The Goose - Pub & Grill Reviews Summary

Category: Pub

Address: Ambleside, Gamston, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 6NA, United Kingdom

Phone: +441159821041

Rating: 3.9
based on 166 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The food was freshly cooked using high quality produce (breakfast) we were also able to swap a few items."
  • "The food is always nice, and reasonably priced too."
  • "The food was amazing - good portion sizes, really tasty and reasonably priced."
  • "Food was great, very fast service despite being very busy! Desserts were yummy, especially the sticky toffee pudding!"
  • "All staff polite with excellent customer service skills. Great food, great service, couldn't ask for more."
  • "I had gammon steak and it was the best I ever tasted and the food was hot the way I like it."
  • "Food was really good."

Cons:

  • "Very small portions. Prawn and crayfish cocktail. Two prawns three crayfish. All sauce."
  • "It was dry, burnt and it was not looking very appealing at all, coffee was cold."
  • "Pure junk. Horrible food. cold chips, burnt cheap soggy meat and corn sausage instead of pork."
  • "food was cold and quality is below average."
  • "The roast dinner on a Sunday was disgusting, rock hard roast potatoes that tasted frozen! And the yorkshire pudding was full of grease."
  • "Food was expensive but mediocre, £15.99 for dry salmon and wilted salad with brown edged lettuce."
  • "Food was awful chicken very dry, black & blue chicken was not to description on the menu."

Service

Pros:

  • "Staff are incredible. So friendly and helpful and want to make your experience at the goose a good one."
  • "We were looked after by Darren and Lyssa tonight who where great at caring for our every need."
  • "Great service from Natalie who really took care of our mum and made the event nice."
  • "Staff friendly and helpful."
  • "Amazing service and food. All staff are very friendly, attentive and efficient especially Gemma 😁."
  • "Staff were extremely friendly and welcoming, huge thanks to all x."
  • "The staff who served us (Alyssa and Gabe) were great - both were friendly and nothing was too much trouble."

Cons:

  • "One of the waitresses was possibly the most miserable person I have ever met."
  • "That was a very bad way to communicate to customer."
  • "Service was ridiculous was asked 4/5 times about order ... when starters came out was wrong even tho asked a few time what we ordered took 45 minutes before we even received starter's that were wrong .... wasn't just our table that had wrong orders ect .... left without eating and went elsewhere!!!"
  • "Didn't bother staying for food 40 minute wait despite it not being busy."
  • "The manager was less than helpful to sort things out. Very poor!!!"
  • "Service slow and unfriendly,, 20 mins for drinks to arrive from order."
  • "Service was so slow obviously couldn't cope in the kitchen or in the bar with drink orders forgotten."

Atmosphere & Facilities

Pros:

  • "Nice clean pub with bright decor."
  • "The venue was bright and extremely clean with clear COVID instructions and safety procedures."
  • "Nice pub with outdoor playground, indoor soft play area, indoor booths with table and a TV screen."
  • "A popular pub with a large indoor seating area plus a large outdoor seating with a play area for children."
  • "Fantastic food and the interior is very homely.and rustic.farm house feel."
  • "Good points lovely staff, great play area."
  • "The Kids play area smelt horrible."

Cons:

  • "And all eaten in the football-fan-chanting-bar area as 'the restaurant is fully booked', although it remained half empty while we were in there."
  • "Toilets were very smelly....problem with drains I wonder as they weren't dirty."
  • "But if you're going to the indoor play area, be aware, there's always lots of bigger boisterous children in there, knocking over and pushing around the little ones."
  • "Unfortunately my wife is disabled and the 3 disabled parking spaces had cars in them but no blue badges."
  • "Toilets need abut more updating that's only thing I feel.needs abit more attention."
  • "The pub itself considering its location near to one of the posher parts of Nottingham was tired and in need of some money spending on it, particularly the awful play area at the back."
  • "It was extremely cold too and there was a terrible draft."

Price & Value

Pros:

  • "Child meal deals excellent price."
  • "Fab food, really tasty and generous portions and extremely good vfm."
  • "Had a burger and chips. Price was reasonable."
  • "Really enjoyed our meal, nice relaxed setting and reasonably priced."
  • "I have been to the goose on a few occasions and the food has been great and reasonably priced."
  • "Always lovely staff, I had the vegetable Indian meal, it was so tasty, decent naan bread and popadom too."
  • "Meal was fantastic, cooked great and tasted lovely no complaints at all!"

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