The Ivy Marlow Garden Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food here is INCREDIBLE! I selected the duck curry, chocolate bomb, coffee and a mocktail. Everything was truly delicious, especially the chocolate bomb dessert."
• "The duck salad was amazing, really lovely depth of flavours, squid tempura was also very impressive!"
• "The food was excellent and first class modern presentation."
• "Absolutely delighted by the exceptional experience at Ivy Garden Marlow! The gastronomic journey was nothing short of extraordinary, with each dish reflecting unparalleled culinary artistry and top-tier ingredients."
• "Had breakfast on a girl's day out. Food tasty and presented well. Had some pastries to start, lovely and warm, mouthwatering, delicious. Eggs Benedict was excellent."
• "For a special treat, an exceptional place to eat and drink. Helpful well trained staff, happy to make small edits to menu items. Efficient and plates arrived looking good and tasting good."
• "My friend booked afternoon tea few weeks ago. What can I say 'Gorgeous setting for a lovely afternoon tea'. Afternoon tea was all delicious and outstanding."
• "Celebrating daughters birthday had a lovely meal with the family. Food was really tasty, ordered shepherd's pie, minute steak, fish cakes, for starters had asparagus and salt and pepper squids. Food was delicious would definitely go again."

Cons:

• "Delighted by the elegant ambiance and attentive service, my dining experience took an unfortunate turn with the undercooked blackened cod. Despite returning it to the kitchen, the dish returned improved but lacked the desired warmth."
• "My wife had severe stomach pains and vomiting after our meal. The only different food she had was the Chicken & mushroom for her main course."
• "Visited ivy cafe for my birthday today (26.06.23). Unfortunately, it was a disappointing experience. We arrived at 2pm, starters were lovely but unfortunately mains were very disappointing and service was poor."
• "I ordered the fish cake with a poached egg. When it arrived, the poached egg was over cooked."
• "A really nice restaurant in a pleasant but quiet town. The only slight let down being the crispy duck salad where the five spice sauce/seasoning was a tad overpowering."
• "The Ivy Restaurant is a combination of style with a nice and cozy in one side and a green 'jungle' way in the other., unique I will say in that prospective. They are welcoming and very perceptive to their clients. I can't say that I was impressed by the food quality and dessert and for the price we paid I expected more!"
• "The area that unfortunately let down the experience was the menu, there was only two vegan options of both the starter and the main. I found them to be unexciting and lacking of flavour."
• "Our soup to start was virtually stone cold. Not particularly flavoursome. And the second course of artichoke gnocchi was grey and hard like rubber."

Service Quality

Pros:

• "The waiters were fantastic and helpful. Very busy over lunchtime and the tables were very close together."
• "Really beautiful deco with a very eclectic mix of art work, good service attentive and food was served quickly, enjoyed our visit."
• "Service very friendly and helpful but overall, very slow for latter part of Sunday lunch service which is of course a kitchen problem but serving staff had to be continually chased for detail items for example, sweeteners and spoons with coffee."
• "Staff very helpful and polite. Thank u for making it a enjoyable experience."
• "The service was as impeccable as the cuisine, with a team that exuded warmth, knowledge, and attentiveness, elevating the entire dining affair."
• "Had a lovely experience at The Ivy Marlow, the food we ordered was delicious and the staff could not have been more friendly or attentive."
• "For a special treat, an exceptional place to eat and drink. Helpful well trained staff."
• "Frazer was fab! Really chatty and friendly - we will be back! Lovely guy!"

Cons:

• "My friend booked afternoon tea few weeks ago. What can I say 'Gorgeous setting for a lovely afternoon tea'. Afternoon tea was all delicious and outstanding. The ambience is beautiful. Will visit again."
• "Delighted by the elegant ambiance and attentive service, my dining experience took an unfortunate turn with the undercooked blackened cod."
• "The whole Ivy experience gets a 5 star everytime! From the moment you enter you feel like royalty with a professional hostess, sommeliers, waiters and atmosphere. The food is always top notch and innovative! We love the Ivy!"
• "My wife had severe stomach pains and vomiting after our meal. Although the restaurant and service was very good, they need to check the food content or cleanliness. 5 days on and she is still ill and the restaurant never even contacted us disgusted My message sent to the ivy and no reply either really don’t care about there customers"
• "Breakfast today with 5 friends. Very very disappointing for an Ivy Restaurant. Full English. Cold Plates, fried eggs hard boiled ( waiter changed them) breakfast like warm. No staff come back to the table to check all in order. Ivy you need to do so much better."
• "Visited ivy cafe for my birthday today (26.06.23). Unfortunately it was a disappointing experience. We arrived at 2pm, starters were lovely but unfortunately mains were very disappointing and service was poor."
• "Enjoyed our visit, the waiting staff were attentive and excellent. The only gripe is the kids meals were massively delayed despite the order being placed at the outset and were due to arrive with our mains (they didn’t have starters)."
• "We had a lovely meal last night the food was delicious. The service was excellent from being greeted and taken to our table."