Stirling Beefeater Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Breakfast great, hot options made to order rather than buffet style but better for it."
• "All of us enjoyed our meal. The kids menu is excellent, lots of variety to choose from."
• "Good food, decent portions, and all with 50% off the bill."
• "Clean, really nice food and great desserts 👍."
• "Food is awesome."
• "The best steak I've had in a long time."
• "With their Mixed Grill everything was tasty and succulent even the damn chicken that nearly everyone messes up was awesome."

Cons:

• "The chicken wings, flat mushrooms & the calamari just looked like dried up deep fried muck."
• "The food on offer is not poor, but definitely not good."
• "The actual nachos were like pieces of card in both looks and taste and I certainly will never have them again."
• "Chicken was dry and tasteless."
• "you can tell the ingredients are all of a below standard quality because every item on the plate had a problem and was barely hot or cooked properly."
• "Shocked at this place we ordered the baked potatoe and coronation chicken when it came it was disgusting unedable the chicken had been frozen and tasted raw."
• "Unfortunately the food was not enjoyable and of poor quality."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff are professional and friendly."
• "Friendly staff."
• "Service was also excellent."
• "Staff are lovely and friendly."
• "The service was great and I felt looked after."
• "Service by Colleen was so friendly and helpful."
• "our server was really friendly and made us feel really welcome."

Cons:

• "The service was terrible, the waitress forgot to add items onto our order."
• "Very poor service booked a table for breakfast and it took 20 mins to get a cup of tea and coffee."
• "it took an hour for our orders to be taken and another hour for our meals to arrive."
• "Lack of staff. Waited 5 minutes at reception."
• "Great friendly service but eating area cold."
• "Staff were very eager to close and leave for the night and were very impolite."
• "Even when my wife started to complain to the manager, she was very abrupt and didn't seem interested."

Value

Pros:

• "Good food, decent portions, and all with 50% off the bill."
• "Daytime Saver menu- fab'!... very reasonably priced."
• "No complaints about the food which was cheap and decent quality."
• "The all you can eat breakfast with two kids free is insanely good value and excellent."
• "Price point for quality is good. There is often many offers available for large discounts."
• "For breakfast in the morning. Can't fault it nice and clean with a good choice of hot and cold."
• "Pretty classic pub grub style menu, good prices."

Cons:

• "Red wine expensive."
• "Prices are absolutely ridiculous for the amount you get on the plates."
• "The price of a pint is obscene, I paid £5.70 for a Peroni."
• "Dinner was almost £60 nothing was deducted from the bill so it’s seem as acceptable to offer such poor and dreadful service."
• "Very expensive for what was on the plate."
• "Food OK, little pricey for portion size for dinner."
• "£80.00 bill for a prawn cocktail which consisted of 6 prawns and half a lettuce, steak pie which tasted like dog meat."

Cleanliness & Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Place looks nice cosy clean table spread out nicely so no to crowded."
• "Nice place, looked clean, staff are friendly."
• "The staff although very busy were attentive."
• "Excellent. Sunday breakfast 2 adults 3 kids food good very helpful friendly staff."
• "The staff are all friendly and offer assistance to use the track and trace system and also the ordering system for bar orders."
• "The food was remarkable here. Lovely moist, perfectly medium steak, amazingly cooked gammon and chicken."
• "A lovely evening and we were able to relax and take our time."

Cons:

• "The table we were sat at was absolutely disgusting, and clearly hadn't been wiped down."
• "Sat for 2 hours each night watching people trying to sit down to dirty tables and end up going into the restaurant area to sit."
• "Thought due to being a chain, Covid hygiene procedures would be high... was given a table where the floor underneath was covered in food."
• "Tables needed to be wiped down more often though, ours was a bit sticky at breakfast."
• "Restaurant cold. Low heating. Non of the dishes we asked for were available."
• "Gone downhill since last visit. Food took ages and wasn't very good when it came. Staff disinterested."
• "They couldn't even do a decent roast potato, could have played conkers with the stuffing balls."