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The Black Horse, 12, High St Pembury Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 4NY


12, High St Pembury Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 4NY

01892 822141

The Black Horse in Pembury is a deceptively large pub on the High Street in this pretty village just outside Tunbridge Wells. It clearly has high expectations of both its menu and clientele, and the range of food on offer is pretty impressive. They take obvious pride in their seafood dishes - a seafood plate costs way over Twenty pounds and so, with this in mind, Q bravely plumped for a paella which came in gargantuan portions - a massive heaving plate of rice, prawns, mussels and slightly chewy squid. While enjoying it at the time, Q did not enjoy the subsequent and lingering aftertaste. As seafood can sometimes give me a little trouble (don't ask - I blame the genes). I preferred the steakburger - a huge patty of juicy hacked steak on a crusty bun - which came marvellously with fried (or were they roasted?) onions, a shovel-full of spicy hand-cut chips and a generous salad. Marvellous. The staff seem to know their regulars, so service to strangers was polite if a little abrupt - a little cheeriness would not go amiss. A top quality pub with an impressive menu that perhaps shouldn't take itself so seriously. M
By m at 17/02/2006 - 16:41 | 2003 | Approved | England | Kent | Pub | Review | UK | £££/$$$ | add new comment | 128 reads

The Black Horse Pembury by paul m

Pub that specialises in sea food but sadly lacks on Service. 4 people eating and only 2 others in reasturant so not busy but, Table booked at 7.30 and finally at 9.45 pm after going to kitchen to ask for a menu we had a kitchen hand throw a desert menu onto our table.Our meals were served at different times, (I had eaten mine before others had got their meal served. Waitress was invisible when service was required (more drinks etc,) One occassion we had to interrupt meal to walk through entrance to kitchen and into bar to get our own drinks. This was after going to waitress who was folding napkins and asking her if we could have some service. All in all a anticipated good evening was ruined. marks out of 10 sorry does not even rate a 1. paul m
By m at Tue, 18/04/2006 - 18:44 | reply