Three Chimneys

Pub Details

Address
Hareplain Road
Biddenden
Kent
TN27 8LW
Telephone
(01580) 291472
Opening Times
Weekdays
11.30 - 3.30, 5.30 - 11
Sundays
12 - 4, 6 - 11.30

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Pubby beamed rooms of considerable individuality, log fires, imaginative food and pretty garden The little low-beamed rooms at this appealingly civilised place have a charmingly timeless feel – as one reader put it ‘spend more than a couple of pints here and you will cheerfully let slip which decade you are in'. They are simply done out with plain wooden furniture and old settles on flagstones and coir matting, some harness and sporting prints on the stripped-brick walls and good log fires. The public bar on the left is quite down-to-earth, with darts, dominoes and cribbage. Adnams Best, St Austell Tribute and a guest tapped straight from casks racked behind the counter, several wines by the glass, local Biddenden cider and apple juice and several malt whiskies. But don't be misled into thinking this place is in any way old fashioned. In fact, the candlelit bare-boards restaurant though rurally rustic in its decor is chatty and alive with customers and the style of dining is completely up to date. French windows open from the restaurant to a conservatory and garden. Sissinghurst Gardens are nearby.

Good Pub Guide Food

Excellent (if not cheap) food changes daily but might include french onion soup, smoked haddock, creamed leek and bacon tart, baked mushrooms topped with caramelised red onions, duck leg confit, sun-dried tomato couscous with potato wedge, and grilled brie with balsamic roast vegetables.

Bar food times: 12 - 2 (2.30 Sat, Sun) , 6.30 - 9 (9.30 Sat)

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Bar

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (507 votes cast)

Reader Comments

Billyfish

Thursday 26 August 2010 2:00:50 pm

The words "dining pub" tend to make me recoil slightly and wistfully long for the days when pickled eggs were the only temptation on offer. Such fears are allayed as soon as you enter this place though, a wonderful warm timeless atmosphere about it. Spend more than a couple of pints here and you will cheerfully let slip which decade you are in. They obviously do a great deal of dining business as the size of the car park and the conservatory out back attest, but this is still a pub you can happily roll up to for a pint without feeling you are getting in the way. This is a pub that does food. Oh and the food is very nice, a tad expensive, but you won't mind paying.

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