The Cape Of Good Hope Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food was delicious very fresh tasting and good portions."
• "Most of all the food was great."
• "The food is excellent."
• "Everything we had from the menu was delicious."
• "The food was amazing each time, meats and vegetables cooked to perfection, the pies are delicious."
• "Food was AMAZING."
• "Some of the best pub food I have sampled. Freshly cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "The Lamb was extremely tough and was described as leather like."
• "today we both thought the portions were small for the money the food was only warm."
• "We had the Sunday lunch. I had the beef, it was terrible. The meat was very dry and chewy, I couldn't eat it."
• "Expensive, tasted poor quality food. Sunday lunch terrible, burnt potatoes, small aunt bessy type Yorkshire puddings."
• "No taste or flavour.. i was really shocked on the portion size. I had about 3 mouthfulls of pasta.and mainly sauce..for 13.50 i was not impressed."
• "I ordered lamb which was full of fat, now I know lamb is fatty but it was inedible"
• "Honestly, it was some of the worst food I have experienced - especially for the price."

Service

Pros:

• "Very friendly, big Sunday roast portions and reasonable prices."
• "One member of staff who was cheerful and attentive made up for others who seemed surly and offhand"
• "The staff were incredibly friendly and informative."
• "The staff are always very welcoming and always happy to help with a big smile."
• "The staff were very helpful and friendly."
• "Staff were very attentive and they couldn't have done anymore for us!"
• "Staff friendly and helpful."

Cons:

• "We were told we would be notified when our table was available but I think we were forgotten about until I reminded them."
• "We ordered a couple of drinks and two soups at 5.30pm... At 6.10pm my husband list patience and asked for a refund for the food."
• "Our drinks order was forgotten about so I reminded them after 10 minutes."
• "Unfortunately they forgot about some of the food."
• "Waited ages for the sweets."
• "The pub was very busy and service was a bit chaotic."
• "Unfortunately our experience was soured because one of the meals, the fish cakes, came out stone cold."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "A real hidden gem."
• "Absolutely top notch atmosphere."
• "Fabulous atmosphere."
• "Great staff and excellent atmosphere."
• "Food excellent and the atmosphere was wonderful."
• "The pub itself has a nice friendly atmosphere."
• "Lovely atmosphere."

Cons:

• "The outdoor tables are very cramped."
• "turning the music up (awful techno garbage), to such an extent that a one to one conversation was well nigh impossible, was in rather poor taste."
• "dominated by tv sports screen"
• "Although it felt like you were eating with the people beside you as the tables were rather cramped."
• "it was slack with insufficient attention to detail especially hygiene, cleanliness and litter (cigarette detritus especially)."
• "The Atmosphere was nice and calm."
• "The young lady serving was rude too, and dropped a fair few fries plonking the plate on the table - and it seemed like serving was an inconvenience to her."

Location

Pros:

• "This is a great little gem, hidden away amongst the houses, and located along the canal side."
• "Sitting by a canal enjoying delicious food."
• "Lovely pub right on the canal"
• "a lovely canel setting"
• "Very picturesque location by the canal."
• "The location is awesome (next to the canal)."
• "Lovely canal side setting."