Dyce Farm - Dining & Carvery Reviews Summary

Atmosphere & Ambience

Pros:

• "Great place had a lovely warm atmosphere great place to come with friends for coffee."
• "It seemed like everybody wanted to be there."
• "The staff are very attentive an have to be cheerful, as this is a very, very busy Pub!"
• "We were served by a lovely young gentleman called Jack, what a fantastic attentive waiter, he is a credit to the company."
• "The carvery is mostly complete and has a few extras that you won’t find in your average carvery."
• "The atmosphere was very relaxed on the day we went."
• "Great atmosphere for all (mix of generations in our party) which made the evening perfect."

Cons:

• "Times are certainly a changing and I hope COVID doesn't start a flurry of restaurant rudeness as owners try to claw back lost income by pushing punters through the doors as quick as possible, which certainly seems to be the case here."
• "The attitude we got from staff was awful from the moment we walked in to the time we left."
• "This place is a dive, the service is severely slow and the food is not good, the food was cold and wasn’t fresh."
• "However, my two friends finished their meals before me and the waiter came along to take their plates away while I was still eating and then requested that I try to finish as quick as I could as they had new customers waiting for tables."
• "Sticky floor, sticky table and seats visibly dirty."
• "Most disorganised place I've ever stepped foot it."
• "The place wasn't thoroughly cleaned after customers left, dirty chairs and food on floor."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food was absolutely amazing. We had a hunter chicken. Everything was fresh and tasty."
• "Everything on the plate was fresh and tasted delicious."
• "Food was good. We had carvery. Everything was hot and fresh looking."
• "They also have a big selection of BIIIIGG cakes!! So we took some cake home too....was all delicious."
• "Food was as brilliant as always so nothing to complain about there."
• "Had the large carvery, beef and gammon. Both with juicy and delicious, loads of trimmed to choose from. Worth the money."
• "The food there was delicious. Well presented and plentiful."

Cons:

• "The hot chocolate was a lukewarm chocolate."
• "Carvery was average and could do with being warmer."
• "The roast potatoes were soggy it was obvious they'd been sat a while."
• "Pints of beer were warm, not ice cold and not even chilled."
• "Breakfast served was cold, bacon undercooked sausage undercooked."
• "The food was mediocre at best."
• "The pie was microwaved and it made the pastry so hard that he could not cut it."

Service & Staff

Pros:

• "Very friendly staff."
• "Staff very friendly."
• "Extra benefit of Blue Light Discount was a welcome surprise too."
• "Friendly staff and clean tables."
• "Staff very polite and helpful."
• "We were shown to a table quickly by a really friendly member of staff called Louise."
• "Big portions of tasty food at excellent prices."

Cons:

• "Took forever for someone to greet and seat us, was told we have max 1hr 30 min until they had to take the table back of us."
• "The manager made us feel very awkward & uncomfortable that we no longer wanted to stay for food so we cancelled our order and got a refund."
• "Didn’t catch the name of the server who found us a table but he was informative and courteous."
• "5 minutes after being taken to our table I was rudely reminded that I only have 2 hours."
• "Certainly a place to avoid!"
• "The man who served us the food, looked like he'd rather be getting his teeth pulled out with no pain relief."
• "Had some trouble ordering and staff did not know the 'ask staff' menu."