The Bedingfeld Arms

Four of us recently visited for an evening meal to celebrate a birthday. The food was delicious although the pork tenderloin was on the dry side. However, we have NEVER had the main course put on the table literally the moment the starter plates had been cleared. I mean seconds not minutes! It would have been nice to have had a few minutes to savor the starters, which were lovely. We felt as if we were being uncomfortably rushed at this point and yet were given plenty of time to chose and eat desert. Very strange.

Went on the off chance after visiting Oxburgh Hall to see if we could get a table for lunch, started off positive with a nice girl who said she don’t think they had any tables but would check, mid speaking to her another man came charging over and said very abruptly and aggressively, can I help you, I explained that we were just seeing if there were any tables available but had already spoken to the girl, to which he replied again very abruptly, no! I was shocked, I felt as if I was being thrown out I’ve never had someone be so rude to me in a restaurant! Very disappointed because I had been looking forward to trying The Bedingfield Arms but I will never ever go there again, I appreciate they were busy and we had not booked and I hadn’t expected to be able to get in, but I never expected to be treated so rudely absolutely no excuse for it especially as we were already being dealt with by the young girl.

Went to the Bedingfield Arms for Boxing Day lunch, the food was amazing, service good, attentive staff and great atmosphere, I would recommend this pub to anyone, in fact I can’t wait t return again, one of my favourite restaurants in the area.

Sadly I wouldn’t recommend a stay here. I had received a voucher from family to stay for my birthday weekend and had noted this on the phone when making the booking but somehow they still charged me in full in advance without factoring in the voucher. When checking in I was told that the manager was away that weekend and basically no one knew how to issue a refund, but that they could take some money off the dinner bill etc (and luckily we were planning to eat there that night). Staff were friendly but seemed inexperienced and repeatedly came over during our stay with different ideas of how to take off the voucher money from our dinner and breakfast etc, and the voucher would have been more than both, and they seemed very confused as to how to do this on their system. Staff had good intentions but talking about the cost of the stay continually rather spoils a birthday! It really was made into quite an ordeal and they seemed really unsure of the maths, which is not very reassuring. We stayed in one of the outside rooms (in a sort of annexe), which was very scruffy and loud. You could hear every word and movement from the room next door and people and staff walking past the door. The rooms in the main building look much nicer. The dinner was disappointing. Our mains were fine but not great and the sticky toffee pudding was inedible and I had to leave most of it for the first time in my life! There weren’t enough waiters and we were left trying to order more drinks for a long time before we could get any attention. We noticed a similar thing for other tables. The restaurant itself and bar area are beautiful and have a nice atmosphere and decor, so hopefully we just got unlucky.

Totally disappointed. We have been visiting Bedingfield for over 7 years now and sadly have watched the restaurant standards decline. The bar table areas have now become “ dining areas” which are basically furnished. We were sat at a table where I was facing a badly greasy hand marked door giving access to the disabled toilet. On being seated, it was over ten minutes before we were asked what we would like to drink but were assured a bottle of water wax being brought in the mean time However the waiting staff were more concerned with putting night light candles in glasses on the table. On taking our drinks order another long wait before our meal order was taken and when it arrived it was sadly placking in vegetables, the salad with my meal was drowned in oil. Our drinks glasses were all sticky on the outside and clearly hadn’t been washed properly. By this point we were beyond caring and made the best of what we had. We noticed that other guests were having to constantly chase for service and, to top it all, when my wife went to use the toilet, she could not use any as the flush systems were not working. She did make staff aware. Sadly not a venue we will be visiting again.

Just had a wonderful lunch there and the food was lovely and the welcome warm. Friendly and attentive staff and an inviting cosy atmosphere, thoroughly recommended. We have been before and it is usually busy, which speaks for itself. Today, we were the first in and it was nice to have it to ourselves. I had the salmon starter, followed by beef bourginon, mash and vegetables. It was superb. My wife skipped a starter and went straight for the sausage and mash, again superb. We then both had treacle tart for pudding. We will be back!