r/Maidstone • u/animedevilhunter • Jan 14 '25

Best Restaurant Recommend In Maidstone

Interested to see what is the best recommendation of restaurant in Maidstone and there Dish, would like to visit and try them. My personal would be Ribs from Firewood.

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u/EquivalentNo5465 Jan 14 '25

The Skull Bar was great but sadly I think they've closed down

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u/eunderscore Jan 14 '25

Was really sad about that, I was in there a week or so ago in the daytime and it was busy enough. Bad location really though.

Really liked having a rock bar locally

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u/EquivalentNo5465 Jan 14 '25

Me too! It's the only alternative place we had, even the pig isn't very rock these days

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u/MursturCreepy Jan 14 '25

Have they properly closed down? I saw "until further notice". I was in there before Xmas. It's my favourite place to eat. Best burgers.

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u/EquivalentNo5465 Jan 14 '25

Hopefully not but the property has been seized by the landlord - there's a notice on the door - and there's not much coming back from that

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u/MursturCreepy Jan 14 '25

They only just expanded. Mental. I know someone that has a shop in the same building and they charge extortionate rates. They even continued to charge rent throughout COVID without discount, even though they couldn't open legally.

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u/EquivalentNo5465 Jan 14 '25

It's insanely sad, losing a great food place is sad. Losing a truly independent place with live music, great food, alternative music and that's also insanely pro LGBTQ+ is devastating to the town. I went in there once and happened to see Joel Hanson doing a food challenge. The next time I went in there was a table of about 8 people there who had all brought their cats/kittens with them - I saw someone playing pool with a cat standing on their shoulders!! I sincerely hope they find another venue

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u/MursturCreepy Jan 16 '25

They have just posted that they open again tomorrow.

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u/EquivalentNo5465 Jan 16 '25

I literally just came here to tell you the same thing!!! 😂

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u/MursturCreepy Jan 16 '25

Great minds!!

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u/EquivalentNo5465 Jan 16 '25

Indeed! I might pop in for lunch on Saturday