The Botanist Bar & Restaurant Exeter Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food was amazing. Fresh and tasty and the puddings were delicious."
• "I had the vegan noodle salad and it was the bomb! def recommend."
• "The food was lovely, the ambience great - the musician on a Sunday is a nice touch!"
• "For food we ordered the hot sharing platter for starter and then the hanging kebabs for mains. Both were very tasty."
• "Food was very well presented, fresh and full of flavour."
• "The food was excellent and freshly made. Excellent options and our whole party enjoyed their meals."
• "The Botanist is a great choice for delicious cocktails and always fresh and yummy food!"
• "We loved it so much we asked to stay for extra time and were accommodated by the bar where we spent the whole evening and racked up a large bill having fun and drinking lovely cocktails."

Cons:

• "Busy lunch. Fairly slow service.. Food is tasty but basic and at the top end for what you are getting."
• "Food was nice. One of the parties chicken was undercooked, when mentioned to the waitress she was quite rude."
• "I usually love this place for cocktails but the food was very basic."
• "The service and ambience was really good but the overall experience was let down by the food."
• "Not great long wait , cool food , flooded toilets and cold coffee.. Two of those puddings were chosen were not available."
• "The Sunday roast is on the more expensive side, but its worth it so you get what you pay for."
• "Cheap cocktails, charged expensively. Had to order off an app as we sat on the terrace."
• "This is a very racist bar!!! Don't go there. My friend and I had a booking, but the workers prevented us from entering the restaurant."

Service Quality

Pros:

• "Staff were very friendly and efficient."
• "Staff were lovely and friendly, would definantly recommend for people."
• "My wife an I visited on bank holiday Thursday and I can't praise this place highly enough."
• "A lovely evening, the hanging skewers were delicious and great gluten free options."
• "The service was great, the waitress attentive, food & drink was fab and the prices were very reasonable."
• "Fantastic . Big group for a birthday party . Excellent food and very attentive."
• "Shared a pleasant evening with 12 others. Easy to order food scanning code on the tables."
• "We had a fab meal here for our end of term staff do! We were pleased we were able to book a table for 20+ at last minute!"

Cons:

• "Sadly the service is terrible though :( One of our party couldn’t find the restaurant."
• "We have been to this The Botanist twice now, both times thoroughly underwhelming."
• "Then you trek up two, sometimes four flights of steep dark stairs."
• "It's really unpleasantly loud and the acoustics of the place with basically no soft furnishings didn't help."
• "I have visited The Botanist in Exeter several times now. I have always had a good meal there and I think the food is good value in general."
• "Some of the worst service I’ve ever received. No welcome from concierge on arrival."
• "Service was lovely, just very disappointed with the food! we had 3 roast dinners, was stone cold barely any vegetables/potatoes."
• "The service is shocking, if you want any drinks you end up waiting for 30 minutes, managers can’t be bothered to speak to you."