Went for a roast dinner with my missus on Sunday the 18-02-24 a nice pub been there a few times, when I ordered a drink the only draught lager was fosters which I thought was poor for a popular pub, sat down for our meal I had a burger which was ok my missus ordered a pork belly roast with some lamb as an extra and we wait nearly an hour before our meal was dished up while other tables that came in after us were served up first, when my missus dinner was served it was all lamb and no pork belly when we spoke to the waiter he apologized and said he would get it sorted 10mins later he came back with 2 miserable skinny pieces of pork loin and we were shocked at this and asked for the manager to ask what’s going on to which he gave us 20% of our meal, me and my missus just want a decent meal not a discounted dinner, I won’t be going back there again it’s a shame as the same owner use to own the hengist which is around 200 metres from the Chequers inn
Linda Davis
Delivery problems affected the menu available, what we ended up with was very good.
John Reynolds
The food and service are good. Just a shame the owners don't bother paying their staff. Cannot support businesses that behave in such a way.
Debbie Tucker
This has always been good in the past with hearty portions. This time the portions were small, Stacked up in the middle of your plate,,,, , I had a roast beef.. there was two slices of beef, each of them, the size of a medallion from a Rasher of bacon and about as thick as that! Which for £19 is not a lot! About a month ago I had a roast beef there still £19 but it was lovely big portions, proper pub grub. Also, the cauliflower cheese is now about a third of the size as it used to be.Not to mention the bread board, That used to be a lovely selection of different warm breads with a bowl of sun-dried tomatoes and a balsamic oil dip ! This time It was just a part baked baguette badly cut up with the balsamic oil dip.Come on, leave the posh food to the restaurants, just provide some good pub grub like you were previously doing.Staff were as pleasant and helpful as always though! That’s why I gave three stars rather than two!
Timothy Goddard
A regular Sunday lunch haunt for us. Love the pub and the staff, but I have to say that the food has gone downhill recently. The portion size has drastically reduced and it seems to be more about style over substance now. Such a shame.
Gillian Birkbeck
Sunday lunch today very disappointing, pigs in blankets undercooked, Yorkshire puddings flat and soggy and had to wait an hour for it. Such a shame.
Tim Benger
Great little pub, fish was the best I've had in a long
Philip Gordon
The only pub with an outside seating view of the beautiful Aylesford bridge. Worth a stop for refreshments on a sunny day to watch the ducks and boats go by. Quite quiet on week nights.
James Hazell
Unexpected visit on a monday lunch time. Staff spot on! Steak was fabulous!
kevanw2014
We were really looking forward to a Sunday roast lunch at the Chequers Inn and upon arrival we were quickly seated at our table, which was lovely and cosy. We were asked what drinks we would like, and asked for a wine list, to be told they had red, white, or rose. After asking what wines they had, we opted for a bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, as they only had a Merlot or Pinot Noir available as red wine. After a short while our waiter returned to say that they did not have a full bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, so we changed our order. (Having subsequently found their wine menu on line I guess they had also run out of Malbec, Rioja and Shiraz, which is why I had to opt for the Pinot Noir - from Romania). After a long wait our drinks of one glass of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, one glass of Pinot Noir, two large glasses of lime and soda and one small glass of lime and soda were served and we placed our lunch order, having been told there were no burger buns - not a problem as all five of us wanted a roast lunch. For starters we ordered a ‘selection of warm bread with butter, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and tapenade’ and deep fried whitebait. After a very long wait the ‘selection’ of bread arrived. This consisted of a sliced overcooked baguette, with the tiniest drizzle of balsamic vinegar at the bottom of the olive oil and the tapenade had been replaced with finely chopped tomatoes and onions. The exceedingly overdone whitebait turned up after a further long wait. Then one of the roast beef main course turned up, which looked lovely, followed by the roast belly of pork with hardly any gravy so we had to order additional gravy (at a cost of £1 for a very, very tiny pot). The two roast turkey dinners and children’s portion of roast beef turned up after about a further 5 minute wait. The additional gravy followed 5 minutes after that. Despite numerous front of house staff walking past our table it was exceedingly difficult to attract anyone’s attention to ask for more drinks. Whilst we were eating our main course we could overhear the front of house staff laughingly updating each other with what was not available on the menu. Whilst we were waiting to place our dessert order another family came in, but on being told the lengthy list of items which were not available on the menu, they got up and left. When it came to dessert our granddaughter wanted sticky toffee pudding. We were told they had the pudding but no sauce. We asked for floater coffees and were initially told they did not have the cream for floater coffees. We were subsequently told they had the cream, so order a decaf Tia Maria coffee, a normal floater coffee and a rum floater coffee, and another lime and soda. After an exceedingly long wait, (we thought they had forgotten the order), our floater coffees turned up - but not what we ordered. The decaf Tia Maria coffee was caffeinated coffee, when we were told this we asked for a replacement and were told they had no more Tia Maria. Great shame as this is a lovely venue, but we will not be coming back, or recommending it to anyone as the service is so slow and the selection of what is available is not what is advertised.
We popped in here for lunch with our two children. We ordered some ‘artisan’ bread to start. This was simply a sliced up part-baked baguette and a bowl of olive oil with the tinniest drizzle of balsamic vinegar at the bottom! I ordered the sausages on the special menu with hand cut chips (as suggested by the waiter) but, when our food eventually arrived after an hour and 45 minute wait, I had mash instead. I questioned this but was told that they had run out of hand cut chips. We had already been informed that they had run out of chicken and this was at 12.30pm on a Saturday! The fish and chips both had chips though (which incidentally were also supposed to be hand cut!). We waited so long for our food that we were able to watch a man in the cottage opposite paint and re-hang his front door - we were quite literally watching paint dry!? The whole set-up seemed totally disorganised. Another family came in quite a while after us and were served their food before us. They even ordered a burger and fish and chips the same as us and our children had to watch as this was brought out of the kitchen and taken to their table instead of ours ?. Another table next to us also complained about the slow service so we weren’t alone! I have to say that, when the food finally arrived, it tasted ok but the whole experience left a sour taste in our mouths and we won’t be returning any time soon.
EatersAnnoymous
Overall disappointed - food was bang average. Staff were really over worked, I sense they did their best but was too few waiters for the volume of customers. The worst burger I have probably ever had in a pub and I’ve had a few… don’t order. Pizzas look poor and at £15 a meal you wanted better cooked food. Good location and drinks were as you’d expected but management of the pub and cooking of the food was no more than two stars.
Supercarcopilot
Absolutely lovely pub, relaxed environment with a great selection of food and alcohol.We spontaneously stopped off for a roast and both enjoyed our experience, the staff were all very upbeat and jolly.I would 100% recommend stopping for a drink and if you do, try out the Punch slush!The food wasn't the best, but I am extremely fussy when it comes to a roast so always set my bar too high, the food portion was excellent and great value for money however the lamb could have done with a little less time and I would have preferred to have the gravy on the side - however overall experience would definitely tempt me back
Olivia Lowe
We dined here for the Thursday lunchtime £8.50 fish and chip deal. We soon realised why it was £8.50 as 3/4 of the “fish” was raw batter. I assume this was to make the fish look bigger than it actually was. There were inches of raw batter surrounding the fish which tasted like soggy bread, clearly it had been fried in too hot oil which had cooked (burnt) the outer layer of batter, and did not cook the many inner layers of batter. We raised it with the waiter who confirmed the unidentifiable mass inside was batter, as he said everything is homemade. We would have preferred to have a smaller piece of fish which was actually all fish and not soggy wet bread-like batter. Also the service was incredibly slow. Such a disappointment as we’d dined in the pub on 5 occasions previously and rated the experience highly. Hopefully the issue with the fish and chips can be resolved by the kitchen.
RollinDany
Nice historic pub & overall an excellent Sunday lunch. Fish moist & batter nice & light though the chips were a little too chunky & the mushy peas a bit dry. Excellent burger with nice fresh salad. My partner enjoyed his pie & the skinny chips were great (not too skinny). Very attentive pleasant service & decent clean toilets. The only downside was the music which was a bit intrusive for Sunday lunch.
Went for a roast dinner with my missus on Sunday the 18-02-24 a nice pub been there a few times, when I ordered a drink the only draught lager was fosters which I thought was poor for a popular pub, sat down for our meal I had a burger which was ok my missus ordered a pork belly roast with some lamb as an extra and we wait nearly an hour before our meal was dished up while other tables that came in after us were served up first, when my missus dinner was served it was all lamb and no pork belly when we spoke to the waiter he apologized and said he would get it sorted 10mins later he came back with 2 miserable skinny pieces of pork loin and we were shocked at this and asked for the manager to ask what’s going on to which he gave us 20% of our meal, me and my missus just want a decent meal not a discounted dinner, I won’t be going back there again it’s a shame as the same owner use to own the hengist which is around 200 metres from the Chequers inn
Delivery problems affected the menu available, what we ended up with was very good.
The food and service are good. Just a shame the owners don't bother paying their staff. Cannot support businesses that behave in such a way.
This has always been good in the past with hearty portions. This time the portions were small, Stacked up in the middle of your plate,,,, , I had a roast beef.. there was two slices of beef, each of them, the size of a medallion from a Rasher of bacon and about as thick as that! Which for £19 is not a lot! About a month ago I had a roast beef there still £19 but it was lovely big portions, proper pub grub. Also, the cauliflower cheese is now about a third of the size as it used to be.Not to mention the bread board, That used to be a lovely selection of different warm breads with a bowl of sun-dried tomatoes and a balsamic oil dip ! This time It was just a part baked baguette badly cut up with the balsamic oil dip.Come on, leave the posh food to the restaurants, just provide some good pub grub like you were previously doing.Staff were as pleasant and helpful as always though! That’s why I gave three stars rather than two!
A regular Sunday lunch haunt for us. Love the pub and the staff, but I have to say that the food has gone downhill recently. The portion size has drastically reduced and it seems to be more about style over substance now. Such a shame.
Sunday lunch today very disappointing, pigs in blankets undercooked, Yorkshire puddings flat and soggy and had to wait an hour for it. Such a shame.
Great little pub, fish was the best I've had in a long
The only pub with an outside seating view of the beautiful Aylesford bridge. Worth a stop for refreshments on a sunny day to watch the ducks and boats go by. Quite quiet on week nights.
Unexpected visit on a monday lunch time. Staff spot on! Steak was fabulous!
We were really looking forward to a Sunday roast lunch at the Chequers Inn and upon arrival we were quickly seated at our table, which was lovely and cosy. We were asked what drinks we would like, and asked for a wine list, to be told they had red, white, or rose. After asking what wines they had, we opted for a bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, as they only had a Merlot or Pinot Noir available as red wine. After a short while our waiter returned to say that they did not have a full bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, so we changed our order. (Having subsequently found their wine menu on line I guess they had also run out of Malbec, Rioja and Shiraz, which is why I had to opt for the Pinot Noir - from Romania). After a long wait our drinks of one glass of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, one glass of Pinot Noir, two large glasses of lime and soda and one small glass of lime and soda were served and we placed our lunch order, having been told there were no burger buns - not a problem as all five of us wanted a roast lunch. For starters we ordered a ‘selection of warm bread with butter, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and tapenade’ and deep fried whitebait. After a very long wait the ‘selection’ of bread arrived. This consisted of a sliced overcooked baguette, with the tiniest drizzle of balsamic vinegar at the bottom of the olive oil and the tapenade had been replaced with finely chopped tomatoes and onions. The exceedingly overdone whitebait turned up after a further long wait. Then one of the roast beef main course turned up, which looked lovely, followed by the roast belly of pork with hardly any gravy so we had to order additional gravy (at a cost of £1 for a very, very tiny pot). The two roast turkey dinners and children’s portion of roast beef turned up after about a further 5 minute wait. The additional gravy followed 5 minutes after that. Despite numerous front of house staff walking past our table it was exceedingly difficult to attract anyone’s attention to ask for more drinks. Whilst we were eating our main course we could overhear the front of house staff laughingly updating each other with what was not available on the menu. Whilst we were waiting to place our dessert order another family came in, but on being told the lengthy list of items which were not available on the menu, they got up and left. When it came to dessert our granddaughter wanted sticky toffee pudding. We were told they had the pudding but no sauce. We asked for floater coffees and were initially told they did not have the cream for floater coffees. We were subsequently told they had the cream, so order a decaf Tia Maria coffee, a normal floater coffee and a rum floater coffee, and another lime and soda. After an exceedingly long wait, (we thought they had forgotten the order), our floater coffees turned up - but not what we ordered. The decaf Tia Maria coffee was caffeinated coffee, when we were told this we asked for a replacement and were told they had no more Tia Maria. Great shame as this is a lovely venue, but we will not be coming back, or recommending it to anyone as the service is so slow and the selection of what is available is not what is advertised.
Restaurantji Recommends
We popped in here for lunch with our two children. We ordered some ‘artisan’ bread to start. This was simply a sliced up part-baked baguette and a bowl of olive oil with the tinniest drizzle of balsamic vinegar at the bottom! I ordered the sausages on the special menu with hand cut chips (as suggested by the waiter) but, when our food eventually arrived after an hour and 45 minute wait, I had mash instead. I questioned this but was told that they had run out of hand cut chips. We had already been informed that they had run out of chicken and this was at 12.30pm on a Saturday! The fish and chips both had chips though (which incidentally were also supposed to be hand cut!). We waited so long for our food that we were able to watch a man in the cottage opposite paint and re-hang his front door - we were quite literally watching paint dry!? The whole set-up seemed totally disorganised. Another family came in quite a while after us and were served their food before us. They even ordered a burger and fish and chips the same as us and our children had to watch as this was brought out of the kitchen and taken to their table instead of ours ?. Another table next to us also complained about the slow service so we weren’t alone! I have to say that, when the food finally arrived, it tasted ok but the whole experience left a sour taste in our mouths and we won’t be returning any time soon.
Overall disappointed - food was bang average. Staff were really over worked, I sense they did their best but was too few waiters for the volume of customers. The worst burger I have probably ever had in a pub and I’ve had a few… don’t order. Pizzas look poor and at £15 a meal you wanted better cooked food. Good location and drinks were as you’d expected but management of the pub and cooking of the food was no more than two stars.
Absolutely lovely pub, relaxed environment with a great selection of food and alcohol.We spontaneously stopped off for a roast and both enjoyed our experience, the staff were all very upbeat and jolly.I would 100% recommend stopping for a drink and if you do, try out the Punch slush!The food wasn't the best, but I am extremely fussy when it comes to a roast so always set my bar too high, the food portion was excellent and great value for money however the lamb could have done with a little less time and I would have preferred to have the gravy on the side - however overall experience would definitely tempt me back
We dined here for the Thursday lunchtime £8.50 fish and chip deal. We soon realised why it was £8.50 as 3/4 of the “fish” was raw batter. I assume this was to make the fish look bigger than it actually was. There were inches of raw batter surrounding the fish which tasted like soggy bread, clearly it had been fried in too hot oil which had cooked (burnt) the outer layer of batter, and did not cook the many inner layers of batter. We raised it with the waiter who confirmed the unidentifiable mass inside was batter, as he said everything is homemade. We would have preferred to have a smaller piece of fish which was actually all fish and not soggy wet bread-like batter. Also the service was incredibly slow. Such a disappointment as we’d dined in the pub on 5 occasions previously and rated the experience highly. Hopefully the issue with the fish and chips can be resolved by the kitchen.
Nice historic pub & overall an excellent Sunday lunch. Fish moist & batter nice & light though the chips were a little too chunky & the mushy peas a bit dry. Excellent burger with nice fresh salad. My partner enjoyed his pie & the skinny chips were great (not too skinny). Very attentive pleasant service & decent clean toilets. The only downside was the music which was a bit intrusive for Sunday lunch.