The Cabinet at Reed

what a garden cold peroni and the best flowerpot chips! kilted chefs what more good a girl want we visted the cabinet on sunday for lunch £16 for 2 courses we both had the roast pork, gravy to die for and the girls had steak sandwich and those chips all in all a fab day you must go

After reading many negative reviews for The Cabinet at Reed I was apprehensive about visiting but it was Mother's Day and my Husband had booked our table weeks ago.

I must say I was pleasantly surprised. We were greeted by two happy waiters who were well prepared with the menus and very polite as we were shown to our table. The food arrived well presented and tasted fantastic! Although the tomato & chilli chutney took me by surprise (I think the chef likes chillies!)

Service throughout the meal was attentive without being annoying & there was always a waiter/waitress around to call over when we needed more drinks etc.

In conclusion, I can't wait to go back! The only negative point I can think of is the lack of highchairs. They only have the one highchair, but fortunately we had a booster seat with us as we've had this problem in restaurants before.

Very disappointing. Pictures on web site do not reflect the actual dining area of the pub. We were expecting white linen and got paper napkins. The whole pub looked shabby and in need of a good clean!

We went to the cabinet to have a meal on Thursday evening to have a meal and found that we had arrived on the cabinets steak and chips and a pint night for £17 excellent the steak was good it came with tomato chips garlic mushrooms and the best welsh rarebit we were with a group of at least twenty locals who were in good cheer I recommend you to go to thecabinet on any night it's fab

I had been to The Cabinet a few years ago on 4-5 occasions when it was created as a good quaility gastropub. Looking for a nice meal about two weeks ago we made a reservation. What a shock! This was not the same place (must be under new management?) - the service was by a group of teenagers, trying hard but untrained, and the food and menu were poor. A risotto was so badly prepared it was removed from the bill and the sauces on other dishes amateurish. The ambience of the original has gone and it was one of the worst pub meals I have had for many years. What a shame it has been ruined!

We had dinner for four on tues 9th march 2010 i had salmon and crayfish cornets followed by rabbit hotpot all i can say it was excellent and our waitress was informative and friendly we had house wine an italian barbera and it was very good well done

we will be back its rare you find such a gem and when you do it worth telling pepole about

Fabulous unpretentious food, served in a perfect English country pub setting.

What more do you want!

What was expected to be a fantastic evening for my wife and i plus 2 friends turned out to be a nightmare. We arrived at 7.30 and stood waiting for 20 mins until someone asked to take our coats , then a further 20 mins trying to attract the waitress attention for a drink. Eventually the starters arrived some half hour after sitting, then mains arrived somewhat different to what we had ordered. The red wine was fine actually very nice at the right temperature but the waitress had no idea how to serve wine at a table.

All in all somewhat disapointing. I believe the Cabinet has changed hands from when Simon owned the restuarant so this may have something to do with a drop in standards.

Wont be back ..... sorry!

again i visted the cabinet for lunch excellent value 3 courses for £15

food was just the best and the congo mussels were top notch and my wife had the steak and pride pie followed by chocolate chocolate chocolate

the best food this side of the thames the cabinet is relaxed informal and very friendly there is banter in the bar a roaring fire on cold days we were even asked to stoke the fire what a treat the owners are relaxed and nothing is to much trouble we have booked for christmas day keep it up

food is top notch and always service with a smile how rare is that

and the coffee is excellent

the cabinet is a real country pub "locals,dogs,game,beer"