The Black Bull - Carta

We recently went along for their tasting menu. It was superb. Great service and amazing value for money. The menu included an amazing soft shell crab. We’ll be back!

The new Spring menu is simply outstanding. Creative delicious food, incredibly well prepared and presented. I eat here fairly regularly and there's a very good reason for that.

Ordered fish and chips sent first dinner back due to the smell of the fish. Waitress came back and said nothing wrong with the fish they get it delivered daily and then proceeded to tell me that they would cook me another one free of charge! Second dinner served up still smelt wrong but told it was okay! Won't be coming back! Ver carta

While there were some small disappointments, I decided to communicate them directly with the hotel rather than mentioning them here. I hope they consider making the necessary changes. The room and bed were comfortable. One suggestion for improvement would be to expand the menu to include a wider selection of meat and fish options, rather than just focusing on beef. Additionally, having an external courtesy light for safety, particularly during icy conditions, would be advantageous.

My family went to this restaurant for lunch to celebrate the head of our family's birthday. The restaurant was pleasant and clean, but we were disappointed by the high prices. We felt that paying £32 for a steak that was served in strips with just a few chips and minimal accompaniments was unreasonable. The fish was also dry and the chocolate roulade was sliced too thin. On top of that, we had to wait a long time for just three hot drinks. Overall, our experience was very disappointing and we do not intend to dine there again.

We stayed one night in a large but rather dreary room adjacent to the main bar and restaurant. The plainness of the room was emphasised by the lack of light coming from the single window and no window in the bathroom which has a bath but no shower. OK tea and coffee making facilities. No tissues. The bar has limited seating for a pre-dinner drink. The menu was pretty ordinary though i did manage to find a decent starter of pork belly but my main of cod roll with prawn mousse was disappointing. glad we had only the one night stay. Ver carta

Great food and lovely staff. Awful family with lots of kids aged around 8-10 that ran around the restaurant, past our table almost constantly playing chase, somewhat spoiled the visit. We had to change tables to avoid them and the shrieking was really dreadful. After moving tables to a different area we really enjoyed it. The food was amazing and the strawberry soufflé was to die for. It would have been nice if the manager had intervened and had a word with the parents as their behaviour was completely unacceptable. I don’t like complaining and it made me rather uncomfortable having to do so. Other customers were clearly bothered by them and they nearly knocked another elderly gentleman over...

Two of us spent the night here on 10th July. We had returned to the UK after a 3 week trip around Europe. We had a room of good size but very average. The tea making facilities were in the wardrobe and there was no hair drier. We also had dinner in the pub. This is a pub trying to be something above its station. The pub is said to have been awarded rosettes over the years but I imagine that was some time ago as the meal we had was way below expectations. The rump of lamb was very tender but tasteless accompanied by over roasted potatoes wrapped in mange tout. The wine list had wonderful descriptions which hid the truth. The Chilean Merlot was far from outstanding but below average. The price...

We visited for Sunday lunch and really enjoyed the food and the attentive service as well as that it is dog friendly as well. My starter was the goats cheese salad, it was done very well and attractively presented with a mustard, honey balsamic dressing; which really delivered the sweet/salty and slightly acidic flavour that complemented the goats cheese. I followed this with the roast beef. The beef was wonderfully tender, rare-medium that I like, with plentiful gravy, root vegetables (parsnips and carrots), cauliflower cheese and roast potatoes. The potatoes were beautifully done, obviously cooked in lots of fat that made them wonderfully buttery on the inside but still crisp on the outsid... Ver carta