The Windmill Brewers Fayre Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food was good value and tasty."
• "The coleslaw was great as a side order as the french fries so not a bad address at all."
• "The food was amazing and we will definitely be back!"
• "Food was average but good value."
• "Good tasty food."
• "Food is decent, especially with the 2 mains for £8.99 menu."
• "Food was fresh and tasty."

Cons:

• "The roast was awful all vedge was from frozen overcooked & Gravey was like water."
• "The pork ribs were low quality 'pissy pork' that's pork from stressed animals where the adrenalin levels were high giving the meat an ammonia taste."
• "Salad with starter was brown, soggy and warm."
• "The food wasn't overly great, and we did make a complaint after a foreign object was found between 2 pieces of food."
• "The food was dreadful ... you would struggle to make it any worse."
• "Frozen potatoes, rock hard Yorkshire couldn't cut it let alone eat it."
• "Food was dire, the substituted salad consisted of one lettuce leaf cut into 4."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff were friendly and helpful but food was atrocious."
• "Angie needs a medal and promotion 👍. She works flat out with a smile on her face to overcome problems due to so many new members of staff learning the ropes."
• "Wait staff were friendly and attentive."
• "Staff are friendly and helpful."
• "Staff were amazing, my wife is gluten free and they took real care with her."
• "Excellent, friendly and welcoming staff."
• "Staff extremely friendly and helpful, great party, thank you."

Cons:

• "The staff appeared unmotivated and disinterested."
• "Appalling service from start. Tables full of empty plates for ages."
• "Very confusing service. Didn't have a clue if someone was going to serve us or what's what."
• "Severely disorganized staff to top it off."
• "The manager and barman tried to overcharge me for a meal."
• "The staff look even less happy then the disappointed customers."
• "The staff were rude and told them they were not welcome."

Cleanliness

Pros:

• "Restaurant is clean."
• "The children's play area is bright, clean, wide, and spacious."
• "Clean and tidy but very hot inside."
• "The place is clean and pleasant enough, children's play area was good."
• "Lovely tidy, and clean little restaurant/pub."
• "Sat down at clean table and had wonderful waiter."
• "Love eating here so much that we are regulars 😊"

Cons:

• "Around the table area was also unpleasant, the floor was quite mucky and the tables were sticky."
• "Table looked cleaned but underneath was toast from breakfast."
• "The place also was run-down; definitely in need of some TLC. Paint peeling off, wooden frames and doors rotten."
• "Place was dirty with beer flies."
• "The indoor play area needs to be cleaned! There's old socks old food and that behind the rope fences."
• "Toilets smelt of old urine, there was no soap and the hand dryer didn't work."
• "There was broken glass on the floor of the outside children's play area."

Value

Pros:

• "Reasonably priced and with the Brewers fayre stamp of quality, we shall surely be milling the wind again in the future."
• "All in all v. good and good on price."
• "Ideal family venue for those wanting a basic meal and reasonable priced drinks!"
• "Food good value for money with 2 meals for £8.99 before 6pm."
• "As much as you can eat breakfast."
• "All you can eat for just 9.99 is great value."
• "Good affordable food. Two meals for £10! - bargain!"

Cons:

• "For what we paid the food wasn’t worth it at all, cold, small portions."
• "Better off getting food from Sainsburys across the road and better value."
• "Tiny portion for the price - my adult main was same size as kids one but 3 times the price."
• "The refill soft drinks were so watered down there barely had any flavour."
• "No apologies from staff."
• "The chocolate brownie desert (4.99) came with just one tiny scoop of vanilla ice cream."
• "Very disappointing, extremely poor value for money."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "A very pleasant and lovely family restaurant."
• "Friendly staff nice surroundings very relaxing."
• "Nice friendly staff, making for a nice all-round atmosphere."
• "A nice place to have a family meal."
• "Good for a family get together."
• "Lovely place, we had all you can eat breakfast option, loads of variety, very quick and efficient staff and very friendly."
• "Lovely food and very friendly staff."

Cons:

• "All in all a very shabby and heartless experience in what once was a nice place to go."
• "The décor looked pretty tired and dated."
• "Ambiance and overall feeling of hygiene aren't that great."
• "It was so loud considering how it wasn't that busy."
• "Premises very tired and dingy, bad stains on the carpet."
• "The play area is very run down with broken glass."
• "The so called manageress didn't have a clue just wondering around."