The Cornish Arms Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Best steak pie of my life! The flavour, seasoning, filling, pastry texture were absolutely delicious."
• "Excellent quality food."
• "Fish and chips are highly recommended, crispy batter and melt in the mouth fish."
• "Excellent meal, sea bass was amazing (as were the chips)!"
• "The food was absolutely lovely."
• "Had sardines and the cod curry for lunch. Very good."
• "Believe when I say some of the best tasting fish and seafood dishes were had!"

Cons:

• "Food was bland and not as good as standard pub fare despite being priced high."
• "Rubbery yorkshire pudding and soggy cauliflower."
• "The food was ok but VERY overpriced for the portion sizes, not convinced the chips weren’t the usual frozen ones though which was disappointing."
• "Fish and chips, greasy batter thin fish ordinary chips £16.95 extraordinarily mediocre."
• "The scallops were pretty poor quality and under seasoned."
• "Desserts were distinctly average and looked frozen."
• "The food was disappointing to say the least. Very mediocre."

Service

Pros:

• "Really impressed with The Cornish Arms. We enjoyed a lovely lunch with friendly & attentive service."
• "Waitress very knowledgeable about food on menu and very chatty."
• "Warm welcome from friendly staff, lovely atmosphere, attentive and helpful team."
• "The manager was an absolute credit to the team and clearly understood what he was doing, I believe his name was Dev?"
• "The staff was very welcoming and kind."
• "Both staff and the lady who took our wine order were warm, friendly and generous despite clearly being very busy."
• "The staff were very friendly and eager to help when I mentioned I had an allergy."

Cons:

• "The Service for 'Mother's Day' dinner was very poor."
• "It took over 45 minutes for another waiter to notify us that a main we had ordered could in fact not be gluten free."
• "No one asked if we wanted another drink at any point."
• "The service charge of 12.5% is laughable and not deserved."
• "The wait for our drinks was quite long even though it wasn't particularly busy."
• "But not great service on this occasion, and just quite disorganised."
• "Again the service was painfully slow, especially given it wasn't busy and the staff were constantly stood around chatting."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Lovely place in beautiful setting. Waited 10 minutes to be seated then 45 minutes before we got our drinks."
• "Fire on perfect for winter walks and Sunday roast. Very very happy."
• "Cracking pub/restaurant! Great team and even better management."
• "Lovely little pub with plenty of seating indoors and outdoors."
• "Very nice ambience. Reasonable cost."
• "Lovely, bustlely atmosphere - very accommodating welcome by a lovely waitress."
• "It was busy with a lovely, happy but calm and relaxed atmosphere."

Cons:

• "Terrible atmosphere (sat in a bifold doorway, pretty empty, a fully visible bar with 100s of unwashed glasses on it)."
• "This place has gone steadily down hill over the last few years."
• "The atmosphere was non-existent and it was freezing cold."
• "Corporate atmosphere and bland interiors."
• "The atmosphere non-existent."
• "No atmosphere, miserable staff."
• "Some members of staff were quite miserable which sort of ruined the vibe a bit."

Value

Pros:

• "Good food at reasonable prices."
• "Everything was well priced too."
• "Delicious food and reasonable prices."
• "Food and drink was well priced and ok."
• "Smallish menu but varied and surprisingly normal restaurant prices."
• "Biggest chocolate Brownie I've ever been served! Double the size of your average; sadly it beat me! Delicious cherry sorbet with it! Superb great value food!"
• "Good choice of beer at reasonable prices."

Cons:

• "I don't like receiving a bill with a 12% service charge, especially when it's only for 2 adults and 2 kids £170!!!"
• "We found the whole experience extremely busy and very underrated and expensive."
• "Staff were lovely and very welcoming and attentive. The food was most definitely lacking and extremely overpriced."
• "Very disappointed to find a massive 12.5% charge added to the total bill."
• "The food was ok but VERY overpriced for the portion sizes."
• "Expensive prices for average food that takes ages to be served."
• "Ridiculously overpriced, we feel robbed."