The Bull Brentwood Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Without us needing to ask they bought us dog food and water for our fur babies."
• "Service was very good and friendly."
• "Service was excellent, despite being very full."
• "Our waitress was pleasant and attentive, the food stunning."
• "Staff were young but helpful, I'll be back again soon."
• "Service was quick and staff were really helpful."
• "The staff were very nice and friendly, and the service was really good."

Cons:

• "Takes forever to be served when it's busy."
• "Drinks never arrived, wrong dishes were repeatedly brought to our table."
• "I thought the staff were quite rude. Didn't feel like they wanted our custom."
• "The service was the worst I’ve ever experienced."
• "Front of desk terrible attitude never once asked how our food was."
• "Service was slow."
• "Service was extremely slow and the staff were very dismissive."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is really good whether you choose to eat in the restaurant or at the bar."
• "The restaurant food is really very good."
• "The food is always fantastic!"
• "Delicious food! We went for roast and I had sea bass- yum!"
• "Good food and service. The pork belly bites exceeded my expectations."
• "The food was really good, we were particularly impressed with the standard of the kids food."
• "Food was lovely and was served fast."

Cons:

• "The worst roast I have eaten the veg wasn’t cooked and the beef was not fresh at all."
• "Food was very mediocre and therefore incredibly overpriced."
• "The roast was below average, not very much and the duck roast potatoes were lacking flavour."
• "I chose a vegetarian main dish which turned out to be literally just steamed veggies with no seasoning or anything and a bit of puff pastry and was left very disappointed."
• "Bad food. The starters were average, but the mains were terrible!"
• "The food is very average but expensive?"
• "The food was not up to the usual standard that we have had in past visits. Fish dry, over cooked. Liver tough and again probably over cooked."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "Nice cosy pub, nice friendly bar staff."
• "Lovely rustic decor."
• "Nice traditional pub. Can get busy. Respectable clientele."
• "Very good and cosy atmosphere."
• "The décor was modern and the place was clean."
• "Very quiet when we went, but still had a nice atmosphere."
• "Nice atmosphere and quite cosy."

Cons:

• "Music was a bit loud for a Sunday afternoon could have done with being turned down a notch as you had to raise your voice to be heard."
• "Quite a noisy place it was too."
• "Now it’s tired format is grubby, dated and poor."
• "Needless to say it was very noisy not to mention we were really crammed in."
• "The atmosphere was massively impacted by the noise from the children's play area."
• "It was so noisy that I could not talk to my wife or son, sitting opposite to me."
• "Very very noisy, didn't used to be like that."

Facilities

Pros:

• "Carpark available, free of charge, including wheelchair accessible parking and entrance."
• "There's a big car park at the back of the pub which is convenient."
• "Big car park (newly resurfaced thankfully) and side entrance."
• "Plenty of free parking and clean toilets."
• "Good amount of parking as well."
• "Has a big car park also."
• "Lots of covered seating with heating and kids play area."

Cons:

• "The disabled toilet was disgusting, which really let the place down."
• "Each time the toilets are disgusting."
• "Don’t go to the toilets. I went to the gents. Dirty, like a back street Indian restaurant in Soho."
• "Children's play area filthy and muddy, taking home filthy children takes away the pleasure of eating out."
• "The dining area ceiling has cobwebs and could do with a dust."
• "Shame about the smell of the kitchen which permeates the garden. The outside heaters dont work either."
• "Only thing my aunt and me didn't like was the ladies room, just needs one of those air fresheners that work automatically."