Bird in Hand

Beck Row, Bury Saint Edmunds
01638 713247

Recent Reviews

Sharon Jones

Just had Sunday lunch ? food, service and staff are all excellent. Great value for money.

Chrissie Buckland

Friendly staff ,meals are very nice and cheap with good size portions ,never had a bad meal there,very impressed ,

Linda Reed

Great food at great prices, staff really friendly and dogs were made very

fenderlover 16

Friendly and welcoming pub with brilliant staff, good selection of food and drink and clean and tidy environment. Wendy and team work so hard and the fruits of their labour show having turned the pub into a really great place. Deffo one to try if you're passing! ?

Colin Aldrich

Staff very welcoming and attentive . The food served is good for the price. Bar very big and is dog friendly . Definitely worth a

edward milner

Brilliant place to chill and live band's smash tag being one of

lou lozada

Good service friendly people and is only walking distance from my home ...I sure will go back again.....

Wendell Van Duyne

Great beer and great servers. Right off base so you can walk there which is super convenient. Haven’t had a chance to try the food yet, but if it’s as good as the beer, then it’s good to go! Cheers!Also, this is not a hotel. It’s a pub.

Bert girling

Good for decent cheap food and beer.

Jim Trosen

Wonderful place next to an air base full of US airmen, but the atmosphere felt local and the food is exceptional.I get the same thing every time. Chicken tenders, chicken skewers, baked potatoes and house salad. Each part is very well made and tasty.

Maz Suite

We was very disappointed. Was absolutely freezing cold the bar staff wore coats and explained that the heating hadn't come on and the food was terrible. Battered dish and chips was breaded and was watery as though it had been defrosted. My husband had chicken with curry sauce which was horrible, he left most of it . Will definitely not recommend. Even the locals complained about the cold and was told well go home if it's warm there , why come here

Kat T

This is our second visit in 2 weeks, and now we have discovered it I am sure there will be plenty more. Nothing is too much trouble for the team, and the food was quick to arrive and very well cooked.

Lisa Cooper

Had a brilliant Christmas dinner and have had many Sunday meals before. Food was lovely and a huge shout out to Maxine and Wendy who were amazing. It was so so busy and they still made time to look after and make conversation with each and every customer, really making sure everyone was happy and had everything they needed. Nothing seemed too much trouble for them. Thank you to all the staff for working through Christmas day to make ours so special

Connor Danylak

Absolutely shocking and disgusting. Will not be returningCame here Christmas Day after to meet up with family I haven’t seen for years. Firstly I’d like to say about the atmosphere. It didn’t look merry and jolly, you could tell a lot of people were getting disappointed with the waiting times and lack of service. Secondly the food was awful , I had the ham hock to start , the toast was stale and hard to the point you would need a JCB to get through it as it was rock hard. The mains I had sirloin steak, it was one of the worst and cheapest cuts of sirloin you could get , yes it was cooked to how I like it but there was so much grissle and sinue running through it , was barely edible , was like cutting and biting through a pair of doctor martins. Some of my family had the turkey , it was absolutely disgusting , roast potatoes were like charcoal , the veg was rock hard not even blanched , more like crudités, had only about one tbsp of gravy on the plate so had to ask for more, it was just an awful meal , wouldn’t even feed to the dogs, after we had all finished , one lady came to check on us and we said that we’re finished and she said she would come back to clear the plates. About an hour later. I put the plates on a different table and went into the kitchen myself to ask for desserts , witch again they were too Rich and the icecream was already melted. Very disappointing , being a restaurant manager I was very annoyed at the lack of customer service and I would be disgusted in myself if I was to ever give that level of service. And also being a chef my self there is no excuse whether the kitchen is understaffed or not , there should be a certain level consistency and quality but none there and considering it was all pre orderd it’s not rocket science , and to top it off my grandma had fallen over a bit of carpet by the main entrance , not once did they check on her to make sure she was alright or even right in the accident report book , witch may I add is a legal requirement if an injury takes place in a public work place. She now has a black hand. She can hardly walk today as both her kneecaps are swollen like balloons , and she’s been resting all day in bed as she now all batters and bruised. It’s not on and frankly I find it disgusting at the level of incompetence the place had.I woke up this morning with an upset stomach not feeling right. Will definitely not eat here again , thank you for ruining what was meant to be a special day.

Kaye Garton

Wow what can I say went for Xmas dinner today and never had a meal when every dish was just horrible we had a table of 8 and none of us enjoyed any of the dishes at all . The turkey dinner was dry and the ones that had this didn't eat it all .. the steak was the worst we have ever had it was the worst cuts 4 of us had steak and we all found it awful and extremely fatty , then waited over 45 mins for deserts to the point we throught they had forgotten us . The dishes was that bad we didn't brother staying for the final dish was pointless . To say how much this cost I would never go out for Christmas Dinner again . I can't even find the right words to say how much not one of us on our table enjoyed anything which they must have known as there was so much waste from our table . To top it off my mother fell coming into the pub down to a very old peice of carpet that has been stuck down over and over again to the point where having it is a hazard my mother is disabled cut her leg and both her knees are like balloons by the end of the evening she also has a metal kneecap on one knee and she is in so much pain now and may have to go hosiptal with this now so taking our mum out for Christmas Dinner ended up being the worst idea and she was less mobile by the end of the day so a absolutely awful day awful food and awful service . Not much care and no one went to mum to make sure she was well just spoke to couple of family memebers ... disgusted and wouldnt recomend this place for anything ?I just cant belive how much money was made off just our table for xmas dinner and how much of all of our money was wasted , im not exaggerating when I say it was a total waste of money and we was a family of 8 trying to do something special for our disabled mother and she ended up hating her dinner like the rest of us and leaving hurt after her fall that could have been avoided over a stupid pointless peice of old mat that been restuck several times and all that was done was seeing them stick it back down with spray glue nothing was offered to compasate our mother at all so for us all to have a dinner that no one enjoyed just topped the day off even more as a fail and we all felt bad for the pain our mother was in . No one enjoyed our expensive xmas day , so dissapointed and we all so disheartned ? and so unhappy as a family and for our mother as it was surpose to make her feel special ?The table was under the name danylak and to be honest something should be done or compensated for the worst xmas day service considering how bad the food was and to how unhappy and hurt our mother ended up . If this place had any compassion something should be returned to my sister for us all as a family having the worst experience on day that was surposed to be special and about family

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