The Romer Arms - Daventry

Very welcoming lovely food ! Looking forward to next time The owners and staff very nice too! The pub was very nice too

Unfortunately a poor experience for my dads 70th birthday which we were all looking forward to. (Table of 5) 1 hr wait for starters and we had to keep asking for drinks service. Another 45 mins for mains. Two of the three fish dishes were really well received. One of these was bland. Two steak dishes were ordered as medium rare and came out cold and well overdone (almost dry). Sent one back as the other person was too hungry and just ate it. They re made the steak which came out medium rare but I just don’t know how they can’t cook a steak. It must have been grilled as it was grey with no charring at all. No seasoning. No taste. Just really poor steak cooking for a well regarded restaurant and very disappointing. Wasn’t asked if we were enjoying the meals during or after we had finished. Just served when they were ready.

As a Portuguese, it’s really hard to find true Portuguese food made with great quality ingredients in the U.K. Lucky, a couple of months ago I visited Maria’s Kitchen for lunch. It was life changing. The place is very welcoming, very cozy. The people are really nice and helpful. But the food. Oh my! The food is tasty, well cooked, well seasoned, well served. It’s like being in Portugal (actually, I’ve had worse Portuguese food in Portugal). The seafood rice is a piece of heaven! It’s my second time and I’ll definitely be coming back!

Freshly cooked food and an interesting menu, desserts are unique and delicious very good value for money.

We visited this pub/restaurant for a weekend get together of friends it was spacious and light but the décor looked a bit dated. Our group felt that Maria’s Kitchen were very slow on service and not really attentive to our needs. For example, insufficient menus given out, we had to ask for them to take drink orders, ask for water for the table, ask for more cutlery after it had been used for the first course, and the final bill was not accurate. The portions were quite big, and generally we all found that the dishes were tasty but more like home cooking and average in terms of quality. There were some notable dishes, for example; the Salmon in orange sauce, good fresh veggies, a nice House dessert tiramisuy light fluffy topping, and a baked custard pud that was delicious. The Sea Bass with Prawn sauce main was very good but what was expected from the description was not what came, it would have been better described as sea bass in a herby Provencal sauce with prawns. It was disappointing that although the cod special main was tasty, the side salad served with it was underwhelming and the disproportionately large helping of potatoes were so wafer thin that it was more like a plate full of crisps. The chocolate mousse was again just ok and it wouldn't have taken much effort to add a couple of mint leaves or berries to make it look more appealing. It was a shame that a Portuguese Restaurant had run out of the Portuguese custard tarts on the menu! So overall only an average dining experience – we still enjoyed ourselves but that was probably more to do with the company rather than the quality of our dining experience!