Bull - Barming — Restaurant in Maidstone

Update on review - no response to this review - no remedial action taken - manager should be concerned but clearly not. Will take up with your head office!

TERRIBLE!!! I used to love visiting The Bull, especially sitting in the garden, enjoying the beautiful scenery.

However, my recent experiences have been very disappointing. A month ago, I took my parents, who had travelled up to visit, for lunch. The food was okay, but the atmosphere was ruined by a group of loud workmen, led by one particularly obnoxious individual. His voice was painfully loud, like a megaphone, and completely ruined our afternoon. At the time, I assumed it was just bad luck.

This past weekend, a friend came to visit, so I suggested a river walk with a stop at The Bull. Unfortunately, the same unpleasant person was there again, this time with even more of his loud-mouthed crew. While we were at the bar, they were making blatant homophobic comments, which was absolutely unacceptable. Their behavior was appalling, and once again, it completely destroyed the pub's atmosphere.

It got to the point where I had to leave my drink behind because I could no longer bear the loud voice giving me a headache. Aside from them, the pub was nearly empty, and I can see why. Unless something is done about this group—especially banning this obnoxious individual—I'm afraid you'll continue losing customers. It's a shame, because The Bull used to be a...

Would of gave more stars but was a bit let down with the food, Lovely place went their for drinks and sat in the beer garden one sunny day and me and gf said we come bk again for a meal, so we try booking table on the web site and didn’t work, so called up and said can we book a table and the young lady said they are very busy and so she said they not taking bookings and just to turn up, so we turned up and spoke to the same young lady and said there r no tables available but when looked around we saw there was some tables with no one sitting at them so the lady just left us and carried on then we saw a man behind the bar and ask can we have a meal at one of them tables and he said yes you can seat there and eat but will need to come to bar and order which was fine by us, any way food came over I had hunters chicken and girlfriend had lasagne mine meal was like a kids meal and only had about 10 chips and chicken was small as well, and for nearly £10 I expected more. And my girlfriend meal came with garlic bread and it was so over done and hard you could do damage with it.. but the lasagne was nice and she enjoyed it, but as A good will we got our first drinks free as a sorry for the food which was nice so apart from the food the pub is lovely place and is nice to...

The 'Check Back' was perfect... Unfortunately, it was for the replacement adults meal... "Is everything alright with your meal, sir? Can I get you anything, apple sauce?" When I said, "Everythings fine." I was actually saying I was now eating alone as my food was returned because you served it with cold gravy. I wanted to say the potatoes tasted as if they were cooked last week and had been kept warm since... (The skill of making roast potatoes with hard centres without a crispy skin is applaudable...) The leeks were gritty and far too chewy... Though the 'replacement' meal was flooded with 'hot' gravy, it didn't hide the carrot and parsnip I had bitten when they were first served. Finally, I was passing with my daughter to stay in Kent for the night and decided to pick you over a Chef & Brewer... The fact you served my meal cold and then left me to eat alone will never be good in anyone's book. BTW, the child's meal, though a good concept, it definitely was not worth £7.50. The Adults Roast Pork at £16.95, could have been worth it if it had been cooked properly and initially served hot. The overall service was not good... I was only offered apple sauce on the returned meal with no 'Check Back' on the initial meal or my...