The Bull Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is of a good quality and a reasonable price."
• "The roast was excellent."
• "The food was excellent, with prawns, pate scallops pies, mussels and burgers all going down a treat, and good value too."
• "The food was wonderful and tasty"
• "Amazing food, gorgeous place."
• "Can't fault the service or the food."
• "Lovely food, top quality."

Cons:

• "Small roast chicken portion, extremely small vedge, hard mash potatoes, chicken liver pate tasted nothing, sausages were over cooked."
• "Three of our group ordered the pork dinner but it was fatty and tasteless."
• "Food was too long between courses"
• "The main issue by far was the portion size of the chicken pasta, it was outrageously small for the money."
• "Roast lunch was disappointing for Father's day."
• "The pie and fish were to a good standard. The goujons were average at best. But the main concern was that chips on all ours meals were uncooked and barely edible."
• "The 'buttered green vegetables' turned out to be long strips of leek mixed with some wilty leaves."

Service

Pros:

• "Very COVID friendly and attentive staff."
• "The staff are All very friendly and polite."
• "The staff we spoke to were excellent."
• "Service brilliant and cheerful as ever."
• "Staff were friendly and on point."
• "Service was spot on and food was tasty."
• "Staff were very helpful and the food was very good."

Cons:

• "Asked for water 3 times, did not arrive."
• "A few of the tables are placed in awkward positions, so it feels like they are in a corridor and people have to brush past diners on their way to the loo."
• "Loo door had no lock and loose wonky moving seat."
• "Slight blip, as a customer I shouldn't have seen a staff member mocking an outside seated customer to a colleague."
• "I totally appreciate covid guidelines but there is no excuse for lack of service."
• "Not once were we asked if we had enjoyed our meal etc."
• "Staff was lovely although i feel they were a bit understaffed and the organisation could have been better as all staff members were swapping positions all the time which I thought was causing a bit of chaos."

Value

Pros:

• "No extra veg necessary to leave room for the sticky toffee pudding that we shared. Not cheap but worth the price."
• "Might be a little more expensive than some used to but, as the saying goes you get what you pay for."
• "Not cheap but very nice."
• "Even the cost was really fair."
• "Food was delicious & reasonably priced."
• "Not overly expensive either which just adds to the experience."
• "Definitely worth the price."

Cons:

• "Quite pricey at over £8 for 2 pints of shandy."
• "I couldn't believe how small it was!! So value for money...no points."
• "Very expensive for what you get."
• "For the princely sum of nearly £14 I ordered the steak burger with chips and coleslaw."
• "£20 for a Sunday dinner and the beef was so tough and fatty, couldn’t cut through it with a steak knife."
• "We had Sunday lunch and had to pay extra for a Yorkshire pudding. When we were paying £20 each I would expect to have it included."
• "Half size portions for double the price."

Ambience

Pros:

• "A lovely and cosy environment"
• "Nice Xmas vibe, roaring log fire. Atmospheric pub."
• "A lovely country pub with real open fire."
• "Fabulous old pub, lovely surroundings."
• "Sat in the small coffee area there was a nice relaxed ambience."
• "Love this place. Stylish country pub that is cosy and welcoming."
• "Warm cosy atmosphere, very clean, tastefully decorated we can't fault anything about our experience."

Cons:

• "A few of the tables are placed in awkward positions, so it feels like they are in a corridor and people have to brush past diners on their way to the loo."
• "Firstly, the whole restaurant seemed steady and wasn’t busy however they decided to cram us in a room with a large table which were quite rowdy."
• "Two tables pushed together to make a long table wasn't comfortable to sit at."
• "Atmosphere stuck in a small side room was not great."
• "As we arrived nobody seemed to want to greet us. Members of staff seemed to just walk past us what felt like a couple of minutes, it was slightly awkward."
• "Dropped by for a drink but we felt unwelcomed as we weren't ordering food."
• "Beautiful pub, that has somehow lost its way. Attention to detail has gone."