The King Harry Reviews Summary

Category: Pub St Albans

Address: 2 King Harry Ln, St Albans, AL3 4BL, United Kingdom

Phone: +441727846904

Rating: 4.4
based on 144 reviews.

Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "Food was fantastic, great management, lovely atmosphere."
  • "Lovely atmosphere. Nice music in background and perfect volume."
  • "A very friendly atmosphere. Wherever you are from you will feel like a local here within a matter of minutes."
  • "Lovely proper rustic ambience, good ales, dog friendly, nice outside seating, car park."
  • "The place was cozy and spacious."
  • "Always a pleasant atmosphere and friendly, attentive staff."
  • "Genuinely nice atmosphere. Lovely grounds."

Cons:

  • "The back room I think could use a little bit more modernising."
  • "Tables quite close together given covid and a large window on the side with bright sunlight that was uncomfortable to sit facing."
  • "Hadn’t visited this pub for a few years and, I have to say, it was a lot scruffier than I remember."
  • "The building is looking tired though and could do with being refreshed."
  • "Visited alone as a female ND dancer/. Service was friendly and yet quite judgey, reasonably buzzy crowd but not accessible or welcoming for ND people."
  • "Not much atmosphere but no complaints."
  • "Limited great undercover - we were thankfully- and the other large umbrellas hopefully did the job. Expect to be near smokers if outside unfortunately during Covid."

Service

Pros:

  • "The staff were more than willing to assist."
  • "Our waiter was friendly attentive and genuinely a nice bloke."
  • "Service was excellent."
  • "Napoleon was such a good waiter. Making sure everything was ok from the first course to the last."
  • "The staff were very attentive we didn't feel rushed at all."
  • "The service was efficient and helpful."
  • "Staff are really friendly and helpful."

Cons:

  • "Paid for food and didnt eat it no one came over to ask if all ok 40 mins later we left hungry."
  • "That was after what felt like a very long wait."
  • "Service was quite slow on our visit."
  • "Neither the bar staff nor the chef himself were able to say whether or not the pub offered a children's menu."
  • "Quite often wait a long time for drinks orders etc."
  • "Service isn't the best and when we went to eat all the things we wanted to order they had run out of."
  • "While the service was friendly it was slow and we had to wait a long time for our food, especially the desserts."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The menu has a lot of good choices...with more 'good' quirkiness than general pub menu....generous portions."
  • "Good vegan burger, 'Beyond Meat' brand, and vegan beer."
  • "Pork was lovely and gravy/jus was very tasty."
  • "I had a katsu burger, which was a tasty and imaginative take on Japanese katsu curry."
  • "Really enjoyed the Proper Job ale and the ham egg and chips were amazing."
  • "The quality of the fish and the batter made a lovely combination."
  • "Elevated pub food was delicious."

Cons:

  • "A dish advertised as having horseradish topping which 'the batch they're using at the moment has basically no horseradish in it'."
  • "Unfortunately I used to come here for the wide selection of nice and interesting beers and they have removed a number of taps and got a quite bland selection of mass produced ones in instead."
  • "The Yorkshire puds were okay and the red cabbage was a little too sweet for my palate."
  • "Disappointed with food service, beverage service."
  • "Always think of this as a nice pub, but on my last visit the quality of the food was very poor."
  • "The food was dreadful, we were hoping that it had improved but again the food was very bad."
  • "Went to the toilets, grim, very grim."

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