Clock Warehouse Reviews Summary

Location and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Otherwise beautiful location by the canal."
• "With a delightful building."
• "Beautiful pub at a great location."
• "Fantastic scenery and building."
• "Beautiful area with awesome views, watch the canal boats passing while you enjoy the outside seating area."
• "The Clock Warehouse is in a quiet setting with plenty of parking, ideal for meeting up with colleagues."
• "It's a beautiful spot and a historic building which is nicely decorated inside."

Cons:

• "The room wasn’t very warm and people were putting their coats back on."
• "Only 1 girl on the bar which was ridiculous had to wait for wine as there was no clean glasses."
• "The only time we seen a manager was when the next table to us was complaining about their meal."
• "We got taken to an attic room with fold down tables that weren't even set up."
• "For that I won't be going back."
• "We came for a walk around Shardlow and decided to have a drink in the beer garden, it was disgusting, every table was full of dirty glasses and plates."
• "They had a lighting problem so we ate in the dark (ish)."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff were really friendly and accommodating throughout."
• "The staff were very friendly, polite and approachable."
• "Only thing better were the staff, super friendly, helpful and attentive."
• "The service was 5 star all the way."
• "The staff were very attentive and the food was very good."
• "Staff are mostly young people and are chatty when time allows."
• "Really lovely staff couldn’t do enough for us."

Cons:

• "The service was a little slow and seemed to be carried out by disinterested staff."
• "As we were sat at the bottom level, we were waiting a while until someone came and we had to flag them down as they ran past."
• "After one whole hour of waiting there was still no sign of food."
• "The staff were very slow with the table service in between courses."
• "We were waiting 25 minutes for our drink and food order to be taken."
• "We had to wait an hour for food and drinks took a long time as there was a queue at the bar."
• "There simply didn't appear to be enough staff around to provide an efficient and stress free experience."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is excellent."
• "Food was lovely with good portion sizes - not too much or too little."
• "Dessert was very good."
• "One steak was perfect."
• "The chef actually cooked a fish perfectly, crisp, crunchy hot batter, fish soft, cooked and not crumbly."
• "The food was great as we expected it to be."
• "The food was of a very high standard - my fish was the best I've had in a long time & husband's steak really well cooked - & hot."

Cons:

• "Unfortunately we won’t be returning as the food just wasn’t worth the price."
• "My only disappointment was the ribeye steak which was rather dry and chewy."
• "Food was a little mediocre as the blue cheese sauce was more of a sweet chutney."
• "Steak was not cooked as ordered."
• "The mixed grill was lukewarm with a steak that was 80% fat."
• "The meats were of good quality but just not hot."
• "The other very stringy and grissly."