The Honey Bee Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Easy to book and shown straight to our table."
• "The Service was brilliant with Niamh looking after us and making sure we were all ok and enjoying our Meal."
• "The staff were all attentive and quite obviously well trained in customer service and all requests by customers were addressed if possible."
• "Our waiter was very friendly and helpful, and the other staff are too."
• "Service attentive and courteous but best of all the staff really took great precautions around my gluten allergy."
• "Staff were friendly and attentive, I felt no need to leave the table."
• "The staff were so welcoming, the lady who served us was lovely."

Cons:

• "However the service was shocking and slow."
• "We have been sitting for awhile before we was given Menu's or asked if we wanted any drinks."
• "Slow service, pre booked table with a deposit on pre selected menu, waited an hour from being seated to receive starters."
• "Very slow service. We booked in prior to a flight and we're in over 2.5 hours."
• "Service was extremely poor, and the staff that were present were unattentive."
• "Service was also very slow!"
• "The service was very good, but very slow."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "What wonderfully delicious food! Compliments to the chef."
• "Great selection of beer and wine too!"
• "Delicious and quite filling."
• "As a foreign I got the Fish & Chips and my god it was amazing!"
• "The lunchtime fish and chips, hunters chicken and pizza were really nice."
• "The hot chicken and camembert sandwich was divine."
• "The food was absolutely delicious!"

Cons:

• "The fish was soo overcooked and dry and the massive chips were under cooked."
• "The turkey was rather dry. The roast potatoes which were rubbery, like they'd been kept warm since Saturday!"
• "The gammon was really really salty, I know gammon is very salty anyway but this was overkill."
• "Food not good, cold and some items over cooked."
• "The cauliflower cheese was lacking the cheese sauce, it seemed like it was overcooked cauliflower with a sprinkling of cheese on top."
• "The prawns were so tiny and overcooked and the scallops were the size of maybe a 20p piece."
• "The food wasn’t the best as it felt like the food had been out all evening."

Ambience & Decor

Pros:

• "The place was cosy and quaint, a lovely venue."
• "Lovely pub in a lovely setting. Plenty of seating both indoor and outdoor."
• "Classic country pub in rural settings."
• "Beautiful, large stylish pub with a mixture of old + new decor with a cosy relaxing ambience."
• "The pub is warm, welcoming & beautifully decorated."
• "The pub has just had a refurb and looks even more homely for such a large pub."
• "The pub is very cozy, it has real log burning fires which were lit!"

Cons:

• "The lighting was so low in the dining area and actually flickered quite annoyingly - it felt like we were being rationed!!!"
• "Nothing wrong with it but it lacks true character for me."
• "First time to this place but would not go again as the place needs a refurbishment at it looks dirty in the bar area."
• "The over ambience of the place was a little up itself in true reflection."
• "It’s a tad bit dark on the outside, could do with a little more lighting."
• "The whole dining area was cold, people wearing coats."
• "The decoration was in dire need of a complete overhaul."

Value

Pros:

• "The best meal was the kids lasagne which came with veg and mash, in fact her kids meal was as big as our main meals and a third of the price."
• "Good choices on the menu and food well presented and tasty."
• "Good choice of food and drinks reasonably priced."
• "The portion size is very generous and the food was delicious."
• "Food was good and the discount received using our loyalty code was very welcome."
• "The food, decor and very welcoming staff are a great credit to this establishment."
• "Foods nice.. you get what you pay for."

Cons:

• "Two small bottles of CokeCola for £6.40! I felt was a just a touch overpriced!"
• "The prices have gone ridiculous and don't reflect the service or quality of food."
• "Food was not up to standard, ordered a rare steak which came every so slightly pink and rubbery."
• "I think £44 for this is fine for rich Cheshire Housewives with more money than sense but is outrageously over priced for the average working family."
• "Two were rib eye steak, these were very fatty and quite a lot was left as fatty, for a cut of steak that is supposed to be the better part of the animal, left was 30 to 50%? and £44.00 for two steak dinners!!!!"
• "The price for this food is high, not worth what was on the plate."
• "Its definitely not worth the price."