Musicians Arms - North Kesteven

I’ve written a few reviews about this place over the years and after eating here on Saturday thought it deserved another. The price of £8.50 is amazing value for the main, dessert and coffee. Staff are always polite and go out of there way to make you feel welcome and looked after. It was a hard decision to decide on my main but I do love the home made onion rings so I decide on the gammon, with my mate having the fish and homemade chips. I’ve attached pictures as they defo say far more about the amazing quality of the food you get than I can try and capture in words. For desert I picked the homemade cheese cake. Truly amazing.

Absolutely faultless fantastic food Brian and his wife and all the staff cant do enough for you the place was heaving and its that good there were two sittings i have worked in hotel kitchens as a youth its never easy pleasing the public looking at one or two comments i think these people are spies trying to disrepute this fantastic place it is very unique thanks Kevin.

We went in for lunch today and wow what a disappointment. We walked in the bar/lounge area and wanted to get a drink. To start off we only had the choice of with 3 beers on tap, and not good beers either. After that we went through to the restaurant with chains hanging over the doors which nearly knocked our drinks over, its like walking through to a conservatory. As we walked through we saw the kitchen on one side and the bar on the other with also chains hanging over the door ways. We then arrived to the restaurant and it looked like we were walking into an old people’s home. No music, awful decoration and we felt like we were visiting some ancient relatives. We sat down and placed our order to then realise our food was out within 2/3 minutes. Now for me that is far too quick, it seemed rushed and they just plated up pre cooked food and sent it out. The food came out and it looked sloppy, the mash was more like smash. The Yorkshire puddings where bought in which is a disgrace. Yorkshire puddings are supposed to be home made all the time. The vegetables tasted like they were out of a tin; bland and watery. The meat fell apart but was awfully dry. We all coated out meat in gravy but couldn’t save it! The roast potatoes weren’t roasted properly they tasted boiled and then shoved in the oven for 10 minutes, they were awful and you cannot call them proper roasted potatoes. We never complain because we find it rude and it gives off a bad atmosphere for other customers that surprisingly maybe enjoying it. We then had dessert which actually was half decent but we were given a grape cut in half and the tiniest cut of orange, it was like they were rationing it for ww2 still, which would suit the average age of the customers.

And before anyone moans; I hate leaving a poor review. Done it twice in 65 years. Running a pub serving food is hard at the best of times, but really this one needs work. First the lager smelled so I changed it for beer. No vegetarian option so we both selected fish and chips. Nw how hard could that be? The tartare sauce was lovely though.

I have had Sunday lunch here twice, brilliant service and the food is amazing. Massive plate full and good value for money. Prefer this to a lot of places I've had a Sunday lunch, thank you.