Hudson Steakhouse Reviews Summary

Steak Quality

Pros:

• "Amazing steaks, probably some of the best ever tasted!! Good portions, well prepared."
• "The steak was great. Porterhouse at 16oz. Flavoured and cooked to perfection."
• "I had a 10oz fillet which was cooked perfectly and was wonderfully tender."
• "Steak was tender and generously portioned. Perfectly cooked medium rare."
• "The steak was perfection!"
• "Absolutely delicious steak. Melt in your mouth."
• "The steak was beautiful and most definitely the star of the show."

Cons:

• "Only thing stopping this from being a five star review is the leather seating was very tired and cracked where we sat, very slightly marring the experience."
• "Despite the prices being similar to those in Bristol this was incredibly disappointingly."
• "Not that great ordered a fillet steak and got a really bland dry steak... very basic no flavour."
• "Once biting into the steaks It was soon apparent they should replace ‘superior marbled’ with ‘disgustingly gristled’ on the menu as the steaks were average at best and overpriced for what they were."
• "Unfortunately my steak was not one of them as it had a lot of fat and gristle."
• "Cold steak was served which isn't great."
• "The ‘superior’ marbling was gristly."

Service

Pros:

• "Fantastic experience throughout. Accommodating of us being 45 mins late (children not going to sleep!)"
• "Every mouthful was so tasty, you cannot fault anything, the service, the attentiveness, the food, the atmosphere."
• "However, what rounded the whole experience up were the staff. Friendly, knowledgeable and witty."
• "The team that served us were friendly and professional."
• "Staff were brill & knowledgeable."
• "The friendly staff and good atmosphere made it a perfect evening out."
• "Staff couldn't do enough!"

Cons:

• "The staff were great but everything else was awful."
• "Our server, on the other hand, seemed like he would rather be anywhere else in the world than at work."
• "But by far the biggest gripe was the server: he balked at the idea of taking note of the items, and was exceedingly unhelpful."
• "Service a bit strange. The waiter not interested in whether I enjoyed my meal only husbands opinion."
• "As I was doing so another waiter brought over the menus and just stood staring at me as I struggled with my bag as if to suggest I was taking up too much of his time."
• "Service was not good. The barman was too interested in our servers choices for a haircut than serving us."
• "Not much of an atmosphere the staff all looked miserable and this did affect our evening."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Restaurant.is really cosy, nicely lit with a fire which was awesome given how cold it was outside."
• "Really nice service with a great decor."
• "The atmosphere and lighting was fantastic!"
• "Really nice restaurant and atmosphere."
• "The restaurant had a lovely ambiance, quiet inside without being too stuffy."
• "The building is beautiful, sophistication paired with traditional which is very true to Bath on a whole."
• "Atmosphere is relaxed and comfortable."

Cons:

• "Bottom line: prices a tad too high for quality of an average steakhouse."
• "Atmosphere was zero."
• "The atmosphere wasn't great.... it felt a little like a canteen."
• "They don't like children, as exemplified by the fact that they have removed any children's option from the early evening menu."
• "Was sat behind the door downstairs which was a bit disappointing as we didn’t really have a view and got the draft of people coming in and out."
• "Then.....in came the loudest table of 8 you could imagine!!...hoping they would settle down as we couldn't hear ourselves speak, but oh no, it just got worse."
• "But we won't be going back."

Price

Pros:

• "Food was priced just right for the quality."
• "Overall price reflects the quality. Not cheap, but you get what you pay for."
• "The food is reasonably priced for the quality of the food."
• "Punches above it’s price."
• "Good selection of wines and very well priced."
• "Also Very good price!"
• "Always great steak and fantastic chips. Really good value early dinner deal as well."

Cons:

• "Great, overpriced, food."
• "Bottom line: prices a tad too high for quality of an average steakhouse."
• "But it's expensive!"
• "The surf and turf option is expensive for what it is."
• "Food is delicious..... But overpriced. Fries are extra!"
• "Not the greatest of steaks we've had and fantastically priced at that!"
• "They have charged my card £40 for a reservation, even though they have confirmed the cancellation of our booking."

Food Variety and Quality

Pros:

• "Got the £18.50 steak special, spinach, crab salad appetizer and fries."
• "The Eton mess cheesecake was also amazing."
• "Wonderful steakhouse. The moment you enter the place you get that amazing smell of steak that is to die for!"
• "The food is exquisite, steak is cooked to perfection, peppercorn sauce is really nice."
• "For dessert we had sticky toffee pudding and Belgian waffles. The sticky toffee was to die for."
• "The steaks are aged and delicious. My son had sirloin and I had strips of steak with gravy on. Awesome."
• "The steak was cooked to perfection and the blue cheese sauce and truffle fries were amazing."

Cons:

• "The desserts, however, were quite nice, if a bit on the delicate side."
• "There wasn't a dessert that we found appealing."
• "Fries were basic, nothing special."
• "The starters were VERY disappointing."
• "Our starter did a better disappearing act than David Copperfield by not actually showing up at all."
• "The desserts were nice, but nothing special and I felt a little underwhelmed by the offerings."
• "They claim the meat was dry aged, which maybe is true, but there's no way it was for more than a couple weeks, because it lacked the distinctive tenderness and funky flavour of aged meat."