The Duke Of Cumberland - Canterbury

Staff very friendly and helpful. Chips were amazing but found the burger very average. Seems like they have a good selection of food for all

Recently refurbished to a very high standard. Very stylish and a great improvement to how it was before! Clean, chic with lots of fabulous seating inside out. Courtyard is sublime particulary on a balmy evening. Great menu, lots of choice. Staff very friendly and welcoming. On a Sunday lunchtime you will definitely have to book as busy, busy, busy. One of the nicest pubs I have visited and I have visited many. Well done Shepherd Neame!

Do not go here for food!! We visited this place with expectations high after the refurbishment and looking forward to seeing if there had been a decent place to eat added to our home town. The answer was absolutely not. We entered the restaurant area and gave the name we had booked under, the woman at the desk pointed at a table across the restaurant and told us that was ours. Fair enough, may have been busy with something so we sat ourselves down, no cutlery on the table and no drinks offered. Another woman came over a few minutes later and very begrudgingly took our drinks order. When my mother asked for a specific request on her drink this waitress rolled her eyes as if we weren 't paying for the privilege of being in her presence. Anyway she took the order and our drinks arrived shortly after with the same side order of attitude and moody demeanour from our less than cheerful waitress. We decided to go for a sharing platter which was £26 each or two for £40. We decided to go for two as it seemed like a good deal but how wrong we were. We ordered one meat and one fish sharing platter so that we could have abit of each between us. The platters arrived in what can only be described as a big metal dog bowl that you were expected to eat from because there were no side plates offered at all. Besides the lack of crockery there was also a distinct lack of food on the sharing platter, the only way this can be classed as a sharing platter is if you are sharing with someone on hunger strike because this would barely be enough to fill one person and if any food was left over it would be because it is bulked out with bread and garnish rather than any meat or fish. Its a massive shame that this almost iconic whitstable pub hasn 't managed to get it right because you couldn 't wish for a better location if only its done properly. To summarise, if you 're walking through whitstable and you fancy a snack you 'll be better off going into sainsbury in the highstreet and getting a meal deal and sitting on the sea wall while you look out at the gorgeous views. You 'll be more fulfilled and not left wondering if you 've ever met that woman who served you before and upset her in any way. Don 't waist your money!!!

Very good-had lemon sole- lovely if pricey. Good refit and great court yard. Will return. A good job done.

I stopped by on a peaceful weekday morning for some coffee and also tried the delicious eggs royale dish, which was a generous portion. The breakfast was great, with friendly staff and lovely new interior decor. I can't wait to sample more items from the menu.