The Manor Chilworth Manor

Buffet style breakfast with a good selection of fruits cereals and cooked items.

My scallop starter was excellent—one of the best I’ve ever had. The duck breast was also good. My wife enjoyed her meal very much.

Good choice of fruit, cereals and cooked food but had to ask about gluten free sausages were not gluten free and no gluten free bread on offer. View menu

The staff at the restaurant were incredibly friendly, and the quality of the food was outstanding for the price we paid. I highly recommend this restaurant!

Buffet menu very limited, soup or salad to start, beef or fish or vegetarian pasta with only one choice of potatoes and vegetables only available on request. No gluten free desserts on offer.

When booking the hotel it looked as though it would be table service but this was changed to “temporary buffet service” which had a very limited menu. Only choice was salad or soup for starter, chicken, fish or vegetarian pasta for mains. Only one type of potatoes on offer and vegetables were available but only on request, so had to order these. No gluten free desserts. Experience was slightly better than a staff canteen. View menu

Dinner was excellent, although a bit slow. The value is great, especially with the dinner and breakfast options available, as there are no individual prices for each dish. My only complaint is that breakfast is served until 11 AM on Saturdays and Sundays, but when we arrived at 10:30, many items at the buffet had already run out. When we inquired about refills, we were informed that breakfast service ends at 10:30. The main issue here is that if breakfast were prepared to order like at some other establishments, the quality would have been more consistent after that time, but in this case, it was not.

Breakfast at Chilworth Manor on this, our last day, was a better experience. Perhaps it was because we had booked earlier due to checking out or maybe fewer guests book for 8am, or maybe there were just fewer guests in the hotel. We didn’t have to queue to get a table, we didn’t have to queue to get to the buffet, we didn’t have an endless stream of guest passing our table to get to the buffet in short it was how we had imagined breakfast would be by using a booking system. Perhaps it might be an idea to warn guests when the restaurant has reached full capacity so they have the opportunity of choosing a quieter time.

We arrived exactly at 9.00 am the time our table was booked (as we had been requested to do some weeks ago) and were informed that there were no tables left in the restaurant. We were offered a table in the lounge/bar area or a little side room that had been opened for the overflow. We chose the side room. It was pleasant enough but tea and coffee was not served there as it was in the restaurant. Guests had to make it themselves using the thermos flasks of coffee or hot water. This was disappointing but would not have been a problem if ordinary tea and milk had been provided to go with the hot water. A waitress did try to rectify this as soon as she was told but had difficulty locating the t... View menu