The Wheatsheaf Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Delicious, fresh and plentiful country pub meal."
• "Fantastic meal of roast beef!"
• "Really delicious food and drinks."
• "Hefty portions of tweaked pub classics can be found here."
• "Recommend the monkfish skewers. Delicious!!"
• "The pithivier was a hit! Was very filling almost did not need chips, nor were there much room for them."
• "The true English pub experience. Great food and gluten free fish and chips but you would never know it."

Cons:

• "Also to mention the burger was £18.50 which sadly isn’t worth it."
• "The meals that came out tasted old and were cold."
• "The portions were not value at all."
• "Food was really good, but price to portion size is not worth it."
• "Roast potatoes tasted like frozen school dinner ones."
• "The food was awful."
• "Very dry, over cooked beef burger, a sad looking, tough beef roast with soft old roast potatoes."

Service

Pros:

• "Service excellent. Very friendly bar."
• "Excellent service, enjoyed the food."
• "Staff cheerful and friendly."
• "Fantastic food very polite staff nice atmosphere great little place."
• "David our waiter was attentive and engaging."
• "The service was friendly and efficient."
• "Staff were helpful and friendly. Baby changing facilities available too."

Cons:

• "Service was very very poor, had to ask twice for drinks, food order and bill."
• "We sat outside with the dogs and had to chase the staff to take orders along with having to chase both starters and main course."
• "There were 3 female waitresses, one was OK, the other 2 were very lazy with no idea of customer service."
• "Ok food but terrible service - we waited almost 2 hours for Sunday lunch."
• "I had to queue for at least 15 minutes for one pint of beer and there was no awareness demonstrated by other staff members of the need to help."
• "This was after we had to pester the staff to get menus multiple times."
• "Either they was busy too or just really bad slow service!! Forgetting things and not changing items on the bill when they were changed."

Value

Pros:

• "Food is fantastic, good value for money."
• "The quality of food is definitely worth the price!"
• "It was slightly pricey compared to other places, but given the setting I felt it was worth the price."
• "The price was very good top service from a top team running a top pub."
• "I may be biased as a Londoner but the quality of food is definitely worth the price!"
• "Good value wine and dine menu. Friendly helpful staff."
• "Best of all the staff went above an beyond to help my elderly who has mobility issues."

Cons:

• "The portions were not value at all."
• "Food tasted nice but far too expensive for what is was."
• "You’re expected to order a main for anything above £10 and then you have to order a side to accompany your dish for anything from £5+"
• "The children's meals were very expensive at £9.50 for 2 courses and my 10 year old son got a single small scoop of icecream as his dessert."
• "Had the mixed roast. Came with minimal veg such as 2 potatoes few carrots and broccoli, the meat I swear must of been 75% fat."
• "Really disappointing."
• "Effectively paid £20 for half a bowl of dry chips."

Ambience

Pros:

• "The pub is cosy and warm."
• "The pub is old, very pretty, with flowers in the garden, and on the tables."
• "Great pub in rural Sussex."
• "Wonderful country Pub in a beautiful setting. Historic and comfortable."
• "Gorgeous pub, best we’ve found in the area."
• "A really lovely old pub in great location, plenty of out outdoor seating as well as inside."
• "Beautiful pub set in picturesque countryside."

Cons:

• "Can't comment on the food, service or internal decor as (unbelievably) it was closed at 14:30 this afternoon but the garden furniture was in a poor state of repair/cleanliness."
• "There was a strong smell of old cooking oil permeating throughout the pub."
• "The atmosphere was awful! Fine if you like eating in a kindergarten but we didn’t."
• "Ambience spoilt somewhat by a very loud customer seated on the table behind."
• "The manager didn't want to serve us food as she said they prioritised bookings and the restaurant wasn't even busy."
• "Very poor service and the food was even worse."
• "The pub looked amazing, but our Sunday lunch was disappointing."