The Lamb Inn

Lovely place

We stayed here for 1 night as we were visiting family in nearby Sherborne. The whole experience was lovely, the room is warm with good amenities and comfortable bed, good tv and living room area (we stayed in room 15). The bed and shower are on an upper level. We also had a meal in the pub on a busy Saturday night, service was friendly and the timing was neither rushed or slow. The food quality excellent (my wife had a sirloin steak and I had the fish of the day). Breakfast service the next morning was a bit slower but after a walk around the area was just what we needed

We were very well looked after and the food was delicious. A special touch was a drop of port as a gift in our room. Bed was comfortable, shower was hot, table-service was friendly and patient. We loved the feel of the place, it felt cared-for. We'd definitely go again.

We enjoyed a lovely relaxing weekend at The Lamb. The staff were very welcoming from the beginning to the end of our stay. The room was well equipped and cosy, with lots of nice touches like a welcome drink and good quality toiletries. There was plenty of choice for breakfast and the cooked breakfast we sampled on the first morning was of a very high standard, as was the service. Our choices on the other two days were equally as good. Lovely location, building and people and lots to do nearby. Hope to return in the future. Thank you The Lamb at Hindon.

What you might expect from an old pub with rooms in a village by way of facilities, toiletries, features and charm, creaky floors, but wouldn’t choose it again when next travelling that way. From my brief stay the food seemed expensive, coffee costs extra at breakfast (on top of £15)! Couldn’t get wifi to work in evening (and no O2 signal). Room ok but no internal lock on door, difficult to open window, noisy pipes (old building), and a lot of shower spray ends up outside short glass screen so very wet floor.

A short hop off the A303, great stop for lunch. Dropped in to break the journey west, and wasn’t disappointed at all. Beautiful building, very cosy, with a warm greeting and excellent service. Food lovely, had a proper burger and was particularly taken with the outstanding mustard tray.

We have visited The Lamb on several occasions & you will see from a previous review that we really liked it! Unfortunately on this occasion we were very disappointed, The Roast dinner was swimming in gravy which was extremely salty, the beef was tough and full of gristle , the potatoes hard and the cauliflower cheese didn’t taste of cheese! My Mum had the pie which was ok but the vegetables & potatoes served with it were cold , the Burger that my husband had was so over cooked it was rubbery and was nothing like the description on the menu and the chips he described as having been reheated several times! Our friend who is 95 had the scallops which was a starter portion so not going to be huge but again not great , she said they were chewy because they were over cooked and the portion even for a starter was ridiculously small!! We decided to try puddings after a disappointing lunch & to be fair the chocolate fondant was nice, but our friend decided on the Hindon mess, (Eton mess) and I think it had maybe 2/3 probably frozen strawberries as very squishy in it , very little meringue and basically a glass full of cream! She couldn’t eat it & that’s the first time I’ve ever seen her leave a pudding! & just to finish things off we ordered two black coffees which were so bitter & strong they were hard to drink, & when we got the bill they were listed as large , they didn’t even fill the small cup. As you can probably tell we really didn’t enjoy our meal, but didn’t make a fuss at the time as we were treating our elderly guests & it was embarrassing as we’d chosen to eat here. Its not a cheap place to eat so you expect a lot better than this?? As I said at the start we’ve eaten here several times and it’s been lovely, so we were extremely disappointed, New Chef?? or just a bad day?? Don’t know but after such a bad meal I don’t think we will be back 😢

Lovely place. Really lovely staff too, changing our room to a quieter one without hesitation or hitch. The scotch egg with watercress pesto sounds a bit pretentious but in reality was spot on too.Wld recc.

The Lamb is a lovely old pub but I cannot recommend it as a hotel. We were looking forward to dinner, so were disappointed to be given the pub lunch menu: burgers, fish and chips, sausage and mash, etc. There were no specials, but there was a fish pie with prawns, scallops and smoked haddock, so we chose that. What a disaster. We were presented with two pots of mashed potato, smelling vaguely of fish, but try as we might, we could find not a single prawn, scallop or anything that could be positively identified as smoked haddock. It was horrid. I complained to the chef who was apologetic and explained that there had been no fish delivery that morning! Why put fish pie on the menu when you have no fish?? To be fair, we were not charged for it, but it spoilt our evening. A word of warning - there is absolutely no mobile reception at all in the village. To get Wi-Fi you have to sign up to the Youngs Brewery web site. (The beer is bog standard Youngs as found in any London pub. Where are all the lovely local ales?)