Shipwrights, Padstow Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "We both had the fresh hake and chips and we both thoroughly enjoyed it."
• "Had a delicious sharing platter followed by burger and chips with a cornish ale here last weekend."
• "The food was excellent, we both had the rump steak which was cooked to perfection, medium rare, lovely and tender."
• "Would recommend the chicken breast salsa burgers which were cooked perfectly."
• "I ordered the mackerel with beetroot which was excellent.. really good quality plate of food that exceeded expectations for a pub."
• "Food was delicious. I had crab my daughter had a steak with new potatoes."
• "The food we had was cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "The bottom of the bap was vile soaked through with fat and the batter was rock solid and greasy the whole thing was inedible and tasteless."
• "The pizzas then arrived they were very poor they didn’t have any pepperoni or basil on them."
• "However the chicken satay was inedible, with the chicken tasting rubbery and the sauce lacking any flavour."
• "Fish pie from the specials board had two thumb nail size bits of fish so it was cheese and potato pie with a few peas"
• "They were hard, really over cooked, even the chips were not nice and cold."
• "Partners meal was mediocre, fish & chips (tasteless fish)."
• "Food was floating in oil and made from Very basic ingredients..."

Service

Pros:

• "Great food served by very genuine staff."
• "All the younger bar staff were lovely and polite."
• "The staff were delightful too!"
• "The service was fantastic. Ethan who served us all was friendly, attentive and nothing was too much trouble."
• "Absolutely amazing!!!! I have been on holiday to Padstow this week and the shipwright's entertainment has been the Absolute hilight!"
• "Staff are friendly and dogs are allowed."
• "Ethan was very attentive and really looked after us."

Cons:

• "Like sitting in a works canteen."
• "Effectively we may as well have been outside."
• "Service abysmal, waited 1hr 30 to get a table for food with no communication at all from the front of house."
• "Waitress was awful, young girl with glasses, clearly wanted to be elsewhere, banged every plate down on the table, never cracked a smile she really was hostile."
• "The girl serving us just didn't connect at all, we were waiting ages to order."
• "The waitress brought part of our order and then disappeared."
• "There were 3 people behind the bar when we arrived but they ignored us and other people waiting behind."

Atmosphere & Location

Pros:

• "Tonight was very special. A great pub anyway but they turned away from football and on to the news of Her Majesty's death."
• "Nice pub with a good selection of beer."
• "The place is dog and kid friendly as well which was fantastic."
• "Great pub for eating with a view over the harbour."
• "Range of local real ales (St Austell brewery), cosy interior, outside seating at the front overlooks the harbour, also a beer garden to the rear. Good place for food - the nachos were terrific."
• "Lovely atmosphere, lovely staff lovely food."
• "Always our first stop when coming to Padstow."

Cons:

• "There where a lot of dogs in there and a very strong odour of them"
• "But have to say the current Sunday menu (the only menu on a Sunday) is pretty bad, and awful value for money."
• "Would give 0 if I could. Never experienced such a hostile and aggressive front of house in all my life. A miserable old man best describes it."
• "However our most recent visit was disappointing, not bad at all please don't get me wrong, but compared to previous years and when compared to other St. Austells pubs doing the same menu, we felt they hadn't given the food the same attention to detail."
• "Considering this is such an old building, upstairs is totally lacking in any atmosphere."
• "The main 'tipping point' for leaving was not just the lack of fish on the menu and no specials but having the TV's in a room that used to be such a nice escape."
• "It was also like a creche for disruptive kids upstairs!"