We decided to go to The Talbot as we thought it would be a bit special. It is a pleasant pub and the bar staff were polite and welcoming. We ordered two crab and prawn salads and a portion of chips. We were brought a glass of this salad and queried that it was a main course as it looked like a starter. We were reassured that it was main size but the new(?) waitress went to check. The chef said he hadn't seen that she had written main and put a bit more on top. My husband wanted to leave but we had drinks to finish and I thought there might be more crab etc. It was bland and NOT what we would consider a main course. If we hadn't ordered chips we would have been hungry. Our mood was dismal by then and we just wanted to leave when we should have been celebrating my husband's birthday. We offered to pay for a starter but, to their credit, we were not charged for the food. The management of the pub need to review some food items. They serve good quality meat from a local butcher which one would expect to pay a bit more for BUT some items like Risotto £16 and our salads for £11 seem very overpriced for a pub especially if they don't come with any chips/potatoes/bread etc. .

Had a lovely sinlge night at the Talbot Inn prior to a wedding in the area. Rooms were lovely, 2 owners very friendly and accommodating - let us check out late as we needed get ready for a wedding.

Would recommend.

Chris
Doncaster

Bed & Breakfast pub providing good size clean bedrooms with very comfortable bed
Very good " Bistro pub " food with reasonable selection of beers and wines
Good breakfast, but could do with a breakfast menu Enjoyed our stay

Pretty village, with windows proudly displaying Michelin and Alastair Sawday stickers, two starving out-of-towners wooed. Decor's pleasant enough, if a little bland, and the dining room's empty but it's early and the menu looks good: pea and mint risotto, lamb shoulder and sweetbreads, confit of duck. 'I've smuggled you some bread from the kitchen," the waitress - who's lovely, no complaints there - says. "We used to offer it for free but we don't any more." Hmm. Still, here comes the food. Uh-oh. A mass of sticky green starch, purporting to be risotto, minus the pea shoots - "We're out of those, sorry" - accompanied by some disconcertingly browning carrots and overcooked green beans. My lamb - at £15 - makes me want to cry. It's been inexplicably shredded, packed into a little pattie and comes with a grim underside of charcoal that definitely wasn't on the menu. Apparently this place, which seems so perfectly placed to deliver, has lost its chef. It certainly shows.