The Hadley Bowling Green Inn Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The Sunday beef roast was absolutely divine."
• "The food is amazing."
• "fab food reasonably priced."
• "Food is always excellent, and so is the service."
• "The food was superb and staff extremely attentive and professional."
• "The food was delicious and the service was excellent."
• "Food was tasty and decent size portions."

Cons:

• "The food was just Pub Grub."
• "Menu not so, unless you wanted Haddock & chips."
• "The food was disappointing - meat whose fat was not rendered at dinner and a bacon sandwich for breakfast, which not only was not loaded with bacon (two small slices of streaky) but it was burnt to a cinder."
• "the meal was a disaster not much to eat because of the allergies"
• "opted for the pie of the day which was around the £15 mark came with half a dozen chips a couple of pieces of broccoli and a few green beans all in all worth about £10 in most other pubs"
• "was served frozen chips instead of the lovely triple cooked ones"
• "Disappointing Sunday Roast ... The meat that was served to us(beef) was fat and gristle."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Chris and his staff are consistently polite, attentive and friendly."
• "Staff friendly and very helpful too.. thank you to Chris and all the staff."
• "Very young staff who are so friendly & anxious to ensure your stay is wonderful & it is."
• "All staff were manerable, friendly and helpful, nothing was an effort."
• "The staff were incredibly friendly and welcoming, and they went above and beyond to make sure that we had a comfortable and enjoyable stay."
• "The staff were very helpful & friendly."
• "Staff all friendly and service usually much more efficient."

Cons:

• "Completely spoiled by loud foul language from a crowd sitting near front door"
• "Service was slow, not worth a second visit."
• "Docking a star as when we ordered food through the Web it took over 30mins and we had to chase it up."
• "after ordering a bottle of rose wine I asked for returnn to order red with the main course steak, didn't bother to come back"
• "Although the staff were pleasant and friendly the service was very slow."
• "Beware, irrelevant of the service you have had they put a service charge on your bill !!"
• "noboady came round to offer a desert menu finally 30 mins after everyone had finished there main course they came to remove the plates and when asked about the desert menu The satff replied kitchens closed"

Accommodation

Pros:

• "Our room no 11 was spacious, warm and comfortable."
• "Rooms have everything you need and more, comfy bed and pillows."
• "Rooms are clean and comfortable, can't fault it."
• "The rooms are always spacious and immaculately clean."
• "Our room was very good with a lovely shower room."
• "Our room was comfortable, very clean and had everything we needed."
• "The room was amazing, such a comfortable bed and all you could ask for"

Cons:

• "Rooms are tired and ill-equipped."
• "No water, and no milk for coffee/tea facilities."
• "The bathroom was large with plenty of fluffy towels."
• "For the price and the size of the bathroom we would have expected a separate shower cubicle, instead we were left to manage with a shower over the bath tub which was quite rounded on the base, making you feel positively unsafe."
• "Only complaint was the bed in our room was not very comfy, both of us didn't sleep well and Aching backs next morning."
• "in the room was a half used pack of cigarettes!"
• "It would be helpful to have milk in the rooms rather than to have to ask."

Location and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "This is a lovely English country pub."
• "we arrived about 3pm the pub was buzzing with a great atmosphere"
• "The pub has a lot of history and is in a wonderful country location."
• "easy to find, good location"
• "Absolutely stunning location for some peace and quiet in the country."
• "Set in a beautiful rural location."
• "Lovely setting & place to visit."

Cons:

• "cutting corners, lost customers"
• "Sadly this place did not live up to our expectations."
• "Parking can be a bit of an issue as their carpark isn't big enough for the amount of covers it can do, so be prepared to have to park on the road and walk to the pub."
• "The incessant barking between rival dogs totally ruined the evening for us"
• "Worst of all the place emptied like the Titanic at 21.00 and the staff were turning the lights out at 21.30."
• "Make sure you are well wrapped up as it was very cold in this place"
• "never setting foot in this place again"