Harvester Windmill Bushey Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "food was great the 10oz sirloin steak was cooked for perfection and chicken combo was very tasty."
• "All meals were delicious, except for a child’s burger which was tough."
• "The food was fresh well prepared with great flavours."
• "Food very tasty and piping hot"
• "The food was AMAZING and the signature salad was generously made by them."
• "The food was excellent and fresh....and hot...which is difficult when trying to serve 20 girls."
• "Had a wonderful meal. The food was served hot."

Cons:

• "Average pub food experience, food was bland but portions were generous."
• "Food is not great and not worth the price as well."
• "Good portions. Food is just ok, tasty but average."
• "Most of us couldn’t eat it as it was over cooked/heated or burnt or just tasted bad"
• "The food was tasteless, this is not my first visit but the food this time was really tasteless."
• "Unfortunately the food was below par today. We watched it left sitting on the pass for nearly 10 minutes."
• "Food was appalling, we were a group of 6 adults, we had to send 2 meals back as they weren't edible."

Service

Pros:

• "Maureen was brilliant"
• "staff are efficient & polite food is spot on definitely worth the visit keep it up……!!"
• "Service was excellent, food was delicious, in fact, better than I ever remember it."
• "Our waitress Bozena was excellent and a credit to Harvester"
• "The waitress servicing us for really helpful and friendly."
• "Great service from Carol the waitress"
• "Service is always good at The Windmill, staff are friendly"

Cons:

• "Service was painfully slow, maybe because they were busy and we were a big group."
• "Strange reception from the assistant manager...felt told off."
• "only gave 1 star as you can't give zero. Went here yesterday and was served by a girl called Stacey. I can honestly say I've never witnessed such poor shoddy customer service."
• "The initial welcome from the manager on duty wasn’t very warm and welcoming!"
• "Appalling, From the start when we walked in, the so called manageress didn't say a word just walked us to a table and plonked some menus down."
• "The worst service ever received from this young lady with long blonde hair that she probably thinks she knows them all and that she's important."
• "I was appalled at this awful women's manner not once did she apoligise she was just totly rude and wouldnt even give her name."

Ambience and Cleanliness

Pros:

• "Very cosy with new decor, table seating is perfect with booths"
• "The bar was lovely with 2 Xmas trees."
• "Lovely place to eat relaxed atmosphere"
• "The place was clean and tidy. The salad bar had all fresh salads and was kept clean."
• "Lovely building, loads of room- with great Xmas decs! Nice little beer garden"
• "The ambience was beautiful and comfortable"
• "The local itself is a very friendly and cozy."

Cons:

• "Salad cart was empty and they didn't bother to fill it up after 7pm so just a manky bit of lettuce and such."
• "The cleanliness and hygiene of the restaurant is poor."
• "The bathrooms were extremely dirty and to be honest you can find a cleaner public restroom on a train station."
• "Toilets are disgusting.. the walls in cubicles, the skirting boards, anywhere dust and dirt could settle basically!"
• "no passion gone into food, branch feels very dirty and sticky when you walk in."
• "outside seating areas filthy with left over food and plates etc sat there for the entire three hours of our stay attracting flies all over."
• "tables and chairs outside uncomfortable falling apart and feel dirty."

Value

Pros:

• "Good food, kind staff and good price."
• "We ate from the lunch set menu and it was very good value and all 9 of us enjoyed tasty food too."
• "I like to go there early before 5pm for their £7.99 Early Bird Menu."
• "Good value with a 40% off voucher."
• "The festive menu is at a good price - £18"
• "Very reasonably priced, too!"
• "If you can't make it before 5pm and still want to eat within reasonable budget for 2 course (free salad with mains) meal, then try their Cod and chips or scampi and chips for £10.49 each."

Cons:

• "I would give zero stars if I could. We booked take away on Christmas (today) and now we have no food."
• "We had the pleasure to go and eat somewhere else"
• "We ordered food from the discount menu which says 2 meals for £14.99 and it's three course meal however I got a £68.99 bill!"
• "On your website it said that if I registered with you, I will get a free drink. All I wanted was a Coke. I felt cheated. The manager refused to honour this."
• "the prices are quite steep now we used to go quite often but money is always tight"
• "I was really not happy at all a meal that i was expecting to cost £56 pounds I ended up paying £70 with a side of attitude."
• "Food average as expected but the attitude of staff and incompetence was just dreadful."