The Queen's Head - Rother

This place is amazing the staff are very friendly the food was excellent I had the special my friends had the burger we will be coming again maybe for Sunday lunch

This is a very quirky pub that I didn’t personally warm to. But it has a good rep locally, especially for its standard pub grub, and a lot of people like it, so perhaps the problem was that there were not many people in on this early bank holiday lunchtime and I wasn’t eating. Maybe it has a different vibe when there’s a crowd in of an evening. You enter onto the front section of a U shaped bar. To the right is a slightly elevated section dominated by a pool table with some standard keg fonts. The the lounge area is to the left section of the bar which has four hand pumps on it at the far end. For the record only two of these were in operation with Lakedown Brewing Sussex Pale and Lister’s Brewery Happy Hound. I tried both and they were in good condition, but I was surprised by the Listers Happy Hound that was described as a traditional session ale on the pump clip and turned out to be a dark mild. It’s in this section to the left that the fun starts decor wise. I would say that the chosen decor style is junk shop reclaimed skip. I’m sure other more knowledgeable people than me will have a more accurate description for the eclectic mix of furniture and artwork that abounds in this place. To me it just seemed to be a competition to see how many different seating styles and table styles you can fit in one pub. For example I chose to sit by the window and my table was made out of a lump of concrete that had a lump knocked out of it so that you could see the reinforcement wires and that the concrete was inlaid with coloured stones. I just sat there thinking why ?. But this side of the pub keeps on giving and has a full on Tardis effect. As well as the front and back sections on the left hand side with a smallish courtyard garden beyond these), there is what looks like a further room between them. However, you enter to find that it turns right into a corridor with a doctors library effect going on including a medical skeleton) that after a while leads to a Tudor effect dining area with gable ceiling. And here again, the game seems to be how many different types of dining chair can you fit in one space. To be fair this type a junk antique style is the same as employed in the Waterworks micropub further down the road. But whereas there it seems to fit and work, here I just got the feeling I had gate crashed a hippy commune.

We decided to have dinner at this restaurant in the middle of the week, after arriving in the area a few hours earlier for a long weekend. It was our first time in Rye, so we weren't familiar with any restaurants and this one seemed like a decent pub based on online reviews. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a disappointing night. When we asked about the ale and cider options, we were told they had none of either. We were a bit hesitant to stay, but it was late and we were hungry, so we decided to order a lager and a Guinness. The Guinness was decent, but my cranberry juice and soda tasted strange because the bartender accidentally used tonic instead of soda. It took 20 minutes for them to replace my drink with the correct one. The food also took a while to arrive, with my special of fresh baked mackerel being delicious. However, my partner's spaghetti bolognaise was dry and lacked sauce, so he had to ask for ketchup to make it edible. To make matters worse, his glass got stuck to the sticky table when he tried to pick it up. The overall experience was very disappointing and we won't be coming back.

Do not visit this restaurant. The staff is horrible, the atmosphere is old and dirty. The lack of care is evident, with hand-written menus on A4 paper. I felt extremely unwelcome.

Our first visit to the Queens Head first impressions quirky looked alot more inviting once inside .One young lady doing bar and running the food hope she appreciated .The food was worth the wait all home cooked and great prices. Pan fried Haddock with baby potatoes and green beans £13.Drink prices were reasonable as well.