The Meadow Lark Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Service was great, friendly and helpful staff."
• "Very good service. The staff could not do enough for us."
• "We were quickly served by a friendly member of staff."
• "The staff were friendly and efficient."
• "Excellent and friendly staff."
• "The staff there were really nice and attentive, which made the whole experience even better."
• "Staff are always friendly and helpful."

Cons:

• "Untrained staff ordering the wrong food with over half an hour wait for food."
• "All round a terrible service, dirty sticky tables, the drinks glasses were not clean. Miserable staff."
• "Not enough people serving behind bar... waiting too long."
• "Under staffed.(always) no matter when you go."
• "Staff were rude and have clearly became complacent in their roles which has resulted in their customer service skills being less than satisfactory."
• "Awful food and rude staff, one person in particular I believe she was the 'manager'."
• "Service quality has gone down. Staff are miserable and clearly can't be bothered to help."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Good food. Friendly staff. And a family friendly."
• "The food was lovely. it was hot, fresh and well presented."
• "Food was good and reasonable price too."
• "Food was spot on. Steak came as requested."
• "Grilled full breakfast, Very tasty."
• "The tandoori burger was really tasty."
• "Really nice fish and chips and they do great portions."

Cons:

• "The liqueur coffee was vile."
• "Had the doombar steak pie chips and garden peas(sent mushy peas as got no garden peas the waitress told us) bought meal and gotta say the pie was poor meat was very tough."
• "Ordered a nachos to share it came out they had used square sliced cheese melted it in the microwave resulting in soggy nachos."
• "The fish & chips were disappointing (thin fish / dry chips)."
• "The ribs didn't have sauce on apart from a slight coating. Roast chicken was over cooked and mean with the sauce coating as well."
• "Food was of poor quality, my sausages were burned and no dish had any seasoning at all."
• "The steak was tough, over cooked, and full of gristle."

Ambiance and Environment

Pros:

• "If you don’t mind eating in the middle of a playground I would recommend it."
• "Good menus plenty of variety, reasonably priced."
• "First time visit, wont be the last either. Great food at reasonable prices."
• "Lovely food, nice staff, good atmosphere."
• "Nice decor, clean tidy and nice atmosphere inside and out."
• "Amazing food, absolutely great value for money and the food was brilliant."
• "Nice pub. Welcoming, cosy, well cooked food at a decent price."

Cons:

• "Bad Parents! Letting kids run around shouting and screaming."
• "Many better pubs nearby, crowd here is also very confrontational, not a nice atmosphere."
• "Children running around at 10:30 pm I thought they should be out by 9:00 pm, disgraceful behaviour."
• "The restaurant itself looks refurbished however the tables were very sticky and not that clean."
• "Awful lot of young gentlemen going into the toilets often in groups then coming out all excited for some reason."
• "The place itself was filthy. Our table was sticky."
• "Can be a bit noisy when busy (what pub isn't?) and table service was a little slow when ordering through the app."