The Beaufort Pub Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Outstanding food, fantastic, attentive and friendly service."
• "The food is good especially the gammon croquettes as a little bar snack or side 👌"
• "Food is great here. I love their fish and chips. Always fresh fish and not oily at all."
• "Best fish and chips I’ve ever had, the staff was amazing."
• "The roast dinner was very good quality but I found the beef too fatty for my particular preference. The vegetables themselves were brilliant."
• "The food was great - we had the linguini, risotto, and kids mac & cheese."
• "Sharing platter and Sunday lunch were delicious and plentiful."

Cons:

• "Sent back my chips because they were re fried (yes old chips passed through hot oil)."
• "Food is average but very expensive."
• "The food was below average. I ordered the pork chop and it was as if I was chewing rubber sole."
• "Food mediocre."
• "I won't go back again for one, lukewarm food, definitely not fresh, seemed to of been microwaved."
• "Not impressed with this place at all. Not only was the food bland and somewhat over priced, three of the four of us that dined here were very sick afterwards."
• "Food was such a disappoint, 21 days cured beef was more like £2 Asda beef, tuff like concrete and expensive for what it is..."

Service

Pros:

• "Management and staff? - World class..."
• "The service was excellent as was the food."
• "Service was friendly and quick."
• "The head chef and staff made sure we enjoyed our evening and always kept checking if we requested anything else."
• "Service was great, friendly atmosphere."
• "The service was impeccable - super friendly and conscientious without being overbearing."
• "Great experience, lovely food with great service."

Cons:

• "Both food and atmosphere were nice here but unfortunately customer service was not."
• "Food was good, service was interesting. It wasn't particularly busy when we went but the staff appeared to struggle with the basics."
• "Slow poor service, food took over half an hour for 4 mains and the restaurant wasn't even busy."
• "The service was memorable, no for its quality but for the lack of it."
• "It takes forever to get drinks even when the pub was empty."
• "Food tool over half an hour for 4 mains and the restaurant wasn't even busy, lost food order had to reorder again, when food did come out it was cold."
• "Barmaid had an awful attitude, (not to me personally) - Caught behind an old couple walking slowly towards the bar she impatiently stated ‘excuse me, if you don’t let me through you won’t be getting served!’"

Ambiance and Decor

Pros:

• "We had a late lunch so it's not crowded at all, nice decor and feel have more space between tables."
• "Lovely pub, excellent food, great service, the atmosphere is so chilled out and staff are very helpful and friendly."
• "It has some lovely comfy chairs as well as regular seating inside and outside for food and/or drinks."
• "The Beaufort Pub, though not widely recognized, is known for its understated elegance and warm, welcoming ambiance."
• "Lovely place! Just down the road from RAF Hendon museum in one direction and Colindale Underground station the other, so ideally placed for a stop off either on the way there, on the way out, or both!"
• "Very nice, modern stylish interior. Welcoming and positive environment."
• "Lovely atmosphere and staff were friendly and attentive."

Cons:

• "the food is good, the place does not have warmth, like going to a place that is not homely."
• "Tables are new but almost all were dirty."
• "Really nice place except for the very strong smell of fried cooking throughout the pub."
• "Beer garden absolutely covered in rotten apples and subsequently our food and drinks were continuously landed on by wasps and flys."
• "Toilets were filthy during my last visit. Flies in every cubical."
• "The booking system Beaufort pub operates is a complete shambles and it feels discriminatory."
• "On a recent visit we placed an order, drinks were served cutlery was brought food was about to be served and a staff member came asking us to move to a different table saying that's a reserved table, no signs were placed!"

Value for Money

Pros:

• "Friendly staff, reasonable priced food but drinks are a little on the expensive side."
• "Lovely location, amazing prices on a large selection of drinks with very friendly but efficient staff!"
• "Nice food. Reasonably priced drinks."
• "Good prices."
• "Outstanding food... all at a very reasonable price."
• "Prices are very reasonable for the area in which this pub resides."
• "I wouldn’t say its pricy because they’re reduced on VAT collection."

Cons:

• "Expensive for the food... In fact the menu was quite expensive for a pub not even in central London."
• "Expensive for the food. Ordered the vegan cheeseburger, the flavour wasn't that rich or exciting."
• "Poncy, pricey and they dont reimburse your parking."
• "Paid parking outside is quite expensive."
• "Extremely expensive considering you're in Colindale/ Graham Park. £6.55 a pint."
• "Comfortable pub, but really expensive."
• "Quite expensive but we were trying to support local business."

Facilities

Pros:

• "Spotlessly clean too."
• "Clean restroom. Decent price."
• "Facilities are clean and well kept, large wine / drinks selection, something for everyone."
• "Lovely patio area with heat lamps and staff are very friendly and helpful."
• "This pub has very nice interior."
• "Great place very spacious light and airy."
• "Easy online table booking system. Indoor and outdoor seating."

Cons:

• "I went there with my bf last week and the parking is an issue."
• "Couldn’t park my motorcycle near entrance... random guy telling me that I’m damaging his pavement."
• "Hard to find parking nearby unless you want to pay the extortionate pay and display prices for it in the surrounding estate."
• "Multiple 'reserved' apparent tables so had to sit outside, heaters were not working."
• "Told it was fully booked although there were at least 4 empty tables."
• "The horrific: we waited over 30 mins for our food, by which time it was clear several of the plates had been stuck waiting on the side for ages whilst the rest cooked."
• "The Beaufort Pub Manager and staffs don’t have no respect for the neighbour, The pub opened over night, they do refurbish for the Pub over night make noises make us can’t sleep for the last couple of days."