The Crooked Well Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Best experience for a longtime."
• "The best thing about this bar was the service from the staff."
• "Came here for a Xmas work do, great service, lovely food."
• "The staff are always so incredibly friendly."
• "Very attentive service from our own waitress, Carolina."
• "Hector and his team could not have been more helpful and considerate."
• "The waiter was very polite."

Cons:

• "We had to find our own menus and ask 3 times to take orders for food or drinks."
• "The service was appalling."
• "The service wasn't great."
• "One person in our group didn’t receive their meal until after everyone else finished eating."
• "The service was pretty slow."
• "Had to wait 25 min for main."
• "We wanted to order desserts at 9pm and we were told that kitchen won't be making them."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The starters were the strongest course with us trying the salt & pepper squid and beetroot & feta puff pastry. Both were excellent."
• "All meat was cooked perfectly and the sides tasty."
• "Our beef was cooked to perfection, Yorkshire pudding was great & some of the best roast potatoes we’ve had."
• "The sausage rolls are moorish."
• "We had a delicious pappardelle dish with a ragu sauce made from beef short rib cooked for 12 hours."
• "Tasty Nepalese food."
• "The food was wonderful! I had the pork belly and by far the best I have ever had."

Cons:

• "I had a lentil and butternut squash wellington that was a little tasteless."
• "Shockingly bad. Not the same pub as it was before the pandemic. Terrible food, poor wine and overpriced."
• "The current chef doesn't know how to cook Sunday roast."
• "Pretty expensive for what was a very bland-tasting roast."
• "Although the rabbit and bacon pie was really tasty it had far too many pickled shallots in it."
• "The vegetarian dish (Aubergine parmigiana) really didn't deliver."
• "My vegetarian dish was bland and the wine was too cold and not very good."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Crooked well is situated on the loveliest street in Camberwell."
• "A lovely atmosphere."
• "Overall the place is visually pleasing with a very pleased crowd."
• "A simple little street corner pub with a distinct kitchen restaurant feel to it."
• "Nice ambience, not too loud."
• "The ambiance really was off the chart."
• "Loved the lively and distinctly London atmosphere."