Toby Carvery Barnes Park Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "The staff are friendly and really helpful."
• "Our server was very pleasant & cheerful."
• "Had Christmas Day carvery today. Welcomed in & greeted by staff, shown to table, very well organised, staff super friendly."
• "Very polite hostess led us to table, and then Jordan took care of us from then. Very attentive, social, obliging."
• "Staff very friendly and the food is great."
• "Our server Sandra was lovely and made sure we had everything we needed."
• "Staff who attended to us were lovely and very accommodating to our requests."

Cons:

• "We queued for fifteen minutes."
• "The waitress for our section was very miserable, didn’t speak, didn’t check up on us."
• "Waited ages to be served.... 2 x chefs not pleasant at all ...."
• "We were basically kicked off the table after a total of around 30 minutes of being there."
• "The waitress who took the order finished her shift and was outside drinking with friends we waited 20 mins."
• "Lost our server, eventually someone came only after I had to find them."
• "Severely understaffed, I'd never visit again as the waiting around isn't worth what comes at the end."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Absolutely wonderful. I had the beef, which was cooked beautifully."
• "Love this carvery!!! Food is delicious with a great selection of meats and sauces."
• "The meats were gorgeous and moist."
• "Excellent food and service.one of the better Toby Carverys."
• "The choice of meats, vegetables etc was very good."
• "Carvery meat nice, sliced potato's nice but the Leek included was hard and crunchy."
• "A cavery is a carvery is it not! But with here you get a choice of meats to please your pallet, pork, gammon, beef or turkey and you can also get lamb on certain days."

Cons:

• "Unfortunately there was only 2 out of the 4 meats left, apart from which there wasn't much variety in the veg."
• "The food arrived cold, like someone had been storing it in a fridge."
• "The Yorkshire was rock hard and the mashed potato was lumpy."
• "The carvery itself was very poor with choice of veg."
• "The Yorkshire pudding was overcooked they were hard and like a Frisbee."
• "Everything very dried up roast pots solid unedable."
• "Food was really poor waited for over 5 minutes for some gravy, beef was so much fat and grissle."

Cleanliness

Pros:

• "On the plus side the barman was really pleasant and seemed like he had washed."
• "The pub itself is very clean and welcoming."
• "It's clean and has a great atmosphere."
• "The Barnes has recently been refurbished and looks good the way they have done it."
• "Recently refurbished which was a nice surprise as we hadn't been for awhile."

Cons:

• "One member of staff looked like they hadn't cleaned their uniform, another was leaning on the front yawning."
• "Place could have been cleaner..Dusty behind fixed seating and lighting could do with a deep clean."
• "Kitchen staff, no hair net, snood, just a hat for PPE. And I found a hair in my dinner."
• "Always loved a Toby but today, I'm really not sure what happened with the place. It was scruffy, food all over the floor and all round the veg."
• "The food was rubbish, dry and barely warm."