Hobgoblin Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Always friendly service and cracking food."
• "Friendly staff and good food makes this a good bet for lunch - dinner - evening drinks."
• "Service is always good, they overestimate how long the food will take so you get the joy of your food appearing 10 mins before you were expecting it!"
• "Even at busy times when they say food may be 40 mins to an hour it often arrives much faster."
• "Very friendly staff with great service."
• "Great pint & Great service."
• "The staff make the effort to welcome even the casual visitor."

Cons:

• "Food arrived after 50 mins and the burgers didn't even taste of anything!"
• "They were very busy and we had to wait an hour for food."
• "Booked a table for 2 for my 30th birthday. When we got there we were told food orders were taking 2 hours!"
• "Bar staff were not engaged or attentive to basic bar staff standards and worked in chaos and utter mess."
• "They would not serve food at 21.01 to one of our party when the food stops at 21.00 which seems rather harsh."
• "Staff were very rude. I was given my drink in a dirty glass so asked for a new glass the bar man proceeded to pick the new glass up with his fingers inside the glass and pour the pint into it."
• "Staff stood around the bar eating and drinking, not professional."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Incredible burgers, all the contents were delicious and the fries were great too."
• "Best burger I've ever had (cow and chicken burger)! So good I had two throughout the day."
• "Great food, burgers are pretty far up the rankings, and that's saying something."
• "They have a great selection of burgers, I especially enjoyed the creative names."
• "Always get the dirty fries, absolute beast of a portion, definitely a 2 person job and SO filling and so tasty."
• "What was on offer was a very generous and well made burger complete with fries and freshly made apple slaw."
• "Awesome burgers, good selection of beers on tap and a bowl of those famous Dirty, Dirty Fries."

Cons:

• "The Gap Year was supposed to be Thai Spiced - there was no spice and nothing Thai about it."
• "Dirty Fries are so sloppy and sickly I'm actually genuinely shocked they even served it."
• "The burger itself (for what I could actually eat) was massively underwhelming."
• "They were out of pulled pork which meant the dirty dirty fries (the main selling point) were not massively enjoyable."
• "Dirty fries were good but had too much cheese on them."
• "Shocking, Burgers overpriced, dry and bland, Dirty Fries still good but not enough pulled pork for the price."
• "My chicken burger came out cremated and i could not eat it."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Nice atmosphere."
• "Finally there is just a nice positive vibe to the place too."
• "You just can't go wrong at Hobgoblin."
• "Great atmosphere and great food - particularly the Dirty, Dirty, Fries."
• "Hobgoblin is a great pub to go for a drink with friends, always lively with good atmosphere."
• "It's like a country pub in the middle of the city. It's great!"
• "Always a welcoming lively atmosphere."