Bull Inn Reviews Summary

Staff Service

Pros:

• "The staff couldn't have been more helpful and friendly."
• "Service with a smile from all the staff."
• "Staff were super friendly and helpful."
• "Service was particularly good, Laura the waitress was very friendly and bubbly, happy to help."
• "Lovely friendly and welcoming staff and food was outstanding."
• "The staff is very friendly and our waiter Calum was a really great help and friendly."
• "Really friendly helpful staff."

Cons:

• "Staff barely acknowledged us throughout the visit, no apology."
• "The worst pub ive ever visited, the service was terrible, dirty sticky tables."
• "Some staff were friendly enough but others were rude."
• "Upon checking in the lady was neither friendly nor helpful she was actually quite rude."
• "Service was appalling staff were lazy and did not bring the requested sauce until meal finished."
• "Staff were sluggish behind the bar, slow, didn't even make eye contact."
• "Old waitess slow and rude, time for her retirement me thinks."

Room Quality

Pros:

• "Stayed onsite in the hotel in one of the rooms in the annexe, small but was perfect for what we needed."
• "The 2 rooms we'd book for the night were immaculate!"
• "Beds comfortable."
• "Our room was comfortable and reasonably priced."
• "Rooms are standard and clean."
• "Comfortable clean en-suite room."
• "Rooms a lovely size bed was comfy."

Cons:

• "We had to ask for the room to be cleaned rather than the staff doing automatically."
• "Rooms a little dated but clean."
• "The room is comfortable but very basic."
• "The room has a weird aroma, is cold despite the electric heater."
• "Our room (11) was very dated, large gap on room door and a bit dirty."
• "Room had 'character'. A little too much with the mattress from 1986 and the very wobbly floor."
• "Room looked like it was from the twilight zone."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "We had a roast beef dinner, the beef was nice."
• "Food was delicious!! Service with a smile from all the staff."
• "Food is good and reasonably priced."
• "Good menu and food was great."
• "The food was excellent 👍"
• "Both meals were great."
• "The food was delicious and we would recommend the lamb and the salmon."

Cons:

• "The beef and ale pies (if you could find the beef) had very hard pastry."
• "Also ordered fish and chips and fish was running with oil."
• "The last time we visited my daughters vegetables smelt awful we sent it back and a slightly better version returned."
• "Ordered Cod and chips. Worse Cod ever experienced 95% batter 5% Cod dreadful."
• "It was very disgusting, reheated mash that tasted like Smash and 5 sausages that I would not even give to my dog."
• "The food took ages and it was not very nice when it arrived."
• "The chicken with garlic sauce, peas and chips arrived, the peas were stone cold, the chips barely warm and the chicken was dry and chewy."

Ambiance & Location

Pros:

• "Has a nice traditional feeling to it."
• "Visited this pub today for a private gathering, Pub was really nice lovely gardens and spotless."
• "Cosy atmosphere, family friendly pub."
• "Beautiful character building."
• "Really quaint old English pub."
• "A lovely 700 year old pub, in Halstead."
• "Halstead is a pretty and quite historic little place and the surrounding area is charming."

Cons:

• "Cute old pub but no charm at all."
• "The only cake option was a brownie."
• "Building could do with some renovation. Starting to look tired in well used places."
• "No hot water in ev & morning was told they need to check boiler so had to wash with wipes quite disappointed as little break with husband."
• "Bathroom are clean but very dated and could do with upgrading."
• "The place could do with a good refurbishment very tired and dirty looking."
• "Unfortunately the seating can only be described as terrible."