The Victoria Park Reviews Summary

Category: Gastropub Bristol

Address: 66 Raymend Rd, Bristol, BS3 4QW, United Kingdom

Phone: +441179928797

Rating: 4.5
based on 147 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "The service has been great, mainly greeted by the blonde lady(manager) and her dog Paddy."
  • "Both our servers struck an excellent balance between pleasant chatter and leaving us to our evening."
  • "Staff were really helpful and great service."
  • "Staff were friendly and helpful! Will certainly be visiting again!"
  • "The staff here always have a smile and the atmosphere on a lovely sunny day is unbeatable."
  • "Friendly and bubbly service from Sadhana who made us feel like regulars."
  • "The staff were really helpful and friendly."

Cons:

  • "Service was indifferent at best and Beer quite expensive."
  • "Service was kind but slow."
  • "However, over my last few experiences, I have found certain members of staff quite rude."
  • "The service was unfortunately pretty slow, I got the impression that they were understaffed."
  • "Warned that staff were miserable and they were."
  • "It takes forever to get served at the bar regardless of how busy it is."
  • "When I tried to get a member of staff's attention not one person came to the table to ask about the meal."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "I had a lovely meal here this evening. I had an onglet steak... It was probably one of the best steaks I have eaten in a very long time."
  • "I had the chicken and bacon pie and my partner had the steak, both were to die for!"
  • "Their food was amazing, I had the beef roast and not only it was so tasty, Cooked in perfection but also had lovely details as sweet potato chips inside the yorkie and braised pulled beef on top of regular beef."
  • "The pork belly with crackling was divine, the tatties top drawer and the sauce and seasoning were perfect."
  • "All the food was amazingly fresh and each dish was equally delicious!"
  • "The mushroom wellington and the turkey were both delicious, and the bread and butter pudding was probably the best I’ve had!"
  • "The food was delicious and would highly recommend anyone to visit especially in the summer to enjoy their garden."

Cons:

  • "There wasn’t enough gravy to make it edible."
  • "They ran out of food by 8:30."
  • "The burgers were dry and tasteless."
  • "The roast potatoes were beyond over cooked, to the point they were dark solid and hollow."
  • "The meat and vegetables were cold, potatoes were soft and tasted like they cooked days ago."
  • "The roast beef dinner consisted of 2 incredibly small slithers of beef, the potatoes were old and rock hard appeared to have been left in a warm oven for a number of hours."
  • "The roast potatoes were bland and tasteless."

Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "A really buzzy place, lots of young families to start with and a smart and stylish crowd later."
  • "An absolute gem of a pub. Brilliant garden, friendly staff and plenty of good dogs to play with most days!"
  • "Delicious food. Lovely views. Relaxed pub garden."
  • "Great local place to go good selection of drinks food looks fantastic loads of seating in and even more in beer garden even take your dog in after going to the park."
  • "A really lovely pub, with great atmosphere and beer garden."
  • "Really good vibe here."
  • "The atmosphere is warm and friendly - even when it's foggy and glum outside."

Cons:

  • "What happened?!?! This Sunday roast was beyond disappointing."
  • "Surprised to receive poor customer service in a gastro-pub that seems this nice."
  • "We were basically served a popadom instead of Yorkshire pudding."
  • "No atmosphere, over-priced drinks, poor food, cold staff."
  • "What it lacks is a bit of soul."
  • "For some reason on Saturday manager decided to close pub 30 min earlier than working hours and refused to serve even one pint."
  • "The newly reopened pub is now a managed house. Very disappointing experience all round."

Pricing

Pros:

  • "Prices were decent, they have a good selection of drinks on tap."
  • "Very friendly staff, reasonably priced and beautiful views from the back of pub and garden."
  • "Reasonably priced."
  • "Free extra potatoes, gravy and Yorkshire puddings. Easy 5 star review."
  • "Good atmosphere and friendly staff."
  • "Great dog friendly pub, with wonderful views and a beautiful pub garden."
  • "Absolutely stunning food and the hospitality was amazing."

Cons:

  • "OUTRAGEOUSLY EXPENSIVE. £6.70 for a pint of 4.2% local (Wiper & True) beer is a massive pisstake...most expensive i have found in Bristol by a country mile."
  • "Prices have shot up in recent years, since it has been taken over by the brewery and Londoners moved into area."
  • "Non alcoholic beers are expensive though annoyingly."
  • "Most pints are over £5 now."
  • "Lovely place to sit in the garden but drinks and food are overpriced."
  • "It is expensive, close to £5 for cider or average real ale, the food is fine, but again small portions."
  • "Wow...and btw £5 a pint!"

Management

Pros:

  • "The new management is fantastic!!! Greatly improved beer selection, highly improved menu: I love it."
  • "The manager even made time to discuss the menu and local places to visit."
  • "One of the best run pubs in the city, especially under new management!! It just gets better and better every time I go there, staff are amazing and the food is the best!!"
  • "The staff were excellent and super accommodating."
  • "The staff were really helpful and friendly."
  • "Staff were really friendly and helpful, food was great and the team made the whole do super easy for me."
  • "The staff were extremely attentive and friendly and made our evening very enjoyable."

Cons:

  • "This pub used to serve food to shout about. I can only assume it's been bought out by some Hungry Horse wannabe."
  • "However, under new management post lockdowns the bar staff weren’t friendly, didn’t know the drinks they had or how to make them."
  • "Visited here over a year ago I really loved the food. Returned today with friends, what an utter and costly disappointment."
  • "The food has gone from very decent produce to generic below par food."
  • "What a shame. Since this place has been under new management the food has gone really downhill."
  • "The selection of beers no longer supports the local microbreweries."
  • "Apparently taken over by the Slug & Lettuce group, and it shows."

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