The Kings Arms Bedford

The setting, decor and ambiance is excellent. The staff are welcoming and accommodating. There is a very good range of drinks with three ales on. The food menu has a good range of choices without being overwhelming. The food quality was very good but we thought the portion size was slightly less than expected. We walk every Thursday and normally always pay less than £5 a pint for an ale, so the Purity went slightly over that. But that would not put us off coming back. We thought overall the lunchtime experience was excellent and I would take friends and relatives there and would be quite interested in going there for an evening meal. We were all impressed.

A great experience today on my first visit to the Kings Arms. Booked on line and requested a quiet table and got just that. Service great, food great, drinks great, ambience great. Highly recommended and worth the 25min journey. Will be returning.

Awful experience! Terrible table service. Our bill come to £120 for myself partner and this was the standard of our starters.. Half toasted bread and it was meant to be artisan rustic bread. More like kings mill! Hugely disappointing considering the lovely location and nice decor. Might I add the platter we ordered come separately to the olives and we had to chase them down for the bread and vinegar/oil. Also my roast dinner was warm!l They had no Yorkshire puddings! I was so hungry by this point I didn’t complain. It was alarming the fact the “chef” couldn’t whip up some yorkshires! Really disappointed with our experience!

Having enjoyed several family meals before, we thought it would be an ideal place to to enjoy a belated Christmas get-together for the eight of us. We were quite disappointed then when the service, particularly for clearing plates away) was quite slow and several meals were not delivered as ordered, with items missing. All in-all, it didn't represent good value for money given the amount we spent

We enjoyed a lovely meal at the Kings Arms with my parents and my kids. Food was good and everyone enjoyed it. One main course (the pie and one dessert (mini lemon poset we chose were not available, it would have been useful to know this before we ordered but the staff were very helpful (and gave us full size lemon poset!