Cancel

    Open app

    Search

    Bede's Lea

    3.0 (2 reviews)
    InexpensivePubs

    Bede's Lea Photos

    Recommended Reviews - Bede's Lea

    Your trust is our priority, so businesses can't pay to alter or remove their reviews. Learn more about reviews.
    Yelp app icon
    Browse more easily on the app
    Review Feed Illustration

    8 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    14 years ago

    excellent value and lovely garden and freindly staff the sunday carvery was fantastic both in quality, quantity and price will def be back

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    Verify this business for free

    People searched for Pubs 345 times last month within 10 miles of this business.

    Verify this business

    King Rufus

    King Rufus

    3.0(3 reviews)
    3.5 mi
    ££

    Have been visiting the King Rufus over many years. It has had low periods when it needed updating…read moreand food could be improved. More recently it had been updated and service improved. Unfortunately now they have introduced loud background music. Not sure why, but talking to your friends ends up being a shouting match. Worse than having a jukebox!! Time to find another pub.

    The King Rufus used to be a much-loved go-to pub whenever I visited my family in England. It was…read morealways relaxed, friendly and offered up a varied menu of both drinks and food that seemed to veer some distance away from the 'ordinary'. My most recent visit could not have been more different. The Rufus has been swallowed up by one of those soulless pub chains (The Eating Inn - perhaps the worst name for a food chain ever) and converted into... yes, you've guessed it... a soulless pub. Like a lot of the large pub chain brands it is now all style over substance. Cheap wood and chrome Ikea-style furnishings, bored staff and a bland warmed-up/microwaved 'Americanised' food menu that on the surface appears to be good value but is actually something of a gastronomic nightmare. The corporatisation of the English pub is a disappointing development in recent years but I do respect how it is managing to save a lot of establishments that otherwise would go to the wall. However, it would appear that some chains get it right - like the Hungry Horse chain, who don't alter the feel of the pub but compliment it with affordable drinks and food - whilst others are hellbent on ripping the heart out of once-loved watering holes. Edited to add:- Just discovered that the Greene King organisation owns both the Hungry Horse AND EatingInn brands. How can one company get it so right and so wrong at the same time?

    Bede's Lea - pubs - Updated May 2026

    Loading...
    Loading...
    Loading...