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The Half Moon Inn

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The Half Moon Inn

The Half Moon in Plumpton is a beautiful two hundred year old traditional country pub nestled at the foot of the South Downs National Park, in an area of outstanding natural beauty, ten minutes from both the historic county town of Lewes and the charming village of Ditchling. A "quintessentially English pub" The Half Moon offers a menu that changes with the seasons and uses only the finest locally sourced produce. At the helm in the kitchens is award winning Chef Richard Willis, who has spent the past decade refining his skills in Sussex and brings with him an unrivalled knowledge of the best ingredients that the County can provide. The cellar is well stocked with the finest local beers from Harveys of Lewes to the local vicar's famous Rectory ales. There is also an extensive wine list of Old World and New World wines that has been chosen to compliment the menu. The Half Moon is also well equipped to cater for any wedding or event.
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Facilities

Parties Welcome
Parties Welcome
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
Weddings
Weddings

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Customer Reviews

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Rude service and poor food

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by L on 27 Apr 2025
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We'd booked earlier that day and when we turned up we asked if we could sit out we were rudely told " no! " We had to explain we had a reservation. They didn't even ask! We asked for two veggie roasts, then they tried to charge us for four! The food arrived, it was ok. However there was meat on the plate. Not what we wanted on our VEGGIE roast! We told the staff we found meat on our plate and they said " and?" No apology, nothing Extremely bad service. We were looking forward to this and had heard good things. However, there service was so rude we won't ever be back and will tell friends and family to to give this a very wide birth.

Lunch

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by Anne Morris on 19 Dec 2023
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14 of us arrived unexpectedly for lunch . Very friendly staff. I ordered fish and chips and strawberry cheese cake I enjoyed my lunch . Lovely country pub worth a visit

Amazing

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by Penny Daws on 22 Feb 2020
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The food was absolutely beautiful well presented and cooked to perfection the service was excellent and staff couldn’t do enough we will be returning a long journey well worth it tbh

Lovely food, friendly service

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by Scoops on 13 Feb 2020
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Interesting and varied menu, tasty food, lovely real fire, staff as friendly as ever, couldn't ask for more.

Limited mains

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by Gordon on 09 Feb 2020
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We had a reservation at 7.45pm which I didn’t think was late but the waitress came back to say the main I had ordered off the a la carte menu was sold out so I ordered one of the mains from the ‘specials’ menu. She then came back to tell me that that was off too. All rather disappointing and as a non meat eater it was tricky to find something. Ended up with the Dover Sole which was not good and expensive.


Address

Ditchling Road, Plumpton, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 3AF

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Phone

01273 890253

Hours

Monday - Saturday 12pm - 3pm & 6pm - 9pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

Cuisine

British


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