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."