Mash and Barrel Reviews Summary

Category: Restaurant

Address: Exmouth, EX8 5BT, United Kingdom

Phone: +441395226226

Rating: 2.1
based on 91 reviews.

Staffing and Service

Pros:

  • "Staff were very friendly and warm and welcoming on our first day on holiday."
  • "The staff are also very helpful and friendly."
  • "Staff remembered us each time and had a lovely chat with us."
  • "Robbie, our server, was friendly & helpful."
  • "Our waitress was warm & patient."
  • "Staff were superb. The guy who seated us was excellent."
  • "All staff seemed on top of what they were doing."
  • "Friendly and helpful staff made the whole experience spot on."

Cons:

  • "The place is seriously understaffed especially in the summer holidays."
  • "A major staff shortage, staff running round like headless chickens and major waiting times."
  • "Food was basically chucked at us by a moody waitress."
  • "We were greeted by what I can only describe as the grumpiest unhappy host/waiter I have ever seen."
  • "Server at bar left half way through serving us once we had paid and was seen serving another queue."
  • "Possibly the worst holiday bar/restaurant this side of the Arctic."
  • "Staff couldn’t care less, just fetched the bill over."
  • "The staff are rude, clearly don’t want to be there and make sure you know."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The tika masala was love and hot however the rice was undercooked and hard in places."
  • "My fruit shoot arrived in 2 minutes and then our food order was taken immediately, I had the margherita Pizza, It was warm and fresh out of the oven."
  • "After reading all the bad reviews we were a bit unsure if we should eat here. But to our surprise the food was good and service was fine."
  • "Luckily it was nice but the long wait put us off ordering desert."
  • "Food was nice. Expect Witherspoon's type dining."
  • "We had the rump steak medium rare and no lie it was the best steak we have eaten it was cooked to perfection."
  • "Please don't take all the negative feedback to heart as we had our evening meal at the Mash & Barrel on a busy Friday night and it was amazing!"
  • "The food was alright, drinks very expensive. Can't complain."

Cons:

  • "Very poor food, came out cold and tasted so bland, definitely just frozen food that wasn’t even warmed up properly."
  • "Food was basically chucked at us by a moody waitress. Peas were cold and had to ask for the tartare sauce and cutlery."
  • "I ordered the Gluten free chicken burger. I’ve never not been able to eat something before, but this was the worst meal I’ve ever had."
  • "Food came out very quickly. I'd bet my bottom dollar it was frozen. Kids pizza was a warmed frozen pizza."
  • "Food wasn't good...it arrived cold! We had ordered drinks but food arrived well before the drinks-think we waited about 25 mins for drinks."
  • "Had the pleasure of dining in here twice on my holiday, the food is appalling… just had a breakfast and the bacon was so undercooked."
  • "Ordered a mixed grill and got served brown chips. The tiny little Steak, Chicken, Peas and Mushrooms were all cold."
  • "Ordered toast and jam, ordered, got burned cold stale toast no jam no butter."

Order and Wait Time

Pros:

  • "My fruit shoot arrived in 2 minutes and then our food order was taken immediately."
  • "Food arrived quicker than expected and was amazing."
  • "We ordered drinks, a sharing starters, and 3 main meals. Our drinks came within 5 minutes."
  • "The food came out fairly quickly. I was happy with all the food we had sausage baps, a kids breakfast and toast and it was all good quality, hot and tasty."

Cons:

  • "Took ages to order any food or drinks. Finally caught someone's attention and ordered."
  • "We waited nearly 5 minutes on the greeting counter."
  • "We waited a fever 30 minutes for are meals."
  • "One of our party was a vegetarian so wanted a caeser salad without chicken, we were told this was out of stock, so my partner ran back to our table to ask what else she would like instead?"
  • "We arrived and waited to be seated. We were taken to our table. We then waited 20 minutes for someone to come over to take our drinks order."
  • "Had to go up to bar to order food and drink after getting table, long que, took 25 mins to get past long que."
  • "Had breakfast here and it was One of the worst meals I had ever eaten. 8 of us went away and had breakfast and were all very disappointed. It had taken over 40 minutes to get the food."
  • "Ordered a mixed grill and got served brown chips. The tiny little Steak, Chicken, Peas and Mushrooms were all cold and the half a cooked tomato looked like someone already chewed it."

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