The Old Stables Reviews Summary

Location & Ambience

Pros:

• "A fabulous restaurant set in a beautiful location."
• "Great location. Impressive conversion of old golf course stable yard into restaurant."
• "The building and setting is lovely."
• "Modern, chic interior in historic building, located in golf course."
• "Great place to sit outside, with covered tables and outdoor heaters."
• "The décor is excellent especially now with the Christmas season on its way."
• "The location is lovely and the décor matches the surroundings."

Cons:

• "hectic to park but squeeze in somewere lol."
• "When it's busy there isn't much room to get around between tables."
• "we should have been warned by staff not to eat outside it was obviouse they knew about the problem."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Service continued at this very efficient rate and food was excellent."
• "The food arrived in a timely manner and it was delicious."
• "Beautifully cooked spicy Moroccan lamb, a delicious smoked haddock starter and a zingy lemon tart."
• "The food is excellent, I had the premiere burger which home made."
• "food is tasty."
• "The food was nicely presented, good quality ingredients and cooked to perfection."
• "Everybody enjoyed the lovely food, which is excellent value."

Cons:

• "The portions are very small for the prices they charge."
• "I definitely wouldn't come here again. The food had no taste, and for the price - you would really expect something special."
• "I have never seen a meal presented like it. Bowl of slop with the tiniest piece of chicken thrown in middle of it."
• "the roast dinner was awful the roast potatoes had no potato inside."
• "The food, for the price, is terrible. My steak, although cooked to my request, was very tough and over salted."
• "The panacota wasn't nice I have to say, far too thick, the cinder toffee was burnt."
• "The food eventually came and for the price it wasn't that great."

Service

Pros:

• "Our waiter was very friendly and helpful."
• "The staff here are lovely and friendly, and made our visit a pleasure."
• "The full experience was great it's clearly very well managed."
• "The service was really good, the staff very attentive."
• "All staff friendly, professional and make you feel valued."
• "Service was quick and efficient, staff were so attentive and couldn't do enough for us."
• "It’s so nice to be served by staff who are pleasant and nothing is too much trouble."

Cons:

• "To say the service was poor is an understatement."
• "Run by clowns. Avoid."
• "Absolutely disgusted and wont be returning."
• "Terrible welcome, 30 min wait for drinks."
• "The food was really good but the service was dreadful."
• "Then she continued to complain about how she was the only one running the store and so crazy busy, this just shown to us that it's run very poorly."
• "Staff need training. We arrived they were cleaning tables after a few mins we were asked to sit at the bar we were then taken to our table no one gave us a menu."