The Kings Head Reviews Summary

Category: Pub

Address: Station Rd, Hoveton, Norwich NR12 8UR, United Kingdom

Phone: +441603782429

Rating: 3.8
based on 402 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "All staff were friendly and helpful."
  • "Damien the assistant manager on duty who could not have been nicer or more helpful."
  • "The service was very friendly and they were very helpful when I needed something different for my little girl."
  • "Served by very friendly and attentive staff."
  • "Staff were friendly and helpful without being too in your face."
  • "Staff all very friendly and helpful."
  • "Very attentive staff."

Cons:

  • "Sadly not a pleasant experience. I'm a wheelchair user who entered these premises yesterday."
  • "Badly managed and incapable staff."
  • "Awful service waited at the with a lady next to me, bar man took no notice of me."
  • "The demeanor of the deputy manager, whose swift expressions of anger further exacerbated our discomfort as a group."
  • "Staff were grumpy and looked like they wished they were somewhere else."
  • "Very poor service. Sadly not somewhere I would recommend."
  • "Service is slow, place is generally unclean and a lot of items out of stock."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Following a recent revamp, the restaurant is a great environment serving a wide range of food and drink."
  • "All the meals were well sized, hot and tasty."
  • "Our plates were suitably filled with a large quantity of well prepared and piping hot food."
  • "The Sunday roast was very nice."
  • "The food quality was great and it tasted lovely."
  • "Fabulous hunters chicken, made all the better as the chicken is sitting on a gammon steak."
  • "The food we had was lovely. I had chicken and bacon salad and partner had the chicken and mushroom pie."

Cons:

  • "Food took 2 hours from time of order to being brought out and it was only 1 sharing platter."
  • "We were left waiting for over an hour for our food."
  • "Out of 4 meals only one was edible."
  • "The hotel room on the other hand was unfortunately not quite on par... the heating wouldn't work at all, the shower flooded the bathroom floor."
  • "The vegetables were not good at all, some had run out and not replaced, no Yorkshire puddings, potatoes were watery, parsnips dry and hard, green beans were very over cooked."
  • "The food was probably slightly below average and certainly below par for the price."
  • "There was a hair in the food."

Ambiance

Pros:

  • "The place was lovely and warm which helped take the afternoon chill away."
  • "Very popular family and dog oriented place."
  • "Outdoor seating by the river too."
  • "Beautiful setting, enhanced by glorious sunshine."
  • "The garden is right by the river and sitting there with sun going down was just awesome!"
  • "We were sat outside watching the boats go by. All in all a great experience."
  • "The seating area outside is so pretty & picturesque watching all the boats & people going past."

Cons:

  • "Imagine my shock and anger, at getting a £100 parking fine, for being 30min over my original time!"
  • "The pub area was noisy due to football."
  • "We sat in the garden which could've been quite nice as its on the waters edge but there was a group of lads on their boat, drinking, smoking & blaring out music."
  • "Never again, stayed one night and was the worst nights sleep in a long time!"
  • "The ongoing high temperature meant everyone was crammed into the little shade available in the garden."
  • "There was a huge problem with wasps with no visible sign of anything being done about it so very difficult to settle 4 children."
  • "Also is there any where you can sit without dogs barking and screaming people at the sport on tv!!"

Management

Pros:

  • "Thank you for the evening!"
  • "Met a friend for late lunch on 12/7/19 and paid from my parking, which they take off the price of a drink, great idea."
  • "Thank you from a fellow publican."
  • "Management and staff very friendly polite and professional."
  • "The same manager also helped us with the app we found out his name was Mart."
  • "Management need to step up and step in in these types of circumstance to support their staff and their customers."
  • "Many thanks to the management for taking the time, the quite considerable time..... 8 months in fact.. to consider their reply to my review."

Cons:

  • "AVOID THIS PUB RUN BY DISCRIMINATORY BIGOTS."
  • "The manager never helped us and stay away when we complained."
  • "Waited long time for cold goujons sandwiches with warm chips, service was poor and the doorman/manager unhelpful."
  • "The main contributing factor to this disappointing encounter was our interaction with the waiter, who astonishingly also held the position of duty manager."
  • "Green King you seriously need to spend some money on renovation."
  • "Your policy on disability is obviously that you do not tolerate it!"
  • "Absolute rubbish if you have allergies or want to make changes to certain meals or drinks."

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