Barry Island Brewers Fayre Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "All staff were genuinely friendly and happy while providing efficient and prompt service."
• "The staff is amazing. People are very friendly."
• "The staff are always very accommodating and friendly."
• "Staff were very friendly and pleasant."
• "Great staff and really helpful and friendly."
• "The staff were excellent and attentive."
• "Staff are doing great job in these difficult times."

Cons:

• "The service was terrible."
• "No acknowledgment from staff who kept walking past us all."
• "Service is all over the place."
• "Not enough staff during busy dinner time."
• "Incredibly short staffed, and they run out of Christmas pudding despite us booking a Christmas lunch with them."
• "Management are rude and don't care."
• "Service by Georgia, was very poor. Overheard making sarcastic comments to other bar member. Absolutely no customer service skills."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food was delicious. Had garlic mushroom and loaded potato skins for starter."
• "The Beef Pie & Doom Bar Ale was delicious."
• "The food was good quality and fresh; the breakfast is a self-serve option and I couldn’t fault the offer."
• "The food was scrumptious, hot and good portions."
• "The food was well priced and tasty."
• "The food is nice."
• "The food was delicious! Hot and tasty and exactly what we wanted."

Cons:

• "Went for breakfast and it was terrible. Having paid £8.99 I expected a decent breakfast but as I went to get my food I realised that they had run out of everything."
• "Fries with the burgers were cold, burgers weren't that hot either."
• "The food was cold, the beef was really red raw, turkey was good, gammon flavourless, stuffing rock hard and large chunks of onion, green beans disgusting."
• "Awful. Food is declining. Mostly microwaved."
• "Food was obviously deep fried, maybe more than the once."
• "Food is horrible, you have to self order at the bar and the cutlery/dishes are always dirty."
• "The food was poor. I ordered the tandoori mixed grill - it had a piece of steak that was so tough it was inedible."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "£9.50 for all you can eat and drinks. Get a lot for your money."
• "Good value for money, good location close to Barry."
• "Reasonable price."
• "Value is generally good."
• "Absolute value for money."
• "Definitely worth the price, good selection of cooked and continental breakfast and all fresh."
• "The 2 for £8.99 weekday deal is fab, means you can eat out cheaply and mostly enjoyably."

Cons:

• "The side of chips which I ordered was 6 chips at most for over £5."
• "It was ok, but tbh its quite expensive for the quality of food you get."
• "All in £26+ for what was at most £5 of food from any decent restaurant."
• "Can be a long queue to order food or another drink."
• "for the price, some of the items on the menu are not worth it."
• "Food was not so good had better, service well it did take 40min for food to come out no one mentioned a delay."
• "Expensive for what you get."

Ambiance and Cleanliness

Pros:

• "The place was clean, plenty of tables and nicely furnished."
• "We really enjoyed visiting this place in Barry Island."
• "A very pleasant experience in a nice clean and uncluttered the premises."
• "Nice clean open area."
• "It is a lovely clean place to go to. There are plenty of seating area's and you are not all on top of each other either."
• "The area is nice and the toilets are clean."
• "The restaurant kept nice and clean."

Cons:

• "The pathway from the car park to the restaurant is absolutely filthy with rubbish."
• "The place was dirty all tables not cleared."
• "Huge modern place but no atmosphere."
• "Someone had been sick at the bottom of the toilet stairs. After reporting this it was not cleaned up just had a warning board placed over half of it so we had to jump over sick on the way to the toilet."
• "The table was stickier than a wax strip with dirty napkins underneath the cutlery."
• "Service was also poor as dirty plates were left on table."
• "Kids running around."