The Jugged Hare Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food here is exceptionally good; easily one of the best Sunday roasts I’ve ever had."
• "Food was incredible and service was very attentive."
• "The roast turkey again was sizeable - the sprouts were delicious in cream with bacon bits."
• "Don't skip the dessert puddings…they're amazing, as well as the pie!"
• "Every piece of the meal was perfectly cooked...not a single dry or overcooked element."
• "We ordered the hare, hake and venison and each dish was beautifully cooked and flavourful."
• "The food was really good and the special jugged hare was delicious."

Cons:

• "The cauliflower soup was tasteless and was served cold."
• "The food taste isn’t great either."
• "Afraid that the food was disappointing - the roast and other mains are over £30 and they were average."
• "The whole plate was bland."
• "The skate main course was just greasy with no flavour."
• "The roast was fine but came out cold."
• "Oh so wrong, the foods is average at best, both mains came out Luke warm."

Service

Pros:

• "The service, the ambience the whole experience was just amazing!"
• "Even though they were very full, the staff went out of their way to fit me in."
• "Service is fast and attentive without being overbearing."
• "Staff were welcoming, courteous and very attentive, we were lucky to find a table even without a booking."
• "Our waiter Gianfranco was attentive, polite and couldn't have done more."
• "The service from Kim, our waitress, was great too - very attentive and very professional."
• "The staff were incredibly friendly and attentive, making sure that my visit was enjoyable."

Cons:

• "The service at best is like an headless chicken."
• "The service was slow."
• "Half an hour wait for your puddings, we realised we were totally forgotten, so we asked again."
• "The service was also poor. We asked on multiple occasions for the juice for my daughter and were incorrectly charged £27.50 for a glass of Malbec."
• "Food was OK, service was OK, but we spent quite a lot of time trying to get a server's attention, especially when we were in a mostly empty dining room."
• "Ridiculously overpriced, pretentious and has bad service."
• "Unexpectedly poor service."

Ambience and Decor

Pros:

• "A very lively gastro pub which likes to showcase British food."
• "This is basically a great pub, with a good choice of beers (and other drinks), and a really good food offer. It has a nice ambience as well."
• "Beautiful pub, attentive and friendly staff and a good atmosphere."
• "It's a great combination, sophisticated decorative finishes with retained heritage reproduction & some original features blending brilliantly into a gastropub that is still a pub up front."
• "Bar was busy and buzzing with after work city workers and atmosphere was good."
• "The atmosphere was buzzing and service fantastic."
• "Really good pub in a great location."

Cons:

• "Unique interior with stuffed animals is not for everyone."
• "Decor is very heavy on the taxidermy and mounted animal heads."
• "The decor is quite creepy with loads of dead taxidermy animals everywhere."
• "The place is decorated with taxidermy of dead animals hanging, which is cruel, pretentious and gross."
• "Visited with two kids on Easter. The kids were put off by the taxidermy...for about 5 seconds then they were excited to find the hedgehog and see the pig by the bathrooms."
• "Too noisy & missing a vibe but it's got style."
• "Nice setting, lacked atmosphere."

Pricing

Pros:

• "The food was very good but it was very pricey which i think was justified."
• "Prices are what you would expect for its location."
• "They have a very reasonable set menu with a smaller selection of dishes from the main menu."
• "Great food and good price (for the theatre menu)."

Cons:

• "It's an expensive lunch and for the price (£26 for the roast beef) I would have expected a much better standard overall."
• "The only problem with this place is the price - £32 for a roast beef/pork is taking the mick a bit!"
• "£32 for a roast which was not hot, one carrot, no side gravy provided, sauces only when asked for."
• "£32 for a roast dinner where Yorkshire pudding was so oily it was essentially fried bread."
• "Extremely expensive overall - a glass of white wine was £10+."
• "The Christmas set menu... at £65pp (plus £3 supp for cheese) it just isn’t worth it."
• "The prices at this pub are totally outrageous."