The Ferry Inn

Great food and beer, relaxing atmosphere, highly recommend

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Thoroughly enjoyed our evening for our son’s Birthday. Nothing was too much trouble and the staff even blew the balloons up for us. We will certainly be back.

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Tasty food. Lovely pub and huge beer garden. Real good pot of tea.

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Always a lovely place to eat and drink, however, food not as good as previous meals.

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Fantastic food - a must visit! Fresh local produce very delicious

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Nice, friendly environment. Very good food with varied menu - something for everyone, with good sized portions.Really enjoyed our evening and would certainly recommend.

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First visit to the inn and very impressed with the food, value for money considering the quality and great service. Will definitely be going back now we have discovered this lovely country pub and will be taking friends and family with us.

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Lovely pub, where the food is so much better than you might expect. All the starters were delicious and the mains were grand. One big negative in my book was that my steak I asked for rare came out med/welldone. Always undercook a cook a steak if you can't cook it properly for your customer as you can always cook it a bit longer if needed rather than waste a good steak and start again. Proper pub atmosphere with a lovely warm local feel. Would go again and next time make it utterly clear that my steak should be cooked as I asked. More...

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Friendly staff and food was excellent myself and my wife thoroughly enjoyed our meal

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The location and especially the back garden is out of this world overlooking fields with sheep. Lovely beer and food, kids were able to play together whilst we relaxed eating and drinking in the sun!

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The Ferry Inn is a pub as they used to be: relaxed, unpretentious, much loved by its locals and welcoming to outsiders. We did not have any alcohol so I can't rate the wine, but the food was delicious, with great attention to detail - for example, a seriously good salad dressing. I had the scallops, in a slightly sweet, fruity sauce which worked really well; and my friends seemed very happy with their linguine and mushrooms. Given the quality of the food, I was surprised by the tasteless, watery coffee. Since you can get tolerably decent coffee in any petrol station these days, the coffee machine definitely needs updating. However, it did add to the gentle, shabby, going-back-in-time quality of this pub, which I hope will never change. I shall certainly be back. More...

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Superb local scallops and fish

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A cracking pub in a lovely rural environment. We are from rural Norfolk and felt very at home. Food, wine and beer first class. Our only complaint was the plethora of children making a hell of a noise which was a tad annoying . Children should be seen and not heard or not in an adults enviroment like a tavern or pub.Apart from the rug rats a superb place. More...

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Hi We introduced two new customers to you who were delighted and will be coming back. Everything was fine except for the huge noise coming from two children continuously yelling causing the noise level to affect conversation. I realise that pubs are usually noisy and jovial, part of the experience but this was the only negative note. More...

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Lovely pub and atmosphere had a table booked for 12.45pm but was very disappointed that the only vegetarian option wasn’t available! So I had to choose another option instead of the Sunday lunch that I wanted. Would go again but more veggie options please and make sure you’ve got enough! More...

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A friend brought us here for a nice afternoon lunch while visiting. It is a great little restaurant in the english countryside. We came on a beautiful summer day and were able to sit out side in the back lawn. It is really beautiful back there surrounded by farm land. We didn't see much of the inside of the restaurant but i do remember it was a very very old building that was quaint and cozy. The staff was very helpful and like most english pubs you order you food and drink inside at the bar. There wasn't anything on the menu that didn't have meat in it so i asked the waitress and she said the chef could make me a vegetarian pasta dish. It was delightful and i was very grateful for that. All in all it was a great visit and i really enjoyed the food and service here! More...

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Wife and myself both had fish and chips today, absolutely fantastic , staff very helpful , definitely will be coming, back.

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Delightful location overlooking the canal. Food was excellent and the service was friendly but not pushy. Highly recommended.

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A pub with a wonderful

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Lovely country pub Exceptional weather so sat in the garden for lunch Scallop week at Rye. So the special were scallops. Good size and well cooked.Be going there again . More...

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The place is rather misleading, with its shabby decor and mismatched artworks on the wall, and walking in to an incredibly noisy atmosphere in the bar you wouldn't expect to find the high quality food that is offered here. If hubby hadn't booked a table I probably wouldn't have chosen to eat here. However, the menu was comprehensive and offered a large variety of quality options. we chose the charcuterie and a baked camembert to start, 50 day aged steak (both of us) and brownie/ice-cream for pudding. I must say that the steak was easily the best steak I've ever tasted, it was beautifully caramelised on the outside and so tender inside it was like a hot knife through butter to cut, I'll be raving about it for decades! Just goes to show you shouldn't judge a book by its cover or a pub by its decor. More...

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Great food, ale always fresh and delicious, friendly atmosphere. Great spot to watch the sun go down over the marsh, whenever i pass this place it is very difficult to resist popping in and there is a lovely walk to here from Small Hythe.

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Our second visit in a week- our sons loved it! Well kept beer and great choice of food. Scallops were delicious! Sons enjoyed their charcuterie boards with beef dripping chip sides. Burgers were very good. Hope to return when next in the area. More...

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Food was excellent, with lots of choice- a proper pub, serving delicious food. My son enjoyed his burger very much. Amazing scallops on the daily specials menu and a superb lamb dish. Will return.

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Excellent food and fun. Very friendly and will return.

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Delightful country pub. Cosy fires. Excellent food. Would highly recommend

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Over all it was good, the steaks were not worth £25.00, The brownie was lovely but not enough ice cream, it needed a bigger scoop!

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We had a lovely meal out, is always a lovely place to go and eat. Food is lovely and always very welcoming and is great that we can take the dog with us also! Always leave stuffed! It’s our little place to go if we have a little bit of time together. Always look forward to the next visit! More...

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Service was outstanding-warm hearty welcome - buzzy atmosphere for such a remote / in the middle of nowhere pub - a complete gem......go there!!!!

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Such a lovely place to be after a busy day enjoying a bottle of wine and enjoying some seafood watching the sun go down nothing better we enjoy more

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Sat in the beer garden by the river on a spring evening, only people in the garden, so quite could have been sitting in the middle of nowhere. Bloody lovely evening.

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Amazing service as they kept the kitchen open for my Mum's Birthday Lunch. The food was as amazing as the service and great host. Thank you so much for going the extra mile for us. 'We will be back!' X More...

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We came here for a meal as we were on our honeymoon I have to say it was the best roast dinner we have ever had we will defiantly be back

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Wow, simply wow. Amazing food, very friendly staff and lovely atmosphere. Oh and the dogs pretty cool too. Staff go above and beyond to make you feel welcome.

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The food is incredible, the place is beautiful, especially on a hot summers day :) can not fault this place!

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What a find! We were looking for somewhere in the area showing the Lions match and didn't expect to be so charmed. Friendly and relaxed with a lovely breakfast served at half time. Good dog-walking country. Will need to go back at a more sensible time to try the beer and sample the usual menu. More...

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Such a great pub top notch food and nice staff a pub how it should be ! Oh and a pub dog perfect

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Popped in today for a light lunch before walkies opposite, delighted with the lunch was truely delicious and beautifully presented , & awesome that they're dog friendly! Absolute gem , will definitely be be back More...

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Delicious food & excellent service"

5 of 5 stars4 days ago Reviewed by JosephPhilip

We all thoroughly enjoyed our meals ~ scallops as starters, pork medallions, plaice and Guinea fowl. All accompanied with perfectly cooked vegetables. The treacle tart was also amazing as was the great selection of cheeses. Excellent wine selection. We sat in the bar area with fantastic hops around the bar, windows et al. We would highly recommend the Ferry Inn. More...

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Visited on a Sunday with my family, very busy and had to wait nearly 1 hour for our food to arrive, but was worth waiti g for! excellent choices and delicious, well cooked and presented food. Staff helpful and friendly. I'd recommend The Ferry Inn. More...

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It's so beautiful here. We only popped in for a quick half and a bowl of chips (which were lovely). Will definitely be returning. �

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We took a group of 10 people here on a guided bike ride for lunch . I've never eaten here before but was blown away by the food it looked and tasted Fabulous. Our clients loved it and the service was friendly and efficient. We will definitely make this a regular stop for our tours. More...

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Have been going to the Ferry Inn for the last ten years ! Always a warm welcome,great atmosphere and great food �

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Delicious fresh fish and chips by the fire. So good to have cod and worth paying a little more for.The Service was excellent.

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We've been visiting the Ferry for over 20 years and it remains a warm and characterful local pub that you could easily sit in all day. Completely unpretentious - the bar is crowded with locals who have been coming here for years and know each other. Its great that there are still pubs like this where you can pop in for a drink without a jukebox or piped music and without being crowded out by people eating. We came here for lunch with friends who had heard about the pub but never been before. The menu was good - a range of prices to suit most people with straightforward pub favourites such as locally caught cod and chips and bacon steaks with thick cut chips and a brace of eggs amongst others. The Ferry always does a good range of fish and shellfish and has a variety of scallop and mussel dishes for either a starter or main. At the other end of the scale are more refined dishes and a good selection of daily specials. The food is beautifully cooked - I had pork fillet with mash and vegetables. The fillet was perfect - tender and slightly pink and very tasty, but a little on the small size. One of my companions had fillet of sea bream - again nicely cooked but not filling enough. We both scoffed the chips left by another friend to fill the hole. My partner had steak and ale pudding with chips, that was delicious and a much better sized portion.Bar staff are very friendly and helpful and didn't bat an eyelid when I asked for my cider to be replaced (perhaps the end of a barrel?) A good range of real ales and local cider makes this a really popular haunt. In the summer there are sitting out areas at the front of the pub where you get great views of the sunset. At the rear a grassed beer garden overlooks the river where swans often glide past. Certainly not the last time I'll visit and a firmly favourite local pub. More...

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