The White Horse Inn

I use this pub a great deal and often stay. The rooms are clean and well managed and the food is equally good. Michael, the owner runs it with ease with a long standing superb team headed by James. The beer is kept extremely well and you really won’t get a poor pint. They also know how to mix a decent Negroni. It’s the best pub/restaurant for miles.

Our visit on Sunday was the 2nd for Sunday lunch in recent months as local to the area. This visit saw us at the back end of service. Sadly, we suffered the consequences. Young front of house team as always very willing, Food, largely disappointing. Few of us had beef. Knives useless which didn’t help, meat very chewy. Roast potato outer skins rock hard, Yorkshire pudding way too crispy. Chicken and veggie option chosen by others looked better. Maybe an earlier sitting would have been better, but still very disappointing. Other local establishments more consistent. Come on guys, up your game on the roasts. A la carte menu been good in the past.

Lovely old pub and inn, we stayed for a night in a cosy room. Fantastic food, great service and lovely staff. Defintely recommend.

Lovely pub, decent room, bit dated in the room, especially the bathroom, great food, friendly staff, would stay again

We visited the pub with friends on our way back to Switzerland.The pub has so much character. It was so nice to visit a traditional pub & see the history in the beautiful setting of Dunstew. The menu was fabulous, lots of choice, we all had different starters & main meals, everything was gorgeous! We would loved to have ordered desserts,sadly there was only room for a coffee. We will visit again!

Nice location and friendly staff. Room was clean but only one towel left on the bed. Had to go back into the pub to ask for another as there were two of us. Came to make a cuppa in the morning and everything but milk. Only two plug sockets in the whole room and nowhere near the wall mirror for someone who wants to dry their hair with a hair dryer. Only minor things but they make a difference to your stay and these little things make a difference.

The pub was lively and welcoming. The room however, although clean, was in need of redecorating and the facilities were quite worn.

Travelling back to south coast we deviated off the M40, with a view to finding a nice pub. We were not disappointed at all, and found the pub to be most welcoming, and offered a table for 2 with no hesitation. Being Sunday and father's day at 7pm, food was still available, and the fish and chip's and burger we're perfectly cooked and very tasty. James the manager attentive and looked after us very well. They have rooms too, a bonus we will be back.

We booked a room to break up a long journey, travelling with our dog we had a courtyard room. After arriving at 6pm we checked in and sat in the garden to enjoy a drink and evening meal. Whilst outside a customer arrived and had taken the room next to ours, he proceeded to shut his small dog in his room whilst sitting outside to drink with his friends. His dog then relentlessly barked/yapped and was scratching at the door, this was continuous for at least 90 minutes. We wanted to get an early night so went to our room at 8:30. The noise from the distressed dog was worse in our room as the walls are paper thin between rooms, so I went to ask the staff if they minded if I asked the gentleman to attend to his dog, they advised they would prefer to talk to him as he was a regular customer. After a further 20 minutes and no change we decided to give up and leave. When speaking to the manager he quickly refunded our money and advised he had not actually spoken to the other guest to try and sort things. In short rather than dealing with an issue he buried his head and hoped it would just go away. Book this place at your peril, you may get the neighbour from hell, or his dog at least.