The Tyler's Kiln Public House — Restaurant in Canterbury

So I've been driving past this place for about 3 years and finally decided to give it a go. I took the family for a meal on a Friday evening and I'm glad I did. The inside of this place is decorated as well as any pub in a high end 5 star hotel. It feels a genuinely comfortable place to relax and socialise. Everything is so well looked after and spotless, that even the chrome pipes in the men's toilet are like mirrors- utterly insane.

So we went outside into the garden to eat and as it was a sunny day, the staff had placed complimentary sun cream on each table- honestly I'm not making this up.

We ordered food. The kids all had sausage, egg and chips. My better half had the special which was a pulled pork burger and chips. I went with house burger and triple fried chips. My kids pretty much ate all their food which is quite unusual. My wife liked her food and I thought my burger was outstanding. Prepared with the correct proportion of meat to fat, seasoned and cooked well. It's as good as a Meat Liquor burger and trust me, that's a huge achievement.

I always give constructive criticism but for a place like this, I admit I am nip-picking. What I didn't like was that the were smokers in the garden where we sat with the kids- what's wrong with sending them outside on the main road or just banning them altogether? Not all my chips were triple fried which was a shame as I really enjoyed the ones I got. Finally if they could hire extra staff to cool patrons down by manually fanning them, when the weather gets hot, it would be much appreciated.

Whoever owns this place is a perfectionist and really, hats off to them and their staff. If they read this, please do me a little favour and buy my local, ye old Beverley, and do your...

So, where to start, we certainly won’t return 2 people starter and main After asking around locally for a nice place to eat, we were overwhelmed with responses on this venue, and we have no idea why, We arrive and are greeted by a lack of smiles with a poor service, we booked a table but we’re told to seat anywhere we liked (red flag as the place was rather empty on a Saturday evening peak dinner service) We were given a paper menu all curled up and poorly presented We had researched the menu prior to attending on their website only to see if had changed slightly and the steak that I was going to order was no longer an option, my next choice would have been pulled pork burger and….you got it…. They were out, so we had squid starters, I had the ham egg and chips and the wife a sea bass. I will say the squid was nice, well cooked and tender the mains were of an ok quality and a nice size But….. from an establishment charging what can only be described as ‘top dollar’ it’s incredibly disappointing, one of the waitresses was nice and chirpy the rest of the staff miserable The food mediocre at best The wait time extended and slow If the food was half the price I’d have left somewhat happy but I felt absolutely mugged, £75 and then to realise they added a service charge of nearly £8 for the shoddy slow service Outraged Their choice was to become a cashless venue, I don’t agree with this but putting my political views aside, this doesn’t then earn you the right to add a compulsory charge. I will not be returning unfortunately, and it is a shame as the venue itself is quite...

I was so looking forward to meeting with friends I had not seen for a long time and looking forward to impressing them with my "Local" Due to my personal circumstances I had not been to the Kiln since Kathton House had the pleasure!

My decision from the menu was cannelloni ..... it looked horrible to start with, served in an enamel white and blue dish with a handful of unappealing salad mix. (Approx £14.00). Girlie chats took over then, eventually my fork went into the cannelloni only to reveal a mush of the slimy green contents of the meal and a moment later to retrieve from my throat a length of cellophane film which one can only imagine came from a pre packed shop bought prepared meal. Although even a shop bought ready meal of cannelloni is distinguishable as rolls of pasta...... but this was not even distinguishable !

The strip of film was approximately 4 inches !! Yes I was lucky I did not choke and not a pretty sight for my friends and anyone else! Such is life and one has to get over things, but the Chef remained tightly ensconced in his kitchen with the poor waitress left to apologise and offer a free drink and no charge for the meal. Errrr! What meal? and would he have come out if I was choking!!

Shocking, at one time the locals were made to feel special, not any more. I'm not one for taking out my mobile for a quick pic of my meal but this time I regret it but I was lucky I...