Tamar Reviews Summary

Category: Pub Plymouth

Address: 1-7 Morshead Rd, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5AD, United Kingdom

Phone: +441752771445

Rating: 4.2
based on 215 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "Lovely friendly staff keep up the good work will be re visiting soon."
  • "Brilliant service, brilliant staff."
  • "Service was amazing and always smiling."
  • "The lovely barperson and waiter made a big difference."
  • "We were offered free drinks or a free dessert."
  • "The staff this morning were really nice, welcoming and knowledgeable oh and helpful."
  • "Great staff with lots of smiles serving you."

Cons:

  • "The service is appalling."
  • "The staff here are incredibly rude and unhelpful."
  • "The staff basically ignored me."
  • "Rude staff who quite simply did not want us to be there."
  • "Barman called Reece who I had never seen before was rude, lazy and certainly not the pleasant bar person I have been used too."
  • "Ultra rude barmaid,cheap costume jewelry and tattoo's, I asked her a question while she was serving and she bit my head off."
  • "Majority of bar staff,especially the manager seem to be extremely ignorant,no please or thank you.Food was dire,either cold or burnt."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The food was great and we will be back again very soon."
  • "Great food, fast service and great price."
  • "Brilliant food by far one of the best meals I’ve had."
  • "The food was delicious, I’m coeliac and did not experience cross contamination of gluten or anything, the Cajun chicken I ate was so juicy, tender and flavoursome."
  • "Fantastic food, and cheap as chips."
  • "Food was beautiful."
  • "The food was absolutely AMAZING!!!!I could not fault it whatsoever."

Cons:

  • "Never again. Food was over cooked ask for a m/Rare steak get a tough W!D."
  • "The steaks & hunters chicken were definitely not sizzling. Chips were cold."
  • "Food was cheap but not cheerful cold chips pie was all pastry hardly any filling very disappointing poor staff were run off their feet while others management doing nothing mixed grill was awful looked like dogs dinner won't be returning"
  • "Sadly hunters chicken was dry and tasteless, only 12 chips and a sprinkling of cheese. Peas shriveled....Over cooked."
  • "Had a veggie burger and it was truely disgusting."
  • "Worst food I have had anywhere in ages. Went today. Had the chip shop platter. Well, the fish was definitely frozen. Grey in colour and very mushy on inside of batter."
  • "Not a good experience. Ordered ribeye steak which was very chewy and we couldn't eat it, however the dog enjoyed it!! Cheap cut of meat for sure."

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "The £5 rump steak on a Mon/Tues is very good value."
  • "Great, honestly priced food."
  • "All in all the 4 of us ate and drank for less than £30.00"
  • "Great food. Download app for more savings up to 40% off mains. Great steaks great price absolutely stuffed."
  • "Love the food in this place."
  • "Food is good, big portions and reasonably priced."
  • "Great food, good prices including some really good deals like 2 meals for £11.99."

Cons:

  • "Look at pricing too- nobody can sustain £18 for a few crisps, a lemonade and a beer."
  • "Way to expensive, it's just a wetherspoons but twice the price, nothing wrong with wetherspoons they are a fare price, but the tamar £4.24 for coors when in town in the Newmarket £2.70 a £1.54 Mark up, ridiculous, no wonder pubs are going under."
  • "Decent pub, a little bit on the expensive side though for drinks."
  • "on the tamar website they offer £9.99 for 2 meals yet got told they dont do this and charge us £10.49 which the cause an argument."
  • "Gone massively down hill past few months. Prices have shot up."
  • "The food wasn't fresh, it had clearly all come from the frozen section of the local cash and carry."
  • "Too noisy. Music is supposed to be an accompaniment. The sound level was actually turned up whilst I was there and you could not hear yourself think let alone talk."

Ambiance & Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "Recently refurbished and looks good for it."
  • "Caters for all ages with quiz nights on Monday evenings, karaoke on Friday evenings, occasional live music and showing of big football and rugby matches."
  • "Lovely atmosphere, even during Covid restrictions. I felt very safe, tables were a sensible distance apart, screens used, a clear one way system and everything was explained on the way in. Food was lovely, staff very friendly and the Espresso Martini was amazing!"
  • "The atmosphere is incredible."
  • "The atmosphere was electric and the staff were really friendly as well."
  • "I went to the Tamar on a Friday evening. There was a karaoke evening in full swing. The atmosphere was absolutely wonderful."
  • "This pub has a great atmosphere and always has something going on either quiz night or entertainment."

Cons:

  • "Bit shocked to see plaster blown on walls and ceiling considering Greene King could surely correct this easily."
  • "This place is really badly managed. When you go to the toilet and find empty cocaine bags everywhere In a 'family friendly eating pub' isn't brilliant."
  • "Plaster coming off walls so bad the bits were on out table. Windows were filthy. Floor filthy."
  • "Please take care of the ladies toilet, shocking is an understatement."
  • "The men's toilets are absolutely disgusting."
  • "Floor always flooded, hate to think what happens below, being on first floor."
  • "Cold food sticky tables dirty toilet."

Accessibility

Pros:

  • "Easy disabled access and car parking available too."
  • "There's a car park at the back of the Tamar and another further up the road if you prefer."
  • "Large and airy pub focusing on sports and good value food. Weekday lunchtime saw the pub pretty quiet with no problem finding a table."
  • "This place gets really busy, so reserve a table to avoid disappointment."
  • "A great pub in the heart of crownhill."
  • "Lovely pub,really friendly ,staff are hardworking happy people who are helpful and efficient,excellent food deals that cater well for vegetarians,fun enterntainment a real gem -totally reccomend you try this place!"
  • "Great atmosphere friendly and welcoming indeed👍🙂"

Cons:

  • "if you want to use the disable toilet you have to ask for a key which is embarrassing, if you are an able body person you dont have to ask yet if you are disabled you have to ask for a key just to be able to use the toilet"
  • "Don't seem to ever answer the phone, and the online booking form doesn't seem to work at all."
  • "After no response to messages and emails, I visited in person and was asked to wait for them to clear the bar before they'd check if my booking had gone through."
  • "Sat outside in sweltering heat which was nice but stools were wobbly and there wasn't much shade or interest."
  • "The nachos arrived with no distinction between the gluten and gluten free."
  • "Thay did the pub up and spoilt a good pub part of the bar made in to a pizza counter so its harder to get served and thay used to do a nice varied menue now its pizza also changed the beer no more stella that was the final nail"
  • "Ended up leaving with my youngest son 21 months old due to the level of noise."

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