The Owston Inn Reviews Summary

Location & Setting

Pros:

• "Brilliant location with extremely large beer gardens."
• "Country location with woodland setting good sized car park and easy access direct off the A19."
• "First thing first when you pull up outside what a beautiful building, plenty of outside seating area."
• "It has a good sized car park with room for wheelchairs."
• "Allows campervan / motorhome stopovers and on the surface it would seem to be ideal for that."
• "A beautiful, quaint old pub with a fabulous menu!"
• "This Wonderful Dog Friendly Pub Serves Very Tasty Meals And Has Added New Dishes To The Menu."

Cons:

• "We arrived at Owston just after 7pm to find it was closed!"
• "Gardens grubby - over grown and weeds in all the plant pots."
• "We recommend that they need to do something with that area. Uneven not paved. Very poor."
• "As we were inside the pub having food, only a couple of hours after parking up, thieves broke in to our motorhome."
• "Also they've placed a lot of picnic tables on the right grassed area on entry to car park. Brilliant but where is the children's play area???"
• "This is not a safe place to overnight."
• "The place is still cold and so was the food both plates sent back"

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food served was really nice with super fresh sandwiches, pork pies, quiches sausage rolls."
• "The steak and ale pie was outstanding packed with meat and served with a very tasty gravy!"
• "One of our favourite places to eat, started doing pizza which is amazing!"
• "Food gorgeous, excellent portions and very good value for money."
• "The food beautiful one of the best steak pie's I had for a long time."
• "The Sunday carvery was a delight, especially the perfectly cooked beef."
• "The food was home made and full of flavour."

Cons:

• "the portions were disgusting"
• "Very bad unfortunately... some of it cooked ok but for the money most was not ok."
• "Had possibly the worst pasta I've had...not sure how a tomato based sauce could be done badly but tasted as if it was primarily balsamic vinegar"
• "all the meals were disappointing the meat was all over cooked the starters were awful"
• "Ordered 2 rib eye steaks. Mine was fatty and not cooked how I wanted it."
• "Do not bother, after waiting an age for our food, sizzlers came out completely black on the bottom."
• "The food was poor definitely would not return and would advise people to avoid, homemade chips have never been homemade."

Service & Staff

Pros:

• "Staff very friendly and obliging."
• "Great place, friendly staff and excellent food at very reasonable prices."
• "Would highly recommend, very reasonable prices the food and desserts are spectacular."
• "The staff were all pleasant and polite and the whole place was clean, cosy and welcoming."
• "Lovely staff! I came in yesterday with my husband. the lovely gentleman in there was excellent i think he said his name was Harrison."
• "Staff amazing, very attentive, friendly and smiling."
• "All staff are, attentive, polite, professional and a credit to the business."

Cons:

• "Most of all the price has rocketed £85 for 4 adults 2 small children definitely will not be going here again."
• "Despite coffee and mints being on the menu we was told we arnt doing them tonight"
• "Different story on my next visit. Chaotic, staff couldn't tell you what was items were on the menu."
• "The kitchen staff were under a lot of pressure and hence the service was slow."
• "The waitress who took our order came over to the table and not only failed to apologise but openly accused is of lying."
• "The waitress were not bothered and straight away offered free drinks which kind of rings alarm bells."
• "Staff friendly but not attentive, which lead to longer wait times."