The Gardeners Country Inn Reviews Summary

Category: Restaurant Hull

Address: Hull Road, Coniston, Hull HU11 5AE, United Kingdom

Phone: +441964562625

Rating: 4.2
based on 219 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Food was very tasty with a good range of menu choices plus selection of specials."
  • "The food was amazing, we had the beef and gammon Sunday lunch, the meat just melted in our mouth!"
  • "The fish was flaky and white, the batter was light and crisp the tartare sauce was creamy and delicious."
  • "The food is delicious freshly cooked, obviously all home cooked even the pies everything we've tried so far is very flavour-some."
  • "The food was delicious and definitely well worth the money. The portion sizes were massive!"
  • "The food and friendly staff is why I come to be honest bloody lovely great choise and plenty on the plate."
  • "The food was gorgeous and the staff were lovely, friendly and very attentive."

Cons:

  • "Every meal (apart from my daughters) was cold or luke warm at best."
  • "Had the fish and chips all batter very little fish over cooked too, wedges tasted redone."
  • "The pie was awful, meat inside seems to have been sat and was hard and dry."
  • "Garlic bread slice was dry and cold."
  • "The beef dripping hand cut chips tasted of old potatoes and old oil."
  • "The food was tasteless as if it had been sat in water for 72hrs. The amount of flies was unbelievable."
  • "The food took a while (35 minutes) to arrive but once it did it was freshly cooked with seasonal green veggies and tasted delicious."

Service

Pros:

  • "The staff are all friendly and welcoming. A credit to the owners of the business."
  • "He helped me to carry out the cutlery etc to our table without being asked and was very good at his job."
  • "All of the staff are very welcoming and will do anything to accommodate."
  • "Very friendly waitress who was very accommodating to my gluten free Mother who consulted the chef a few times on what she could have."
  • "Fabulous friendly staff all had smiles and were welcoming."
  • "Staff attentive and friendly, make you feel right at home."
  • "The service here is brilliant. The staff are so friendly and helpful."

Cons:

  • "Our food did not arrive until 6:20pm with a further 15 minute wait for my daughters kids meal."
  • "The bar lady was extremely rude and just put a head on the lager pint!"
  • "A bad start here as came for a meal as a booking and gave up after waiting an hour and half."
  • "Additionally, the one waitress working here huffed and puffed when serving our table."
  • "The manager is so unprofessional and I’ve had a lot of rude emails when I’ve tried to complain."
  • "The service was very good and we got greeted upon entering."
  • "Service very slow Staff didn't ask if you wanted more drinks etc people got up to the bar themselves Other tables people had to wait ages."

Ambience & Location

Pros:

  • "Set in a really lovely location, away from the hustle and bustle of the city."
  • "There is a lovely outdoor area and a kids play area separate enough to keep the noise away but close enough for you to keep an eye out for inadvertent injury!"
  • "The actual pub is lovely, a traditional style with a modern touch. Nice and clean."
  • "The Gardener’s Country Inn is in a beautiful setting surrounded by tall trees."
  • "The lay out is great and a good size garden area with play area for kids. The carvery was great veg cooked perfectly meat was nice and soft not tough and chewy."
  • "The pub is nice and cozy, it has a large conservatory and really nice garden with outdoor seating area."
  • "Lovely stay here. Really nice family room."

Cons:

  • "The atmosphere was disappointing and the bar staff couldn’t seem to drop their attitude after we complained about our drinks."
  • "The pub is dingy and dark and really needs refurbishing asap!"
  • "The garden set up as we watched was far away from where children played Bit dodgy on a main road."
  • "The meal was not that good, the place needs a good clean."
  • "Our first impression was very bad with all the outside tables dirty and full of dirty plates and glasses."
  • "The carpets were embarrassingly thin with tears and gaps."
  • "The cider was flat, the lager was horrible and extremely flat and the vodka lemonade tasted like pure dishwater!"

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "For the all in price, it was 5/5."
  • "At a very reasonable price too!"
  • "The price was ok."
  • "The food was delicious and definitely well worth the money. The portion sizes were massive!"
  • "Really varied food menu, so there is something for everyone. The food portions are huge and the prices are so reasonable."
  • "The food and friendly staff is why I come to be honest bloody lovely great choise and plenty on the plate."
  • "Lovely staff lovely surroundings and the food was absolutely amazing ! Would recommend to any one , best meal in a long time . ."

Cons:

  • "Our starter of bread and oils arrived and quite frankly, was not worth the £9.50 price tag."
  • "The beef dripping hand cut chips tasted of old potatoes and old oil."
  • "Completely overpriced!"
  • "Ordered peppercorn sauce to go with my meal and it arrived 10mins after my food and at a cost of £2.50 which is a joke to be honest."
  • "A bit expensive as well, but where isn't now."
  • "A very overpriced let down."
  • "Over prices rubbish. Won’t be going again."

Accommodation

Pros:

  • "Great accommodation great for a stay over."
  • "We stayed the night in one of their rooms which was very cosy. A very tasty full English breakfast on the Sunday morning was the perfect end to a perfect weekend."
  • "The accommodation was lovely..lounge and bathroom downstairs..with amazing Jacuzzi bath..lovey bedroom upstairs with skylight and lovely comfy bed."
  • "Really nice family room, very accommodating & great service."
  • "Well appointed split level apartment style. Clean and well presented."
  • "The staff at the gardeners country inn were very welcoming and were able to find us a room at such short notice."
  • "Me and my husband stayed here last night celebrating our anniversary of 5 years. We had a few beers in the pub it was lovely and cosy."

Cons:

  • "The notice said to hang up the towels if you’re prepared to re use them but there were no hooks."
  • "Rooms are okay, but people was stood outside there doors smoking, need a smoking area."
  • "I paid extra for a deluxe room which had no shower, just a large jacuzzi bath which didn’t work and had broken off switches."
  • "On the website its states free WiFi however there's not even a bar signal. Walls are so thin could hear the people next door putting there spa bath on all night worst stay even not worth the money."
  • "Wouldn't recommend this place to stay maybe the restaurant is good but accommodation is terrible."
  • "The rooms are a disaster. There was a dead fly in the room, dirty carpets, seat, marked walls."
  • "Walls were paper thin so our 5yr old son got to listen to the couple next door having a good time."

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