Captain Ridley's Shooting Party Reviews Summary

Category: Pub Milton Keynes

Address: 183-185 Queensway, Fenny Stratford, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK2 2ED, United Kingdom

Phone: +441908621020

Rating: 4.2
based on 221 reviews.

Ambience and Decor

Pros:

  • "The pub is huge and wonderfully decorated, with a massive beer garden to the rear and plenty of outside seating at the front."
  • "A busy town pub which JD Wetherspoon's have done well to modernise and make good use of the plot."
  • "The beer garden is great in the sun and has lovely features an AMAZING make over."
  • "There's the typical great range of drinks and the staff are friendly. Toilets are clean and everywhere is modern."
  • "A great themed pub in Bletchley, that has Bletchley park, the home of the second World War code breakers, with memorabilia about the park in picture frames on the walls of the pub."
  • "Many interesting artifacts, newspaper cuttings, photos, etc of local history and it's part it played in our world."
  • "Absolutely the best Weatherspoons I have visited. Excellently cleaned, tidy food wonderful service top notch and a fascinating decorative story telling pub."
  • "A deceptively larger than looks weatherspoons in town with nice interior, plenty of seating along with a garden."

Cons:

  • "This place is a Tardis. Looks very small outside. And is Massive inside."
  • "Much bigger inside than it looks from the outside."
  • "The place was quite dirty and the coffee machine area especially was very dirty."
  • "The place looks so much better since it's been taken over. Much more space doesn't feel cramped."
  • "Some signage would have been nice to save the embarrassment of having to put up with the stares from the other customers."
  • "Didn't stay as walked through the door and the building to the rear garden with my dog. Only to be told after sitting down for 5 to 10 mins while choosing my meal, that my dog wasn't allowed anywhere on the premises."
  • "Only downside is the lack of parking - only a handful of spaces in the car park and nearby streets are limited to 2 hours."
  • "The bar needs wiping down more as it was full of finger prints and smears."

Food Quality and Selection

Pros:

  • "Food is almost always perfectly served quickly and the staff are lovely."
  • "The food arrived swiftly. The usual value for money from Wetherspoons."
  • "There is a typical food and drink range from Wetherspoons' with real ales changing regularly."
  • "Food is delivered fast and weekday lunchtimes are busy but can still find a table."
  • "A full English and a hot drink with free refills and spent about £6."
  • "Visited twice in the month of December 2019 and it was a great experience from friendly customer service to perfect quality food."
  • "I Drink here very regularly the General Manager with Ginger hair for service always 100%"
  • "Food and drink excellent. Very large pub with a reading corner, chess table and draughts table."

Cons:

  • "The food is sometimes terrible. It was undercooked & cold. Complained to the manager."
  • "Ordered an American Burger with Cheese (£5.86), when it arrived, it looked like a kid’s portion and the quality was very average plus burger was a bit charred."
  • "The food was done and ready but took half hour to get to us to the point we had to go back up to get our own food."
  • "Plates were left on tables around us and got taken away after around 1 hour and a half of being here."
  • "The food is the worst of any Wetherspoons I’ve been to. I’ve been to a lot. Cold, miserly unappetising meals."
  • "Had to order our meal 3 times each time it came to a different amount. Person who served us added the drinks again to the total although they came with the meal. Staff need proper training."
  • "The cutlery was not clean, although it had obviously been through the washer, because the old food glued to my fork and spoon was tasteless."
  • "The food was tepid when it arrived, I am guessing a shortage of kitchen staff."

Customer Service and Staff

Pros:

  • "Staff are all friendly and accommodating which adds to the appeal."
  • "Service was really good too, Charlotte was very efficient and friendly."
  • "Staff are friendly and constantly working to keep the pub clean."
  • "Staff were friendly and constantly working to keep the pub clean. There is loads of outdoor seating in front and back and to the side."
  • "We used the online ordering and the food and drinks arrived promptly."
  • "The staff were very helpful and the food was good and quickly served."
  • "Staff were absolutely brilliant. Under these difficulties of the covid-19 pandemic and being with reduced crew they were delivering an excellent service to all that visited the establishment."
  • "Friendly service with MOST of the staff.. apart from one rude person. She needs to understand that without customers she would not have a job there."

Cons:

  • "But over the past few months the staff have become more miserable and the food is sometimes terrible."
  • "Very rude bar staff, had no interest in clearing up broken glass in an area where customers were treading on glass shards."
  • "Staff were rushed off their feet, waited nearly 40 minutes for food after most what we wanted wasn’t available, no fish, steak, baked beans and only two dessert available."
  • "Rude management and staff. If you're going to talk to your staff like that in front of families then take them somewhere so customers can't hear."
  • "My visit today was awful, non existent customer service, not even a smile. Very unhelpful attitude. Items missing from order. Staff messing about with their phone behind the bar instead of serving waiting customers."
  • "Evening my friend had curry (Chicken Tikka) I had Ham egg and chips it was nice the Curry however came with 2 poppadoms dripping with oil and a cold Naan bread."
  • "Ordered breakfast from the bar the woman who was serving called Pauline not very friendly abrupt rude. A please and thank you would have been nice. Manners cost nothing. Cold food not worth the money."
  • "Awful customer service, unfriendly atmosphere, untrained staff."

Accessibility and Facilities

Pros:

  • "Has a fully accessible changing places toilet too, for those who need it."
  • "There are excellent and comprehensive disabled facilities available in the toilets."
  • "Very well set up under the new conditions. Greeted at the door. System clearly explained. Used the app for the first time."
  • "A big pub that has a generous size eating section, and a good size beer garden at the rear of the pub."
  • "The venue is lovely, using heritage items and the gardens in the back. Fairly spacious and family friendly."
  • "This real ale pub has adequate real ales on the pub is massive the real ales well kept staff good a good to middling atmosphere to this pub and a good out door drinking areas at front and back of pub."
  • "There is a regular bus service into Bletchley."
  • "Great food and drink at excellent prices as usual at Wetherspoon. Large garden at front and unusually for a Wetherspoon it has a small car park with EV charging on some bays."

Cons:

  • "Parking is a bit limited, but it's not difficult to find parking nearby."
  • "There is only one disabled space in the modest car park in front."
  • "Parking is a right pain with only a handful of spaces and being in town proves challenging."
  • "Only issue is parking as it is very limited."
  • "Drinks had an hour wait time after 9.30pm on a Friday night, toilets were clean, a great place to go if you are 18+ but below 25yrs old."
  • "One of the door staff and apparently the bar staff do not appreciate a group (5 people) of over 25yr old women/work colleagues having a laugh."
  • "One of the worst nights out in a long time Restaurant over booked and still trying to cram more people in."
  • "My son went here celebrating passing his A levels, unfortunately, they thought that they would short change him by £5.00, nice one."

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