Harvester Gidea Park Romford Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food omg was so tasty."
• "The food all looks appetizing, i ordered the combo Original which was really tasty."
• "The food was tasty and the portion sizes were favourable considering the price paid."
• "The food is always fantastic."
• "All food tasty and hot."
• "The food was extremely tasty and didn't take long to arrive."
• "The sea bass portion was very generous indeed and was beautiful."

Cons:

• "The quality of the food was mediocre, it was warm at best."
• "The fish and chips dish was oily and tasteless."
• "The food is total rubbish, I order a chicken combo, they said, they do not have chicken."
• "Service was good but the food was the terrible my jacket potato burnt, beans were dried up."
• "Food was awful chicken burnt and dried up ribs had no taste."
• "Do not order the fish finger sandwich it is 2 lumps of battered fried fish with more batter than fish."
• "The food was terrible."

Service

Pros:

• "Excellent service however l feel so sorry for the staff having to represent the Harvester."
• "Been here a few times and it is one of the better harvesters compared to other restaurants."
• "Me and my mum come to eat about 645 we was welcomed as we walked in the door by a lad on the front desk."
• "Such warming, welcoming and friendly staff, Nice to see smiling faces."
• "Great service from Bryonie so lovely and attentive."
• "Lovely atmosphere, always very clean, swift and polite service every time!"
• "Thanks to Charlotte the waitress who made the experience even better."

Cons:

• "We then had to wait another 30minutes to get our food and only for the waitress speaking to the kitchen staff we would have been waiting longer."
• "Got put right in the window in direct sunlight which made me nauseous Slow staff service."
• "They need to train the staff to be customer friendly and the manager needs manager training too."
• "We waited an hour for our food which came up missing the pineapple and to top it all it was cold."
• "Very poor service manager is so rude."
• "The waitress was very abrupt and never bothered to see if we needed anymore drinks."
• "The service was very slow."

Cleanliness

Pros:

• "The salad bar was amazing. Clean and well stocked."
• "Newly refurbished, was nice, clean & fresh."
• "The restaurant has been refurbished and is now vastly improved to when we last visited."
• "The place was clean and bright and very festive."
• "The toilets where very clean."

Cons:

• "Cutlery and glasses were water stained and looked disgusting."
• "Almost every table had rubbish underneath it."
• "This place needs updating it has dirty walls torn chairs and broken tables."
• "filthy chewing gum stuck under table windows dirty never cleaned everything ordered tastes of fat lipstick marks on glasses."
• "Dirty menus, tables anything on the table sticky and could use a wipe."
• "We had to ask to move seats because it smelt so bad in there & the food was mediocre at best."

Value

Pros:

• "Good number of vegetarian options."
• "Good price and plates full."
• "Value for money too."

Cons:

• "Quite expensive when you don't have any promotional codes especially for 2 ppl."
• "Tiny portions, used to be value for money."
• "Changed menus to increase prices. £81 for two adults and two kids so will not rush back."
• "Prices seem to be increased on regular basis."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Atmosphere is always pretty good in there with music in the background."
• "The ambience in the restaurant, was very calming and relaxing."

Cons:

• "Absolute joke, got gift card for Xmas so me and wife went for lunch but they just rammed everyone into 1 corner of restaurant with very loud and not nice music."