The Ship Inn — Restaurant in England

Spring may be teasing us that it’s on its way, but an independently owned pub with as much going for it as The Ship Inn in Uphill will always have its place in the community 🍻🍽️🔥 We had:

🩶 Mac n Cheese Bites 🩶 Chicken in a cream and chorizo sauce 🩶 Fish & Chips 🩶 Burger & Chips 🩶 Lasagne 🩶 Kids Nuggets, Beans & Potato Faces 🩶 Lemon Meringue Pie 🩶 Chocolate Fudge Cake

Aka, a feast for the five of us! The chips were those slightly curved ones (hard to explain, zoom in!) that we as a family have a thing for, so they were an immediate hit. It can be a worry when you see a big menu but each of us enjoyed what we ordered - nobody had a dud! It was good honest pub grub done well, comfort food to get rid of our never ending colds 🤧

Prices are reasonable (e.g. Cod & Chips £14.95, kids meals from £5.25 for a main) but if you’re keen for an offer, there’s a and a brilliant value mid week lunch deal. It runs Monday to Friday from 12pm to 2.30pm with a range of dishes for £8, including my favourite, scampi 😋 They also have seasonal specials (the spring menu featuring treats such as ox cheeks with creamy leek mash) and this week they’re taking part in British Pie week with a different flavour on offer each day 🥧

Drinks wise it’s a traditional venue with all the usuals, but I was also impressed with the alcohol free selection. Perhaps something to do with the several team members going sober in Feb, raising over £500 for Ovarian Cancer in the process? 🙌🏻 The Old Mout 0% Berries and Cherries I had was very refreshing!

There’s a small car park, a beer garden, dogs are welcome, you’ll also find a pool table, darts and skittles plus live music and quizzes too. A true all-rounder! (Review copied...

My wife booked a Sunday lunch at 2:30pm for father's day. We were told to go upstairs where we'd find our name at the table. The waitress told us there was a slight delay with the food. After around 30 minutes we were told we had to move to a different table as we had our dog with us. After around another 20 to 30 minutes our food arrived. One of the meats we'd ordered was beef. We could not cut it as it was very rare. When we called the waitress she said the chef always cooks the beef rare and would we like steak knives. We told her we'd never had rare beef on a Sunday lunch and we'd prefer a different meat. She took both our meals back along with the potatoes we'd put on our plates. New plates were then brought to us with different meats minus our potatoes. Unfortunately by then the food was cold. The dish with the peas and kidney beans had around 10mm of water in the bottom of it. There was no spoon to dish out the veg. The roast potatoes were cold and undercooked. I can safely say that this was without a doubt the worse Sunday lunch we have ever had anywhere. On the plus side, the waitress was...

Mixed thoughts on this pub. The only thing that kept it from 1 star was the Veg that came with the Sunday Roast, it was lovely. Pork was also good but beef was obviously cheap rubbish, tough, tasteless, inedible. The roast potatoes seemed like they'd been reheated from the night before. Mash was grey and gluey probably instant. The menu is laid out in a way that you read right to left (see menu picture, what do you think?) I was made out to be some kind of idiot!........it meaning I ordered 'pie of the day' only for it to be a children's meal.... either way the pie was really poor. 4 chunks of tough chicken in bisto in a dish with a frozen 'puff up in the oven' type chuck on the top topping. Again mash was grey, gluey and inedible like 70's smash. The real ale was nice and the pub itself has a good atmosphere. Waiting/bar staff are pretty efficient but let down by the food quality and chefing skills. Overall a waste of money I won't be going again. On the whole the pub is not suitable for disabled visitors, the toilets are either a long walk around or up and down stairs. Very disappointing...