The Waring House Restaurant & Inn

Wife and I went the Chef Lilly's Cooking class at The Cookery and had an amazing time cooking delicious food. We highly recommend anyone intrested in learning some delicious new recipes from a fantastic chef, book a night now.

Adequate but not great value - here is a comment sent to management at Waring House:
I recently stayed at Waring House and found the arrangements by and large satisfactory.
I wish, however, to pass along a comment about about gratuities. I found the notice on the table soliciting gratuities at breakfast offensive. We also felt hustled by some staff (not Lynn though ).
Normally, when a meal and/or service are part of a package many people prefer to add an overall gratuity when settling the bill. I do not usually carry cash to breakfast, nor do I like being made to feel inadequate for wishing to think about something other than compensating your staff. .
Waring House should find a way of pooling gratuities for staff rather than passing the compensation along to patrons at breakfast.

We went for lunch in the country. Great view by the window of Amelia's Garden. We each had the apple cheddar soup, one paired with the firecracker burger, and the other a larger sized soup with the spinach salad. Add a coffee and a tea and it came to $48. The soup was one of the best we have ever had. The burger was juicy and very tasty and the salad was very large and fresh. Good quality ingredients.

I would rate this interesting Inn at 3.5☆ but I prefer to err on the upside. Lots of features to recommend this lovely spot but a couple of important elements caused me to be somewhat cautious. A wonderful dining room coupled with an excellent pub with live music are the centrepieces of this property. Rooms are spacious and suites are very comfortable.

But a good night's sleep is paramount in an expensive hotel and unfortunately neither of my two nights enjoyed one. The bottom sheets of the bed kept disengaging from the mattress constantly entangling me. The shower door fell off its rail a couple times. Weeds were growing in the cracks on the otherwise enjoyable patio.

Attendance to items like this would safely assure a four star rating from me.

Great time. I stayed in room #1. They said it was the smallest room. It was completely acceptable and I loved the charm of the room and the short trip downstairs to the pub and dining room. Noise from either location was never heard. Front desk girls, Heather in the dining room and Ian in the bar were wonderful. Would return anytime and highly recommend it. Food was amazing.