The Countryman Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is top quality 'home-made'."
• "Good wholesome food."
• "Great food...homecooked. Their steak pie is amazing."
• "Absolutely love this place food is second to none we always have the steak because it is the best steak we have ever had so tender it melts in the mouth."
• "Had the lasagne which was to die for."
• "All food was homemade, hot, delicious and substantial."
• "The jam roly poly was best I've ever had."

Cons:

• "Food was nice, nothing special for the price."
• "The kids meals were just over a fiver each and they were nothing over exciting."
• "DISGUSTING. Is the only word I have for this place, gammon was literally white."
• "Friendly enough but expected so much more from the food.. the menus boards had us drooling, when the food turned up it was very disappointing."
• "Lovely lady who served us to food was very pleasant but the food didn't match up to her unfortunately, I had fish and chips and it was to be honest terrible it was frozen fish not fresh."
• "£11 for quite comfortably the worst meal I've ever had anywhere."
• "English food nice enough but not outstanding the curry was not so good."

Service

Pros:

• "Extremely polite and accommodating when it came to the kids faddy food preferences."
• "Bar lady very polite and professional."
• "Quick service, friendly staff."
• "The staff was very polite helpfull and the meals was beautifull."
• "The service was quick..our waitress was very helpful in explaining the options from the specials boards."
• "Staff very polite and friendly fast service."
• "Staff were very friendly and attentive and everything was very reasonably priced."

Cons:

• "We waited 15 mins and still nobody came to take our food order and the place wasn't busy!"
• "Plus, good luck paying with card!"
• "Not family friendly! was told to keep my 2 Yr old grandchild under control before we had even been served!"
• "If your passing through the area and happen to run out of cash and need to use your card to order pub food then your stuffed around these parts."
• "Asked if had booked, hadn't but told table available in about 30 mins so waited. After 75 minutes had passed enquired and was told 'I forgot'."
• "First off we were left waiting for ages to be seated by the staff."
• "When the waitress came over she was very rude and abrupt."

Atmosphere & Decor

Pros:

• "Unique pub with its own brewery lots of variety of tasty beers. Welcoming staff. Old world charm in its comfortable decor."
• "Lovely clean pub."
• "A very good traditional UK pub."
• "Nice welcome .nice to find a pub that does real ale too."
• "Lovely pub that we used a couple of times when stopping at the Grange....landlady, staff and locals all friendly and made us feel welcome."
• "Lovely looking pub from the outside, inside it is just as you imagine."
• "A brilliant traditional pub."

Cons:

• "Children aren’t allowed in the pub but have a ‘family room’ which is segregated away from the main pub area and isolating."
• "No children are allowed in the pub at all. Not even to have a meal."
• "It's fine for a drink but not eating food in there. Horrible."
• "We all felt uncomfortable walking in and leaving. Everyone stared and nobody said hello."
• "Very expensive drinks, toilets unclean, disabled toilet floor had pool of dirty water and a cone blocking the space inside."
• "Interior a bit dated."
• "Was told to sit in the family room because we had our 7 year old daughter with us. The room was cold and empty."

Value

Pros:

• "nice people, lovely meals, good prices, great location what more can one ask for."
• "Everything was very reasonably priced."
• "The prices were decent too."
• "EXCELLENT DRINK PRICES. EXCELLENT FOOD PRICES."
• "Amazing food lovely staff great beer and fantastic price."
• "Prices were perfectly reasonable."
• "Roll all this up with the very reasonable prices and you don't need to go elsewhere."

Cons:

• "Charged me £6 for two lemonades with a bit of blackcurrant cordial in??? Everywhere else the same drink cost £1-£1.50!!"
• "just stayed at the countryman for a week never saw anybody from the caravan site in the whole week booked a super pitch which on the website is £25 a night but was charged £27."
• "But to pay for food you need cash, there are signs up but I didn't see them until they were pointed out."
• "You need cash here as they do not take card, they do have a free cash machine though."
• "what an awful place £25.00 per night (no receipt) ladies toilets consists of two...with NO handwash or hand drying or PERSONAL sanitation."

Family-Friendliness

Pros:

• "Plenty to suit kids available."
• "Good village style pub, which is family friendly!"
• "Always happy to have a caravan holiday at the countryman, lovely people and a great little caravan site, not forgetting a great British Pub!!!!!"

Cons:

• "Children aren’t allowed in the pub but have a ‘family room’ which is segregated away from the main pub area and isolating."
• "No children are allowed in the pub at all. Not even to have a meal."
• "Not family friendly! was told to keep my 2 Yr old grandchild under control before we had even been served!"
• "If I could of given 0 stars I would!!! Absolutely shocking! Booked a table with children and a highchair. When we arrived they had given our table and the last high chair to another party."
• "Went there today, only to be shoved in a back room because we had 2 children with us."
• "Was told to sit in the family room because we had our 7 year old daughter with us. The room was cold and empty."