The Bell - Central Bedfordshire

Decent traditional pub food, well prepared and good value. Service also excellent. You won't leave hungry. Unfortunately it was let down by some of the clientele swearing loudly and frequently and not mildly either, far from it. Don't bring your kids. Once they'd left it was much improved. (Update July 2024): We went for dinner just because we didn't feel like cooking. We sat in the garden because the weather was nice. The food was great in quantity see the photo for some serious pie action) and quality and we were served by a very pleasant gentleman who I think was called Steven. Unfortunately there was one occasion of the less than ideal behaviour that I mentioned previously but that was all. For that reason I still wouldn't call it a family friendly pub. It wasn't very busy, being a midweek evening. Incidentally some people have commented negatively about the parking system. While we don't use it since it's walking distance for us, the pub has a good sized car park and all you have to do is enter your registration on a tablet at the bar. This seems quite reasonable to me and stops non customers from abusing the pub's own car park.

The bell public in Marston is full of gossiping..the place is full of cocain takers it's a shine hole. Over priced and full of waister. The management are simple idiots I wouldn't go in the place in a million years .shine hole

They charge £6.55 a pint. This is just your typical old pub, and it's close to £7 a pint. I left after 1 but the irony is I would of stayed and spent more if the prices weren't that high.

Very disappointed, no one in there and staff was unwelcoming and prices of drinks were ridiculous. Only stayed for 1 before moving on

I call here when im travelling and have always found the staff welcoming and accomodating . They were busy but knew we wanted a quick bite to eat to continue our journey and fitted us in. Lovely food ,its a great stop before the M1.