Wheatsheaf Pub & Restaurant, Salisbury Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Service is brilliant, especially Bev, helpful, happy and welcoming."
• "Thank you so much to the team at the wheatsheaf who accommodated our group of 29 for sunday lunch."
• "Staff was very chatty and friendly."
• "Staff were friendly."
• "The service (by Bev) was extremely efficient, friendly and attentive."
• "Attentive and welcoming staff."
• "Staff were really friendly, lovely country pub."

Cons:

• "This was incompetence and lack of management skills par excellence."
• "One thing that does need improving is the customer service."
• "The staff were quite short, on a number of occasions, with each one of our party of four."
• "Made to feel most uncomfortable and unwelcome."
• "On entry we walk in and are pretty much ignored!"
• "Very busy, not enough staff."
• "Service was very slow and the vegetarian 'roast' was naff."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "We ordered Dorset Lamb - it was superb! Beautifully cooked and presented with minted potato and veggies!"
• "One of the best fish and chips I've had."
• "Amazing food with a broad choice including dietary restrictions options."
• "The food was amazing too, hot and beautifully presented."
• "The steak and ale pie was meaty, tasty with perfect pastry."
• "Food is excellent."
• "The food was phenomenal - I had the nourish salad bowl and I wasn't in the least disappointed."

Cons:

• "The burger we ordered was delicious, it was cold."
• "Unfortunately it tasted very strongly of curry which was very strange."
• "Food was average beef overcooked."
• "Ultimately the Sunday roast was a huge letdown."
• "Food was mediocre, expensive for what there was."
• "Contained lumps of gristle and what meat was there was tough."
• "But the meal was poor. Beef rather tough, roast potatoes dry, veg mostly cabbage and overcooked."

Ambiance & Location

Pros:

• "Well established country Inn, recently changed hands, new management, great staff, good food."
• "The food is great and the outside seating is a wonderful place."
• "Lovely country pub, larger inside than expected."
• "We stumbled upon this treasure in search for a sunday roast and we were blown away: nice location (lots of space inside, big sitting areas outside)."
• "A lovely venue, we were in the garden."
• "The wheatsheaf has a lovely atmosphere set in a particularly beautiful part of Wiltshire defiantly worth a visit."
• "Nice beer and cider and quiet setting with little garden area at back."

Cons:

• "Would have given 5 stars but when we told them that all 7 of us were cold they just said the heating was on even though the radiator next to us was cold."
• "We are then stuck in the darkest most closed off part of the restaurant."
• "It used to superb but not anymore."
• "The restaurant is nicely appointed if a little to dark."
• "Booked a table, shoved in a corner, then forgotten about."
• "The table was sticky, the vegetarian salad had wilted rocket with butternut Squash that was mush and quinoa that looked like it was sprouting."
• "The Wheatsheaf does suffer from insecure parking and poor cctv coverage."