The Ship Inn, Rye

It's not a pub. It's a restaurant. Reviewed as a restaurant it would do better, but as a pub, 5/10 is the best it will get.

This place is certainly more restaurant than pub and although the food that the wife and I had was fantastic, the service was just plain rude. I think that it is perfectly acceptable to walk into a pub, as this place advertises itself to be, and sit down at a table and then go to the bar to order some beer and ask for a menu. If we'd have known that it was going to be such a mission to get fed we would have walked straight out. I think that I was meant to sit and get table service as every time I went to the bar I had to wait for the barman to finish making drinks even though I was the only one standing there. This made me a little confused as it was almost 45 minutes before the waiter came over and only then because I collared him. Harvey's Best and Rother Valley's Honey Fuzz were on and there was also a selection of premium and standard lagers. There is a dartboard up on the wall with tables and chairs set out on the oche so an impromptu game was not on the cards. There was also a strange mix of music coming from the speakers and I was surprised to hear drum and bass in the surroundings I was in. I don’t plan on returning here.