The Crown - Derbyshire Dales

Characterful and friendly pub/restaurant in a beautiful village with a good mix of locals and visitors. Visited 3 times during our week's stay in Marston Montgomery Saturday lunch, mid week evening and Sunday evening. Sunday roast is highly recommended. Despite a small menu of reasonably priced classics, all choices were cooked well with friendly restaurant and bar staff. Well worth a visit.

Found this absolute gem by chance when skimming for post-Alton Towers accommodation (have stuck a separate review on for that From start to finish the night was simply amazing. Insanely welcoming team, lovely drinks selection and the menu, well… lost for words! 10/10 service, unfortunately we didn’t grab any names to mention but to everyone on shift Saturday 22nd July you are a credit to the industry. We ended up taking some food away for the trip home the next day as it was very filling (and we did go for 3 starters, 2 mains and 1 pudding… but perfect. My partner loved the burger and squid in a fish pie just made my day. Brilliant wine and had a nice chat about some of the cool bottles in stock too. In all honesty I’m one of those that loves to nit pick and find things to complain about but I really can’t, maybe that it’s too far away for us to visit every week from Cornwall?! We’ll definitely return when up that way!

Booked a table of 6 online and had confirmation for this too. When we arrived there were no tables ready for us and it didn’t appear like they had our table booking. Our order was mixed up and one of us had to wait for their meal as they had got the order wrong. The burgers were disappointing and didn’t appear to have the cheese on them as specified in the menu. The chips were over cooked too. On a positive note, the puddings were nice and they didn’t mix them up! This was my favourite place to eat but I won’t be going back in a rush. Not sure what has happened but it has definitely gone down hill.

I am very surprised about the poor reviews…. We booked this restaurant for a 60th birthday celebration meal whilst staying in the area. I booked online and after reading some previous reviews, I checked directly with the restaurant that they had got my booking, which they confirmed they had. There were 7 of us ranging from age 13 to 81 and we all found something we fancied on the menu and thoroughly enjoyed the delicious food. We were very grateful for the extra touch of birthday decorations on and around our table, this was a wonderful surprise. It was a busy Saturday evening, yet all the staff were excellent, exceptionally attentive and we had a fantastic experience and highly recommend this restaurant.

Six of us visited The Crown last night as we were celebrating my daughters 40th birthday and were staying across the road at the Manor House for a few days. The visit began disappointingly. Ater being seated and having our drinks order taken while we perused the menu, which we had to ask for, it then took about 25 mins for the drinks to arrive after twice again having to prompt the staff. When ordering our food we were then informed that they didn't have a drinks menu which we had never ever come across and the waitress just reeled off 3 different types of red with no other details. Our Mains courses were outstanding especially the Lamb special. Two of the Calamari starters were under cooked, which was disappointing. Finally and unfortunately we had ordered 3 Irish coffee's to finish off the night. However the staff didn't know how to make them and even the head waitress was showing them wrongly how to make them. The venue and atmosphere is lovely but the whole experience could have been so much better. We didn't complain but hey ho...