Bakers Bar & Kitchen Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Very good food and drinks from this new venture."
• "The homemade pizzas were delicious."
• "Had a lovely pizza on the Saturday and a roast followed by a pudding on the Sunday, which was also superb."
• "Great food and drink at very reasonable prices."
• "Food was great and all freshly prepared."
• "Had a great lunch at Bakers, massive tapas platters. Good beer and food service."
• "Very good food with a varied menu."
• "Excellent Sunday roast (a big thumbs up from Grandma for the gravy-high praise indeed!)."

Cons:

• "Prawn skewers completely unseasoned, just warm and bland, charcoal bread slices."
• "Awful Sunday lunch. 3 of us had pork belly which was inedible - tough, couldn't cut it even with a steak knife!"
• "The 'toast' was limp warm bread, the black pudding was cold in the centre."
• "The menu online was completely different to the menu we were presented with and they were out of stock of the first 2 meals I tried to order."
• "The food was fried, tasted the same and unpleasant, the cocktails were watery and weak."
• "Waited at the bar for 20 minutes for them to pour warm beer."
• "The prawns tasted awful as though they were old/over cooked, on bread which was visibly stale and hard."
• "Prawns not cooked properly, small portions is not aesthetically pleasing food either. Very expensive for what you did get."

Service

Pros:

• "Fast and friendly service."
• "The staff very friendly."
• "Our waiter certainly knew his way around the menu and steered us well."
• "A big shout out to the staff who were great, and in particular; Abbey, who went above and beyond."
• "Abbie out server was brilliant, slight issue with the good but she was happy to rectify, very helpful!"
• "The covid safety arrangements were well organised and we felt safe in this restaurant."
• "Polite and informative staff!"
• "Can't comment on the food as we didn't have any but the service was excellent."

Cons:

• "The manager on the other hand cannot deal with confrontation and has an attitude beyond belief."
• "Extremely slow service, no apology for the delay of over 40 minutes."
• "Service was very slow though. We were the only table there so was surprised to wait so long!"
• "A little fresh inside the restaurant lots of exposed brick, service was a tad slow on drinks but the food was worth the wait."
• "Service is very poor here. Table of 8 people booked for 7pm on a Monday evening so you wouldn’t expect such slow or poor service."
• "Had to remind then to bring drinks. Asked for water 3 times."
• "Very disappointed, this is the 3rd tine we've tried to eat here and each time we're told they're not serving food despite closing at 19:00."
• "Very loud due to 6 screens showing football. Drinks and food took ages to arrive."

Atmosphere and Setting

Pros:

• "The building has a unique atmosphere and ambience, doesn't get overly crowded which is great for casual, quiet drinks."
• "Liked the setting of this bar."
• "A beautiful old building with a great atmosphere."
• "The bar itself is a very interesting place with the original bread ovens still in place and made into a feature."
• "Great venue with really attentive staff."
• "Nice pub by the water, a good assortment of beers and cocktails."
• "Great location and full of character."
• "Excellent place to have a night out."

Cons:

• "Nice place no atmosphere! The menu was really poor."
• "Lovely staff and atmosphere, although after waiting an hour after requesting a menu, we were told the kitchen had closed."
• "Much talk of staff going unpaid. Definitely will not return."
• "It would be better if Bakers hadn't inherited the Victuallers reviews as I suspect their grade would be a lot lower judging by the recent reviews."
• "Never good when you have to walk through the plume of cigarette smoke to get in and out."
• "More like a Wetherspoons - lots of lager and tellys."
• "Food was indifferent - my wife had a prawn salad. Prawns good - salad was just lettuce tomatoes and cucumber and too much oil."
• "Back to Artys it is then."