Address: 12 St Paul's St, Stamford, PE9 2BE, United Kingdom
Phone: +441780753800
Rating: 4.5
based on 135 reviews.
Service
Pros:
"Service: excellent."
"Good service from friendly, attentive staff, too."
"Absolutely lovely staff, so incredibly friendly, fast and amazing service."
"The staff are always friendly."
"The staff were extremely friendly and chatty although it was very quiet the lunchtime we went in."
"Very attentive bar staff."
"The staff were all polite, friendly and helpful."
Cons:
"The service was very slow, with the starter coming out 1 hour after we arrived."
"However, we waited over an hour for our food and it felt like that was considered normal."
"Stood at the door for 5+ minutes waiting for someone to seat us."
"Popped to Stamford for a meander, and we were lucky to get the last table. We were served drinks very quickly and by friendly staff, but then they seemed to forget us."
"Not able to order food or drinks from your table. Have to go to bar & often wait in queue which spoils the experience."
Food Quality
Pros:
"The food is top notch and well presented, you won't be disappointed."
"Food was delicious, portions are generous."
"Food was absolutely amazing - tasted delicious, well presented & generous portions!"
"The food served in the Tobie is of very high quality."
"Food: excellent."
"The food is fresh made and delicious."
"Food delicious, and value for money."
Cons:
"Expensive - and you have to decide yourself if it's worth paying so much for the pizza."
"Our whole party found that the pizzas were just too big (which I know is weird to say!) but we all ended up wasting a lot of food even though we were all stuffed."
"The pizza had a dry, tasteless base and the topping was pretty mediocre."
"I ordered the pork belly, and despite sounding nice it wasn't very good. The pork was dry and didn't have much flavour."
"lovely old pub but let down by the food, I was so disappointed. The burger was not nice, over cooked and so bland."
"The Yorkshire pudding starter which last time had been lovely, were on the burnt side, the three cheeseboards we had were small in comparison to the one from previously."
"The only downside for this trip is the three times cooked chips with my fish. They are a bit hard."
Atmosphere
Pros:
"Went twice as we liked the ambience and the food on the first visit."
"A real gem of a pub."
"Atmospheric pub in the heart of Stamford. History dates back to C12th when the building was a bell foundry."
"Fantastic staff- lovely atmosphere, clean, cosy, smart and very homely."
"Great cronky old pub. Higgledy-piggeldy old building with warm fires and plenty of seating on three floors."
"Fascinating historic building."
"Quirky English pubs with fabulous decor and exposed building features."
Cons:
"We made the mistake of going on an 'eat out to help out' evening - it was packed, with people sitting back to back in poorly ventilated rooms."
"The rather loud hen party and music next door took the shine off the atmosphere."
"Not much outside seating, and what's there is very close together. Oh, and with people smoking."
Accessibility
Pros:
"Went here with an elderly relative who uses a wheelchair. Although the front door has stone steps, the staff (manager's name I think was Matthew) got their ramp and couldn't have been more accommodating throughout our visit."
Cons:
"Only downside is that its not disabled friendly which we had in our group."
"The only reservation we have is that they’re not child friendly because they’re not big enough for buggies."
"Only down side was the car parking in the area, due to wife disabled and unable to walk very far, found very difficult, but we got there in the end."
Value for Money
Pros:
"Pizzas looked good and noticed a lot of people having those perhaps because they weren't too expensive and they did a deal on them."
"We really enjoyed the 2 pizza and a bottle of wine deal for £35."
"Can be considered as a bit pricey but there are special deals on the pizza and it's worth the little extra."
"I struggled to finish mine due to the size, so good value for money."
"Really good value for money."
"Good value pizza offers available."
"Not badly priced either."
Cons:
"Update 28 Feb 2022. Still a very nice pub but the food prices have gone through the roof. 19 quid for fish and chips? 19 quid! Really?"
"Even with the £10 per person reduction, it was still very expensive."
"Being from Yorkshire I was not happy paying £16quid for a burger!!"
"But the Sunday dinner was over priced for what was received."
"Prices a bit high to reflect the costs."
"Shocked that a pint Is now £6 as it is everywhere now. So unfortunately at that price my visits will be limited."