The Ship Inn

We stopped here at The Ship and very glad we did! Down to earth and friendly service fantastic homemade lasagne and chips and good gammon and chips at a very reasonable price. Don’t go to the more upmarket hotel next door, they were v. stuffy & rude about offering us a hot meal as they had no room in their restaurant but wouldn’t entertain us in the bar the lounge or the garden.

We visited on a Friday lunchtime as a group of 12 bikers and caught them off guard as we ordered a range of food and drinks but the lady at front of house did very well to catch it all. We were graced by brilliant, sunny weather so sat outside on the benches by the old well which, thankfully, has a grid over it otherwise I hate to imagine how many helmets perched on the stone wall surround might have been knocked into the abyss by clumsy, middle aged men in baggy canvas motorbike kit. We were amazed at just how busy the narrow High Street was for such a small, off the main path, town/village. We did have to wait quite a while for our food and noticed that the lady who served us came back from the Nisa shop opposite with something flat wrapped in a carrier bag, my immediate thought was sliced cheese for the beans and cheese jacket potatoes a pair of us had ordered. When the food came out it was en masse, big portions on wooden platters and it all looked excellent except for the Ham, egg and chips which, rather than nice chunky slabs of hand cut ham, had 3 slices of sandwich ham with a fried egg on top, plenty of fat chips and a small salad. The sliced packet ham solved the mystery of the emergency shopping trip to Nisa. A shame as this place was well worthy pf a 5 start review if it hadn't been for that. Prices were decent at about £9 per meal and £2 per soft drink/coffee

Lovely stop in the sunshine for brunch and a coffee. The food was great quality, fast and very reasonably priced and the coffee was fast and good quality. Their very easygoing and incredibly friendly service was excellent from the second we got there to when we had finished. Strongly recommend. Will definitely revisit.👍