The Cramond Inn

Visited the Crammond in October, we were made to feel very welcome both by the management team and their staff. We had a Sun day Roast and it was really good and value for money. There seems to have been a lot of bad reviews about thsi place whcih I think are unfair Yes it is a Sam Smiths pub which has its own brew but it is affordable and a decent pint. Pubs in England do cash up whilst customers are in and start cleaning there is nothing wrong with that, we didn't feel uncomfortable with that and didn't feel as if we had to leave, in fact we stayed till last orders.

Arrived 16-30 Sunday 25th September only to be told the kitchen was closed from 16-00.

This used to be a great place to go after a walk on the beach. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. The food is straight out of a microwave and the management make you feel you are inconveniencing them if you stay after 10pm, cashing up and starting to hoover around you. It was also closed on New Year's Eve..incredible.

We went to the Crammond Inn last Saturday, remembering visits in the pasts, with lovely homemade food and good service. How disappointed we were! The tables were dirty, the juice was flat, the food took over an hour to arrive. We ordered four meals and only three arrived - we were told the final meal would take 10 or 15 minutes, but it didn't arrive, and finally we gave up and left. We ordered a separate portion of chips and sent them back as they were cold. The waitress took them away, and brought them back - refried! They were far too crispy to eat. The food was the worst of pre-made, boiled in the bag... I would expect more from a Weatherspoons or such. The staff were inattentive and simply seemed not to care. Such a shame that a pub restaurant which has just a gorgeous location and used to be so good is now so so terrible.

Having been there several times lately, I can assure you the food is no longer the rubbish that has been spoken about. They must have rehired a chef. The food is perfectly adequate pub grub and the pints are excellent.

Recommended for a day out to the pub. Nice setting and cosy when the fire is going.

I went back to the Cramond Inn last night under duress and after many months away (and I'm a local) because it is so bad under current management. I have to say if it's all about managing expectations, they didn't disappoint. It is still horrendous food, wine and service.

What a shame that this pub, which has such amazing potential given its location, is being run by people who clearly have no concept of how to run a good village pub. You can't even get food served outside, which during the summer is just daft, especially given the amount of dog walkers down there.

I agree with the other post - I really hope they run themselves out of business so someone can come back and do it the justice it, and the customers, deserve.

Good beer, good location, inedible food.

If you want a meal then the nearby Cramond Brig has been transformed under its new owners and now has excellent food and a refurbished interior. Not sure why the current brewery owners of the Cramond Inn cannot realise the true potential of the place.

Ah, the Crammond Inn! Home of the infamous 'chicken burger'. A lump of unseasoned rubbery white meat on a bun. What a delight!

Last time I was down there, I took sandwiches.............. :(

Nice beer selection though.

Went there with some friends on the 7th of October. Their organic wheat beer was probably one of the best pints i have ever drank and would go there for that alone. I would also say that after chatting with their very friendly staff that they were aware that they would have preferred ideally to continue with the home made food but got the impression that this had something to do with the brewery owners. I have read the comments above and would say they were just a tad harsh, especially when my friends and i have a relaxed time and good service for what was laid out.
I personally opted for the fish and chips once i found out their menu was not home made. It was actually surprisingly good and along with their chilli concarni seemed to work for the others with me.
I myself certainly prefer home made food and like many here would expect to pay more for it, but lets face it ladies and gentleman....
Pubs are shutting down all over the UK at a truly horrendous rate and any idiot that thought the smoking ban helped things.......well they are paying for it now. If you don't support your local pubs then you WILL lose them for good and while a few of you may snigger and say well we will still be ok........ask yourself this question......how many of the personalities i have read above would like to congregate in one place.
Please excuse my grammar etc but typed this while on the phone :)

I personally wish the staff and owners success and hope they do get the chance to up their game BASED on local and other support.

I used to meet friends in the Cramond Inn, particularly around the festive season, and have witnessed a sharp decline in the standard of the service and the atmopshere over the last few years. When a polite yet considered complaint was made, the manager's attitude was nothing short of appauling.

Having spoken to many friends and colleagues it would appear that my views regarding the Inn are shared by many.

On a positive note, the current management look set to run the place into the ground. The sooner this happens the better as this will allow someone with a little more interest in their customers to step in and bring the Inn back up to former standards and popularity. Until then, i won't be setting one foot in!

I have been a fan of Cramond Inn and the food served up by the chef in the kitchen for over 6 years. The food was always of a very high quality and that combined with a very pleasant staff made a visit to the Cramond Inn a very pleasant experience.

What a disappointment it was to revisit the Cramond Inn on Tuesday, the 1st September 2009 as the menus had been totally changed and the price had come down a few pounds. Not only the price had come down but the quality of the food had plummeted to rock bottom. The standard of the food was about what you would get a supermarket cafe.

The staff, in the past, had time to spend with their customers and be good ambassadors for the Cramond Inn but were too busy due to what must have been a cut in staff due to a management policy.

Anybody who appreciates good food would not think of going to the Cramond Inn for a meal. The décor and the beers remain the same. What a difference it would be if the Cramond Inn could be bought over and made into a free house. Then there would be good beers as well has good food without the constraints imposed by Samuel Smith's the brewers.

I for one will not be back.

If only we had read the reviews above!! Just been to the Cramond Inn for the first time in many years and the food was dismal.

The prices on the menu initially did seem too cheap to be believed. This was confirmed as the cheesy nachos arrived looking pretty ropey. A few corn chips with cheese grated over the top, most of which remained stubbornly un-melted. Main courses were equally bad if not worse. We refused to pay for the macaroni as it was completely inedible and was presented in one solid mass minus anything resembling cheese. Unlike no.1 above our lasagne had been cooked to within an inch of its life and dry as a stick rather than greasy, although it still managed to be served tepid.

Very dissappointing, avoid at all costs.

On the plus side...the lager was nice!

I wished I had read the other review of Cramond Inn before going there last night. We've also been going there for years and really liked the choice of home-made food, from excellent mussels to great fish & chips and excellent steak and ale pie.

Cramond Inn now serves food that even most motorway service areas left behind years ago! I guess the food pictures on the menu and the cheap prices were a clue, but the reality of the food was even worse.

The Cramond Inn remains a nice place to go for a beer, with good outside seating overlooking the Forth. BUT - don't go there if you are looking for nice food and even a decent glass of wine.

What a shame that a good pub/restaurant can be killed off overnight.

We have been going to the Cramond Inn for the last 3 years, the food was excellent. All home made, high quality pub food. Last month we had friends staying and went there for Sunday lunch. As we sat down we noticed that the menu had changed, it was much larger and had pictures of the food. The price has also come down dramatically. We ordered the lasagne, we had this here 3 weeks before and it was lovely, loads of meat and sauce.

What we were served up this time was nothing short of disgusting. There was a layer of cheese about half and inch think, with grease running all over the top of it. Underneath hardly any meat, what was there was poor quality and the sauce was loaded with salt and tasted horrible.

They have clearly got rid of the talented chef and replaced them with a microwave. We left out food, paid and went somewhere else.

Avoid this place like the plague!