The Half Moon Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Meals are very tasty, staff very attentive and helpful."
• "The food was delicious too. Great quality ingredients and brilliant gift from Santa."
• "Food was excellent. Had the gammon which whole plate was lovely."
• "Food was amazing, we both had burgers and chips."
• "Leak soup was top notch. I have never had chicken pie as good as this one."
• "The food was good, my wife had a huge vegan burger and said it was very good."
• "The burgers were great and the lasagne delicious."

Cons:

• "I could have gotten a better meal out of a bin."
• "The beef although cooked was tough and poor quality!"
• "Chicken tikka aka curry of the day was watery and stringy. Didn't taste right."
• "Mac and cheese was a very good sized portion but had very little flavour to it sadly."
• "There was hair in my Cauliflower wings."
• "The ham was so fatty, not edible, it ruined our time there, as my husband was not happy!"
• "Food sounded good on the menu but when it arrived not quite."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff very attentive and helpful."
• "The lady serving today was lovely and helpful, very upbeat and smiley."
• "Me and my boyfriend were served by a lovely lady called Sammy and she took the time to make sure I was getting the best service."
• "The staff are friendly and attentive."
• "The staff were lovely and the food was great!!"
• "The landlord was very friendly and engaging."
• "Staff were friendly and smiley."

Cons:

• "Bring a book to read while you are waiting to get served."
• "Service was not as attentive as we'd of liked."
• "Service was really poor."
• "We waited for 25 minutes without being seen."
• "No one behind bar and waited 8 minutes to be served."
• "Service was slowish (it took 10 minutes to ask for our drinks order, in which time my wife had already gone to the bar."
• "Service staff were nice but a little slow."

Atmosphere & Decor

Pros:

• "Lovely old building with separate eating areas and woodburners."
• "Fantastic country pub in Shaftesbury. The food was very good (I would recommend.the ploughmans), staff pleasant and smiling and the decor lovely."
• "The gardens are gorgeous as is the interior."
• "Building is clean and well presented tables well spaced and rooms are well decorated and overall a good setting worthy of four stars."
• "Lovely pub, well thought out with wheelchair accessibility throughout."
• "The garden is pretty and the tables and chairs comfortable."
• "Great local pub with old world charm and friendly host and staff."

Cons:

• "Absolutely NO atmosphere it’s the most soulless pub I’ve ever been in."
• "The menu is a typographical nightmare and needs a proper proofreader to have a once over it."
• "Weird experience hardly anybody in the place."
• "The food could do with improvement as it tends to taste like it's frozen food that is cooked on site and the quality could be better."
• "The windowsill had cobwebs and lots of dead flies, not really inviting at all!!"
• "Filthy dirty menus which were printed ridiculously unprofessionally."
• "Lovely pub and a very good bowl of chips and a very crisp refreshing pint. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the staff."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "When you compare all that with the price, it is super value for money."
• "The food was good value for money, I paid around £15 for the burger and drinks."
• "Will recommend this place if you like pub grub and somewhere that's not overpriced."
• "The Value at £10 a head was very reasonable."
• "A good value meal which came to £33 for a pint of larger shandy, pint of coke and two mains.. I would recommend."
• "Very big portion sizes and very good value for money."
• "At less than £100. for three courses and drinks for a party of four it is not badly priced either."

Cons:

• "It was on the pricey side for a ploughmans, tuna melt baguette, pork scratchings, 2 pints of soft drinks and a child's drink and a side order of chips (little over £30) but I'm just being picky."
• "Expensive compared with other local hostilities."
• "We all came out hungry and £36 lighter. Would not recommend, sorry."
• "£6.50 I would have expected more."
• "A small, dry, expensive and reheated serving of 'Mac and cheese' served with garlic bread was the only option, at over £14."
• "Not cheap though (each dish around £11)."
• "Overall really bad customer service and whilst the main food was nice it definitely wasn't value for money."