Stony Street House - Mendip

We came in here for an evening meal having liked the look of the menu outside. The place was spacious and airy on a warm evening. Staff were welcoming and helpful and our food was beautifully cooked and presented. It was great that you could get many of the choices as either a small plate or a main course. I had the roast cauliflower which was perfectly cooked and spiced. with a tasty sauce, a crunchy topping and a finish of pomegranate seeds. My partner had pollock, again perfectly cooked with cannelini beans and artichokes. The house wine was good and we even bought a bottle of wine to take home with us from the enormous selection on display, helpfully grouped by country.

Called in for lunch and managed to get a table for 2. Although they weren’t too busy, lunch took a while to arrive and was presented nicely. However my steak was overcooked and a bit fatty, and at £20 seemed pricey. My girlfriend had kedgeree which was tasty but portion was on the small size.The staff were friendly but at £55 including a service charge, it will be some time til we return!

Great place if you can secure one of the upstairs tables looking down on Frome’s main drag. Well-spaced tables and a good place for conversation. Unfortunately they’d run out of kedgeree, which we wanted. We settled for a burger and the cauliflower, which weren’t bad, and the hummus flatbread, which was less popular. With a house leaf salad, lager and an elderflower cordial, the bill came to £92.40 for four (including a 10% service charge).

We followed our noses to Eight Stony Street the wood fired pizza oven makes itself subtly known as you walk up Stony Street itself. It's a sunny, attractive space that welcomes you. The menu is simple but intriguing, promising local ingredients combined in imaginative ways. We opted for a pizza, an antipasti platter and some homemade taramasalata. The pizza was as good as any Italian offering and the antipasti featured some of the best English made prosciutto we've ever eaten. The taramasalata was just superb, so good that we asked for some to take home with us, which the very helpful and warm staff all of them so friendly and confident made happen. All in all, a really lovely experience. We wish we lived more locally as we want to come back and try more of the menu, because as chefs ourselves we love a kitchen that's excited about local food.

We visited Frome for the first time today (what a great place) and came across this. We really liked it. We had a sharing charcuterie platter. Delicious. Perfect for a light lunch. It was my wife's birthday and she had a couple of cocktails which she thoroughly approved of! (I had a very good non alcoholic cocktail Cornish Sunet) There is a disabled toilet. But access isn't good. Lots of stairs. A really pity. A wheelchair user wouldn't be welcome. Someone like me who walks with sticks can.just about manage.