the time they’d mentioned so we relaxed a little after that.

Un sábado por la noche pasé a tomar una taza después de un largo paseo, ya que mi autobús a casa no debía hacerlo hasta dentro de una hora. Desafortunadamente, hubo un grupo de seguidores del club de rugby Bath Rugby que estaban bastante borrachos (tanto hombres como mujeres) y extremadamente ruidosos. Algunos de ellos empezaron a hacerme preguntas, terminé saliendo del pub y esperando mi autobús en el frío y en la oscuridad. Consideré cruzar la calle para probar el otro pub que está en un edificio muy antiguo, pero también estaba bastante ocupado y tenía miedo de encontrar el mismo problema. Es molesto cómo los pubs no son lugares acogedores para mujeres solteras, especialmente si no están bebiendo alcohol! Incluso en las grandes ciudades como Bristol, la mayoría de las cafeterías cierran a las 6 pm o 7 pm, ¡así que no tienes otra opción que ir a un pub si quieres una bebida caliente después de esa hora!