The Deers Hut Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The belly pork was very good - even had some crispy crackling."
• "Serves excellent food. Steak a highlight."
• "Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their food. Delicious."
• "The food here is excellent and very reasonably priced for the quality."
• "Every single part of the dinner was bursting with separate flavours!"
• "Delicious pheasant breast roast, good yorkies. Generous portions."
• "The beef was cooked to perfection and the veggie's and roast potatoes were absolutely superb."

Cons:

• "The Yorkshire pudding and roast potatoes were dry and tasted as if they had just been heated up. The mixed vegetables were water logged and had very little taste."
• "Food was not as good as usual."
• "The linguine pasta was absolutely blunt and unsalted."
• "The fish at £18 was dry and over cooked."
• "The spices in the chicken curry were not tempered and therefore had a raw edge to the flavours."
• "Food was bland, pretty sure it was just a reheated or microwave chicken burger for main."
• "Nipped in for some lunch ordered, 2 fish and chips. Possibly the worst I have had for a long time over cooked fish terrible batter not worth the £17 pounds."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff are always very friendly and chatty."
• "Staff welcoming and nice and warm inside."
• "Cannot recommend Jason and The Deers Hut staff highly enough for the wonderful surprise party we had recently at the pub for my husband."
• "Service is taken care of by young staff, who are generally very efficient, but needed prodding a couple of times."
• "The service was friendly and efficient."
• "The staff were attentive and professional."
• "Very friendly welcome, attentive staff. Timely, well-paced service throughout."

Cons:

• "Furious with this venue. We had pencilled in an event a year in advance (in June 2017). We were told that we could not confirm the booking until January 2018 - that no bookings could be confirmed by anyone until that time. Strict policy."
• "Food unfortunately was cold and brought food out with no cutlery."
• "After 25 minutes of waiting to order a drink, be given food menus or even a glass of water, we decided we’d rather not spend our money there and left."
• "Servers were polite but not particularly attentive."
• "Service was very slow. Very understaffed and because we were sat at the very back, were overlooked."
• "Good food as always, but poor service tonight. Sat for ages before order taken. Ordered drinks and they were forgotten."
• "We arrive at 2.25pm to be told very abruptly we had 'one minute to order if you want food off the menu as the kitchen shuts at 2.30pm'."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Lovely atmosphere with dedicated table space for dogs."
• "A real find!!!"
• "Great ambience and would recommend to family."
• "The ambiance is comfortable and relaxing the beer is good"
• "Great atmosphere. Great food. Great service. Great gin of the day."
• "Such a great atmosphere, beautifully decorated for the Christmas season."
• "Lovely place with a cosy atmosphere inside."

Cons:

• "We were seated briskly in a quiet room to the side of the bar area, which was lacking atmosphere (too quiet and cramped to other tables)."
• "In the area we sat in there are way to many dusty stuffed animals."
• "Sat outside and it was somewhat spoilt by a loud group of (Jack the lad) white van men."
• "However it is a shame that this is not a child friendly place."
• "Lonely old pub too, with low ceilings and wood beams, massive garden area with cool long wooden benches for bigger groups."
• "The venue is beautiful and has plenty of comfortable seats both inside and outside."
• "Charming, cosy decor throughout."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "I had fish n chips my son had a burger £18 and £16. Expensive, but very nice."
• "Worth every penny, some would say it's expensive at 20 pound, but not when you get that kind of quality, it's worth the money!"
• "The prices are brilliant for what you get if anything pricing is cheaper than expected."
• "Visited on their Tuesday burger night which is excellent value for money, 2 x burgers for £16."
• "The food is well presented and tasty with quite a varied menu."
• "Fantastic food and excellent portion size."
• "The steaks were delicious, the best we have had, the batter on the fish was so light."

Cons:

• "£ 9:90 for 2 drinks it was very empty now we know why no wonder pubs are closing down."
• "For £20 this dish was overpriced."
• "Very pricey menu without the service and standards to warrant it."
• "Not worth £17 a roast."
• "Priced for the location not the quality of food."
• "Food was simply not worth the money (steaks) so sent them back and had no apologies."
• "A bill for 4 close to £150, without Desserts."