Name: The Seymour Arms
Address: Bath Road, Blagdon, Blagdon, Blagdon, BS40 7TH, United Kingdom
Rating: 8

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Blagdon

Today was our first visit and we had a wonderful Sunday roast with all the trimmings. One of us is vegetarian and the other a meat eater, and both options were delicious and very nicely presented. Staff were friendly and helpful. It is not far from Blagdon Lake, so ideal for a lakeside stroll followed by a tasty lunch. We will definitely visit again. 

Delicious Sunday roast with all the trimmings 

We went here for an evening meal and it was fantastic! The menu was creative and exciting, not too expensive, and when it arrived, it looked stunning. The food was completely delicious and it was the best food out we've had in ages. 

The service was also excellent. We felt looked after in a lovely non invasive way. Nothing was too much trouble. 

I wished we lived close by as would come again in a heartbeat. Thank you Seymour Arms! 

Fantastic food. Excellent service! 

Exceptionally delicious meal chosen from extensive menu enjoyed this evening by our family of three.  Pleasant surroundings, efficient, knowledgeable and friendly service and good large car park.  Thank you.

Thoroughly enjoyable visit to this friendly pub.

We went for dinner Friday evening. We both had starters and mains. The food was fantastic. We also had a lovely bottle of Rioja. Service was faultless too.  Great value for money. 
We’ll be back soon. 

Great meal and service

Recently reopened and refurbished, this is a good-sized pub on the main road through Blagdon with convenient car parking at the rear. Décor wise it’s very contemporary, although does feel much more like a restaurant than a pub, with all the tables laid up for food. It’s not somewhere I’d particularly feel comfortable just having a pint. Service seemed very professional, with a friendly welcome from the two young people serving, although the waitress did leave the menus with us after we had ordered, which seemed odd. There was really nowhere on the table to put them that wouldn’t have been in the way, so we had to dump them on the next table. 

The menu itself offered a slightly unusual selection of dishes perhaps, and they were a step or two up from your normal “pub grub”. I opted for the curry mackerel with pilau rice which sounded rather unusual, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. It transpired to be a couple of mackerel fillets that had been cooked in some sort of a tikka/yoghurt sauce, along with a small pot of pilau rice and what looked like a small scotch egg perched on top of it, although in the event it was just egg and batter, no sausage meat. An unusual touch though. It wasn’t bad, although I could really have done with a bit more, one mackerel doesn’t go very far. Across the table, the fish pie was a generous s[portion, although unfortunately cold in the middle. To me, this seems pretty basic, food leaving the kitchen has got to be hot so it does rather make you question their ability. A new one was provided as well as a complimentary glass of wine, so I’ve no complaints at all on how it was dealt with, but it shouldn’t be happening in the first place. Once the replacement had ben served, it was a generous portion with plenty of fish, although some of still had skin on which is unusual in a fish pie. It could also have been a bit tastier, although the parmesan mash topping was good. 

Some of the puddings sounded tempting, but after eating separately whilst the pie problem was fixed, that rather took the edge off the evening and we weren’t in the mood for anything else. Given the problems we’d had, I was a bit surprised to get a 10% service charge added on to the bill. True, the service was actually pretty good, it was the kitchen that let things down, but even so. Overall, I as a bit disappointed with this. I like my pubs cosier and more traditional and there wasn’t really loads on the menu that grabbed me, although that is of course, personal preference, and the food didn’t really live up to the elegant surroundings.  


Good servcie

Having visited The Seymour’s 2 weeks on the trot, I have to say the food and service is absolutely fantastic.  Great menu selection and the starter, mains and desserts we beautifully presented and piping hot.  Cannot fault any of it, and staff were welcoming efficient and professional.  Can’t recommend this place highly enough, give it a go!!😊

Brilliant pub

We spent two nights in the Woodcock room, whilst attending a wedding at the Aldwick estate. Arrived and advised by a notice, to check-in at the bar downstairs. 
Not immediately endearing, as the bar person gave us the statutory form to complete, asked for payment up front, our choice for breakfast the following day, gave us a key and told us the room was upstairs.
The room itself was OK’ish, although no wardrobe and instead, a portable wheeled hanging rail, which had adopted a rather jaunty angle and certainly would not have taken too much weight. The bathroom, which had a bath with shower over and a rather retro shower curtain, was a little tired and could do with a sympathetic makeover.
There is considerable noise from the road at the front of the inn, which we understand is unavoidable. However, there appears to be stud walls between bedrooms/bathrooms, with little use of acoustic materials. Thus, one gets to hear in graphic detail, events occurring in neighbouring rooms. 
Throughout our stay, we had no cleaning service and no bed making service. Odd, as the in-room commentary, specifically mentions that your room will be serviced between 11:00 and 15:00. Admittedly, we were in the room up until 12:45, preparing for the wedding, but we had made the housekeeper aware of this, so should not have been a problem.
We did take dinner in the pub downstairs on our first night and although there was little atmosphere, as the place was somewhat deserted, the food was really very good.
Sadly, breakfast was a completely different story. As previously mentioned, you had to select your choice of hot food the previous day. How difficult can it be to prepare two fried eggs on toast with bacon? Clearly, very hard. The resultant solid eggs, with one insipid rasher of bacon, was truly awful. They actually managed this offering, two days on the spin. We did comment, to the young lady, who seemed a bit confused as to what to do about the situation. Anyway, this ‘cooked breakfast’ is complemented by a choice of two juices (not sure if it was cordial or long-life), a few packaged yoghurts and a choice of budget brand cereals.
This Inn could be so much better, with some attention to detail and a review of procedure. Blagdon, is a lovely part of the world and affords some great local walks.

A tad disappointing

Me and my partner stopped here for a roast , lovely looking place nice decor, food was shocking if I could give no stars I would , Yorkshire pudding black on top raw inside, nut roast was like bird food and dry , veg was carrots and Cauliflower but you can pay an extra £2.50 to have cauliflower cheese which was cold , parsnips was like chewing on bamboo, my partners pork bounced back like a trampoline, on the plus side roast potatoes 5/10 best  tasting thing was the plain cauliflower no one asked how are food  was.

Terrible food

This always used to be our "Go To" venue when we had a family occasion or Sunday lunch. However, I can only assume they have different chef's and or management as our last meal was poor. No one likes to make a fuss and send food back especially when someone else is paying but our meal was a million miles away from what we usually have. The young girls behind the bar looked as if they were all having a first shift try out (Not down to them) and the food... lets just say we won't be returning... Try the Langford instead, bit more money but worth it.

Disappointing Sunday Lunch / Change in staff maybe ??

We had gone to Blagdon like so many people do, for a wedding at Coombe Lodge.  At first sight, our room was okayish, but not the deluxe accommodation that was promised on the website. The room simply didn't feel clean; it had cobwebs (a lot of them); the bathroom had mould to the left side of the shower; there was no service at all during our two-nght stay there ie. The bed wasn't made,  no replenishment of tea, coffee etc. Bins not emptied etc. The room was too hot and the radiators couldn't be switched off. When approached, the staff didn't  have  a clue how to turn them off. In contrast, there was no hot water, to the point we had a choice of cold shower or no shower on both days.

Breakfast was like something from Fawlty Towers; it would have been laughable if it were in a comedy sketch but as it was, it was simply a disgrace.  On the first morning (Sunday), we came down along with 8 other people staying there at our allotted time of 9.30am, to find the door to the restaurant/pub locked.  No staff only a clueless chef who mumbled something to us but clearly had no idea and didn’t seem bothered as to what was happening.  Finally, after keeping us outside for a good 20 minutes, he came and unlocked the door and we walked in and found no staff to serve breakfast and had to find our own juice, coffee, teabags etc.  Eventually, about ¾ of an hour later, someone turned up, apologetic with a tirade of excuses given.  There was no sign of any management whatsoever and I must admit I was expecting Basil Fawlty to arrive

And then to breakfast:  Its choice, one can only say was very limited.  A few meagre cereals that were displayed neither appetisingly nor attractively laid out.  There was no fresh fruit or porridge or anything else you would have expected there to be.  We knew what the ‘main’ breakfast menu would be, which was limited to either a full English, a vegetarian English or scrambled/fried egg on toast.  One thing there wasn’t, was semi or skimmed milk, which was unusual; people such as myself have dietary issues with full-cream milk.  I didn’t mention it before we checked in because I have never stayed in a hotel where they have not had semi-skimmed milk.  
On the plus side, the evening meal was good.
When we came to check out, we complained and staff could only apologise as to our issues and we were told there was no management there. It was agreed that we should not pay the bill until after we had spoken to management who would call us that evening. Unfortunately, no one called us until after the money for the bill had been taken out of our account by the Seymour Arms without a telephone call to authorise it or to apologise in any way, shape or form for the total shambles that had been caused.
We finally received a call after an email was sent complaining about the service received.  Yes, we received a good discount but to be honest, would have preferred to have not had to complain and come back home content.
All in all, the room had a lovely view, the bed was comfortable and the evening meal was nice. Such a shame I can't say anything more positive because I feel if it was run better, it could be a little gem.

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