Tottington Manor Hotel

We visited this restaurant with friends. I'm an avid Malbec lover but to be honest the bottle we ordered wasn't fantastic but reasonably priced as far as restaurant prices go. The starter was not fantastic either to be honest, I'm trying to find something positive to say about it. I had the beetroot and goats cheese salad. There were very few pieces of beetroot and three or four whipped, piped blobs of goats cheese and some tapenade which I couldn't even taste. My main was the seafood board which on the menu sounded delicious and quite huge but in reality was very disappointing. The seafood stew literally contained about three muscles in their shells a couple of clams and a couple of bits of chorizo, but no other fish that I could find and was served in a tiny bowl with no finger bowl or anywhere to put empty shells. There were two King prawns with their shells on which were lovely, a piece of sourdough which looks like the pre-sliced stuff you can get from the supermarket and some chunky chips which again were tasteless. The tempura hake was not what I would call tempura. It was thick and greasy, I could've rung it out to be honest! So I took the fish out of the batter and ate that. It just was very average to be honest, bland in taste uninspiring in presentation. I didn't bother with dessert and was pleased I didn't as two of our friends did and they just didn't look appetising at all. Even the coffee wasn't good. It's a shame because on paper the menu reads well. The staff were perfectly pleasant, but one of them clearly didn't even know which meat one of our friends had ordered when she delivered it to the table, they need a little more training.

Fantastic venue. Great food and brilliant service. Booked for my daughter's 21st birthday lunch. We sat on the covered terrace. Dylan and Simon took great care of us and made the day special with little touches such as a glass of fizz on arrival and a little cake with candle at the end. We had a delicious roast. Too full for dessert but will be back again. Thank you.

We have just returned from our 30th anniversary lunch where we had wonderful food on the outside of Terra restaurant. Francesca looked after us and she has the most outstanding customer service either of us have seen in many years. Francesca you are an absolute credit to the hospitality trade, it is so rare to see someone with such natural skills. And thank you to all the team, you really made our day special. Jon and Lynn.

Great peaceful location at the foot of the Downs surrounded by beautiful countryside. We sat outside on the deck enjoying our drinks in the sunshine. The service was good by friendly waitresses. We have been there a few times recently because we like it. The pleasant experience was spoilt by a waitress coming after us as we were leaving, to ask us if we would like to settle our bill, in front of other people. Embarrassing! I told her that we had already paid. She didn’t apologise. Don’t feel that we want to go there again.

We attended Tottington Manor's VE day event and afternoon tea yesterday. The team really did organise a superb and fun event to celebrate the 80 year anniversary. What was so nice were the number of veterans and elderly who lived through the war, who were invited and attended. Our table of 6 were extremely impressed with the organisation, the really excellent quality of the afternoon tea (truly DELICOUS) and more importantly the way Tottington's staff delivered such personal and exceptional service. Everyone clearly worked so hard to make sure all 130 guests had such a great time. The brass band and their two incredible singers, as always, were excellent and really made the day. The team also organised a flypast from a local airfield which was really well received by the guests. Thank you to all at Tottington for such a memorable and enjoyable day. We felt spoilt and were exceptionally well looked after.

We went to Tottington Manor with friends for a VE day afternoon tea, the food was amazing, the band and singers superb and the staff were amazing, thankyou to Stewart Angell who gave a very interesting and informative talk on Tottington Manor and the south during WW2. We were also given a 'fly past' which was most unexpected. Thankyou for a fabulous afternoon.