New Beehive Bar

We ate at the restaurant and the food was fine although the menu was very unimaginative. All of the fish options were just plain grilled or fried fish in butter and salt and pepper. I few herbs would have been nice. It also took three attempts for the waitress to go and ask the chef what the curry of the day was as she didn't understand much English and finally we were told 'chicken curry' but given no idea to the type!

We left the pub and our two cars in the car park and then went for a walk to the beach which was only a few minutes away. When we returned we found that our two cars were clamped and it cost us £300 to get them both released. On closer inspection when we returned we did notice some very small signs (that were lost amongst all the other boards etc outside the hotel) which stated that 'unauthorised vehicles' would be clamped. There was no explanation of what unauthorised meant and I'm sure many would make the same mistake as us in thinking that having eaten at the hotel we would be able to leave our car there. We were given a very frosty response from the manager on explaining that we had eaten at the hotel a couple of hours earlier and she said that the signs in the car park were as much notification as she 'had' to display and was not going to improve the signs so that future customers didn't make the same mistake. Other customers leaving the hotel commented that they were about to do the same thing and leave their cars at the hotel whilst they walked to the beach which emphasises the point that the signs in the car park are clearly inadequate. I can only say that it was an extremely upsetting end to what had been a lovely afternoon. Please don't visit here as the food is nothing to get excited about and the manager was extremely unpleasant.

Fantastic on all fronts! Took the whole family in December and again in January, varied menu satisfies all (my kids are picky :-( ) and they seem to always bring out a huge, piled-high portions.
It's hurting my waistline.

Both times we all had different deserts, and all was fantastic - I've just had the best Bread and Butter pudding of my life, and I'm not even a big fan of it normally!

Staff service was great - plenty of staff milling around, but not enough that you felt watched. On that front, the size and layout means that we felt like we were in our own home for the first half hour - very quite! Then two similar-sized groups came in and the background noise gave the rest of the meal a nice ambiance.

As locals we though we ought to try the food when this hotel first opened - and the food was truly awful (frozen prawns served to us/rubbery hamburgers/waitresses who had trouble understanding English etc etc)! Having eaten there since though there has been some improvement. We've tried it a few times recently and the food was much better than that that we'd experienced when it first opened - the Sunday carvery is pretty good - but - it's still a bit overpriced for what it is to be honest! The Nightjar down the road serve food that isn't that far off this standard and is half the price.