The Blue Bowl Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Visited for Sunday lunch today. Excellent food, good value for money and very friendly staff."
• "Fantastic value meal - I was actually shocked at the quality of the mixed grill my friend and I had tonight."
• "Food is good and really good value, especially with the various deals."
• "Food was great - my 7 and 8yr old children said it was the best meal they have tasted."
• "The food is delicious, well presented and very good value."
• "Great meal and cooked to perfection!"
• "Really nice food."

Cons:

• "Awful food, it's never been great but we gave it another try tonight, coffee was like boiled muddy water, the food was rubbish, dry overcooked chicken wings, soggy onion rings, nasty coleslaw on limp lettuce and a complete waste of money."
• "Both jacket potatoes had minuscule toppings... the potatoes were microwaved."
• "Bacon and sausage under cooked"
• "Pretty terrible experience - Very dry, small portions, dirty cutlery in the tray."
• "Gammon so cremated it was tough, peas were so shrivelled up."
• "The food was small, the tiniest piece of chicken breasts topped off with burnt piece of bacon, it was bitter."
• "Ordered simply chicken. Very very dry with a thick leathery skin."

Service

Pros:

• "Lovely accommodating staff."
• "Great price too and staff here are really polite."
• "Service was kind, friendly and professional and although not the speediest, the waitress was great to say she was doing it all!!"
• "Service was done with a smile and very professional."
• "Staff are always friendly and helpful."
• "Lucy was amazing this evening. She was very knowledgeable on the menu choices and gave great advice as well as being a great front of house member of staff."
• "Staff lovely, friendly and attentive - though not overbearing."

Cons:

• "Food adequate but disappointing visit as the table requested at time of booking was not given to us despite the fact we had a disabled person in our party."
• "Over an hour for food to be brought out and only after I chased them up twice, only to have an undercooked steak for my partner and cold ribs for me."
• "Staff unable to operate till or serve more than one customer every five minutes."
• "sent it back 25 mins later still not got my food"
• "Food took ages to come despite the fact that the restaurant wasn’t busy."
• "We were made to feel useless because we couldn't download app their wi fi is shocking."
• "Slow service only 1 person serving at the bar for drinks as well as food orders booked table for an hour but had to wait 45 minutes for food. Food was okay but table and cutlery not very clean did not like the decor found it a bit depressive."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Great atmosphere here, looking forward to watching the World Cup here, drink and food deals are great prices."
• "What a great quiz held here on a Tuesday, great atmosphere, excellent quiz master, and reasonable priced food and drinks."
• "It’s a pub with good food and friendly atmosphere at prices which are affordable."
• "The beer garden is a sun trap! Me and the girlfriend sat out there 4 hours yesterday- plenty of beer choice and gin choice, cheap drinks and lovely food."
• "It’s a chain. But it’s nice, the food quality and presentation is very good!"
• "Great atmosphere in the pub too with some soft music and all very clean and tidy."
• "The place is decked out really nicely!"

Cons:

• "Not much of an atmosphere due to there only being a few people dotted about."
• "Overall a disappointing meal and bad atmosphere."
• "Disappointing to say the least, sizzling pub with no skillets, food was warm at best."
• "The gents toilets were out of order, AGAIN, and the disabled toilet we were assigned to use was filthy, wee all over the toilet and floor."
• "Found it to have sticky tables and menu's cutlery just went with fingers!"
• "Will not be back and will not recommend to anyone."
• "Really bad service, shocking food"