Reviews And Listings For Great Kent Bars And Pubs

We have been reviewing pubs for 12 years. In that time the quality and quantity of our coverage has changed considerably, based in large part on user feedback and researcher recommendations. If you have a particularly good or bad pub experience we welcome your comments. We try to keep these reviews up to date but inevitably sometimes things change before we are able to alter our records, so always check with the pub if you need to know something in particular. Our contact details are at the botom of the page.

This is not an exhaustive list, rather a selection of some of the pubs in Kent that we or our users are minded to recommend. This is the link for our current Kent pub review.

Our Recommendations?

Places that our editorial staff have enjoyed are featured here, we also publish reviews and suggestions from our users. From time to time Kent landlords or managers provide details about their own businesses which we may also publish. If you're going to submit your 'local' for a listing bear in mind the following points:

• Wherever possible we add some value to the reviews for our users, so rather than just say you like somewhere give a few reasons why someone should go out of their way to visit the place.
• Try avoid stating the obvious and emphasise the unusual or interesting. For example The Artichoke at Chartham has a well inside the building and The Bowl Inn at Hastingleigh was the local CAMRA pub of the year 2012.
• Review drink and food seperately, some users come to drink some to eat.
• It's not necessary to include a full price list but try to give an idea of the general price range particularly for food.
• Don't invest a lot of time on highly critical comments, we can't use them, when there is negative comment we generally remove our review when we're able to confirm the details.
• We're just not able to publish everything we recieve, although we do read everything that is sent to us.

Feel free to endorse (or otherwise) the reviews that we have already published. Just because we like a place it doesn't mean that you will, the simple criterion we use is "would you go back to this pub again" if the answer is no, we don't feature the pub. It's on this basis we offer the reviews.

Kent Pubs, Country Inns, Town Pubs

Bush Blackbird & Thrush

• 194 Bush Road, Peckham Bush, East Peckham, Kent, TN12 5LW
• 01622 871349
• A typically Kentish inn; a building with a long pub tradition, set just outside the Village of East Peckham.

Fighting Cocks

• The Street, Horton Kirby, Dartford, Kent, DA4 9BY
• 01322 862299
• A beautiful beer garden.

Halfway House

• A number of fine cask ales and ciders are always in residence. The food is much more 'Gastropub' than 'Pub Grub' and the quality (and price) of the menu reflects this.
• Brenchley, Tonbridge, Kent, TN12 7AX
• 01892 722526

Tally Ho - Knockholt

The Anchor Inn

• 52 Abbey Street, Faversham, ME13 7BP
• 01795 536471
• Have you been there since the £70,000 makeover? Things are very different.

The Angel Inn

• Addington Green, West Malling, ME19 5BB
• 01732 842117
• Judging from our feedback, the food has improved in quality since our last review and there is now free wifi.

The Anglesey Arms - Bromley

The Aperfield Inn

• 311 Main Road, Biggin Hill, Westerham, TN16 2HN
• 01959 542565
• The Aperfield Inn in Westerham is a country pub and restaurant oozing rural charm and rustic character and is set in picturesque surroundings.

The Artichoke

• The Artichole, Rattington Street, Chartham, CT4 7JQ
• 01227 738316
• A pub with a well!

The Ashes - Maidstone

The Bear Inn

• The Bear Inn, 3 Market Place, Faversham, Kent, ME13 7AG
• 01795 532668
• Historic pub on the main market square.

The Black Horse Inn - Thurnham

The Blazing Donkey - Ham

The Bottle House Inn - Penshurst

The Carpenters Arms

• Three Elm Lane, Hadlow, Tonbridge, TN11 0AD
• 01732 850307
• Walk in and you will be welcomed into a warm rustic atmosphere complete with open fires.

The Coastguard - St Margaret's

The Chequers - Laddingford

The Compasses - T Wells

The Crown - Seal

The Crown & Thistle - Gravesend

The Crown & Sceptre - Acol

The Chaser Inn - Shipbourne

The Dering Arms - Pluckley

The Dolphin - Broadstairs

The Dove Inn - Dargate

The Duke of Wellington - Ryarsh

The Flying Horse Inn

• The Lees, Boughton Lees, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4HH
• 01233 620914
• Stuart and Michaela run The Flying Horse Inn at Boughton near Ashford. It's a traditional inn sitting opposite the village green.

The Fountain - Hythe

The George - Newnham

The George and Dragon - Headcorn

The Green Man - Hodsoll Street

The Hare - Langton Green

The Harrow Inn - Ightham Common

The High Rocks Inn - Tunbridge Wells

The Hope Inn - St Margaret's

The Humphrey Bean - Tonbridge

The Imperial

• 29 London Road, Southborough, Kent, TN4 0PB
• 01892 528757

The Jolly Farmer - Manston

The Lobster Pot - West Malling

The Livingstone Arms

• 239 Gillingham Road, Gillingham
• 01634 851284
• Close to the football stadium, still regarded as the 'away' pub when the Gills play at home

The Man of Kent - East Peckham

The Muggleton Inn - Maidstone

The New Flying Horse - Wye

The Old Leather Bottle - Cobham

The Old Neptune - Whitstable

The Park Gate Inn

• Ashford Road, Hollingbourne, Maidstone, Kent, ME17 1PG
• 01622 880985

The Partridge - Bromley

The Prince Albert - Bexleyheath

The Red Lion - Bridge

The Ringlestone Inn - Ringlestone

The Rose Inn - Rainham

The Royal Naval Reserve

• 28/30 High Street, Whitstable, CT5 1BQ
• 01227 272 068
• A Sheps establishment in the heart of Whitstable, nice beer garden, traditional 'pub grub'.

• Sandgate High St, Sandgate, Folkestone , CT20 3AH
• 01303 248525
• Traditional seaside pub-restaurant, free parking and wif-fi.

The Shipwright's Arms - Hollowshore

The Sportsman - Seasalter

The Star & Eagle - Goudhurst

The Star Inn - Matfield

The Summoner - Sittingbourne

The Thomas Beckett - Canterbury

The Three Mariners - Gillingham

The Tickled Trout - West Farleigh

The Tickled Trout - Wye

The Two Brewers - Rochester

The Walmer Castle - Deal

The Wheatsheaf - Bough Beech

The White Horse - Borstal

The White Horse - Bridge

The Windmill - Hollingbourne

Ye Old Yew Tree- Westbere

Yorks Ale House - Maidstone

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