The Carpenters Arms

Dropped in on spec and decided to dine, absolutely superb meals tor all of us, great menu selection and super friendly manager snd staff definitely will be back, highly recommended

Excellent food in a great atmosphere with friendly and attentive staff. Love eating here and will definitely be back soon. Great to see food served some of which is grown in their own gardens.

Absolutely fantastic pub, gorgeous good both nights we dined there. Exceptional staff very welcoming, to both us and the dogs, staff remembered our drinks from the previous night. Cannot fault anything. It was all a beautiful experience!

We booked a table late Saturday evening for Sunday evening and managed to get a table which was great! Couldn’t fault the service, friendly and attentive. We had two waiters who kept checking everything was okay. The food is absolutely outstanding! Even the kids menu was delicious. Will definitely be returning!

The Carpenters had a great attempt at providing a Xmas Lunch that was only let down by the skills in the Kitchen and a lack of organisation. Those on the second sitting had to stand waiting for the tables to be ready due too all available seating taken up by youngsters drinking at the bar in preference to diners paying £120 a head. Canapes and starters were excellent and I'm sure the main course also would have been when it was cooked several hours earlier and then suitably dry, covered overdone vegetables including a lonely 2 Brussell sprouts. We would have loved wine but by the time the main course appeared it was too late. The staff were excellent and made up for what was a memorable meal...

We were a 'walk in ' so we were so pleased to be shown to a table as the restaurant was very busy. The staff were incredibly friendly, the food was fantastic just faultless. We both had the steak pie which was the best we have ever had. I had creamy mash with mine and my husband had fries. I finished with a lovely flat white coffee in fact I would love to know what coffee they use it was just the best. The coffee was a perfect flat white, some people don 't have a clue how to prepare one. My husband had a Affogato which he said was amazing including the taste of the espresso so they obviously use a good coffee bean supplier. A great meal and we hope to go back in the new year and stay at wha...

Fantastic location, friendly helpful staff, zero complaints in that respect. We went for a Mothers Day dinner, I had booked a few weeks ago and was really excited about eating there. After eating there I left very disappointed, the options were basically some form of Sunday Dinner (run out of chicken) or fish and chips. I ordered the beef Sunday dinner, the meat was grissly, stringy and mostly fat. Singular carrot! Bland veg, overdone Yorkshire pudding. For a moment I could have been in a Wetherspoons. Wife’s dinner had advertised items missing from the plate, also given a soup spoon with desert. We were both really looking forward to this evening but left £60 lighter for a below average din...

Lovely surroundings, gorgeous food, just a shame about the lack of service. Upon entering, we were greeted by a young lad, but as soon as his friends walked in behind us, he stopped tending to us so he could have a chat with his mates. Shocked was an understatement. After observing the rest of the place, this just seems to be the norm. Obviously lots of regular drinkers whom the staff like socialising with, so when people from out the area visit, they are made to feel like a hindrance. An abundance of waiting staff yet it took 10minutes for them to figure out they'd completely forgot our drinks order, too busy talking and not enough work, counted 5 staff members all stood behind the bar chat...

For a while we have visited the Carpenters Arms approximately once a year with various friends for a pleasant meal. 2023 marked our 50th wedding anniversary, and circumstances meant that we were destined to to celebrate the day alone, so we decided to have a two night stay in Felixkirk. We made it clear when booking over the phone that our second night, Friday 29th December, would be our actual golden wedding day, and that while we did not want champagne or a special cake, we would like some flowers on the table, and were assured that this would be the case. Now the room (number 10 inside) was fine, there were no towels but they were brought up as soon as we asked. Two surprises at breakfast...