Queens Head — Restaurant in Ashford

This was my second visit, the last time was before COVID started. Enjoyed the visit last time which is why we went there on Saturday. Lovely pub, only problem was that we were in the garden and there is a Triumph franchise next door so it was quite noisy. Otherwise I would have given it 5 stars. In the evening would probably be a better time to visit Having said that, I cannot fault the pub, the service, the quality and quantity, and the general ambience. Ordered 3 adult meals and two kids. For my wife and myself we had a ploughman's, cheese for her, ham for me. Wow, talk about fully loaded I reckon I had about the biggest serving of thick cut ham in my life, and my wife had the same with cheese. Salad, two chutneys, Picallili, onions, grapes, apple and 4 tomatoes. Plus bread focaccia, and butter. Usually my wife and I eat everything but this defeated us both. My wife committed a cardinal sin for her, being a cheese lover. She left about 200g of cheese on her plate. A true first for her. My daughter had an onion and steak sandwich, about the size of a halfpounder with fries. Smelt beautiful and she tells me it was lovely. My grand daughters had pizza, 1 gluten free and one normal. Well done to the staff who asked about gluten and dairy free rather than us mentioning it first. The staff were very friendly and checked that we were happy throughout. If you are in the area, and feeling hungry, I'd say get...

Disappointing food and service. Highlights were the chickens outside.

I made contact before making a booking to ask about gluten free options. I was told they have gf bread and can exchange bread in the menu items for gf. I then booked a table for lunchtime on a Saturday. When we sat down I mentioned that I'd sent an email and just wanted to check I could swap for gf bread. She went off to check with the kitchen and came back and said they'd run out of gf bread and were waiting for a delivery (there's a big tesco minutes away, gf bread is quite readily available...). Had I been there with just my partner I'd have left and found somewhere else but I was having lunch with my elderly relatives and we'd travelled over an hour to get there.

I had a burger and asked for no bun and it was fairly dull and tasteless overall. It was meant to be served with onion rings but none were served with it. I asked the waitress and she merely said "oh weren't there any?" and then shrugged as if there was nothing she could do. For a veggie burger and a bit of salad, £16.50 is extortionate. The price doesn't suit the quality of the food, menu options or location.

Other food we had was dry chicken burger and cold custard with dessert (we'd asked for it hot) and all quite disappointing and expensive overall.

Glad we saw the chickens outside but we won't visit again...

Arrived at 19:45 tonight after reading positive reviews on google. There was no one else eating, which didn't arouse suspicion as the weather has been rough. Pub was clean, there was a lit wood burner and the barmaid was very pleasant and chatty. There were half a dozen or so locals with a couple of them being a bit rowdy and foul mouthed. It's a local pub and you expect people to be relaxed and we're not precious so this didn't bother us particularly. We actually found it comical when we realised that the worst potty mouth was the landlady... unfortunately that where our amusement ended. The food was shocking! My wife ordered the hunters chicken (chicken wrapped in bacon with a bbq sauce), which arrived raw! I brought it to the attention of the barmaid who agreed and was shocked. She was very apologetic and took it back to the kitchen and offered an alternative. Having been put off my wife asked if there was a sweet menu, which the barmaid said there was and then came back to say they had run out! I had ordered the roast pork belly with black pudding, which I left as there was barely any pork as it was all a fatty gelatinous mess. We decided to leave and barmaid very reasonably didn't charge us for our meal but regardless... raw chicken! That's a massive no no... be very...