Carpenter's Arms - Menu

We do like the Chestnut group of Pubs and today we went to the Carpenters Arms for lunch where we received excellent food and service. Without going into to much details the food and service was Exceptional

Nice place, like the décor.... friendly staff. Was pleased to see they had on the menu the symbols for gluten and dairy free options which can always be a challenge. However they are pretty expensive for what it is.

Visited here for lunch while travelling down the A14, and what a lovely place! Food was great, kids food particularly nice and homemade (not often the case at pubs! . The charcuterie platter was amazing and lovely main courses as well. The place is quirkily decorated, and the service very attentive and friendly. I’ve bookmarked this place for our next pub stop on the A14!

Oh dear… Pot-holed water filled car park (as last visit months ago) and the garden looking like a continental cemetery with pots of sun bleached plastic flowers. A v pleasant waitress but uninspiring menu. Tagliatelle dish was a bowl of rather musty tasting pasta with large bits of sundried tomato and little else at £17. No chance we’ll be meeting there again until we hear better things about it; what a wasted opportunity, could/should be tons better.

We had a great experience, visiting for Sunday lunch over the weekend. The restaurant is nicely decorated, with huge glass doors overlooking the outside greenery. Our starters were delicious and I particularly enjoyed my mackerel, which paired beautifully with the beetroot. The roast beef was nicely cooked and served with roast vegetables and a good Yorkshire pudding with tasty gravy. This was all washed down with a silky Pinot Noir. Dessert was delicious and my choc ice was served perfectly. A really pleasant lunch and I'd happily return.

Absolutely brilliant two night stay at this lovely pub near Newmarket. Ash and the team were fantastic throughout our stay and continually went over and above to help us, finding us local cab companies and recommending food and wine. We had dinner and drinks during our stay and everyone was impressed menu was varied and great vegan options. Quality of food was fantastic and breakfast service was excellent, every staff member was friendly and professional. Rooms were of a really high standard, with quirky design and great decoration. Overall a faultless stay.

22 of us came for a baby shower afternoon tea, We waited ages to be asked what drink we wanted, then ages fit it to arrive one by one, No one asked if there were any allergies. The girl didn’t know what she was serving. There wasn’t room on the table for everything, the sandwiches looked like they had been chucked on a wooden platter. The cake stands were cute but the cakes looked shop bought. At no point was tea or coffee bought round despite cups on the table, when we asked for a coffee we were told we’d have to pay for them, we didn’t . She never came back to check everything was ok, we had to ask for clean plates and get knives ourselves. Then when the we went to pay the bill we were tol...

Still well below par. We had booked for Easter Sunday lunch. We were a party of four, including two elderly pensioners. One of whom has dementia. Initially the (young and inexperienced) waiter was told to seat us on a high table, which was wholly unsuitable for two of our party. He could see that the seating was inappropriate, went to consult his manager who told the waiter that we could not sit elsewhere. After a further complaint we were relocated to a table near a fire exit. This was very cramped and there was barely enough room for the staff to squeeze through to serve other tables. We were also told that we had to vacate the table after one and a half hours because another booking was s...

This is a lovely renovated restaurant with accommodation upstairs. My friend and I stayed for 2 nights. Dinner was fine and the staff are friendly. There are very steep stairs up to the rooms, which made lugging baggage around difficult- staff did offer to help though (we should have accepted! . Room was lovely, bathroom was a wet room. After dinner my friend went to have a shower and realised beforehand that the carpet around the door was very wet. We mentioned it to staff, but as they were fully booked, not much could be done. They put extra towels down on the floor and by the morning these were pretty sodden too. When we went down for breakfast (which had burnt toast that we had to send b...