The Gamekeepers Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food and drink are fantastic."
• "The food is absolutely delicious."
• "Chef knows what medium rare is, cuts of meat are full of flavour and are cooked to perfection."
• "Amazingly fresh cooked food."
• "The famous sticky toffee pudding, which was out of this world!"
• "The food here is always absolutely amazing."
• "The food is always cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "On this occasion I thought the menu was inferior to the previous one."
• "Food very poor...especially the Roast Turkey dinner...distinct lack of fresh vegetables."
• "The food was OK but nothing like what I was expecting."
• "Each dish we had lacked flavour and left us feeling a bit uneasy."
• "Sometimes less is more and I feel the recent changes to the menu are trying too hard to be clever with foams and jus."
• "Overall the food was pretty average."
• "Upper end gastropub prices for bog standard quality."

Service

Pros:

• "The waitresses were all very attentive."
• "Staff were friendly, and service was good."
• "Service friendly and efficient, could not fault the staff or owner."
• "Staff is knowledable and warm."
• "Excellent service."
• "Perfectly cooked and wonderful service."
• "The team were very friendly and attentive."

Cons:

• "We ordered a bottle of wine and had to serve ourselves."
• "The waiting staff was too keen to get us moved quickly as soon as the desserts were finished."
• "Due to the lack of acknowledgement and not so attentive service I can only give 3 stars."
• "Service was pretty poor, food was OK, atmosphere not great."
• "Our drinks order was wrong on a couple of occasions."
• "Service was great although slow at times."
• "The main server was a little over bearing on the day we went and could have done with smartening up."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "A good English pub with loads of character."
• "The atmosphere is relaxing."
• "Great atmosphere of the pub."
• "Special atmosphere where the owner reads the menu and answers any and all questions."
• "Great atmosphere! A nice and cosy country pub."
• "Lovely cosy pub with a fireplace."
• "The pub is beautiful and cosy and the experience matched it perfectly."

Cons:

• "Not much more than a standard gastro pub, but for a steep price."
• "The place was full of young families."
• "It was so busy for the Christmas season that we were asked to get up 10 minutes after being seated."
• "Special occasion for us, but spoilt by the atmosphere."
• "The table was next to the kitchen door and the main walkway to lots of tables."
• "Probably wont go back, don't like pretentious pubs."
• "The only downside is if you're sitting on the sofa's, the staff door that's used almost constantly slams every time."

Pricing

Pros:

• "You get what you pay... But to me it's a tad too expensive."
• "Price not for everyone's pocket, but the food more than compensates for the price."
• "A fair price for the quality of food, cooking and service."
• "Amazing food at sensible prices."
• "You get what you pay for."
• "Not cheap, but worth it."
• "The food was excellent and definitely worth the money."

Cons:

• "Pricing, it was above the norm maybe even to the point of overpriced."
• "Mains alone were about £30 each."
• "Not much more than a standard gastro pub, but for a steep price."
• "The main courses at £38 were, I felt pricey and at nearly 150 quid per couple it is not something that would encourage me to visit again....shame."
• "Very pricey."
• "Well over priced."
• "Felt £256-00 a little over the top for 4, it did include drinks, starters, main, and desert, and bottle of house red."