Harvester Elms Coventry Reviews Summary

Building & Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The building itself has character."
• "Such a great atmosphere."
• "Plenty of space for the family in the seating area especially with a push chair to accommodate."
• "Lots of parking, visually impressive building. Very unexpected. Inside is actually very cozy and clean."
• "This is a lovely old building, but was cold, which spoiled the atmosphere a little."
• "It is a lovely old building with lots of character."
• "The place has a lovely relaxed atmosphere on the edge of Allesley village."

Cons:

• "Atmosphere was very dull- sit you where most people are and then you talk so you can be heard."
• "Tired looking place with no atmosphere."
• "Sitting eating in a cold pub wasn't what we thought we were going to be doing, especially as it was cold outside."
• "The area we were sat in was damp with visible mould on the wall!"
• "Only down side is that the car park is really badly lit so you have to be careful driving in and out and walking from the car."

Service

Pros:

• "The service was great and the waiter was nice and efficient."
• "Staff were amazing very attentive professional friendly and not intrusive."
• "Absolutely amazing customer service, Millie was the one to serve us, and she was extremely helpful and very kind."
• "Great service from staff."
• "Server was very nice and helpful."
• "We were looked after by a lovely waitress called Alexa."
• "The customer service provided by Chessie was absolutely amazing."

Cons:

• "Got told by a very unpleasant manager that we have to order from the bar."
• "Service was slow and had to send my son to the bar to get the glasses for our drinks as they never arrived."
• "Service was poor, we were served by a new member of staff yesterday night, she was a young blonde lady and she said she’d only been there a couple of weeks."
• "Service upon arrival was very slow, 3 members of staff walked around before Becky appeared & became our server this afternoon, lovely lady, very polite & couldn't do enough despite running around waiting on many tables while also being professional, making sure relevant question's were asked."
• "The poor waitress was rushed off her feet, she needed extra help."
• "Having to wait over 15 mins to put a drink order in I just ended up getting it myself."
• "Returned on 12/11/22 for my birthday meal. Absolutely awful experience."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food was fantastic, this was enhanced by superb service from Luke and David our host."
• "The food was excellent, far better than I expected."
• "Food was brilliant."
• "The food was served in a timely manner and was very nice."
• "Food was amazing."
• "Food was excellent, extremely tasty and plentiful."
• "The food was well made, properly portioned tasty and top quality."

Cons:

• "On a Sunday evening they had no rotisserie chicken and no chicken skewers left at all which limited our choices."
• "The salad - tomatoes were bruised, damaged poor quality: the coleslaw dressing was watery."
• "Some of the meals weren’t worth the money for example the Mac and cheese was some pasta with cheese thrown on the top and melted in the microwave."
• "The calamari and sweet potato fries were just OK."
• "The £15 surf and turf skewer was 3 pieces of tough beef and 3 overcooked prawns, very greasy."
• "The food was nothing special, food too salty and very greasy."
• "Food arrived and was poor to say the least. Kid meals were rubbish, and cold."

Accessibility

Pros:

• "Had a great meal recently for a group of 15 from nearby Allesley Hall Nursing Home. Several people in wheelchairs. Easy to access."

Cons:

• "Sorry would not recommend this harvester. This is not very disabled friendly."
• "Even after saying we needed a disable friendly table when I precooked we still had far too many stairs to go up and down to access the salad bar."
• "This is not very disabled friendly you have an entrance for disabled people but then you have stairs to get up to the main bar and salad bar."
• "For a disabled person a flaming nightmare. It is not disabled friendly, there are no ramps in or out of this place for customers."
• "It’s been such a long time since we’d been here. Then I remembered why. Lots of steps. Not great with aged parents in tow."