Farnham Beefeater Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Desserts were delicious."
• "The food is always lovely and has a lovely atmosphere."
• "Food was amazing quality compared to the price."
• "The food was beautifully cooked, nicely presented and we had great service."
• "Food is cooked just to perfection."
• "All of the food was delicious and you could taste that it was just cooked, not warmed like other restaurants I have been to!"
• "The food was delicious, hot and safe for us to eat."

Cons:

• "The Brussel sprouts were soggy and hard to cut, microwaved from frozen I suspect."
• "Served on a cold plate, so the food was tepid at best."
• "Visited today with a friend I meet every few weeks trying different restaurants around the area... We both chose the Porterhouse steak & trimmings. I must say we were both not best pleased, the steak was to say the least chewy, a bit tough & left a burnt taste in my mouth."
• "Absolutely appalling!!! Fillet steak is supposed to be the tenderest cut of beef, I've had softer boot soles than that."
• "Food was not cooked properly chicken was raw in the middle jacket potato hard & no more available."
• "Roast beef was well done and tough-when we were asked how we wanted it we all said medium rare!"
• "The food itself (after such a long wait) was very disappointing too. Meat was cheap and terrible tasting... difficult to even cut."

Service

Pros:

• "Friendly staff and excellent manager."
• "Very friendly place with outstanding service and atmosphere."
• "The manager really looked after us after the slow entrance and really made the evening for us and all was forgiven!"
• "We were greeted at the door by a member of the management team who was courteous, polite with a great personable way & sense of humour."
• "Staff were absolutely amazing."
• "Its always clean and the staff are very friendly and polite."
• "The staff work incredibly hard and always with a smile on their faces."

Cons:

• "The same waiter that took our order walked off to find out, but never came back."
• "The service was so slow. The Brussel sprouts were soggy and hard to cut, microwaved from frozen I suspect."
• "Service was slow."
• "Table service extremely slow and rude when she did finally notice us."
• "Had to wait over an hour to get our food."
• "Waited a long time at the entrance as instructed to be taken to a table it was not busy."
• "Service was so slow. Drinks took forever, food took forever."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The beer garden is a lovely sun trap and you can usually find a parking spot at the front or back of the pub in their private car park."
• "Very friendly place with outstanding service and atmosphere."
• "The atmosphere was lovely also."
• "Great place for atmosphere and the food is just amazing.. leaves your taste buds tingling."
• "Its a fairly new building but was very characterful inside."
• "The atmosphere is calm and Covid-19 complaint. The warmth and friendliness is second to none."
• "Nice relaxed atmosphere."

Cons:

• "Restaurant quite noisy."
• "Barely anyone in the restaurant on a Saturday afternoon."
• "For a sunday it was very quiet but we thought that would work in our favour. 30 minute wait for food."
• "The heat in the restaurant was so bad we were unable to finish our meals."
• "Food good, restaurant quite noisy but otherwise ok."
• "Not many people there at breakfast but atmosphere was still amazing."
• "It was quite disappointing. I was given wrong order. Chips round the table were under cooked."