Eating out in Cobham Kent - don't bother

Thehooperman

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Staying in a village near Brands with three good beer pubs but getting food in any of them is a complete nightmare. All claim to be restaurant type pubs!!!

The one I'm staying in is full of kids running riot and a load of angry dinners who've been sitting there up to two hours waiting for their starters.

The next pub I tried only had very, very basic bar food and I've seen more rolls in the Bird food fridge on a Monday after a footie weekend than in all of the pubs put together.

To top off my "Cobham culinary experience" the pub I'm in now has an ok menu but I've ordered three things and the barmaid has taken the order then returned 10 minutes later and said they couldn't do what I ordered.

The last order was for breaded plaice so she came back with a specials menu and said they could do really great cod and chips instead.

I noticed that they had seabass on this specials menu but apparently they can't do specials tonight cos they're having a "special" evening cos the chef's gone off sick and they've had some major accident today.

The consolation factor is that they all do a few decent real ales and I can always eat tomorrow at Brands for fish and chips for a tenner!!!

Wasn't that hungry anyway :)
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Staying in a village near Brands with three good beer pubs but getting food in any of them is a complete nightmare. All claim to be restaurant type pubs!!!

The one I'm staying in is full of kids running riot and a load of angry dinners who've been sitting there up to two hours waiting for their starters.

The next pub I tried only had very, very basic bar food and I've seen more rolls in the Bird food fridge on a Monday after a footie weekend than in all of the pubs put together.

To top off my "Cobham culinary experience" the pub I'm in now has an ok menu but I've ordered three things and the barmaid has taken the order then returned 10 minutes later and said they couldn't do what I ordered.

The last order was for breaded plaice so she came back with a specials menu and said they could do really great cod and chips instead.

I noticed that they had seabass on this specials menu but apparently they can't do specials tonight cos they're having a "special" evening cos the chef's gone off sick and they've had some major accident today.

The consolation factor is that they all do a few decent real ales and I can always eat tomorrow at Brands for fish and chips for a tenner!!!

Wasn't that hungry anyway :)
This is precisely why I bring my own food and drink and cook it in the RV rather than waste time trying to find somewhere reasonable to eat, when going to things like this.

The added bonus is that when I've had too much to drink (which has happened on the very odd occasion), I can just fall into bed and miss out the staggering home bit.
 

Thehooperman

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This is precisely why I bring my own food and drink and cook it in the RV rather than waste time trying to find somewhere reasonable to eat, when going to things like this.

The added bonus is that when I've had too much to drink (which has happened on the very odd occasion), I can just fall into bed and miss out the staggering home bit.

I usually do the same at circuits where you can take the car into and do a pretty good quality BBQ or picnic as certain other forumites can testify.

The problem with Brands at this time of year is that unless you have a RV, you're limited to the on circuit burger bars, the crap expensive hotels near the circuit or travel further out and end up in a village or small town or worse still Gravesend or Dartford!!!
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
I usually do the same at circuits where you can take the car into and do a pretty good quality BBQ or picnic as certain other forumites can testify.

The problem with Brands at this time of year is that unless you have a RV, you're limited to the on circuit burger bars, the crap expensive hotels near the circuit or travel further out and end up in a village or small town or worse still Gravesend or Dartford!!!
Brands is grim at this time of year.

Dartford makes Bloxwich look posh.

You have my sympathies.

Now to open another bottle of red...
 

Thehooperman

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This pub has a singer doing 1940s song and although I don't like the music she is good.

The local kids in the pub are convinced the song about Dover involves blackbirds over the whitewalls for some reason???

Staying at Brandshatch place hotel tomorrow but at least I know what to expect there and have a beer supply.
 

Withnail

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This thread has reminded me that hazlenuts are actually more commonly known as cobnuts, and anywhere with a 'cob' suffix in its place-name is probably named so because of its proliferation of hazel trees.
 

Trumpet

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That's in Comberbatch, where batch is a suffix rather than Cobham where cob is a prefix to the abbreviated 'cob of ham' referring to the ham cobs that @Thehooperman couldn't find in pub number two.





Both of which are bread rolls.
 

Thehooperman

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This thread has reminded me that hazlenuts are actually more commonly known as cobnuts, and anywhere with a 'cob' suffix in its place-name is probably named so because of its proliferation of hazel trees.

Cob blers they're rollnuts down here according to the chart in the bread/batch/barn/bap....... thread :)
 

Gramaisc

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An old boy that I knew had been all over the place in the Navy, ending up in Japan at the end of the war, One day, discussing travelling, he said, "Actually, I've only ever flown just the once"

I said that most people usually fly at least twice, there and then back here.

"No, it was just the once. It was with Alan Cobham from the Common, round a few times and back down there"


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staffordjas

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The local kids in the pub are convinced the song about Dover involves blackbirds over the whitewalls for some reason???
I just had to google it, as my parents used to sing 'White Walls of Dover ' as well .
I remember my dad singing it when we camped in Dover each year before catching the ferry over to France.

Driving myself mad singing it now...I can't stand those type of songs either :lol:
 
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