Harvester Crooked Billet Bromley Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "The staff was very friendly."
• "Thank you to staff, especially Sam behind the bar, who ensured that my party could settle to eat this afternoon."
• "Michelle the waitress was very friendly and helpful always asking if we was ok and if we needed anything else."
• "Fantastically attentive staff. I visited with my 93 year old father, who is a regular at this restaurant and I was amazed and delighted at the way the staff treat him."
• "Serving staff were lovely and very helpful."
• "Pleasant staff."
• "For the price you cant go wrong."

Cons:

• "The waitress was very rude no matter how kind my grandmother and I was to her."
• "We didn't have a great experience today. The service was awful, the staff were standing around chatting to one another ignoring customers."
• "Lack of staff in the restaurant and the kitchen meant very slow service."
• "Doesn't look good when all the servers are standing around the bar chatting."
• "Service was very slow, salad bar had no croutons, bacon pieces etc. apparently a stock issue."
• "Arrived at the venue at about approx 10 minutes before our allotted time of 1500 hrs and was told they were running 10 mins late we finally got the table at 1545 the service was really slow."
• "Service terrible. Waited an hour for our seats."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Each meal was really tasty, good value for money and rather big."
• "Food however was delicious and service was pleasant experience."
• "Mains meals were amazing great quality and taste."
• "Great food and excellent value."
• "Food was good and all very reasonable price."
• "The food was delicious and the service was amazing."
• "All the food was great."

Cons:

• "Diane's garlic bread was like cardboard and rubber mix, without garlic in most of It."
• "The Nacho's where the truely bad thing in terms of price to food ratio."
• "Rocky Horror was poor very dry no sauce."
• "The medium steak was medium/rare and luke warm, then came back tasting awful and dry round the edges."
• "Our son's burger was just a sad piece of chicken in a bun without any extras like salad or sauce."
• "The chicken was tremendously dry and the chips so far past fried."
• "Food had dried out because it was sitting on the pass for too long. Beef was inedible."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "Very covid-secure. I felt totally at ease."
• "All tables are booked, waiter told us to wait in the bar table to order the food, finally we ate our lunch in the bar table, its also a great experience."
• "Lovely experience at the newly refurbished Harvester!"
• "The table was great, great atmosphere."
• "Everything was perfect, pleasant atmosphere even with corona virus crisis."
• "Everything is perfect here."
• "Having been to the harvester a view times, I was slightly dubious, however tonight the food was the best we have ever had, it was delicious, hot and tasty."

Cons:

• "The salad bar was really messy and not very inviting when we went up there."
• "What a disappointment and waste of money."
• "The ending was spoilt as the waitress brought over a party of 6 very loud women & put them on the table next to us."
• "It was freeeeeeeezing cold."
• "Terrible in pretty much every way. Food was disgusting we didnt even eat it and sent it back."
• "Over the years that we have been coming to the Harvester, it has gradually dropped its standards in every way and has now put us off from visiting again."
• "The venue is too packed and cluttered."

Value

Pros:

• "For the price you cant go wrong."
• "They are also back and forth on the refill drinks. They are working their socks off! Great service, food was good and received almost £40 off the bill."
• "Food selection was not bad at all and well priced but doesn't skimp on the quality."
• "With fruit juice and hot drinks included, the bill was a little over £40 for 5 of us. Really good value."
• "The portions were generous, the food tasted nice and was piping hot when it arrived."
• "The food and drinks where very good."
• "Good value."

Cons:

• "Nearly £90 for food that isn't worth £10."
• "Very expensive. We are not happy at all."
• "The bill was just over £29 for a miserable dinner and one refillable Pepsi."
• "I don't like that the prices are going up gradually though."
• "2 out of 4 dishes had cold chips and my haloumi skewer, rice and flatbread were all cold."
• "We had the 2 meals for £15.49 but when it came to paying we found out that it doesn't come in with the voucher."
• "The bill was still over £50 for an extremely below average meal."

Cleanliness

Pros:

• "Very clean and bar is brilliant."
• "Salad bar was very fresh and clean and tidy."
• "Transformed into a clean, tidy, spacious restaurant."
• "It is a bright and clean place that's benefitted from a recent refitting."
• "Great location, nice building, good interior clean."

Cons:

• "The salad bar was really messy and not very inviting when we went up there."
• "The chairs where filthy."
• "Sitting in the dining room with chandeliers covered with cobwebs… great for haunted house interior."
• "Lamps above the table were covered in thick dust."
• "The salad bar was dirty and empty."
• "Table was filthy."
• "It was cold and smelt of unwashed pensioners but that could have been the dirty upholstery too."