Booked for 12:45pm (booking is a must). Dined in the back room, which was very charming. Lovely service from the team. Ordered a roast beef. Tell them how well you like your beef cooked. Otherwise, it will come out well done. Side options are cauliflower cheese and pigs in blankets. Washed it down with a bloody mary and a shiraz. The only criticism I would say is that the vegetables weren't roasted. 8/10 - well done team

Booked in a celebratory Christmas meal at the College Arms with family (14 of us). The food was top notch and the service was excellent, especially considering it was very busy with another large booking in the event room. Highly recommended!

First time visitor. Great welcome, good selection of drinks. Lunch menu had something for everyone all at very competitive price. Really like the interior decor and how the whole place is presented. Great outside space and seating. Only downside the outside seating cushions were wet and the gents toilet was not the cleanest. Will definitely return and highly recommend .

First time visit with Jackie, had a nice meal served in a reasonable time. Rihanna was very welcoming and polite. Will come here again. Steeplejack Tom.

Food was superb the kids had a roast , I had the king and crab linguine. Superb !!

The Sunday lunch was a bit more school dinners than the pictures imply. We sat in the garden which is large but characterless. There was bird poo on all the tables and a giant dog poo in the grass. The staff at least cleared that up! It’s a regular pub serving standard but overpriced food. Nice for a drink but wouldn’t eat there again

Accompanied partner to family friends send off. The accommodated party beautifully, with both separate space and access to garden. Food was lovely nice atmosphere. The staff managed to be polite friendly and helpful without being intrusive. Lovely.

Thanks to Jay and the team for providing great food and brilliant service at our family meal today to celebrate our daughter’s christening. Food was delicious, most went for a roast dinner which was absolutely gorgeous (cauliflower cheese needs to be a little bit more saucy if I’m going to add some honest feedback 😬) but everyone loved the food! Definitely best place around for a home cooked roast dinner. Thanks again Jay!

Jay and the team looked after our party brilliantly! The food was excellent and enjoyed by our guests aged 2 to 95! We will definitely be back again! FIVE stars all round.

Four of us came here for my Birthday dinner last week. The food was amazing! I had the French Onion soup to start and the chicken & ham hock pie for main. It was really nice, the pie was handmade and tasted so good! Service was good, we didn’t need much but the girls were quick to check on us and the food and offer more drinks when needed. Thank you for a great birthday dinner! 😊 would definitely return!

Wasn't that happy for the price we paid £53 !! 2 fish and chips 2 crumbles and 2 pints of shandy. Admittedly the food was very nice but the service bad. Was not asked if we enjoyed meal which we waited for over half hour The waitress was more interested talking and just doing bare essentials we asked for pudding she did not take plates away while serving us to much effort !! It was freezing cold in there .Not happy and won't be coming back !!

Went for lunch with my Dad. The menu reads really nice but what is delivered is not. Katsu burger is a reformed chicken patty which is pretty disgusting and not a £16 ingredient Chicken schnitzel was batted too thin and burned in places Skin on fries had lost their skin and were not skin on fries they were bog standard cheap chips I just wish that if a restaurant cannot deliver what is described on the menu they tell you in advance so you have the choice to change your mind Communication is King 👑

Beautiful pub & plenty of parking. The staff were attentive & we didn’t have to wait too long for our order. The roast dinner was quite small considering the price but it was tasty & well cooked. Unfortunately the dessert, Apple & Blackberry flapjack crumble, was tasteless & bland. We ordered 2 at £7 each & we both thought it lacked any flavour. My first visit & unfortunately I wasn’t blown away by the food.

Went for Father's Day. Had such a lovely lunch. I had booked it a few weeks ago and asked for the the little room between the bar and restaurant as it's very cosy and feels like your in someone's home (just the one table that fits 3). My daughter had the burger and Fries, followed by 3 scoops of ice cream. Very good value and big portions. I had the butternut squash wellington roast and my husband had the pork belly. We both cleared our plates, it was delicious. Big portions too but managed a pudding. I had salted caramel profiteroles and my husband had the cherry and coconut ice cream sundae. Staff were very attentive even though it was busy. Would recommend coming here!

I visited here as part of a funeral mermorial. The parking was an issue, small car park. The facilities were modern and clean. I can imagine it would be under normal circumstances a very nice watering hole

Brilliant service, fabulous food lovely atmosphere. Went over and above as there was a high chair ready for my granddaughter's doll. Can't wait to eat here again highly recommend. Thankyou

We went today. Staff extremely polite. Nice selection of good quality wine. We ordered chicken meal with roast. Chicken was very good unfortunately the vegetables were abysmal green beans were stale and older than me. I couldn’t believe a chef would think them acceptable to put on the plate. In fact the rest of the veg was so sparse on the plate it was hard to find the slithers of red cabbage and leeks. The roast potatoes were frozen. Apple crumble was very nice. Such a shame as this pub could be a gold mine if they just upped the quality of some of the food. Speaking to other diners they had said the same and had complained in the past and yet nothing has changed.

Where to start…. The drink that fell over my 18month old We waited 35 minutes for a table, eventually seated in an area with 8 or so empty tables. Then to be served drinks with a beer falling of the waitresses’ tray all over our 18 month old. The waitress apologised but not even to be offered a drink on the house by way of apology, that wouldn’t have gone a miss. Luckily we had a spare change of clothes for him otherwise we would have had to leave. Food came out,roast chicken and a roast beef. The beef was two thin small slices and chicken under cooked. The bill at the end had no reflection of any reduction for the fact my son was soaked in beer. All in all a negative experience and will not be returning.

Dog friendly, which is a blessing this time of year, plus lovely food, and friendly staff just makes it the perfect pub in Hertford Heath.

A very long wait for an average lunch. Food hit and miss. Like many eateries it seems staff retention is the problem. Hope they sort it out as previous visits have been more successful.

Went for a Sunday roast, beef was nice but came with standard frozen veg and Aunt Bessie’s roast potatoes and Yorkshires. Nothing like the website pictures.

Great service, and the food was delicious. Decent platefuls of food, and a lovely menu, good value for money. It looked popular when we were there, and all the nooks and crannies made the table spacing very comfortable.

One of the best roasts we’ve ever had. I wish I was eating it again now! Lovely local pub feel and great staff. The live music was also a nice touch.

This place has gone downhill in a spectacular fashion!! It’s brill if you want a nice place with a bit of outdoor space and the team of staff were lovely. However….our meal took over 4hrs with long long waits between course!! When our courses did arrive although they tasted ok they were a total disappointment. You don’t go to a pub for teeny tiny haute cuisine portions, you go for good wholesome food that will fill you up! If something says it comes with veg and potatoes I expect more than 3 half mini potatoes and a few peas alongside more than 4 pieces of meat! Half of us seriously got home and immediately raided the fridge for food as we were so hungry the other half raided a shop on the way home and bought food to eat! Several items were battered/coated to such an extent that the contents where dry n flavourless. Last year I would have raved over this place but I’m sorry guys we won’t be back and it’s nosedived through the floor! The amount we spent on our tiny meal we could have hired our own chef and bought ingredients etc, eaten well and still had money and food to spare! Good luck as I think you’re going to need it but I’m soo hoping it was a glitch and you’ll be able to turn it back around again. Xx

I visited today and ordered a club sandwich. It cost £10 and did not come with salad, crisps or chips plus it had the smallest portions of bacon and lettuce and barely no mayonnaise. It was not worth the money and when we mentioned it to the waitress it seemed to go unnoticed. The food here used to be a really high standard but not anymore which is such a shame.

The venue itself is very nice and the staff were wonderful. Unfortunately the food wasn't really up to scratch. I ordered a steak, blue - it came out medium rare at best, probably closer to medium. It was a very good piece of steak, but not cooked to how I'd ordered it My partner ordered the linguine. It was extremely over salted (I quite like salty food, but this was beyond what I would have enjoyed) and the king prawns were overcooked and rubbery. We saw another couple refuse their food and leave (I don't know what was wrong with his, but her burger looked crispy!) Hopefully it was maybe just an inexperienced chef - maybe their regular was off sick or something. I don't think we'll be going back though.

Having enjoyed the hospitality of this wonderfully situated British pub for many years in a scenic Hertfordshire village, The College Arms is now under new management and couldn't have asked for better service from Sarah, her daughter Ellie and their team who go the extra mile to assist customers. For soft drink fans, try a Bumbleberry in the enchanting garden (both pictured). An extremely positive consumer experience in every sense.

Unusual pub in that it was divided into different areas based around 1 bar. Very much a "diners" pub with excellent food but still had an array of beers and lagers. Small car park but ample street parking. The garden areas seemed very popular.

Lovely decor and surrounds, although, we were cramped into a corner and a lovely couple behind us moved a chair from their table away to provide more room. We felt a little let down as did not live up to the good reviews that we read. Considering that we are locals, I took my wife and mother in law on Friday as we were on our way to a Wedding, so heading North for the weekend. We ordered 2 Buttermilk Chicken Burgers and I had a Double Beef Burger. The Buttermilk chicken (which I also tasted) was quite chewy and tasted sour, which generally suggests that it had marinated and had been stored a little too long before just going off. Anyway, due to time constraints, with a long 2 hour journey ahead, we did not get the opportunity to send it all back etc. as we had already waited a while for service. I mentioned it to the young girl serving us when she asked if everything was "OK" (it came across as she asked as part of 'run of the mill lip service', that when mentioned, the reply was "I'll mention it to the chef"......... ). Our experience: Nice enough surroundings, nothing special in relation to food, compared to Pubs that have a warmer welcome, comfort and are attentive. The quality of the food did not equate to the price, rather that it was a little over pretentious. I'm hoping that we may give the place a second chance, and that our experience just bad luck, but there was something lacking. Needless to say that we did not stay for pudding on this occasion. Perhaps 2 star exoerience