Miller & Carter Lancing Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food was all very nice and cooked as we requested."
• "The food was beautifully cooked and most dishes well presented."
• "The food was very tasty and well prepared."
• "All food came out hot and tasty, better than some places manage with a family of five let alone 18 people!"
• "The food was fantastic- so tasty and cooked to order."
• "The food, amazing! Not to mention the cocktails 😍."
• "The food was fabulous, definitely go for the Steak really cooked as you like it."

Cons:

• "A lot of us had the calamari starter from fixed price menu. Mostly this was cold or barely warm."
• "The steak was wrong, one of us received medium rare instead of rare."
• "For a steakhouse it was biggest waste of 100£."
• "Resturant looks great but food is very overpriced as it lacked any flavour that you expect from a £30 steak."
• "The Rib eye was quite tough and chewy, my wife's fillet was grisly and she had to leave parts of it."
• "Two steaks went back because they were under cooked."
• "Vegetables cold, broccoli rock hard."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff are very friendly and the restaurant is clean."
• "Our server Lily was an absolute star⭐️ she was smiley, asking us how we are doing and just providing a fantastic service!"
• "Our waitress Floriane was outstanding, very friendly, polite and hard working."
• "Service was brilliant."
• "However the service by Florianne was exceptional. A really really good staff member."
• "Our server Lily was so efficient and genuinely showed an interest in whether we were happy with everything."
• "Fantastic service from Floriane, thank you."

Cons:

• "When we wanted to order our dessert, she asked us what we wanted. She hadn't given us the menus."
• "Seated next to kitchen door which was very noisy, constant banging when staff go back and forth."
• "We sat near the door to the kitchen and the staff were constantly in and out of it, they had a window open and it blew freezing cold air on us every few seconds."
• "The waitress was very poor and very slow."
• "The waitress that greeted us at the door needs some training."
• "The waitress was slow and unpleasant throughout."
• "It had taken 30mins to receive drinks after ordering."

Atmosphere & Decor

Pros:

• "First meal out since covid and this place did an excellent job in social distancing."
• "A family get together...a beautiful setting, very clean."
• "Decor was warm, cosy, and inviting, and tables are not too close together to allow some privacy."
• "Atmosphere is really nice."
• "From the minute we walked in we were made to feel welcome and there was a lovely atmosphere."
• "The restaurant was beautifully decorated for the festive season."
• "The restaurant has been laid out very well and provides a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere."

Cons:

• "Music was loud, along with the conversations from fellow diners, difficult to hear everyone on our long table."
• "Lighting and ambience was not good at all, we could not read menus without using a phone torch."
• "Reasonable food, good service and poor layout, you feel tightly packed in with tables and benches too close together."
• "The loud pop music was off-putting and not suited to the ambience."
• "The lighting was so 'romantically low' that I really couldn't see the menu without using the torch on my phone."
• "I didn't feel any atmosphere."
• "They try to create a nice atmosphere but the table of women next to us were so loud we had trouble focusing on our conversation."

Value

Pros:

• "Overall lovely dining. Price range depending on what you have."
• "Lunch deal excellent value for money although you have to request the lunch time menu as the default menu is the more expensive one."
• "The 3 course £15.50 summer lunch menu delicious - lots of choices and excellent value."
• "Lunchtime menu is pretty good value with a good selection of sandwiches and wraps with salads along with a selection of cooked meals."
• "Great value for fixed price lunch in nice surroundings."
• "Food was excellent value."
• "Good value for money from the Sunday Set Menu."

Cons:

• "Unfortunately the cost of a meal is so expensive now that we will no longer be booking a reservation going forward."
• "It isn't super expensive but you do pay a premium in line with the quality of the food and meat."
• "A little over priced perhaps."
• "Very expensive though... London prices in a small village location."
• "Even though the portions seemed smaller than on previous visits and the price was elevated for the food received."
• "A little expensive, but then we don't go out to eat all the time."
• "Highly disappointed as neither the steak or the wings matched their description or more importantly my expectations from this self proclaimed 'steakhouse'."