The Vivary Arms Reviews

It s a local pub selling for locals, but still nice and friendly, food is quick and very nice just a real pub .

Drove around found pub looked at recommendations about good home cooked food. And then was told no food tonight! it was about 6.30 on a Saturday evening

Snug local pub one side of the bar with popular pub fayre food dining on the side with open fire place. Welcoming, but modest.

Lovely convivial pub great service and excellent customer service also exceptional food

Lovely building and people, think the pub has lost its heartbeat a little, not necessarily it s own fault

Super place, new owners. Fantastic food, great selection of ales. Nice evening. 2 for 1s excepted also.

Excellent food. Good service, friendly staff. Lighter lunch menu for 6.50.....very good value.

New landlord and landlady made you feel very welcome. Roast on Sunday fantastic and food lovely and hot, good old fashioned syrup pudding to die for. Will be going back again.

Had a light lunch here. Very good value and lovely food. Great for smaller meals at lunch time.

Great couple of hours stop off after a long day of playing golf and tennis. Excellent food and beer. Nice out of town friendly local pub with big beer garden. Want to escape the wetherspoons and town centre Saturday night typical drunk youths it's worth the walk here. Excellent service and waitress was amazing rekindled my faith in the youth of today. Will definitely visit again on my travels! Owners very friendly and helpful behind the bar. How pubs used to be and should be.

Traditional pub. Nice bar and beer garden, well kept beers.

A proper local pub, very cosy and a friendly atmosphere.

What was for years a thriving pub, in a nice residential area , has changed hands and gone right down hill! The place is empty in the evening whereas it used to be hard to get a seat with lots of people eating. Not anymore, the kitchen closes at 8pm, whereas it used to be 9pm, closing the kitchen at 8pm is going to cost them a lot of custom, as will the limited uninspiring menu. Such a shame, it used to be a thriving pub.

Best pub in Taunton. So friendly with top customer service.

Always a great meal. The owners are sbsolute stars.

Great lunchtime and reasonably priced. Good service and good.

A lovely pub with great food and drinks in a lovely area of the town

We are here 1 week after it was taken over. The owners were brilliant and so welcoming. Their son was so excited to see people and showed us to the beer garden area. This was all matched with an excellent Sunday roast dinner, in fact, the best roast we have had at a pub in all our years of trying different places. I'm sure that once the Vivary is up to speed it will be exceptional. We will be back to eat here when visiting down Taunton again. 5 stars at least.

Excellent food in an excellent location. Very pleasant beer garden to the side of the main bar. Friendly staff looked after us well.

Been going here for a Christmas meal for years. Always ordered off their normal menu but this year there was only a Christmas menu. Food was ok, nothing special.

It used to be my favourite pub; i used to enjoy the pubs food, now they're ruined them menu. There used to be an amazing snack menu plus an array of pub classics. Its now a cheap (not meaning the price) looking tacky menu, which doesn't even have ham egg and chips on it! It almost feels like they're trying to push out all the old regulars. There are few meals on the menu that resemble what used to be there, but just look like bad adaptations to what was easy enough to make.

A great little pub In Taunton, great staff and reasonable food

Lovely pub, and couldn't have been more accommodating when we turned up en masse. The food was lovely, the staff really friendly. Couldn't recommend it more - just lovely.

Staff friendly but meal portions quite small. Quite costly but just ok.

Wonderful old pub. Great food, drink and atmosphere.

Not impressed with the management who were rude and could not care less about the service. Beer was badly looked after. The food was okay but don't try to use Meerkat Meals for more than two people.
I understand that the pub has chant hands recently so I hope that things might improve.

Lovely beer garden, nice old fashioned friendly pub with pool table

Good old pub, near Hobart Park. Cosy rooms with low ceilings.

Amazing food especially the Sunday dinners one of the best yet! Definitely worth a visit.Lovely pub with a very nice outside orchard seating area. The Landlord & Landlady are both very welcoming..(Worth 5 stars a and more!

Excellent take away fish chips Excellent food to eat in aswell, great helpful n friendly staff..well worth a visit 5*

It was ok just had a drink but it was cold in there today

Quiet country pub with pool table and small TV. Good atmosphere.

Called in while out for a bank holiday fresh air walk, received s very friendly welcome, good ales and sampled the light launches. menu (vegetable curry) which was fine well presented. A perfect refuel to allow me to enjoy the rest of the days walk!

Fantastic couple going the extra mile for our first lunch out . The food and service was amazing. Thanks again for being hosts with the most . See you again soon

Great pub with a good selection of well kept beer and half a dozen wines. The food was not adventurous but good well priced pub fair. We had an eater with a multitude of food allergies and intolerance s that they had not been warned about. But they went out of the way to suggest alternatives and accommodate.

Cosy, village style pub, serves food, drinking garden at the back

Nice little pub, good atmosphere, pool table. A little gem not far from vivary park

Friendly and inviting and decent ale, lock down rules strictly adhered to!!