The Joiners Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is great n worth every penny."
• "The 3 times I ate there the food was actually very good!"
• "Food and cocktails lovely."
• "how can i describe their food! SIMPLY DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS, AND VERY ENJOYABLE!"
• "The food was amazing especially the pepperoni pizza which I thoroughly enjoyed."
• "Delicious food and great deals alongside decent prices."
• "Three of us had chicken burgers and all agreed it was one of the best we have ever had."

Cons:

• "Cheap food and beer. Food is not great quality and sometimes takes ages to serve."
• "Avoid the food at all costs. Yes it's cheap and at the time you might think you like the idea of microwaved chicken but after having the runs and vomiting all day giving me time to reflect on my decision I realise that the seconds of joy of biting into a cheap and luke warm chicken goujon was really not worth it."
• "Food very expensive. Sharrer platters not available. Small plates were ridiculously 'light' but 'impressively' expensive."
• "All day breakfast disappointing. The whole thing looked very dry and unappealing and was tasteless."
• "Food quality is really poor, burger was not very good and the fries were cold."
• "Food was cold and greasy."
• "Food is inedible, tried several things on various occasions, just awful every time."

Service

Pros:

• "Efficient and super friendly service from lovely waitress."
• "Was served by George who was friendly and efficient and greeted me with a smile."
• "Came for the 241 Cocktails and was not disappointed, it was a great night and Frankie went above and beyond when serving us!"
• "The service was efficient and fast."
• "The service was fantastic with such friendly staff."
• "We were treated very nicely by Keira. Great customer service!! Thank you."
• "The staff were super welcoming and the service from our server George was excellent."

Cons:

• "Messed up my food order twice."
• "Service is slow, they always run out of something."
• "Service was a bit disorganised, which can be forgiven as it's the first week back for a long time. However, our table was not cleared for over an hour, with over twenty glasses and shot glasses clearly visible on the table."
• "Very very rude manager she rudly told us we need to leave immediately because she need to clean the table for people who paid for the table from 7:30pm."
• "The new manager is useless in my opinion doesn't do nothing."
• "Poor customer services."
• "Service slow and manager so rude tonight, that we got up and walked out."

Cleanliness

Pros:

• "A very covid compliant pub which seems to be surprisingly hard to find at the moment! Tables are all spaced apart and purchases are made on an app so no queuing at the bar."
• "Always a nice experience, staff very attentive, table service which is nice, drinks reasonably priced, food good if you are eating and bar area and toilets always clean."
• "The bar and the whole pub was very well laid out and was really clean and tidy."
• "Recently improved the decor inside and created a nice outdoor space in the back."
• "The environment is clean."
• "Covid measures good and garden area lovely."
• "The garden is nice and it is comfy."

Cons:

• "Smelly mugs and if they wash them. Disgusting toilets that are out of order most the time."
• "Still dirty toilets but largely down to the company, (Stonegate)."
• "The place is not the cleanest."
• "Food was cold and greasy. Staff kept chatting with regulars whilst we waited to get served."
• "Kitchen seems unable to cope with 35-40 minute wait."
• "Very dinghy lighting very bad too."
• "Needs to be a bit more covid friendly. Busy pub. Some tables are too close for comfort in current climates."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Enjoy going to the Joiners, good value for money food and love the garden."
• "A cheap and cheerful pub in Ballards Lane... they also have a decent beer garden, music with a DJ on Saturday night, along with plenty of TV's to watch the sport."
• "Great ambience and good food and drinks."
• "A very nice beer garden at the rear of the pub. Quiet and shaded."
• "This is a cracking place to have a few drinks with friends, get a really nice and well priced meal or watch some sport."
• "Really cool pub, came to watch the Manchester Derby on one of the many screens, perfect view no matter where you were."
• "It’s got great service, delicious food and a relaxed atmosphere."

Cons:

• "Many, many years ago this was a decent Finchley Central Pub... Now its noisy, oiky, rough clientele, with loud music and plenty of tattooed louts with their awful partners."
• "To be honest, Joiners felt like a busy Albanian betting shop."
• "It's appalling that in this modern day, a manager of an establishment in a multi cultural community will instruct their DJs not to play urban music."
• "The new manager is useless in my opinion doesn't do nothing."
• "The place is catering for the workmen and the locals watching football. Atmosphere is a bit hostile."
• "this pub seams to hate football being played the idea there could be a Darby playing and they decide to have no commentary play music that no one is listening to is a joke."
• "The worst pub ever, i went there earlier to watch the england match and the lady manager threw a table at my leg."

Value

Pros:

• "Cheap food and beer."
• "Good choice of drinks reasonably priced decent food."
• "Nice food and a great selection of drinks."
• "good selection of craft ales and lagers, Good tapas- 5 for £13 big portions, tasty burger."
• "Serve all day hot meal."
• "Large open areas front and back."
• "A lovely family pub that also have a DJ in on Friday night and Saturday night."

Cons:

• "Bit too pricey."
• "Very nice pub but the drinks are very expensive."
• "Food very expensive. Sharrer platters not available. Small plates were ridiculously 'light' but 'impressively' expensive."
• "£11 for an ‘earth bowl’ which was clearly mangled together from next door’s Tesco, for £5."
• "Food is rank, lower standard than the average Wetherspoon."
• "Food very expensive. Sharrer platters not available."
• "Stupid new door policy with a silly machine which won't let you in (even if well dressed and in your 40s) without ID. Bouncers on the door with no flexibility to use common sense."