Rusty Shears Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Staff were friendly and helpful."
• "Considerate and attentive service in a stylish setting."
• "Service is equally top notch... many thanks."
• "Really friendly welcome and service."
• "The staff are lovely. Friendly, helpful, professional and the 'icing on the cake,' is that this place is dog friendly woohoo!"
• "The staff were very helpful and attentive."
• "The staff are superb and extremely knowledgeable about the food they are serving you."

Cons:

• "Overpriced, ostentatious. I speak as a person, formally working in Michelin restaurant. Service very, very basic. Spilled some veg on table, but embarrassingly it was left there."
• "Service varied from a bit grumpy to extremely happy."
• "Staff slow and not attentive, had to ask them to clear our plates."
• "While I will say the service was a bit slow and hit or miss, I can understand it as they seemed understaffed."
• "The only down side was the lack of draught lager, only bottled or cans."
• "Only down side was it took 30 minutes to serve all 6 of us, and items came out one at a time so the hot food would have been cold if we hadn't eaten it straight away and wait for everyone to get their items."
• "Unfortunately on arrival I was told there was no booking... he took no responsibility for the fact that possibly he had made the error!"

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The mushroom burger is particularly good, as is the sausage plait."
• "Excellent pizza and beer evening (Friday and Saturday)."
• "Food was excellent although it took a very long time to come."
• "A wonderful gastronomic and gintastic experience."
• "They also have a range of cakes, the Sicilian lemon cake was excellent with a generous portion size."
• "The food was absolutely delicious. My partner and I shared the breakfast board, and it was fabulous."
• "Food amazing, we had eggs Benedict and eggs royale, beautiful poached eggs."

Cons:

• "Weird ambiguous tasting smashed avocado. Bacon and sausages were a bit supermarket."
• "Food was cold and the pie and peas were rubbish."
• "Disappointed on the menu; I thought as it had many good reviews, I might give it a try. However, it was hidden away and the menu looked like a cafe's."
• "Although food ok, the menu is lacking."
• "Rusty breakfast was disappointing. Sausage annihilated, tomato the opposite egg yolk hard. As a result breakfast very dry."
• "The lunch menu was a little limited."
• "Visited over Easter weekend due to a recommendation. Food was really good quality and well cooked. unfortunately let down by being served on cold plates."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "As you enter through the pleasing courtyard you are greeted with a cosy yet spacious room with tables and seating surrounded by unusual artefacts and with pleasant lighting."
• "We sat outside in the courtyard and it felt as though you could have been somewhere in Europe."
• "Lovely little place, tucked away in a quiet side street."
• "The place is like the Tardis. You go through a small gate into a courtyard and through a small door and find yourself in a very quirky tearoom with three rooms and for fine weather a large outdoor area."
• "Amazing place. Very quaint, charming setting. Lovely courtyard outside too."
• "A hidden gem! Beautiful inside and outside seating, dog-friendly place."
• "The outdoor courtyard is like sitting in the Mediterranean, on a sunny day!"

Cons:

• "Nice little place but really cold inside."
• "The courtyard is waaay too overcrowded with tables and chairs for comfort."
• "This was an outstanding place for coffee, or a meal. It's recently lost that sparkle, sadly it is no longer worth the walk."
• "The decor inside, and out in the courtyard to some extent, is eclectic to say the least and the tables are a bit crammed in."
• "Room was also rather chilly."
• "Despite other reviews suggesting there might be vegan options... on the day we visited there were around 6-8 cake options but not one was dairy free."
• "Felt a little enclosed but they can't do anything about the building size."