Craven Arms Cruck Barn

Ours was a table for 20 people on Thursday 29th aug. I was a chef and worked in restaurants for a long time and know how tricky a big table like ours could be. It was also busy with other tables. The pub gave us a pre order menu, and certain items had changed without them informing us. Ie, the houmous plate was with pesto puff pastry but changed to shop bought pitta bread. The crumble was vegan but became not vegan. The banana blossom was supposed to come with corn relish and coleslaw but did not. We only found out about the changes as we had food brought to us, which was pretty poor. Some of us complained and the maitre d either substituted quickly or took the items off the bill. The servers didn’t look after us very well, and were extremely slow in getting drinks orders in, and when they brought our drinks didn’t know what was in the glasses. I think their staff are temps or new. My own meal was a very tasty pea and mint soup, the chef did a great job with that. The vegan risotto was loaded with vegan cheese this wasn’t great, risotto served with cheese is a bit weird anyway and there was a lot of it. The risotto did taste good though, once it was scraped away. My dessert was the orange polenta cake and that was top class, very nicely baked. 4 of us went back the day after to try some other bits off the menu, and we would go back again. Probably not with a huge table though.

We had a week in Burnsall and visited this lovely pub on three evenings. The pub is full of interesting historical items and looks cosy for winter evenings. As we had a warm, sunny week we sat outside with beautiful views and enjoyed the company of others. The food was good, the staff friendly and I highly recommend a visit to the Craven Arms.

Beautiful traditional pub, full of character and interesting little trinkets about the place. Good friendly service too. Unfortunately have to rate at three stars due to food. We went on a Sunday about half an hour before closing. My pie and chips was delicious, my wife ordered the roast however and was served what was basically raw beef, completely raw, and fatty as well. It was mentioned to two separate waiters neither of whom saw fit to apologise or offer any type of discount. I can only assume the chef was miffed at having to prepare food near to the end of his shift because the meat was so very clearly not cooked! Any way my wife's loss was our dogs gain and he very much enjoyed the raw meat once we got home! I could have demanded a discount or refused to pay but that would have tainted what was a wonderful evening. We'll definitely be back. My only recommendation is to maybe arrive a good hour before the end of food service to be on the safe side!

Walked here from our hotel in Burnsall to have dinner and so glad we did! The building is stunning and the decor in the restaurant/hall rustic and very in keeping with the period property, with added (non-tacky fairy lights. The food was excellent, the whitebait and tartare sauce obviously homemade and very tasty. I had a fish stew, which was homemade, full of seafood and vegetables, and tasted absolutely fantastic. A good selection of good beer and wine too (best pint of ale my partner has had some we got to Yorkshire! Service was friendly and efficient. On the whole it is very well run and everyone knows what they are doing. All awards they have are well-deserved! The only let down was that the condiments were from Spar and the crusty bread was also not of the same high standard as everything else (frozen baguette . No photos of food because it was too good to wait for.

Our campsite Howgill Lodge gave us this place as a recommendation. So we walked from the campsite to Appletreewick. We both ordered the steak pie, it was absolutely lush! And a nice cold pint too. Very friendly and efficient service.