The Granby Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food is fantastic & homemade. Portions are large so you certainly won’t leave hungry."
• "We had a lovely meal as well and the standard of food was excellent."
• "Great fresh food, good portions and the veggie sausages in giant Yorkshire pud were ace."
• "Food is served promptly and looks and tastes delicious."
• "Food well presented and nicely cooked with substantial portions."
• "The chicken curry was lovely, very tasty, plenty of chicken and not too hot or spicy."
• "Food was great home cooked."

Cons:

• "Food was awful, four people with three different meals. Pie was dried up, steak in mixed grill was dried up."
• "Beg to differ on this as very few Chips on smaller plate, than my wife had."
• "The food was cold and the burger was pink in middle."
• "The food was the worst I have ever been served and was just inedible."
• "The meal today was tepid not very warm at all."
• "Its a bit run down had a mixed grill here plenty on plate but meat especially the steak was overcooked."
• "The most disgusting food ive ever eaten while out. Food was barely warm, pork chops were burnt, couldn't even chew the steak and the whole meal tasted vile."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff are very friendly and welcoming."
• "Atmosphere excellent, service excellent, staff really work hard on the two nights we visited, food excellent and plenty of it, everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves."
• "Very friendly welcoming place."
• "First time visiting as I was staying in a local b&b really enjoyed the pub made to feel really welcome beer was good would definitely visit there again when next in area."
• "The staff were extremely helpful and friendly."
• "All staff were lovely and welcoming, bingo night was brilliant!"
• "The staff are very helpful and friendly."

Cons:

• "This time the young lady was not a cheerful pleasant person but totally opposite."
• "Surly, grumpy service by a sour, unpleasant woman, who I have since found out was the landlady."
• "The lady who showed us to our room was unfriendly and unwelcoming."
• "After taking our order we had to wait over an hour for our food, at no point were we advised of a delay or indeed offered an apology."
• "Think the real chef must have been off when we went last weekend."
• "Difficult to find a positive here.. We visited as a party of 6 during the Goth weekend and whilst it was busy we did manage to find a table, only for the very rude and ignorant landlady to bark at us that we were not allowed to move two seats to make up 6 for our group."
• "Very poor service, waited an hour, no one spoke to us, the table was sticky, we ordered lamb and got pork. Ordered small and got large. Food was microwave blasted."

Atmosphere & Location

Pros:

• "Very cosy pub that serves a variety of food options and great beers."
• "Good pub atmosphere."
• "The pub is in a good location, tucked away from the busiest part of the town."
• "Great atmosphere and trimmed up for Christmas."
• "Nice pub cosy friendly atmosphere. Ate here twice im the week came, food excellent, home cooked not processed the gravy is the best I've tasted anywhere."
• "Proper old-school hotel bar and lounge on two levels."
• "Great traditional pub. I wish all pubs where like this. Good ales, carpet, good atmosphere - what’s not to like?"

Cons:

• "Worse than expected. Noisy, below anytime decent modern standard compared to other same rated hotels."
• "NOT DOG FRIENDLY 😕"
• "Dog friendly pub?. I don't think so!!."
• "A bit strange. My Jack Russells were allowed in the bar but when I requested some tap water for them it was refused on the grounds that they may splash the water on the carpet, which, by the way, had already seen better days."
• "Normally put off by people standing outside."
• "Been using the Granby for years for food... The scruffy bloke sat at the bar sticking of piss is very rude with he's smelly dog seems to think that he's dog have more rights then humans."
• "Probably wouldn’t return."

Value

Pros:

• "Typical pub menu at reasonable prices."
• "The food is very reasonably priced and beautifully home cooked."
• "Very good value and can recommend."
• "Food is typically pub grub with huge portions and very reasonable prices."
• "A very nice clean pub/hotel, friendly staff and great food all at a reasonable price."
• "Great food and beer at reasonable prices."
• "Reasonable prices and really good value for money."

Cons:

• "Have not stayed at the Granby, however I visit for a pint and some food every time I visit Whitby, the staff are all usually very helpful and friendly. The food is above average, does seem to be getting a little expensive."
• "No parking on site."
• "The room was small/compact and well thought out - you could (just) see the Abbey from our room."
• "The mattress was heavily stained too - the mattress topper just wouldn't stay on properly which is how I found this out."
• "Bar maid even give me a permit to park outside."
• "The bed was clean but the room hadn’t been cleaned well. There were still cup marks on the bedside table from the previous guests."
• "The room was tidy nice decor ish... also no breakfast included in the price £75 per night!!!"