The Boat, Berkhamsted Reviews Summary

Atmosphere & Location

Pros:

• "Great pub, they organised social distancing and time slots really well."
• "A great Fuller's canalside pub recently renovated to high standardschool with friendly staff and atmosphere."
• "We had a lovely meal sat outside near the canal. Great atmosphere and lovely pub grub."
• "Amazing pub with a beautiful terrace/garden that looks out onto the canal."
• "Beautiful location and atmosphere."
• "Perfect place to sit by the Riverside, trendy well presented bar with a good selection of food and drinks."
• "Lovely Mother's Day roast. Atmosphere relaxed, service excellent, canal side location beautiful."

Cons:

• "Town centre situ means parking is a problem."
• "Doesn't seem to be enough seating."
• "But the speed of service is slow."
• "The Boat can get pretty rowdy, especially when there’s a sport event on, which isn’t really my cup of tea."
• "Rather overly priced and quite noisy."
• "Now soulless and in search of an identity."
• "Can get very crowded at busy times."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff were helpful and friendly."
• "Always impeccable food served with a smile from extremely hospitable staff."
• "The staff were extremely helpful and friendly. 4 of us came for lunch."
• "The staff are very friendly and attentive and the food arrived in very good time."
• "The welcome and service was warm relaxed and family friendly."
• "The service was excellent. Young man served us very friendly and helpful."
• "Staff are very friendly and professional."

Cons:

• "Went there this afternoon and ordered a cup of coffee and a portion of fries. Waited for 20 minutes before complaining."
• "Desperately slow service and a couldn’t care less attitude."
• "Don’t usually review but the service was so bad I had to."
• "Service - pretty poor."
• "The staff didn't seem to care."
• "The bar staff really didn’t seem interested in customers."
• "Service was very poor."

Food & Drink

Pros:

• "The food was good and the staff really friendly."
• "Great selection of drinks both soft and alcoholic."
• "The pork crackling was crispy and light!"
• "Good selection of beers, effucient and friendly staff and great location."
• "Good range of beers and drinks and all good."
• "The sunday roast was exceptional- sirloin of beef - perfect."
• "The sticky toffee pudding which was extremely tasty, which was served a scoop of salted caramel ice cream which balanced the sweetness of the pudding!"

Cons:

• "My partners cheese on white was tasteless. No butter and dry bread and mild cheese."
• "Real burgers were great but I'm afraid the fake one did not meet expectations."
• "Fish batter was over cooked."
• "Food nothing to write home about and expensive."
• "The food was truly awful."
• "Burger rather inedible, meat tasted really odd."
• "Food rubbish. Must have run out of the dishes we ordered but they managed to scrape something on a plate."