Lamb Inn — Restaurant in Arun

UPDATED Tuesday 2nd January 2024

WOW WOW WOW !!!!! What a night me and around 150 other people had on New Years Eve.

The music from DJ Andy Heading was superb and he gave us such a fantastic lead up to midnight !!!!

Elaine, Brian, Connall (son), David, Elizabeth, Olly & Adam ran the place like clockwork. No long waits at the bar and the drink kept flowing !!! So many thank you's go to every one of them plus any others who helped produce some amazing food for everyone.

For anyone who thinks they don't get value for money at The Lamb i challenge you to find better. For your £10 you were able to enjoy a fantastic, safe night with great music from the DJ, a happy friendly atmosphere without the pub being rammed and enough hot and cold food to sink a battleship !!!!

Simply The Best and we are very lucky to have such an amazing community pub like The Lamb !!!

Thank You and Happy 2024 All 💙

Without doubt the best pub I've had the pleasure of calling my local. I can hand on heart say Ive never had a bad visit. The reviews I read where people moan about speed of service, unfriendliness and standard of food, simply just goes to show what a nation of moaners we are in this country. OK, so sometimes there will be occasions when things don't run as smooth as you would like or be good as good as you would like, but how does that give you carte blanche to make comments that could potentially damage business? Have they not been damaged enough in the last 16 months? How about speak with the management and see why things may have happened? We are all entitled to bad days and we all have to learn new things. I can assure you if you did speak with them, you would be very happy with the response. In the 5 years I have used the Lamb I can't remember a member of staff who was unfriendly or rude. They are always welcoming and always attentive. Maybe consider the restraints they are all under with COVID and see how tough that is before moaning things aren't there when you almost click your fingers. Patience goes a long way !!! The current team working for Elaine & Brian are amazing !! Many are young and learning a trade that is very challenging because of COVID, yet they do it always with a smile and conversation. They are professional and treat everyone in a decent manner. Staff faces do change because of the type of industry they are in but mainly because of university terms times but whoever is working, they all sing from the same hymn sheet. Niamh, Georgie, Flic, Jody, Sophie, Nicole, Joel, Beth 1, Beth 2, Toby, Dave, Pete, Sam, Isobelle, Ben and Seb plus a couple of others in the kitchen are all lovely and deserve to all be treated with respect. Elaine & Niamh with the help of others do amazing things for the community and charity. They have mornings for certain groups of people and the work they do for Macmillan Cancer is second to none !! The menu is vast and very reasonably priced. It's always tasty and if you get an issue its always quickly remedied !! If you want food quality like the Ritz then pay a lot more and go there, don't come to the Lamb and simply moan cos its not Ritz quality. It is great and does exactly what it says on the tin !! I don't think you will find a drink they don't have based on the brewery they serve as again the menu is vast. Plenty of TV's for sporting events, but areas where you can sit without any noise or distraction. The garden is south facing and provides a nice area to enjoy the summer evenings. I wouldn't suggest it in April in the snow, but they had been shut for 4 months so it had to be done !! So you will go a long way to find a better pub anywhere but don't take it from me, try it for yourself, you won't be disappointed. If you are ill give you 5 pence to make up for it...

Food is the biggest neg here.

Most of the food is not fresh. It seems like it is bought in pre-booked and frozen, and then heated up at the time of order.

I ordered the gammon/chicken BBQ skillet (I don't remember the exact name) with an extra portion of corn on the cob.

My dish was missing the tomato, and the corn on the cob was so wet. It was dropping with water (a long time after cooking), then when you bit into it, more water came out. I believe this was pre-cooked, then frozen, then reheated later.

My wife had a wrap/flatbread with corn on the cob on the side.

Same story with the corn on the cob. The wrap looked nothing like the picture, and was very average.

My son had a children's burger with beans and corn. They brought out the same corn, and PEAS!

The only thing we complained about was the fact our son wanted beans and they took his dish away and brought it back 2 minutes later with beans instead.

We ordered desserts, which were your standard commercial "brakes" dessert (or similar commercial supplier). Not bad, but nothing super special. It was your classic £1.50 per portion from brakes, then put it on a plate and drizzle something over it and charge nearly £6 for it.

I was given a £50 gift card as a gift from my parents; and this meal cost us ~£52.

If we didn't have the gift card, we would have been way more vocal and sent some food back (more than the beans/peas issue).

Based on the reviews from other Greene king food establishment reviews. The food seemed exactly the same and cemented my view that I would not want to go back to a Greene king pub for food.

If I was just there for drinks, it seemed ok. I had a pint of a craft beer (I forget exactly what it was) and it seemed fresh and nice. My wife had a rose lemonade, and that was also good.

Overall, you go out and pay money for food/experience you can't do at home. There was nothing here that I could not do at home, I would have done better in every respect.

The staff were friendly, this was the best thing...

1st time walking into the lamb inn at roughly 19:30, in a group of 4 men working away seeking to partake in the local pub quiz. It looked relatively busy so our hopes were high!!

Ahead of us at the bar were 2 young women being berated by an old woman which turnt out to be a member of staff. It turnt out the women were being moaned at by the before mentioned member of staff about ordering food whilst having children with them and they should have ordered food earlier. Her exact words at the end of the conversation were “just don’t do it again next time”. The women looked horrified with the member of staffs response and stated they will not being returning to this establishment again. At that point we should have expected nothing less than what happened next…..

To provide context the ages of our group were 46, 33, 22 & 18. We asked if they were serving food and was told no, unless we wanted an 90 minute wait. So we thought we would just order some drinks and take part in the quiz after a long day at work. So we ordered 3 alcoholic beverages and the 18 year old T-total lad ordered a Coca-Cola/Pepsi.

We were told swiftly that the 18 year old T-total lad would need to provide ID to drink a soft drink or would not be able to sit with us within the area of the pub which the pub quiz is taking part in.

I’m sure this may be a rule within this establishment but this is one of the most ridiculous rules we have ever heard in our accumulative 47 years of drinking and eating in pubs. Like I said previously we should have seen the warning signs that this wasn’t an establishment that values customers (maybe unless you are a local)

I would recommend any new people thinking of going here steer clear, this is not an establishment that makes you feel welcomed and treated like a valued customer.

We went to the Establo Lounge cafe bar down the road and the food was delightful and the staff were extremely pleasant. An added bonus our 18 year old friend wasn’t asked for ID for a...