The Spotted Dog - Menu

Food exceeds ambience. Because it is so good! Beer on tap was excellent, Service friendly. As said food quality was spot on.

Absolutely gorgeous pub, brilliant staff, better beer and food is exceptional! Dog friendly and very cosy, clean and welcoming!

Excellent food, lovely service, different menu choices. Delicious soup, fig goat cheese tart, butternut squash Parma ham salad and coddled egg AND that was just the starters!! Service took a while but worth waiting for.

Service very slow and several menu items unavailable (7pm sitting! only a choice of 2 mains. We were told it was the ‘chefs last day’ as a reason. The chef was female and therefore couldn’t be the people advertised on the website. We felt mislead and disappointed.

Popped in yesterday for a bite to eat at lunchtime. We just had a couple of sandwiches and chips absolutely delicious. Beautifully presented and washed down with a couple of pints of delicious real ale. A very enjoyable experience and our well behaved Labrador was made to feel very welcome as well. Will definitely be back soon!

We live in St Albans and visited Flamstead for a lovely circular walk around the countryside, and lunch at The Spotted Dog. Everything was great... the friendly service, the guest ale and all our food, which was full of flavour and lovingly presented without being pretentious. We don't write many reviews, but we are very happy to make the effort in this case, as it was special.

Stopped by this wonderful pub for a bank holiday lunchtime treat and it was fantastic! Great food, service and dog friendly too. Special mention to the most delicious potato salad it was exquisite! Creamy yet light, perfectly seasoned and topped with a velvety smooth duck egg yolk. Will think about this potato salad often and definitely return when we’re next in town! (Special thanks for the recipe from the kind chef 5* service all round.

I was really looking forward to this meal but found the place had been so overrated. I had ordered cod and vegetables; the cod was very small and it was one vegetable. Cost against quality was very poor. For dessert I had chocolate Ganache again very disappointed This was even more poor quality. I saw the chef who did not look well presented, when will chefs realise that if you walk about where the customers are you need to look presentable and clean. The general staff were friendly and welcoming when you arrived. I will not be recommending this place and will not be going back anytime soon. A shame really needs to up their game on quality of food.

The positives are it’s a quint pub and the roast was well cooked. The negatives are that the service was poor very young staff seemed to enjoy chatting behind the bar rather than serving, consequently all our roasts took ages to arrive and were luke warm. Equally the desert rhubarb crumble was Luke warm and the rhubarb was not properly cooked. Could it have lived up to the earlier reviews? My answer is probably yes, but would I go go there again, that’s a hard one to answer, but probably not. Why because standards are normally ingrained and it shouldn’t be hit or miss. When I told the very young waitress our food was not hot she acknowledged my comment and ignored it! What might have been