Waggon & Horses — Restaurant in South Cambridgeshire

We phoned to ask if they offered a roast carvery, the lady said that they do and so we booked in. When we arrived we couldn’t see a carvery anywhere so we asked again and the lady said “Yes it’s a carvery, we bring your dinner to you”. Very disappointing & misleading. We asked to eat in the garden as it was a hot day and was surprised to see that the garden was still very messy with the dirty glasses and full ashtrays from the night before. We cleared our own table and sat in the sun. The garden was an eye-saw with an old mattress leaning against the wall! The dinner was served quite quickly and was ok, it was quite small, not much meat and Aunt Betsie’s Frozen Yorkshire puddings. Also, they didn’t have any Horse Raddish to go with the Roast Beef dinner?!? Sadly we weren’t very impressed with the beer garden or the dinner and won’t be going back. My husband was impressed with the selection of...

Positive reviewers from 2 years ago will be far from disappointed by a return visit.

The Waggon changed hands about a year ago and new hosts Dave Louise and Rob (alphabetic order deliberately) are keeping the familiar favourites whilst adding new options and their own style.

New menus with locally sourced food, new pipes for the Elgoods favourites together with a wide range of guest and regular beers with 14 on draught plus an interesting cider in the cellar added to friendly service with a good sense of humour make for an excellent watering hole.

Oh yes, when the weather gets back to warm, the new garden bar adds to the family...

I endorse this pub for the following reason: dining out in UK is generally 'painful' as it can be expensive and the portions are rarely generous. I mean you are not encouraged as you are in Greece and Spain for example! The actual management, while I am speaking, offers a menu (yesterday they delivered an excellent pizza!) with reasonable prizes that has boosted the experience in the pub (previously an 'Osteria' tagged as 'expensive'). The atmosphere is friendly and you feel like you can order more because it is fair. Well...