California Tavern Reviews Summary

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Really friendly and obliging staff."
• "Special mention to Julie who was a brilliant host."
• "The staff are very friendly."
• "Service very prompt once we had chosen from menue - ordering at 'bar'."
• "The service was superb the staff couldn't do enough for you and the lady serving us was amazing really friendly."
• "Very attentive & polite service."
• "The staff were so accommodating for such a large party! So helpful just went above and beyond!"

Cons:

• "Woman who served us was unwelcoming when ordering drinks."
• "Not impressed, girl behind bar totally ignored us for minutes."
• "The main lady who greeted us let the whole place down."
• "Counter assistance don't listen the young lad was very rude and had a poor attitude."
• "The attitude from staff where disgusting... was playing pool to be told to quieten down or pls leave."
• "Terrible creepy local vibe, very rude bar staff."
• "Visited today after booking a table for a meal, on arrival was greeted by a very rude waitress/barmaid."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Good food, good venue, beer garden with kiddies play area."
• "Foods tasty and fantastic. Sunday carvery is to die for."
• "A lovely team with good pub food."
• "wonderful food. best bacon cheese burger ever."
• "We had Seabass and Texas Chicken both meals were beautifully cooked and well presented."
• "The food is absolutely amazing. Any expectations I had, they exceeded."
• "Everything we ordered was delicious."

Cons:

• "The portions were tiny."
• "Food mediocre, just warmed up poor quality & unseasoned produce."
• "However… very poor food! Extremely cheap low quality ingredients."
• "The chips were disgusting."
• "Chips were way over cooked, looked like they had been cooked then dipped in the fryer again."
• "FROZEN hand cut chips that were so overcooked they were hollow."
• "The food we ordered was underwhelming. I had the gourmet burger, but I'm afraid nothing gourmet about it, meat was dry and Luke warm at best."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "A very inexpensive but beautiful pub located right next to the sea front."
• "Great value for money at £9.95 for carvery. Excellent choice of veg."
• "Food was good & reasonable price."
• "Good beer prices too."
• "Good prices, twice here within our week staying at Park Dean Resort."
• "Not participating in the eat out 50% off scheme but would pay full price again as portion sizes were decent too."
• "Reasonably priced and lovely home style food."

Cons:

• "The food was not good value for money."
• "Having been a gourmet butcher for 25 plus years it's completely see through it very pricy for what you get!"
• "Ridiculously over priced food for what we got."
• "Very expensive £8.00 For pint fosters & diet coke."
• "We spent £80 for 5 meals to feel like we had just flushed it down the drain, we will not be returning."
• "The food was not good value for money, waited over 40 minutes... when it arrived it was cold."
• "Overcooked, overpriced, poor quality."

Ambiance and Facilities

Pros:

• "Sat on the cliffs, this welcoming family pub has real ales to be enjoyed in the cosy bar, extensive dining areas to the rear, a large beer garden with pirate ship playpark for the kids and a vegan specials menu."
• "An amazing discovery, a top cask ale focused pub very near the beach."
• "Theres a lovely children's area outside with a secure gate, great selection of drinks and food and good entertainment offered too."
• "Arrived at this lovely little tavern on a cold day, locals were there relaxing and chatting to the staff."
• "They also have a fantastic beer garden with play equipment for the kids and they have some fantastic Bands and entertainment on most nights of the week."
• "Nice outdoor area for children to play."
• "Great pub in a great location. 1 minute from a great sandy beach."

Cons:

• "Unfortunately this establishment was closed due to covid."
• "Great location shame they are serving food on and off and they couldn't tell us when."
• "Looking very tired, could do with a face lift."
• "No baby changing facilities."
• "The floor was very grubby and dirty with sticky tables."
• "The worst carvery i have ever had... very poor hygiene."
• "Atmosphere non existent."

Management and Organization

Pros:

• "Had a brilliant time at a friends wedding reception and Rick was a fantastic entertainer/host."
• "Always found it to be well run, good value, lovely food."
• "A great pub that has become our new local when we visit our caravan."
• "Stopped off for a quick drink before heading home. Wish we had gone in during our holiday as the drinks were very reasonably priced."
• "A beautiful warm,welcoming friendly and fantastic public house come restaurant."
• "Staff can't fault friendly chatty good customer service."
• "Nice cosy pub with nice food and a reasonable vegan menu."

Cons:

• "Ordered salmon unfortunately although took payment, was then told not available."
• "I believe a course on customer service is definitely in order for the waitress/barmaid cause you have now ruined any chance of us getting my daughter into another restaurant!"
• "Then we’re told the girls couldn’t play pool in the bar area."
• "An absolutely shocking place that claims to be dog friendly but isn’t what I would consider to be friendly towards dogs."
• "The guy this morning was shouting at people that they have to use app because he is extremely busy by typing few orders in."
• "Skinner family of 12 was looking forward to a happy new year dinner gathering to be greeted with a lady who I believed to be the manager who was very unfriendly and we all felt that we were a nuisance."
• "Staff really need to be organised better. The paying customer should always take priority over staff and indeed management breaks etc."